New Mac Pro Shipment Postponed to February!

Apple new Mac Pro was finally released after 6 months after the actual announcement. It's only been hours after the release and yet the shipping estimates have been extended to February.  At first it was around 30th December. However, certain models were schedules to be shipped in January.
The delay could be due to a combination of various reasons- First of all, this is the first Mac product to b produced in the USA, so there could be a lack of supply. Secondly, it could be due the sudden pent up demand for the product. Either way, congratulations to the lucky ones who ordered as soon as it was up for sale! 

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iPhone Air - Latest Concepts

A company called 'SET Solutions' has take their hunch at what the next generation of iPhones are going to look like. The first one being the iPhone 'Air'! Here is a video showing the concept.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LzELrd0J4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dt7LzELrd0J4

PS- I do not own the video or the pictures in this post. 

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New Apple Mac Pro (2013) - For Sale from Dec. 19th!

PWe've all been eagerly waiting for the release of Apple's new computer. It was first rumored that they were going to start the sale from December 16th. But since that did not happen, we were expecting it in the last week of the month, after Christmas. But guess what? You can now get your Christmas present right in time! Apple has confirmed that the new Mac Pro will go on sale from tomorrow, starting at $3,000. For that, you'll get a 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon CPU ("with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz"), 12GB DRAM, two AMD FirePro D300 GPUs, and a 256GB ssd. You will be able to pick this up online not Apple's website. However, we are not yet sure if it will be available at the retail stores. Stay tuned for more updates.

Photo from Slash gear. 

 

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Official Instagram (beta) App for Windows Phone 8

The much awaited Instagram application for the windows phone platform has finally been released a couple of days ago. Now, I wanted to use the app for a couple of days before writing this review so as to find out any bugs or errors in the app, which I did. 

Comparing the new app for windows witht the ones on iOS or Android, you can see that the UI is much different. Instead of having the four tabs down below, we have them at the top near the Instagram logo. Now having these tabs at the top dosent leave the bottom empty. At the bottom is three options- capture, search and refresh. In addition tothese three, you can also pull up settings option from the bottom which then leads to the settings menu. If you haven't noticed, in the iOS or android app, the Instagram logo would disappear once you start scrolling, which doesn't happen in the app for windows. Now the downsides to this is that it reduces the screen real estate. However, the pap runs smoothly without any lag. 

One of the popular third party application, approved by Instagram, is 6tag on the windows phone platform. In then new Instagram app, capture option leads directly to the gallery from where we can chose to 'take a photo' which then leads to your standard camera application. In 6tag, capture option leads you the inbuilt camera with all the filters and what not, with the grid option, flash,etc. Now that would be the only reason I would switch to 6tag instead of the new. App.

However, Instagram has to improve upon their new app for windows phone with the increasing users not only on Instagram but windows phone 8 as well! Let's wait and see.

My Instagram- @TheAshwinNaik

 

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