Nick Mediati - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Nick Mediati

Article | 9/04/2010 iPhone OS 4 wish list: What we got right, what we got wrong

After iPhone OS 3's release last summer, we pulled out our crystal ball, dusted it off, and tried to look ahead to iPhone OS 4. Some of what we wante...

Article | 17/03/2010 Microsoft Releases IE 9 'Platform Preview'

Microsoft today released a platform preview of Internet Explorer 9. This isn't an IE9 beta, mind you; it doesn't have the features you'd expect in a b...

Article | 13/02/2010 No Apple? No problem! New toys take center stage

Macworld Expo without Apple is a smaller, lower-key affair, but that hasn't kept Apple enthusiasts from attending the show. The show floor is as packe...

Article | 10/02/2010 ATI introduces Radeon HD 5570, targets small desktop PCs

Following up the recent launch of its Radeon HD 5450, ATI today announced the Radeon HD 5570. This new card supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2, and is...

Article | 8/01/2010 HP's multi-touch tablet previewed, arrives late 2010

A prototype of HP's rumored touchscreen tablet PC made a brief appearance at Steve Ballmer's keynote presentation at CES. The tablet, which hasn't yet...

Article | 1/10/2009 Windows 7 Performance Tests

Windows Vista never was particularly speedy in most people's eyes. Whether it deserved the reputation or not, the word on the street was that Vista wa...

Article | 11/09/2009 New AMD graphics card drives six displays

In the future, everyone will have their own Matrix: Reloaded-style video walls. Or at least that's the future AMD envisions.

Article | 10/09/2009 Will Apple's new iTunes put you on cloud nine?

Earlier today Apple introduced iTunes 9 at the "It's Only Rock and Roll, But We Like It" media event. iTunes 9 has a number of new features, such as i...

Article | 29/08/2009 The future is now? Augmented reality comes to the iPhone

If you're traveling to Paris, France anytime soon, consider taking Metro Paris Subway 3.0 along for the trip. This 99-cent iPhone app integrates an au...

Article | 28/08/2009 Snow Leopard versus Windows 7

Snow Leopard’s Finder and Windows 7’s Explorer have strikingly similar interfaces, with quick-search fields in the upper-right corner, path bars (OS X...

Article | 22/08/2009 Layar brings augmented reality to Android phones worldwide

Netherlands-based Android developer Layar has announced that its Layar Reality Browser 2.0 is now available globally. Layar Reality Browser is an augm...

Article | 6/08/2009 Apple screws up again, censors iPhone dictionary app

Just when you thought the iPhone App Store approval process couldn't possibly become more of a debacle, it did. John Gruber of Daring Fireball details...

Article | 23/07/2009 It's official: Windows 7 goes RTM

Microsoft has announced this afternoon that Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing. In other words, Windows 7 development has wrapped up, and it...

Article | 9/07/2009 Is Chrome OS the future of computing? I hope not.

Google's idea of an operating system sounds pretty cool: Lightweight. Speedy. Secure. Web-centric. But while I'm sure Chrome OS will pick up some fans...

Article | 1/07/2009 What to look for in Firefox 3.5

Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5, which you can download from Mozilla's Web site. Firefox 3.5 boasts a number of significant changes--ranging from n...