April 2011
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January 2011
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October 2010
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Mac App Store
Steve Jobs announced the forthcoming Mac Appstore today. The paradigm will be the same as the well known Appstores on iOS devices: one click shopping, immediate installation and notifications on available updates.
From a users point of view I like the idea of the Mac Appstore because it may become the go to point when I´m in need for an application for a certain task. It spares me the hassle of...
May 2010
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David Hockney "Van Gogh would have loved it" →
The iPad gets praise from artist and royal academician David Hockney. Here´s another article from Bloomberg dated April, 25th.
Hockney has been drawing on his iPhone for some time using the brushes app and and has now moved to the iPad’s bigger screen.
The quote sticking out most reads: “It can be anything you want it to be. This is the nearest we have got to seeing what I would call a...
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WePad is now WeTab →
Steve Jobs has allready argued before that all our pads are belong to him. WePad it seems is affected by this rule.
The linked article at Techcrunch also contains a fans suggestion for a future renaming of the german Antwort to the tablet from Cupertino.
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iPad will arrive in 9 countries on May 28th
Apple anounced shipping dates for the iPad in a press release today. The tablet will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Both the WiFi-only and the WiFi+3G models will be on sale the same day. Preorders start monday May, 10th.
According to the spanish outlet of techblog Engadget the pricing in Spain will start at...
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Daring Fireball Hey Bill Gates, 1999 Called and... →
John Gruber links to an article at cult of mac in his very own style.
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AppleInsider | Apple announces iPad sales top 1... →
1 million in 28 days equals about 35700 units per day.The 3G Version was only just released on friday. Taking into account that Apple is only serving the US market at the time that´s quite a lot.
I´m curious about the figures when the iPad goes on sale in most of europe later this month.
April 2010
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IEBlog "IE9 will support only h.264 HTML5 Video" →
Internet Explorer 9 will support only h.264 for HTML5 video playback. One excerpt from todays blogpost reads as follows “Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security, and performance.”
Bad Times for Adobe’s Flash
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Fake Steve "We are removing Flash support from OS... →
Fake Steve anounces the end of flash support in Apple’s Desktop Operating System.
I´m afraid it will end up the other way around: Adobe discontinuing flash support for OS X.
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Microsoft cancels the Courier, the Internet sheds... →
Acording to Gizmodo Microsoft has killed the Courier project. It´s a pitty cause the Courier looked very interesting. If you havn´t heard of the Courier take a look at it on YouTube
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Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31, iTunes.com... →
Lala the online music service which was aquired by Apple in late 2009 will shut down on May 31st. Read more over on techcrunch.
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Thoughts on Flash →
Steve Jobs publishes his thoughts on Flash. He closes by saying Adobe should focus on making tools for open web standards such as HTML5 instead of “criticizing Apple for leaveing the past behind”.
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HP To Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion →
Palm which has been up for sale for a couple of weeks was picked up by HP.
Simplenote for iPad now available! →
Simplenote is an awsome notes application that will keep your notes in sync across all of your devices. There´s even a dashboard widget for quick access on OS X.
It´s now a universal binary for iPhone and iPad and available for free on the iTunes appstore.
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Dilbert "That Lost 4G Phone" →
Scott Adams’ Dilbert and the lost iPhone prototype
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German T-Mobile tariffs for iPad surface →
fscklog.com reports on internal documents of T-Mobile, germanies exclusive iPhone partner, which reveal the upcoming data tariffs for iPad.
Apparently all tariffs are bound to an existing iPhone contract. T-Mobile will only offer one daily prepaid tariff at €2.95 ($3,95) which expires at 12:00am.
A T-Mobile spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the document adding that the tariffs are not...
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Facebook’s Instant Personalization Is the Real... →
Liz Gannes at Gigaom.com on Facebooks new “instant personalization” feature. The social web giant faces privacy issues again.
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How many iPads can I buy in one lifetime ? →
Aparently there´s a lifetime limit on the amount of iPads one can buy. As usual with Apple they´re very secretive on the rules applying to this limit.
