MG Siegler, on the rumored 15-inch MacBook Air:
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some sort of consolidation. Just pure speculation here, but maybe the Air becomes simply the “MacBook” and the focus is on the 11, 13, and new 15-inch models. Meanwhile, the MacBook Pro drops the 13-inch model and focuses on the 15, and 17-inch models.
I agree.
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The iPhone 4S has an amazing camera. This is undisputed. What the iPhone lacks, however, is a tripod thread for mounting it to a tripod. Enter the Glif.
The Glif is a small and simple accessory for mounting your iPhone 4 or 4S to any standard tripod. It also acts as a little kickstand to prop your iPhone up for watching movies, using FaceTime, etc.
And now, StudioNeat is offering Glif+, a deluxe Glif package. It comes with Ligature, a keychain loop for always keeping your Glif handy, and Serif, an additional attachment to keep your iPhone super secure in extreme situations. They are also offering the +Pack, for those of you that already own a Glif and just want the add-ons. Both are available for preorder now, and will ship in 1–2 weeks.
I just bought my first Glif earlier this month, and I have to say, it is a very clever and very well-designed accessory. We’re using the iPhone 4S to shoot video at work now for quick, on-the-go projects, thanks to this tripod mount.
With the holidays fast approaching, the Glif makes a great stocking stuffer. Available now at StudioNeat.
NeXT’s slab desktop was well designed inside. No surprise, I suppose, as Steve Jobs was involved.
Wow.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 voice recognition needs a little work.
1Password is half-off this weekend. This is a great app to keep your passwords and other critical data — like credit card numbers — safe and sound.
Ars’ Casey Johnson in her review of the Nook Tablet:
The virtual keyboard suffers from the same major problem as does the Kindle Fire and every other 7-inch tablet: the portrait-oriented keyboard is slightly too big for comfortable thumb-typing, and the landscape keyboard is too small for ten-finger typing. I submit that, unless your hands are significantly larger than mine, 7-inch tablets are just never going to become e-mailing, note-taking machines. I’d rather try to type things out on my smartphone than a 7-inch tablet.
As pointed out by Erica Sadun at TUAW, Type2Phone is a neat little Mac app that allows users to type on their iPhone from their Mac.
While this seems a bit silly, I know that I type much faster on my computer than on my iPhone, and stopping my work to answer a text message can be annoying. This app promises much smoother interaction with iOS.
To set the app up, the iPhone and Mac have to be paired over Bluetooth, which I found a little buggy. I blame Lion for that, but once I got the pairing up and going, the app worked as advertised. I got a text message, swiped to reply, tabbed to Type2Phone on my iMac and replied. Until iMessage makes it to the desktop, this is a neat little way to make texting less intrusive while working at a computer.
(Of course, Type2Phone works with any text field on iOS, but iMessage makes the most sense to me for this app.)
While the app isn’t the best-looking on the App Store, I think it’ll be living in my Dock from now on.
Huh.