Apple News: Whats left for the Macintosh in a Post-PC iOS world?
Apple has sold Macintosh computers for just short of 30 years. Over just the last six, its personal computer business has been vastly overshadowed by its sales of Post-PC mobile devices. What future is left for the Mac? For six and a half years (26 consecutive quarters) prior to last year’s holiday season (Q1 2013), Apple’s Mac sales had been outpacing the growth of the global PC market. In 2012, PC sales began dramatically retracting for the first time since the dotcom collapse in 2001. Apple remained impervious to this contracting demand until it was forced to report a significant decrease in Mac sales for the December 2012 quarter? The company blamed its year-over-year Mac sales drop (from 5.2 million to 4.1 million) on the quarter’s week-shorter length and its own failure to launch its slim new iMac before the very end of the quarter. Sales of notebooks, Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook noted, were on track.
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Technology News: The 4 Technology Trends That Could Bring Back U.S. Manufacturing (And Innovation)
More than 20 years ago, MIT conducted a landmark study that revealed how the declining state of industrial productivity is the biggest challenge to building globally competitive businesses in the United States. But we now live in an entirely different world. This month, the university is concluding a major two-year research effort that follows on the 1989 “Made In America” report, and the findings focus on a very different problem American business is facing: the “gaping holes” and “missing pieces” in the industrial ecosystem that make it difficult to bring new ideas to the marketplace. What we found is that production is critical to our strength in innovation.
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Programming News: Simple DocX Editor in Native C
I recently had to write a module to create an Invoice in Word (.docx) format. Though I found a number of solutions which do this, none were as simple as I wanted them to be. All I wanted was kind of search-and-replace that I could do from C# code. So this library effectively does a simple text based search-and-replace on a docx file without any external library (OpenXML or Office Interop). It doesn’t require Office to be installed on the target machine as well.
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Photography News: Filters for Digital Photography : A Detailed Article
Filters for Digital Photography itself can be a big chapter. With multiple articles and easy representation, we have made Filters easy to choose for Photography. The number of articles published in this website on Filters for Digital Photography, both about the technical part and methods are not less, now as some Filters still make sense, rather they are required to obtain certain results with DSLR, in this article we will list you as the filters are still useful in the age of digital photography. … Many of the useful filters in analog photography, no longer needed in digital photography. The same effects can be achieved on the computer, with more control over the final result and high quality. Some filters, however they still make sense, rather they are required to obtain certain results. Those are listed in this article – Filters for Digital Photography.
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