Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 153 views
Browser Firefox will not work on iPod touch and iPhone - chief executive Mozilla John Lilly has informed on it. The company does not plan release of the version of the product intended for these devices.
The reasons of such decision of company Mozilla it has been named a little. Among them - complexities in interaction with company Apple, and also - unwillingness Apple that foreign developers broke the interface iPod touch and iPhone.
At present users iPod touch and iPhone visit web pages by means of browser Safari.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008 482 views
The number of representatives of the small-scale business grows, preferring to have Mac at home and on work. “Their interest is dictated by positive experience of dialogue with other products
Apple, no less than disappointment in Windows”, - informs MSNBC report.
“Popularity of other products from Apple, especially players iPod, promotes attraction of attention of users to platform Apple, - confirms Charles Smalders, from analytical agency Gartner.“ As a result, we see as the group of people buying Mac in addition to them iPod is formed. To state a quantitative estimation of this effect difficultly, but that that it takes place is the fact.
If to look at the American market of house computers, share Apple in the end of the first quarter has made 10.4 percent. For comparison: in 2006 this share is 5.4 %, and in 2007 - 7.5 % ”- add Smalders, -“ as to a small-scale business, share Apple there also grows: in 2007 she has grown from 2.1 % to 2.4 %, and in 2008 4.4 % “are already equaled.
In the meantime, Baltimore Sun informs, that it is less than for 2 years, popularity Mac among corporate clients has grown in 4 times.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008 154 views
In the network have appeared rumors about the future models of player Apple iPod. The information was presented by the founder of service Digg Kevin Rose. He, in particular, informs, that the new version of a player iPod will be presented in September of this year.
Rose also informs, that the fourth generation of players iPod Nano will be outwardly similar to the second generation - players will have the extended rectangular form, and will be equipped by the big screen, and the case iPod Nano will remind the oval compressed along the edges.
It is interesting, that Kevina Rose’s forecasts about plans Apple in some cases appeared true - it has predicted occurrence iPhone 3G, before - smart phone Apple occurrence iPhone, and in 2005 - named exact date of occurrence of a player iPod Nano.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008 315 views
It is one of those situations when it is very difficult to choose between opinions “awful idea” and “here to me such”.
Time Table is concept from designer Ross McBride who allows to transform, for example, a usual coffee little table at huge o′clock. For display of figures the special 6-centimetric layer of electroluminescent plastic, the information to which is used transferred by wireless way. There is a possibility of installation of alarm clocks or the timer.
Such gadget, probably, will be very useful to those who behind a morning cup of coffee very much is afraid to be late for work. To learn it is more about it and other interesting projects the project it is possible on a site of designer Ross McBride.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008 177 views
Woo Hoo! Movies have at last been made available on iTunes in the UK. Depending on the age of the movie, they are available are available for rent and/or purchase.
Pricing as usual is a bit over the top, but here’s how it plays out…
Older movies (example Police Academy 5) are £2.49 to rent and £6.99 to buy.
Newer movies (example Jumper) are £3.49 to rent and £10.99 to buy.
NOTES:
- Not ALL of the movies are available for rent. It depends on the agreement that Apple has knocked up with the studio’s.
- A movie takes up about 1gig of memory on your PC/MAC and Video iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone.
- Check with your Broadband supplier to see how much data you can download each month. You could end up with additional data charges.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008 180 views
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They may be first to see the sun, but they’ve been waiting quite a while for movie rentals and purchases from the iTunes store — now that patience has paid off, as movies have now arrived in a land down under.
Aussie and
Kiwi iTunes users can purchase and rent movies to their hearts′ content. New releases on DVD will premiere day-and-date on the iTunes store at the same time as they’re on sale in physical form in the two new countries of service.
iTunes movie purchases in Australia will kick off the price tier at A$9.99 for catalog titles, A$17.99 for recent releases and A$24.99 for new
releases; rentals will be A$3.99 for library title rentals and A$5.99 for new releases. iTunes movies in New Zealand start at NZ$9.99 for catalog title purchases, NZ$17.99 for recent releases and NZ$24.99 for new releases, rentals are NZ$4.99 for library titles / NZ$6.99 for new releases. As in the US store, getting the high-def version costs an additional dollar. Rentals can be held for 30 days before you start watching and then you have 48 hours to finish (a
whole day longer than US customers? Must be the International Date Line).
