Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Friday, 15 May 2009
Monday, 11 May 2009
Old Masters, new tricks
Come on Nokia et al, put your thinking caps on and try to develop something that has the appeal, flexibility, charm and robustness of the iPhone.
In the Crab studio we come across a new and inventive way of using the iPhone on a daily basis. From musical instruments to decesion making apps.
I use it to keep track of the websites we look after, to communicate via text, email, voice and VIOP, to entertain myself and my 3 year old.
This is truly the tri-corder of our times. I am looking forward to the release of the latest OS.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Geotags for iPhone is a good start
Geotags is a free map-based application for the iPhone. Its purpose is to keep a geographic diary of sorts, letting you mark maps with tagged information you'll want to explore again.
You can geotag your car so you can find it again, or a favorite hunting location, or a cave. I tested the app by recording some favorite spots in a nearby state park that were good photographic locations.
It's a bit like Places in iPhoto, but it is portable. You can add photos to geotags, or an audio clip (2 minutes max recording time for each clip) that describes it, and of course some written notes.
Once you have built up a database of tags, it can all be exported to Google Earth for sharing with friends, or just to use yourself.
Thanks to TUAW for the above!
Sunday, 13 July 2008
iphone app store
We told you so. We predicted it, we knew it was coming, we told everyone but did they listen... Hell yeah!
Over 500 applications on launch day and more coming. This will be the platform for the next 5 years. We are seeing the same development and tech going into the iphone as we did with the ipod. Can Jobs do no wrong?
Yes he can.
What was he thinking about when Jobsy and Ives developed the Mac Book Air. Please give us a real 12" Mac Book Pro something that has grunt. But most importantly has shrunk in the important dimensions. The 15" MacBook Pro I use is only an inch thick I do not need a thinner laptop, I need one that is less wide and deep!
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Apple to introduce OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" at WWDC?
by Nilay Patel, posted Jun 4th 2008 at 7:00PM
The pre-WWDC Apple rumor mill has finally churned out something that doesn't have the words "3G" and "iPhone" involved -- sources have told both Ars Technica and our friends at TUAW that Steve will also use his keynote to introduce the next major version of OS X, codenamed "Snow Leopard." As the derivative release name indicates, there aren't many changes in store from 10.5 Leopard -- Apple's said to instead be focusing on tightening up speed and stability as it starts producing more mobile devices. What's more, this could be the end of PowerPC and Universal support in OS X, as Snow Leopard is said to be Intel-only. That's bound to ruffle a few feathers, but things could get even more heated if Carbon is deprecated as is also being rumored. We'll see when we see -- Monday can't get here fast enough.
The pre-WWDC Apple rumor mill has finally churned out something that doesn't have the words "3G" and "iPhone" involved -- sources have told both Ars Technica and our friends at TUAW that Steve will also use his keynote to introduce the next major version of OS X, codenamed "Snow Leopard." As the derivative release name indicates, there aren't many changes in store from 10.5 Leopard -- Apple's said to instead be focusing on tightening up speed and stability as it starts producing more mobile devices. What's more, this could be the end of PowerPC and Universal support in OS X, as Snow Leopard is said to be Intel-only. That's bound to ruffle a few feathers, but things could get even more heated if Carbon is deprecated as is also being rumored. We'll see when we see -- Monday can't get here fast enough.
Sofa ready, Eyes ready, end to social life ready, Apple TV ready - iTunes movies up and running
With films from the major studios - Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros and MGM. Apple TV comes of age.
700 films are currently available including I Am Legend and Hitman, and over 100 are available in high definition formats. Films can be downloaded to a PC or Mac and then transferred to Apple devices like an iPod or AppleTV. They’re also fairly reasonably priced at £10.99 for new releases and £6.99 for classics, or you can rent for between £2.49 and £3.49, with high definition versions costing just £1 more across the board.
If you rent a movie you’ll find you have 30 days to start watching, or 48 hours once you have, before DRM kicks in, though there’s no limit to how many times you watch it in that period.
Unfortunately we’re still paying quite a bit more than our friends in the US, whose rentals cost around half the price. Steve Jobs has blamed this on VAT and the price of doing business in good ol’ Blighty. – Paul Lester
700 films are currently available including I Am Legend and Hitman, and over 100 are available in high definition formats. Films can be downloaded to a PC or Mac and then transferred to Apple devices like an iPod or AppleTV. They’re also fairly reasonably priced at £10.99 for new releases and £6.99 for classics, or you can rent for between £2.49 and £3.49, with high definition versions costing just £1 more across the board.
If you rent a movie you’ll find you have 30 days to start watching, or 48 hours once you have, before DRM kicks in, though there’s no limit to how many times you watch it in that period.
Unfortunately we’re still paying quite a bit more than our friends in the US, whose rentals cost around half the price. Steve Jobs has blamed this on VAT and the price of doing business in good ol’ Blighty. – Paul Lester
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
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