Category: Design

The New iPhone iDisk Icon is Ugly

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mobilemapp.pngLots of fixes, though:

• Auto-complete email addresses when choosing recipients for a shared file

• File sharing emails are automatically saved to your Mail account’s Sent folder

• When viewing an image, tap and hold to save it to your photo roll or copy it to another app

• Maximum setting for cache size is now 500MB (up from 200MB)

• Faster downloads

• Various bug fixes

• Localizations for Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

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Tablets Set to Kill Netbooks?

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Mike Elgan:

Netbooks suck for typing. Believe me. I’m a professional. One problem is that the keyboards are too cramped. But the other is that tiny netbooks force you to have the screen too close for comfortable reading.

A touch tablet is also a netbook. Just add a kickstand to prop up the screen and add a Bluetooth keyboard. The best part is that you can add the keyboard of your choice, not the one that happens to match the netbook’s screen size.

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Letterbox, Snow Leopard Get Friendly

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Letterbox is a Mail plugin that moves the message portion of the window to the left of the mailbox, as opposed to under it, a la Outlook.

I’ve used it for years on my notebooks, where vertical space is at a premium. I have never used it on my iMac, where screen real estate is much more abundant.

Anyways, Letterbox Beta 5 is out, and after installing it a few days ago, I’m happy as a clam in Mail once again. Check it out.

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‘Think Different’ Coming Back?

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9 to 5 Mac:

We have noted that the new 21.5 and 27-inch iMac packaging has the “Macintosh. Think Different’ moniker inside it, below the specifications. In previous Macintosh packaging, Apple’s website URL is printed below the specifications list.

Today we find out, that on December 8, 2009, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s new trademark application for Think Different under application 77882684.

I, for one, would love to see them resurrect the slogan.

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