Steve Jobs has his own idea and he’s a brilliant guy. There’s just an element that we’re not very happy about, as people. We are holding out. Don’t hold your breath… for anything.
Is there anything that woman can’t ruin?
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Apple, Third-Party Apps and Patents
As usual, Nilay Patel brings sanity to a confusing legal situation.
Billionaires Giving Away Wealth to Charity at Bill Gates’ Request
A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America’s wealthiest people to give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers announced Wednesday.
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The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract. It does not involve pooling money or supporting one cause or organization. It’s up to each person who signs the pledge how to divvy up their wealth.
On Designing What You Love
Randy Rodriguez, designer of the Nissan 370Z, in an interview with Autoblog:
My very first car was a Datsun Z. My dad had a gas station and got this Z somehow. My older brother begged him for it and got it from him when I was 11. We worked on that when we were kids and then I wanted one badly. I was 14 when I got my car.
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That’s why I decided to work with Nissan: because I have such a strong connection with the Z, and I think that car kind of made me want to be a designer. It’s the first car that I fell in love with, and I think that gave me an advantage when it came to designing the 370 because I knew so much about the car’s history.
Google Wave Dead in Water
We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.
iDisk Offers Audio Streaming to iOS Devices
Quietly mentioned in the release note of version 1.2 is the ability to play music files from remote storage in the background. I say “quietly” because this capability is not among the bullet list of features.
What this means is that for any music files such as MP3 or Apple’s AAC files stored in your iDisk account you can play them on your devices while you use your device for other operations. This makes streaming practical from Apple’s online storage. This new release brings this capability to iPhone, iTouch and iPad. You can stream music to multiple devices simultaneously.
Mashable, On Geeky Tattoos
My dogcow tattoo is on the list!
Droid 2.2 Update Missing Tethering, Hotspot
Motorola Droid users better not get too excited by Android 2.2, also known as “Froyo.” While Verizon Wireless is set to push out the latest version of the Android operating system to Droid users starting this week, two key features will be missing: tethering and Wi-Fi hot spot capability.
Verizon says the Droid won’t get these two features, which are built into the Android 2.2 OS, because the device’s hardware isn’t capable of supporting it.
The CSS Keyboard
Chris Michel created an Apple aluminum keyboard out of nothing but CSS and HTML5:
I began with the function keys and thought I would just leave the icons out, just using the “F1”, “F2”, to keep it simple. But once I got that row done, I just had to take a crack at creating the little icons with some beautiful CSS. I started with the sound-off icon, and successfully rendered it close enough for what I was going for. That little icon started a monster, because some of these icons were quite tedious to design. I spent a couple hours just on the function row icons, after that things started to speed up. I mainly focused on Safari and Chrome for this, so those will render the keyboard most accurately.
iPad Retina Display
OK, the iPad’s screen is 1024x768 @ 130dpi. Physical dimensions work out to 7.88”x5.91”.
Those same dimensions at 326 ppi would result in 2568x1926 pixels — more than my current 30” Cinema Display (2560x1600).
I can see Apple bumping the resolution on future iPad models, but not that high. I’m not sure anyone would really want the company to do that, even.
The New Core i3 iMac
All in all, the Core i3 and Radeon HD 4670 more than lived up to their billing here – they provide a noticeable performance boost over the familiar Core 2 Duo / 9400m setup that was Apple’s standard kit for so long, and we doubt the average iMac buyer will run up against any performance limitations. In fact, if you’re considering a Core i7 MacBook Pro and you can live without portability, an iMac might even be the better bet.
GroupMe
Think SMS meets chat room. Seems like a great low-tech way to keep in touch as a group.