The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order , it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 units in just two hours via pre-order. Wow. If you’ve ever doubted how dedicated Apple fans are, the background on how these figures were determined will assuage any doubts. A group of particularl...
A napokban elkezdődött az iPad előrendelések felvétele , megjelent az eső Tv reklám a termékről, így kijelenthetjük, valóban egy új időszámítás kapujában állunk. Új időszámítás előtt, de úgy tűnik, nem az Aplle és a zene viszonyában. Az Ipad reklám a hangsúly abszolút, a Key noteban már megismert elemekre, a fotók kezelésére, a naptár funkciókra no és a könyváruházra helyezi. Zene sehol… ...
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Wait! Stop. Before you hand over Apple your credit card and pre-order the iPad , you may want to check out the other touchscreen options available now and in the near future. The iPad isn’t the only game in town. Sure, it might have a fancy-pants interface, but each of the follow seven tablets win the hardware fight, which is just as important to a lot of consumers.
Of course the hardware only ...
Think we'd all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn't exactly a clear winner. The tests weren't completely scientific, but they did find that HTML5 clearly performed better than Flas...
"We use the epub format: It is the most popular open book format in the world." That's how Steve Jobs announced the iPad. And wow, that sounds like all the ebooks you own will just work on anything. Um, no.
The idea of an open ebook format that works on any reader sounds nice. Buy it from any source, read it on any device. In a few cases, it's true, and that open format thing can work for you....
Despite running on the same OS, the iPhone and iPad are caught up in different versions, each incapable of being compatible with the other. While iPad runs on iPhone OS 3.2, it is being speculated that the next generation iPhone shall run on iPhone OS 4.0; which is expected to be launched in the summer of this year.
According to a recent report on the Loop , the period between the launch of...
According to Jonathan Schwartz —then Sun's CEO—that's what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass , a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X's. After that, Schwartz put Steve in his place:
And probably foaming at the mouth, and wanting to send Luca Brasi to get Jonathan brand new cement shoes.
Even while Apple uses BSD as the basis for Mac OS X, I bet Jo...
If the terrorists could vote, they'd vote for Candidate X— this argument is America's greatest rhetorical treasure. So let's apply it to smartphones, right now! I've got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! Updated The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef , who is world famous for precisely the kind...
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some legit content. I have been very busy lately with work, freelance , running BoomSkins , etc . Recently I just finished my first iPhone specific website. It was created in an incredibly short time (less than a week) and generated it’s first sale within 15 minutes of launching, I felt an amazing sense of accomplishment. What I wanted to do was give you guys...
Craig Mod, a deadtree book designer, delivers the most considered explication of how new the model of "books" on the iPad actually is. Simply put, it allows 1:1 digital versions of books and their form. Must read: [ craigmod via DF ]
Here’s a quick one-two of news from Vodafone UK this morning - the second largest operator in England (third, once Orange and T-Mobile hook up) has announced it is letting up to 500 employees go. And it has also emerged that it will be selling the iPad from April.
What’s this now?
The letting go of employees from networks has become a common feature in the news these days. It’s one of t...
Tegnap megvásároltam Handrásnál a TomTom iPhone car kit -et ( ára az XMS-en 30 bruttó ). Drágábbra számítottam, mert korábban még csak ilyen-olyan import csatornákon lehetett hozzájutni 40 ezer fölötti összegért, ezért nem is nagyon foglalkoztam a kérdéssel. Ez az ár a lélektani “megvalósítható” kategória.
Hogy miért izgalmas, vagy mitől jó a TomTom autós kitje? Megmondom. Illetve akit érdekel,...
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Two weeks ago, we reported that Internet search giant Google had acquired third-party iPhone mail application reMail. At the time, Google rehired reMail CEO and programmer Gabor Cselle to work as a product manager on the Gmail team. reMail was then pulled from the App Store and Google decided to discontinue the app, only offering support through the end of March. However, Google recently contac...
Now this is hard core geek awesome. As a long-time Mac user, myself, I was absolutely floored by this Instructables piece by gmjhowe . Here were his guidelines—the end result is nothing short of gorgeous:
[ Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard ]
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