There are a lot fewer reasons to jailbreak an iOS device than there used to be. We have apps, copy and paste, multi-tasking and more.
However, with new features come new limitations. One example is Airplay.
Mac Stories has a great post up outlining what jailbreaking can do to enhance this feature of iOS 4.2. I might just be taking the plunge tonight.
[via @treyheath]
May the Force be with you, Irvin Kershner.
About two years ago, my uncle called me up, offering to give me his old computer desk. It was a 1990 Steelcase — a monster of a desk. It had a filing cabinet on the right side, and was made of steel. It weighed a ton, it was huge and I loved it. It even had AT&T inventory tags on the underside of the work surface. Whoops.
Notice that’s all in past tense. Because this morning, my desk died.
See my thoughts over at Macgasm.
Four-year-old Ryan Thomas was on his way to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with his parents when TSA agents forced him to take off his leg braces at Philadelphia International Airport in March 2009.
This incident took place in March 2009. The TSA has been out of control for a lot longer than the whole backscatter deal.
Our two-year old son has leg braces to help compensate for his partial hemiplegia, caused by his brain tumor. If we were asked to take them off and have him walk without them due to “safety concerns,” I’d punch the TSA officer in the goddamn mouth.
What a great sentence in a somewhat odd story.
The iPad is a companion device, but a companion device that is both large enough and powerful enough to serve as a primary computer for many people. Just take a look around the web and you will see a good number of Geeks like myself who have left behind their laptops on recent travels, preferring instead to take along their iPad only.
The Tab is not that type of device, it is not able to span the category of both companion and possibly a primary computer. As I see it the Tab isn’t even a secondary computer. That does not make it a bad device, I actually rather like it under the right circumstances.
I am taking a few days off to spend with my family over this holiday weekend. As you should, instead of scouring the Internet for something to read. Go unplug and enjoy some turkey and football.
Sarah Palin (who has a journalism degree), in an interview with MSNBC:
I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported.
You remember T.J. Maxx and their brief iPad adventure, right? The popular apparel retail chain started selling iPads last week, at the curious price of $399 — which was $100 off Apple’s suggested price.
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They bought the iPads from retail (perhaps an Apple Store, who knows) at $40.000, they sold them at $32.000 generating a loss of $8.000 but they ended up on all major blogs and thousands of people visited their stores hoping to find a discounted iPad. With just $8.000, they gained a huge visibility that would have costed way more with standard advertising methods. Very clever.
Nick Dillon, with Ovum1:
With support for Flash 10.1 growing, users will become accustomed to a similar web browsing experience on both mobile and desktop devices; this will ultimately impact the attractiveness of Apple’s proposition. Flash certainly looks to be gaining ground with device vendors and Apple may need to re-evaluate its position if its dominance is threatened as a result. In addition to garnering support for Flash 10, Adobe has launched its own app distribution service for Flash and AIR applications. InMarket will help developers to sell their apps across various devices. This is clearly a big draw for developers and will threaten the dominance of platform vendors in the mobile apps market.
Warren Buffet, in an interview with ABC:
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it. The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.