Category: Apple

Ben Brooks, on carrying a Verizon MiFi with an iPad:

The MiFi is super easy to use, but it is not as easy as just using your iPad. By that I mean that if you have a 3G iPad and you want to look up something on the net you flip it on, wait a second and surf the web – it connects to 3G for you if you don’t have WiFi available. With the MiFi you would have to pull out the iPad, check to see if you can get WiFi (because you are too lazy to pull out the MiFi first, trust me I am speaking from experience). Then when you see you have no WiFi pull out the MiFi, turn it on, wait, wait, then connect the iPad to the MiFi (it will do this automatically if you have used the two together before).

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Via Cult of Mac:

What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist.

If there’s anything this week worth sending to Instapaper, it’s this interview.

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Speaking of Mac Stories… Federico Viticci:

Maybe you don’t need OmniFocus, and you don’t need Things. You don’t care about whatever David Allen has to say and seriously – the Emergent Task Planner? You just want to enter tasks and have them always available, right? I got you. You’re that kind of user who don’t care about features and UX innovations as long as what needs to be accomplished during the day is driven by a simple software that doesn’t get in the way and doesn’t require you to read a manual.

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Federico Viticci at Mac Stories has posted his predictions for OS X 10.7, which may be introduced next week at Apple’s event:

iOS is not coming to the desktop, but Apple is looking for a way to integrate the desktop with the iOS environment. That’s quite a difference. Expect FaceTime being integrated into iChat, a desktop version of iBooks (which would be just great on a new MacBook Air…) and the possibility to check on Game Center leaderboards and updates directly form your computer. Again, I’m just speculating here: what if Apple comes up with a system to “link” desktop apps to iOS counterparts? 1Password, for example, uses its own method to transfer and sync databases across the Mac and iOS. Wouldn’t it be awesome for developers to be able to easily let iOS and OS X communicate with an official framework?

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October 20 should be exciting.

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How long until it shows up in a bar?

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Edit: This blog post is very old and probably not very helpful anymore.

So, you want to use Mac OS X Mail with Gmail, which is an excellent, free webmail service from Google? While Snow Leopard makes the default setup is very easy, there are some rough edges of Google’s somewhat-wonky IMAP setup that need to be smoothed off for a better experience.

I’ve written out the steps to reach “Gmail IMAP in Mac OS X Mail” nirvana. While that doesn’t roll of the tongue, it does soothe the soul of the Gmail-using Mac lover.

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Just soak these in:

• Comparison of Windows Phone 7 handsets[1. I would have linked to Microsoft’s page, but it kept crashing my browser. Seriously.]
• Comparison of Android handsets
• Comparison of iOS handsets

The moral of the story? Less is sometimes more.

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This morning, Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7. Boy Genius Report live-blogged the entire thing, and as great as their coverage is, I can’t tell you what really happened. I know that HTC launched 5 handsets, LG launched a WP7 QWERTY phone, Samsung unveiled a new phone and AT&T’s U-Verse is bundled with some phones and with the Xbox 360. Additionally, copy and paste is coming “early 2011” and that PC-maker Dell is even in on the action.

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Jim Dalrymple:

Analyst are predicting that Apple will begin work on its 7-inch iPad very soon. They are wrong.

The fact is, Apple already has a 7-inch iPad. They have had one of the smaller devices since they started making the 9.7-inch iPad that we have now.

To be clearer, the two devices were developed at the same time. They have pretty much the same specs, except, of course, the 9.7-inch model has a lower density screen than its smaller counterpart.

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Earlier today, a beta version of an iOS 4.1 jailbreak was released, just before the official iPhone Dev Team release was due. While a little unusual to see an exploit by another group so close to an announced release, it seems that there is a lot more going on behind the scenes than what’s on the surface.

According to iPhone Dev Team member Joshua Hill, Geohot’s new Limera1n jailbreak uses an ill-advised, unstable exploit to get into iOS. By showcasing an exploit other than the iPhone Dev Team’s exploit, Geohot is giving Apple two bugs to squash, not just one, making future jailbreaks more difficult.

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Miguel Helft:

After more than three years of using only AT&T cellphone networks, Apple is now making a version of the iPhone 4 for Verizon’s network, according to a person who is in direct contact with Apple. Apple and Verizon will begin selling the phone early next year, said the person, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity because the plans were supposed to be confidential and he did not want to alienate his contacts at Apple.

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