Daring Fireball: Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone →
John Gruber on Gizmodo and the future iPhone
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The Gizmodo/iPhone fiasco
Word (and pictures) on the future of iPhone are out in the streets thanks to an Apple engineer who supposedly left the device in a Redwood, Ca. Bar and Gizmodo the notorious gadget blog subsidiary of Gawker Media who paid $5000 to get their hands on the prototype device.
For an in depth write up on the legal implications read John Grubers article over at Daring Fireball.
As to the outcome of...
On Androids supposed openness →
An interesting take on the Android platform
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Worldwide iPad launch delayed to end of May →
Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks […]
Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international...
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Please Make the iPhone Weather Application... →
No comment needed. Via Daring Fireball
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Opera Mini for iPhone approved →
It´s unbelievably fast. The UI is sort of different, pinch to zoom doesn´t work as I expect it to and overall there´s room for some improvement in usability. One thing is the interface for deleteing/configuring bookmarks on the home page disappears so fast it´s unusable to me.
But it´s so fast I can´t believe it. It´s a good sign that Apple approved it.
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Palm Said to Tap Goldman, Quattrone to Find Buyers... →
I used to love my Palm V long before iPods, iPhones and all the other came along. It´s sad to see them go.
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Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself « Sharing the... →
Some valid points here on the ongoing Adobe vs. Apple sage which dates back to 1996. Well worth a read.
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Is Steve Jobs Ignoring History, Or Trying To... →
Is SJ repeating his own history ? And might he come out on top this time ?
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iPad Users Watch 3 Times as Much Video as Web... →
Without flash support that is !
“The iPad isn’t a big iPod touch—an iPod touch is a miniature iPad”
– Ars Technica reviews the iPad
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“why i will be buying an ipad this weekend”
– Andre Torrez has a some thoughtful insight into the media industry´s Cassandra calls.
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“What Ive and his team understand is that if you have an object in your pocket or...”
– Stephen Fry meets Apple executives and the iPad The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?
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My Life In A Nutshell » Blog Archive » iPad envy →
Debbie Ridpath Ohi envies Andy Ihnatko.
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“I found the iPad a pleasure to use, and had less and less interest in cracking...”
– Walt Mossberg - Apple iPad Review: Laptop Killer? Pretty Close.
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“When Apple looks at a fingertip, they see a warm, living thing that can feel....”
– Andy Ihnatko - iPad is pure innovation - one of best computers ever
March 2010
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Exclusive: Google To Go Nuclear →
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington reports Google acquired a company specialized in technology for Uranium enrichment. Might be an early Aprils Fool as well.
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Apple's German iPad Demand 3.5 Times Higher Than... →
According to what Gizmodo cites as reliable sources Apple´s german branch received orders for 250,000 iPads. The international launch of Apple’s tablet device was announced to be late April. Rumours predicting April 24th have surfaced earlier today from a Canadian website.
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iPad Canadian (global?) launch on April 24th? →
9to5mac has learned that Apple retail employees in Canada will not be able to take a day off on April 24th which could hint at a possible canadian iPad release date. Maybe even a global release date.
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Court Documents Show poor pre-order figures for... →
Gizmodo reports the former CrunchPad only saw 90 preorders with 15 of them already canceled. Interestingly the PayPal account for pre-orders is not even registered to Fusion Garage but to its CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan.
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Daring Fireball Linked List: WSJ's Lame Entry in... →
Daring Fireballs John Gruber adds detail to yesterdays vague WSJ post. Namely an Apple A4 soc, a 960x640 resolution screen, a front facing camera and the frequently mentioned third-party multitasking expected to arrive in iPhone OS 4.0
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iPad - the complete guided tour →
Available as a 848*480 quicktime movie for download here.
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Fake Steve Jobs Blog Likely To Shut Down →
Say it isn´t so !
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Two New IPhones Coming; One May Be Aimed at... →
New iPhones to be announced in the June-July timeframe. Verizon has long been rumored to be negotiating with Apple over a CDMA version of the iPhone maybe it will become a reality this year.
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Apple releases OS X 10.6.3 update
Snow Leopard 10.6.3 is out in the wild. The update is 438.7 GB for a MacBook and among other things offers improvements in Quicktime X.
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Dashboard App For iPad: Sneak Preview Video →
Those missing iPhone Apps like weather, stocks and calculater are back on the iPad via this nice Dashboard App.