Thanks to everyone who sent this in
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008 178 views
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Audio,
Software,
iTunes
Since switching to the Mac full-time last year, my only remaining complaint has been the abysmal (and finicky)
FLAC support in iTunes. FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an open source lossless compression format that offers a nice compromise betweeen storing the uncompressed music file — which is very large — and converting the file to a lossy format like MP3 or AAC. Apple has its own lossless format,
Apple Lossless, and Apple Lossless is great — but I have lots and lots of live performances archived in FLAC and haven’t wanted to spend the time
converting all those files so that I can play everything in iTunes. About 6 months ago, I pretty much gave up and started just ripping CDs in Apple Lossless and using
Max to convert favorite albums or performances.
Reader Mitchell wrote in and told us about
Fluke, which aims to be an easier way to play FLAC files in iTunes. I’ve used other
XiphQT based solutions, but none have worked as well as Fluke. Install Fluke and then open up a FLAC file with it (or drag your FLAC files to the icon) and it automatically runs a script that tricks iTunes into adding a FLAC file to the library. For the most part, tagging and even album art will be converted — though I did have to add track numbers to some of the files I tested. It isn’t as seamless as an actual FLAC player, like
Cog, but it is certainly more hassle-free than some of the other script-based solutions I’ve used in the past.
Fluke is free and available for download
here.
Thanks Mitchell!
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008 152 views
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iPod Family,
iPhone,
App Store
When it comes to the
iPhone, it’s really really difficult to narrow my app love down to just three picks. So with apologies in advance for all those amazing applications that didn’t make this cut, let me jump in with three choices that I simply do not live without on my (jailbroken) iPhone:
Cydia. When Jay Freeman’s Cydia first debuted, I was hesitant to use it. It sucked up the root partition space like a sponge and its interface was, at best, preliminary. And now, in 2.0, Cydia owns me. It’s simply fabulous. From its command-line Unix support to its fully overhauled interface to its extremely workable update system, Cydia provides a powerful software distribution system, perfect for modern smartphones and a great competitor to AppStore.
Boss Prefs. Boss Prefs offers a wonderful services application. It lets me enable and disable services such as EDGE, Bluetooth and SSH from a central application. Because I only intermittently subscribe to data plans, Boss Prefs ensures that I won′t accidentally start downloading a la carte data that starts at about $500 million (or so) per kilobyte. It also lets me enable and disable my mail accounts, so the iPhone works perfectly for whichever mode I’m in: intrepid TUAW blogger at large or private Soccer Mom on the go.
Othello. Othello is my current fidget-game-on-the-go. When I’m stuck waiting somewhere for a few minutes, I pull out Hongtao Guo’s perfect take on Othello. With three playing levels, optional sound and a really nicely designed interface, Othello provides the perfect time waster. There are other free versions of Othello under various names on AppStore but I particularly like this implementation. Although I wish it would put me directly into the game board rather than the welcome screen, that’s my only criticism of a lovely, free application that’s a great deal of fun.
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 278 views
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Accessories,
iPod Family
See what I did there? Eh? Eh? Magnetic! As in this product from
iStik (warning: annoying loud background music) which uses neodymium magnets that let you attach it to workout shirts, jacket pockets, or your backpack.
Of course, neodymium magnets are very strong, and can damage hard disks. It works fine with the iPod nano′s flash memory, however. You also might want to avoid wearing the iStik on your shirt front if you have a pacemaker or other automobilediac device.
iStik is $25 for the second-generation iPod nano, and $27 for the third-generation “fat” nano. Terrible magnet jokes sold separately.
[Via
productdose and
Gearfuse.]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 142 views
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iPod Family,
Bugs/Recalls,
iPhone
In a recent
tip, TUAW reader Dr. Drang told us about a bug he found on the iPhone/iPod touch’s
calculator. According to his research, when you type &pi × 2 + 5 = into the calculator you get 11.283… (the correct answer). However, when you reverse the
Pi and 2, entering 2 × π + 5, the answer given is 7.
This error can be demonstrated by entering Pi (3.141592654) manually, instead of using the Pi button — you will get the correct answer each time. Therefore, this error only shows up when you use the Pi button.
So, be sure to read up on this bug from the
tipsters website before you use the calculator for anything too important.
Update: Reader Vineet
writes in the comments to note that this behavior is typical of stack-based calculators and should be considered more of an operator-expectations issue than a true bug.
Thanks for the tip,
Dr. Drang!
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