512 Pixels

…thankfully.

If Apple introduces this, the Mac would be in big in trouble.

While Office itself is a handy thing on a mobile device, the biggest thing I walked away from this video with is an impression that Microsoft has worked very hard to remove all the window chrome in their mobile OS. This UI is gorgeous.

Handwritten additions include:

No human body parts filled with noodles.

We have the same problem at the Salvation Army some days.

Matt Ford at Ars Technica:

In the 20 years since it has seen near total failure and has brought back some of the most important and astounding images humankind has even seen of the Universe. In celebration of Hubble’s 20 years of service, Nobel Intent has a taken a moment to look back at some of the most significant images that the flying observatory has brought us.

Stunning.

Glenn Fleishman of TidBITS:

You use these adapters to transfer images when you’re away from a computer with which the iPad syncs. You can view imported photos and videos at full scale, or use Photos or third-party apps to upload to various services, like MobileMe or Flickr. Photos lacks any way to send or upload multiple photos at one time, a silly limit for software that can import images. Some developers offer apps with multiple-picture upload, and I expect we’ll see more targeted more precisely at those who import photos to iPad.

It would be nice to see some more uses for these dongles — hopefully Apple and 3rd-party developers will write more software that could use that USB port — or even an SD card — for some uses other than just importing photos.

Some have had luck connecting a USB keyboard to the iPad via the USB dongle, meaning it is only a matter of time until I try hooking my Apple Extended II keyboard to my iPad.

Ars Technica’s Jeff Smykil:

In the end, using iWork for the iPad is a lot like going to the moon. It might be a nice place to visit, and it may even be fun to bounce around for a bit, play a little golf, or buzz around in that sweet little moon buggy, but in the end, it’s not a place I’d like to live, or even stay for any extended amount of time. iWork is decent, but there is only so much you can do for an office suite without a full keyboard and a mouse.

So while iWork is usable on Apple’s new “magical” device, it probably won’t cut it for serious users. If you need to make an on-the-fly change to a document or presentation, you might lose some formatting or suffer some other unexpected quirks. What Apple calls file sharing, I call a pain, and the inability to print just magnifies things.

I agree. The iPad’s office suite is great for quick edits, but nothing is quick about syncing documents via iTunes. It sucks, and Apple needs to fix it.

Details here. It’s a great app, and on my favorite on the iPad.

They just keep posting stuff — this story doesn’t even include anything new, just links to the week’s news.

Massive traffic is addicting, I guess.

Kirk Cheyfitz:

Technology, of course, can’t save publishing unless publishing gets on board and saves itself. The industry, however, has not been up to the task. Their heads are so far up their old approaches that they can’t (yet) see a way out.

CNET:

Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.

Apple has spoken to local police about the incident and the investigation is believed to be headed by a computer crime task force led by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office, the source said.

Kelvin Soh for Reuters:

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Lenovo rose as much as 5.9 percent percent to a 23-month high on Friday, helped by expectations of strong growth in the sector and speculation that it could bid for the U.S. company once considered a pioneer in the smartphone space.

“A most suitable candidate will be a mainland Chinese company,” said Lu Chialin, an analyst at Macquarie Securities in Taipei. “They’ve got a lot more free cash and don’t have the brand presence in the United States, so that will all give them that boost they need.”

It is rumored that HTC declined to make an offer after seeing Palm’s books.

HardMac is making me feel old. I used to swap logic boards on original iMac G5s daily, at the height of the capacitor failure that plagued these machines and the “ALS” models that followed them.