First, at 1136 × 640, you get a diagonal of 1,303.877 pixels after applying the Pythagorean theorem. There are no such thing as fractional pixels, but what I’m talking about here are pixels as a unit of length, equal to 1/326 inch. Divide 1,303.877 by 326 and you get 3.9996 inches. Boom, a “4-inch” display. I’m sure if Apple instead went to 1152 pixels in height — which works out to 4.042 inches — they’d still just call it a “4-inch” display, for the sake of neatness, but it’s at least somewhat interesting that 1136 is the closest they could get to precisely 4.0 inches.
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Interesting … very interesting.
Coda 2 and Diet Coda for iPad Announced
Coda 2 will be out on May 24, and packs “over 100 new features.”
Diet Coda will also be out on the 24th, and will cost just $10 at launch. It includes syntax highlighting, FTP and SSL connectivity, find and replace and more.
Both apps look great. I can’t wait to give Panic some more of my money in just a few days. Seriously.
Speaking of OS Versions...
Apple isn’t supporting some machines with Mountain Lion that Microsoft is with Windows 8.
Tiger: The Best Version of OS X Ever?
Simon Royal at Low End Mac builds a case that 10.4 was the best version of OS X ever shipped. I tend to agree. Tiger certainly was better than the versions that preceded it, but far simpler (and more stable) that the version after.
The Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD
Inside the iPhone Charger
Ken Shirriff has torn down an iPhone USB charger, and the results are impressive:
Apple’s power adapter is clearly a high-quality power supply designed to produce carefully filtered power. Apple has obviously gone to extra effort to reduce EMI interference, probably to keep the charger from interfering with the touchscreen. When I opened the charger up, I expected to find a standard design, but I’ve compared the charger to the Samsung charger and several other high-quality industry designs, and Apple goes beyond these designs in several ways.
iTunes Festival Moved to September
Artists this year include Usher, Jack White, Norah Jones and more.
Apple and Renewable Energy
Apple’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina, will draw about 20 megawatts of power at full capacity. We’ll be producing an unprecedented 60 percent of this power onsite. To do that, we’re building what will be the nation’s largest private solar arrays and the largest non-utility fuel cell installation operating anywhere in the country. That’s a scale of onsite renewable energy production that no other company has matched. Onsite energy generation minimizes our dependence on the grid and reduces our environmental impact. And when our solar arrays and fuel cells are operating, Apple’s Maiden data center will be the most environmentally sound data center ever built.
On Vintage Mac Collecting
Adam Rosen at Cult of Mac:
What does it take to be a vintage Mac collector?
A love of all things Apple and an encyclopedic knowledge of the many successful, unsuccessful and downright notorious products Cupertino has released over the years are a given. But the job can be more perilous than you’d imagine.
Just ask Adam Goolevitch. Known as “wozniac” on eBay, Adam is one of the premier vintage Mac collectors around. In just he last couple of months, some of Googlevitch’s rarest finds — including a 128k Mac with a 5.25” Twiggy floppy disk drive and a Macintosh SE with a clear outer case — have hit the web and sparked a flurry of interest.
Four Years of App Store
Federico Viticci looks back at just how far the App Stores have come.