AppleInsider has once again stirred up the rumors surrounding the Apple tablet: It seems like a long time coming. Nearly two years have past since AppleInsider exclusively reported in September of 2007 that Apple’s next big product initiative would be a modern day reincarnation of its beloved-but-defunct Newton MessagePad. And it’s believed the device had [...]
TUAW: Recently, we reported that developers were not able to request promo codes for their iPhone apps if the app had received a 17+ rating due to having an embedded web browser, unfiltered 3rd party content, or contained excessive violence or sexual content. This restriction severely limited the ability of the developers to distribute promotional [...]
Time: Cursive started to lose its clout back in the 1920s, when educators theorized that because children learned to read by looking at books printed in manuscript rather than cursive, they should learn to write the same way. By World War II, manuscript, or print writing, was in standard use across the U.S. Today schoolchildren [...]
Gruber gets it right: But I say he’s very much wrong that charging readers for access to news is a credible solution. It would just make things worse. If the Times and/or Post were to erect a pay wall, I see things playing out as follows: they lose most of their readers; ad revenue declines [...]
A friend sent me this link this week. It details an email conversation between Gizmodo and Jason Scott about Gizmodo’s recent 1979 feature. Here’s how Gizmodos intern Don Nguyen started the conversation: We are currently working on features about technology thirty years ago, and one of the issues we want to look in to is the state [...]
PC World has posted a gallery of tech-related tattoos people have gotten over the years. I felt I compelled to show mine:
Fron the Learning in Hand blog: I thought it would be interesting to compare iPhone 3G S with one of Apple’s desktop computers from 20 years ago, Apple IIGS. The “GS” in IIGS stood for graphics and sound. However, it’s clear that today’s iPhone is much better with graphics and sound. The “S” in 3G [...]
Kate MacKenzie: Think about what a netbook really becomes. A shared email and browser that does IM, and frustrates everywhere else. Battery life? Low. Keyboard? Mushy. Multimedia performance? Slow. Disappointment? High. My iPod touch functions pretty much like a very, very small netbook PC. I check email. I type out a few quick responses. I browse. [...]
Betanews: According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple. Mac revenue market share in the “premium” price segment was 91 percent, up from 88 percent in May. That’s pretty damn good. And it reinforces Tim Cook’s statement the other day regarding netbooks: Our [...]
Updated come to Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server and Logic Studio. No update to my favorite, Aperture.
