Apple Patent Uses 3D Gestures to Control an iPad

Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3D gestures, such as a swirl or swipe of the hand.

As suggested by a newly uncovered Apple patent, you would be able to manipulate and control graphical elements on your display, such as icons, media files, text and images. The gestures themselves could take many forms: geometric shapes (e.g., a half-circle or square), symbols (like a check mark or question mark), the letters of the alphabet, and other sorts of predetermined patterns.

Life inside Apple

An extraordinary picture of life within Apple, in which Steve Jobs is trying to create a "university" to teach incomers how the business makes decisions, keeps a "top 100" coterie who are told key decisions ahead of time and bawls out entire teams for failures emerges from an article published in Fortune this week.

The article (which is not yet online) indicates that Apple is driven by Jobs's personality: "the creative process at Apple is one of constantly preparing someone - be it one's boss, boss's boss, or oneself - for a presentation to Jobs," writes Adam Lashinsky, who calls him "a corporate dictator who makes every critical decision - and oddles of seemingly noncritical calls too".

7 Reasons Why Apple Should Not Pay A Dividend

There has been a lot ofchatter over the past day orso in regard to two Apple(AAPL) articles that havebeen published on the site.One that I wrote aboutApple's potential acquisitionsand another on why Apple should announce a massive buyback. So in keeping with the theme, I've decided to cover the thirdangle: Apple starts paying a dividend. For purposes of this argument, I'mgoing to ignore buybacks and acquisitions. Here are the reasons why Ithink this is a bad idea.

Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS

Although I’ve been a Windows power user for years, the transition to Mac couldn’t have been easier and more pleasant. I don’t want to turn this article into some endless rambling about how great Mac is, but as the user of both systems I can speak from my own experience quite objectively. Let’s take a look at some of the spots where Apple really has done it better in terms of user interface and usability.

Mac OS 10.6 - An Overview

On August 28, 2009 Mac OS 10.6, code name Snow Leopard, will be made available for sale. This new operating system represents an incremental improvement in the Mac OS X operating system. Key differences from earlier versions of Mac OS X include

• The first version of the Mac OS for Intel-based Macintoshes. Mac OS 10.6 does not support any PPC-based Macintoshes. To determine whether or not your system is an Intel-based Macintosh select About This Mac from the Apple menu. 
  • The type of processor in your computer will appear to the right of the Processor label in the window which appears. All Intel-based Macintoshes will run Mac OS 10.6.