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About Andrew Kalinchuk
Posts by Andrew Kalinchuk
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The New iPad: Everything You Need to Know
07 Mar 2012 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
Most of the rumors posted in our recent iPad 3 post came true today when the new iPad was unveiled. Of course, there were a few things we all got wrong. Like the name for instance. But we all had it right where it counted. Welcome to the future of iPad. Dropping the Number System Despite numerous guesses at the name for the newest Apple tablet (the 2S, 3, or HD), they decided to simplify the namin...
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Rumor Mill: 8 Upcoming Features of the New iPad 3
06 Mar 2012 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
With the iPad 3 event slated for March 7, the rumor mill is churning out a whole slew of changes to the original formula that may or may not appear on launch day. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves from joining the fold and rounding out the best rumors out there. Oh, if only they would all come true… Too bad the iPhone 4S taught us that tech dreams are not meant to come true. Thanks...
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What Can The New iTunes Match Do For You?
18 Nov 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
iTunes Match is the newest offering from Apple, an addition to its popular music player. The new service promises to store your iTunes purchases in the cloud, as well as backing up your non-iTunes media for $25 per year. In order to use it however, you need to have iTunes 10.5.1 installed. You can find the update right here. How Does It Work? Once prompted, Match will chew through your media libr...
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Apple’s 1st Gen iPod Nano Being Recalled
14 Nov 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
Apple has been getting its fair share of bad press lately. With battery issues plaguing the iPhone 4S and the iOS 5.01 update making things even worse, this latest problem just adds to the drama. On the Support section of their website, Apple states that “in very rare cases, the battery in the iPod nano (1st generation) may overheat and pose a safety risk.” That can’t be good. Th...
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What’s coming in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
11 Nov 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
Now that the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 have had their chance to bathe in the limelight, the focus can turn to Google’s latest Android release: Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). A quick assessment would hail ICS as the answer to Android’s nagging issue of fragmentation. With different versions of the OS scattered all over their various devices, developing for the platform has been notoriously difficu...
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Windows 8 Gets A Brand New Task Manager
26 Oct 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
Back before we all knew better, the Windows task manager was accepted as the ugly eyesore that it currently is and we were happy to put it far out of our minds until the next time we had the misfortune to need it. To the experienced user, the task manager is a necessary evil, complicated, but not unusable. To a novice, however, the experience can be altogether alienating and is to be avoided at al...
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Windows 8 Can Do A Cold Boot In 8 Seconds Flat
10 Oct 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
We said what everyone was thinking. A coat of paint on a sub-par system does not a successful operating system make. Okay, my colleague said it better than that, but the message is the same. Regardless, we’d still like to give credit where it’s due and highlight something that Microsoft has done really, really well so far: Start-up time. Praise be to whoever made this miracle happen, b...
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Is This Ice Cream Sandwich on the New Nexus?
07 Oct 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
With the mystery of the iPhone 5 solved, the attention of the internet geekdom has turned to the next, newest thing: Android. Specifically its newest operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), and Google’s next flagship device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (also known as Nexus Prime, or whatever). And we’ve uncovered the motherload. A Romanian website (it was Samsung Romania that...
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Review: Elmedia Player for Mac
19 Sep 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
It’s no secret that Macs have a problem with media playback, shipping with extremely limited options available. Some media files are simply unplayable without third party software. That’s part of the reason why players like VLC have become so popular (it’s the only player I will use). But where’s the fun in that? Where are all the choices? What about democracy? That’s...
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Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ Has Officially Been RTM’d
02 Aug 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
Windows Phone “Mango” has officially been RTM’d. What’s RTM? It means that Microsoft has given the new build its stamp of approval and released it to the manufacturers. Once it’s in the hands of companies like Samsung, HTC, LG and others, the finished software will go through rigorous testing and configurations to make things run smoothly on their respective handsets. That means that eve...
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