Tuesday
Apr292014

Lost Photos helps uncover forgotten photos in your email

We are pretty sure you have a bunch of photos you haven’t seen in a while buried under piles of online newsletters and work and personal emails. Now, you can recover these lost memories with Lost Photos for the Mac. The app scans and shows the photos stored in messages kept on popular IMAP email services, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud, etc. You can download the photos to view, archive, and even share online on your social networks. The app is available for free and exclusively on the Mac App Store.

Tuesday
Apr292014

Review: Shiny Soap frees up space on Macs with one click

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

If you own a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro, it is likely that you're conscious about the limited amount of hard drive or SSD (Solid State Drive) space on your device. It's easy enough to search for and delete or uninstall any apps or files that you aren't using but there are still gigabytes of stray files that sit on valuable disc space doing nothing. Shiny Soap is an application that quickly and efficiently seeks out these files and gets rid of them without adversely affecting your system performance.

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Tuesday
Apr292014

Apple updates MacBook Air line with faster processors

Apple has updated the ultra-thin notebooks to newer 1.4 GHz dual-core Intel Haswell processors (up to 2.7 Ghz Turbo Boost) and as a result improved battery life by up to an hour. Check out the new MacBook Airs online here.

“With MacBook Air starting at $999, there’s no reason to settle for anything less than a Mac,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Macs have never been more popular, and today we’ve boosted the performance of MacBook Air so even more people can experience the perfect everyday notebook.”

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Tuesday
Apr292014

LG triples profits from large HDTV sales, beats out competition

LG is finding success in large screen HDTVs and  claims it now sells more big-screen displays than any other manufacturer with a 27 percent share of the market worldwide. Not only is LG offering a range of sizes, it is spearheading new technologies in the areas of OLED, curved screens and innovative webOS powered smartTV technologies. LG earned 14 trillion won ($13 billion) in total sales, with an operating profit of 504 billion won ($471 million) - that's three times what it managed last year. LG also leads the pack in terms of displays used in devices like smartphones as well as specialized components such as the Retina Display on some MacBook Pros.