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While some publishers have concerns over Apple’s business model regarding print media on the iPad, one magazine that’s embracing the future with open arms is Wired.
Recently, Wired Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson called the iPad a “game changer”, and the folks there have been working hard to develop a more interactive version of the magazine that will hopefully be ready to go in time for the iPad launch.
(via Edible Apple)
Genius!
The Apple IIc’s illustrated explanation of on-screen scrolling. (via Ben Pieratt) It was 1984. The concept was new to most users.
Right good that is.
[via vancam]
"This is the first of a series of letters to Apple on your behalf, telling the gang in Cupertino what would make their wonder-phone even more wondrous. This letter strictly focuses on the iPhone OS in general – the home screen, navigation, and settings. Future letters will deal with hardware and applications. "
"If you go to apple.com with a webkit powered browser (Safari/Chrome in Mac or Windows) and play some of the new videos promoting the new iMac and Magic Mouse, the videos are played using html 5 video tag. When you try to play the same video using IE or Firefox the QuickTime video player kicks. Even though the latest Firefox browser support html5 video tags, its implementation is limited to Ogg Theora, the video files on apple.com are MP4."
Greetings!
And today, to continue the story from last week, but sans politics, here are The Apples – an Israeli jazz band who’s members are from Haifa, Tel Aviv and New York. [click to continue…]
70 countries will soon get the [official] iPhone 3G.
Israel is not one of these countries, and I’m quite annoyed at this.
The most annoying thing is that Israel’s neighbours – Jordan and Egypt will get the iPhone. How ruthless can Apple be? People will stand on the other side of the border with their 3G iPhones laughing at the Palestinians and Israelis, who will fight each other just to get a glimpse…
Countries like Liechtenstein [pop. 35,365], Macau [pop. 520,400] and Guinea-Bissau [pop. 1,586,000] are going to get the iPhone.
Hello!!! The glorious people of Israel have already jailbreaked more than 25,000 iPhones. Bought in American and European Apple Stores and brought to Israel in deep pockets, or bought in one of the dozens private importers of the iPhone to Israel, without the consent of the valid distributor iDigital.
Israeli entrepreneur Ouriel Ohayon says: Who cares?
But I do. I care!
Could it be right? It almost sounds like a joke.
For me, it is just another point to prove how ridiculous the world, and more accurately, the capitalist world, has become.
Slashdot reported that US Patent and Trademark Office issued a really broad patent for a “mobile entertainment and communication device“.
“It’s a patent for a mobile phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the ability to download audio or video files. The patent holding firm who has the rights to this patent wasted no time at all. At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits against just about everyone you can think of, including Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, ATT, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others. Amusingly, the company actually first filed the lawsuits on Monday, but realized it was jumping the gun and pulled them, only to refile just past the stroke of midnight. “
Did anyone ever patented the wheel? I need to check that. Could be a good way to pay my student debt.
I started working as an intern for a creative agency lately. It’s great and I love the experience.
I have only one problem – I’m working on a PC again.
I didn’t miss it.
For instance, the simplest thing: adding another keyboard language to the OS.
I have the permissions to do it, but Hebrew doesn’t exist on that system, I probably need the special Middle Eastern version.
On Apple’s OS X, it comes as standard. I can be anywhere in the world and I’ll be able to write in Hebrew.
Ridiculous.
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