Articles Archive for January 2011
Audiobooks, Deals, Music, movies, TV »
Gary Sheyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, creates a compelling reality in this tale about an illiterate America in the not-too-distant future. Lenny Abramov may just be penning the world’s last diary. Which is good, because while falling in …
Games, Mac »
With the launch of the Mac App Store and AT&T’s $49 iPhone 3GS offer, this one just about slipped under the radar. Still, you’ve gotta have some fairly serious hardware to play this SteamPlay-enhanced game title: Intel Core 2 Duo …
Deals, Games, Mac »
This is my favorite game on the iPod touch and iPad — my kids love it, too. One of the really slick things about this side scrolling helicopter combat game is that you control it using your idevice. This same …
Mac, Software »
The holidays are done and it’s back to business, which here at the Fairer Platform includes our regular look at how well mainline browsers perform vis-a-vis the increasingly important HTML5. Tipped as a more powerful and secure replacement for Adobe …
Mac, Software »
When the Mac App Store opens for business, pretty much everyone expects that iWork ’11 will be released at the same time, bringing with it stronger cloud and mobile support. Thereupon, Apple’s pushed out an update for the current version …
Mobile, Reviews, how to »
The source of the how to articles on FairerPlatform are often troubles I run into — have an issue, find a solution and then share it with the world. In this particular case, however, the only problem I’ve had with …
Mac, Software »
Japan’s Trend Micro has put together a Top 10 of the most dangerous technologies in 2010 and Apple’s FreeBSD-based Mac operating system is said to be the riskiest to use. Thereupon, the antivirus company’s list includes both well reasoned items …
Mac, Software »
Download movies burn them to disk, iPod, iPhone and iPad? Then you’ve got to know this app and all of the wonderful things it can do to video, like sync subtitles, from just about any source. That said, it hasn’t …
Mobile »
It’s CES week and SDI Technologies is taking the opportunity to roll new iHome for iPad audio solutions. There are also updated iPhone + iPod touch models, featuring the company’s unique app-enhanced approach to always staying connected. Due later this …

