News: iPad shipments, Apple patents, DTrace tune-ups, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 02 December 2011
Posted in Apple

It's a fairly slow news week for Mac news, but there is something that is somewhat related: Apple now ships more iPads than Dell sells PCs. A few years ago, such a feat would have been unheard of, and what's more, AppleInsider says the iPad is disrupting the wider DRAM market due to the number of iPads being shipped, making DRAM manufacturers lose millions of dollars on factories that won't see much usage.

There's a few crazy (and admittedly iOS-based) patents from Apple that have passed through the US Patent Office recently, and Patently Apple take a look at a patent to control a remote drone using an iOS device (similar to the Parrot AR Drone), a patent for an iPad-based robot that interacts with its environment and has built-in cloud computing integration, as well as a patent for a guitar accessory that your iPad can hook into to create a touch-screen based guitar.

DTrace is definitely a tool for those comfortable with the command line, but in the right hands it can be extremely useful for everything relating to system diagnostics and analysis. There's even ways to make it work for you, identifying where your computer might be slowing down.

Macworld give you six unexpected uses for the arrow keys. Apple may have killed off the numpad with the advent of the standard wireless keyboard, but the humble arrow keys live on.

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