If you’ve never herd of Skitch but work with web graphics, especially sharing screenshots within your workgroup or business, you need to get Skitch. Up until now, Skitch was just an OS X app but recently it was bought by Evernote (Another Great App) and made free! So what does Skitch do: It easily allows you to edit, alter and share you screenshots with anyone – now available for the iPad and Android. Check out this video for more info:
I find myself using the desktop version of this all all day, whether it’s for this blog or for web design, it’s an extremely versatile app…..and it’s free.
Source: 9To5Mac
So, first we had the iPad 2 tear down, courtesy of ifixit and now we have the heavy hitter – Anandtech’s graphics benchmark test for Apple’s new Tab. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the results – The Cupertino Tab destroys the competition handedly. So where is this raw power coming from? Jobs and Company bragged about the iPad’s graphics prowess during its unveiling on March 2nd, stating that it had 9x the graphics horsepower of the first gen iPad but nothing was said in terms of where/how/why.
Enter AnandTech! It looks like the massive performance boost came from the PowerVR SGX543MP2 graphics core used by Apple, as part of their custom SOC – i.e. A5 processor. Apple has been using custom PowerVR chips from Imagination Technologies for years and their massive graphics power, combined with the custom ARM Cortex A9 (Dual Core 900Mhz) processor make Apple’s SOC A5 the heavy weight champ in mobile computing – because seriously, these are becoming very powerful mobile computers.
Ok, so if the iPad 2 beats the crap out of the first gen ipad and its main competitor, the Motorola Xoom, why didn’t Apple exploit this little fact at their March 2nd unveiling? Seem only logical…..right? Well, maybe the wanted third party benchmarkers to do the bragging/dirty work for them? Jobs did plenty of finger pointing and dissing during the event – why over state your position, when someone else can unbiasedly praise your Tab! HP, bring the heat!
Source: Anandtech.com