Proof that they did not take up arms against the iPad, Amazon has just launched its Kindle application for Mac OS X.
It makes it possible to communicate with Kindle or quite simply to directly read the digital books bought on the Mac.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&ie=UTF8&docId=1000464931
Researchers at MIT made a breakthrough in a system which could in the future replace or rather change the manufactoring processes of processors based on lithography.
They have created molecular chains, to be precise copolymers that are capable of being arranged to form motifs. These motifs could become transistors.
Of course, one is still at light years away from being able to manufacture processors, but not so far from being able to produce simple chips, typically memories. These are indeed made up of completely repetitive patterns representing the cells of data storage. One could imagine in future that it is enough to soak plates in liquids before polymerizing them to produce memory chips whose capacity will be defined by the size of the plates and the properties of these copolymers since one can also imagine them to have 3D structures.
It seems that that SSD discs using a SandForce controller have a problem that one has often met in the past with other SSD in our portables. It does not work with a system that 'sleeps' and very specifically to Mac OS X. In this case, even reclosing the portable does not put it to sleep and this causes a significant heating that can oblige one to restart by force to recover the use when it is reopened.
We had already given you a trick to circumvent this bug while waiting for an update of the drivers for the SSD. It is enough to change the the mode of hibernation of the portable. This is what causes the problem, the default mode will start by backing up the contents of the RAM onto the hard drive before putting its components to sleep. Thus, if the battery is drained, no work is lost. This is very practical, but in the event of a bug, it is simpler is to return to the previous mode which does nothing but put the components to sleep. To arrive there, one must enter the following commands in the terminal before giving your password administrator:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
You can also benefit from it by recovering some GB (size identical to the quantity of RAM that you have) immobilized unnecessarily while entering the command
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage
Of course if you fully discharge your battery, the machine will lose the memory.
Which are the accessories most sold to the owners of the iPhone? They are certainly screen protectors that a good number of people stick onto the glass screen of their precious in order to protect them from scratches. This does not seem to stop Apple deciding from one day to the next to withdraw them from its online Apple Store as well as their physical shops.
This decision was a great surprise to the providers of Apple. Two reasons are advanced to explain this decision:
In any case it will be a godsend for the other retailers of iPhone accessories that will recover back this market which has little chance of extinguishing from one day to the next.
