Apple WWDC 2009
Posted by Rey
No, I’m not there but I’m following the live feed on The Apple Blog and Gizmodo:
- 15″ Macbook Pro, 7 hour battery life with an SD card slot ($1699).
- 13″ MacBook now MacBookPro, with unibody, SD Card, 8GB of memory, up to 500GB or 256GB SSD drive with backlet keyboard and FW800. $1199
- Uber model 17″ with 500GB HD, at $2499. Yup, still can’t buy a Macbook Pro.
- New Safari does purdee things that are meh. Plugin crash that stops the plugin, not the browser.
- Quicktime X rebuilt from the ground up. Big woop.
- Snow Leopard (Leopard users: $29 single/$49 Family) running all major OSX apps in 64 bit coming out December (Windows 7 should be out October, in case you’re wondering).
- Ms Exchange Support built into Mail, iCal and Address book. This was a Duh, no brainer. Should’ve had that long ago.
- iPhone OS 3.0: 100 new features. cut/copy/paste across aps. Shake phone for undo. Landscape keyboard. MMS available but AT&T MMS later this summer (HA!) HTTP Streaming AV. Javascript performance boost. HTML 5. Form auto-fill.
- iTunes rentals available for iPhone.
- iPhone Tethering now available over USB or Bluetooth. AT&T doesn’t support it at launch (HA!)
- Find My iPhone (new feature): your iPhone floats from the ether, or at least tells MobileMe ($99 per year) where it is. Your family and friends can also track you down with it. (SkyNet coming soon)
- A bunch of boring iPhone Ap stuff. Some random announcment of 16gb 3GS iPhone ($199) and 32GB iphone 3GS ($299) and the base 3G model remaining at $99.
- No Camera on the front of the iPhone. bah.
All in all, no big woop. Maybe some ups for OS3.0 but, with a jailbroken iTouch I’m not overly hyped.
Article Tags>> apple | keynoteMouse Arrow Moves Screen (Apple Mac)
Posted by Rey
For some mysterious reason your screen looks bigger and when you move your mouse the pointer/cursor moves the entire screen instead of going to a specific area. It does also move to specific areas but if it’s past the boundary of the screen it moves the screen.
This is part of Apple’s Universal Access panel and is enabled (and disabled) by pressing Option+Apple+8.
So no, it’s not a bug.
Article Tags>> apple | techAdvertising + Design > Cost + Learning Curve
Posted by Rey
In recent years, Apple’s done a fair share of designing pretty products (if not hardware wise the best products) and have substantially increased their exposure to the public with product placement (they’re in Best Buy and Apple Stores) and advertising (no more pretentious posters: now we have the PC Guy vs. the Mac). In all this, Apple’s prices haven’t dropped so much to equate with a PC (that usually gives you more hardware wise). Also, Apple hasn’t bothered much with training in their products beyond the nearest Apple Store Genius but all in all it’s paid off.
Apple is now the third largest computer seller in the United States, bumping Acer to Fourth.
Article Tags>> acer | apple | pcApple’s File Name Extensions: A Rant
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Extensions, for all you Mac users, is the three to four letter attachment to the end of a file name which flags it underneath the header of a specific program or application type. It tells the computer what encoding is in the file so that the computer knows what to do with it. Coming in from the old days of DOS, a file named [REYPOST space TXT] would be opened by a text (txt) editor. This got confusing so over time the OS switched to using reypost.txt. Apple, for all its slickness, has the uber stupidity of still allowing files to be named without extensions.
Article Tags>> apple | filenames | mimeApple Stuff 2008
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Steve unveils the new airbook (absurdly sexy, ridiculously thin and absurdly stupid without an optical drive and without the ability to change your battery); iPhone gets some features it should’ve had anyway; Apple decides to make us pay for stuff that should’ve been on the iPod Touch anyway (and which was put on it for free by the wonderful web jailbreakers); Time Machine gets a Capsule($499 is the one that everyone needs and when you consider that a wireless N router is $149 and a 1TB storage unit is $269 this isn’t a bad option); Axiotron’s modbook Apple tablet PC finally ships (pretty steep price but what do you expect: it’s a modified mac!); rent movies on iTunes ($3.99 new releases, everything else $2.99, 1 dollar more for HD); Apple TV Take 2 (no computer required so you can rent movies without a computer–basically making your TV a WebTV); this was last week but the 8-Core Mac Pro.
(This has nothing to do with Apple but it looks fun to participate in and this project is what my brother is currently building.)
Article Tags>> airbook | apple | computer | ilife | ipod