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iPhone prototype N94 leaked, possibly to be an iPhone 4S

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2011)

There are lots of crazy rumors flying around about the new iPhone announcement coming later on this year (or as soon as next month), but this is one of the more credible. The picture above comes from a site called UbreakIfix through our friends at Engadget, and purports to show a prototype for ...

How the iPad 2 got thinner and lighter

by Steven Sande (Mar 17th, 2011)

Putting a device that is already thin and light onto a weight loss program seems like an exercise in futility, but it's something that Apple engineers love to do. The entire line of MacBooks has become lighter and thinner over the years, and many were surprised when the new iPad 2 weighed in a ...

AutoCAD comes back to the Mac

by Chris Rawson (Aug 31st, 2010)

Autodesk, proprietor of popular 2D/3D design software AutoCAD, is about to bring AutoCAD back to the Mac after a nearly two decade estrangement. AutoCAD is to engineering and architecture design what Photoshop is to photo editing, so this is a Pretty Big Deal. Like many software makers (and ...

Professional number crunching falls short with the Formulator Series calculators

by Steven Sande (Jan 26th, 2010)

My name is Steve, and I'm a recovering engineer. Although I'm no longer a practicing engineer, I still hold a Professional Engineer license and I'm still interested in most things dealing with engineering. That's why I perked up when I received an email from MultiEducator, Inc., a software ...

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