It just sucks when things like phones can be made to make calls that cost you big $$$.
Tag Archive for 'Apple'
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Andy Baio:
Here’s my best guess: When you first start speaking into the microphone, the iPhone app opens a connection to Google’s server, waits for you to finish talking, and then does a quick and dirty conversion into a tiny binary representation of the waveform. (And I do mean tiny. These files are between 100-300 bytes.)
Ars is back with an overview of Intel’s most recently launched processors, the Core i7, also known by its codename “Nehalem”:
At an event in San Francisco Monday, Intel officially launched Core i7, the new quad-core, 45nm processor popularly known by its “Nehalem” codename. As we found in our recent review, i7 is a media processing monster. When you combine the new core’s microarchitectural performance enhancements with the bandwidth afforded the device by its new QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), you get some serious floating-point power.
These things look good for the Mac Pro eh?
Love it! The site that got absolutely nothing right is now debunking rumors (not that this one needed much help anyways).
Sunday, November 16, 2008
In a world where litigation has become commonplace, it is no surprise that Apple’s recent hire, Mark Papermaster, has countersued IBM in an effort to take his position at Apple as chief of devices hardware engineering.
Apple Insider thinks so.
Brett Simmons:
Your first thing might not work out. Despite your faith, despite your hard work, your app may fail.
Be ready to write another one. As an indie, that’s one of your best strengths: turning your ship around is as easy as creating a new project in Xcode. Getting going is just a menu command away.
This article has shown up on my RSS reader at least four times, and I think it is worth posting here too. A strong indie community is what makes the developing on the Mac so great and the advice that Brett gives indie Mac and iPhone developers is right on target.
Update: Kevin Walzer has written a followup.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Dan Benjamin is at it again with a great article on prep’ing your Mac for sale. Having done this before, the only problem I see with his how-to is that the new owner of your computer won’t have iLife pre-installed. Thats alright though, you still have the iLife DVD that shipped with your Mac, right?
Digitimes:
Intel will launch ten CPUs for the Xeon 5500 series with the high end topping out as a quad-core W5580 running at 3.2GHz. Processor speeds of the remaining 9 models range from 2GHz to 2.93Ghz.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Via DaringFireball. Any educational material available from Apple, especially in regards to style should be read as the most authoratative source on the subject, because, well, Apple has been pretty successful giving people things they didn’t know they wanted.
Over at GigaOM, they are loving the idea of using the iPhone as a micropayments platform and want Apple to do all the heavy lifting. I, for one, see an area for exploitation by a 3rd party developer to innovate for a change and make a micropayment platform for the iPhone that can integrate with other applications via an API (RESTful?).
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
May make me want to buy a new Aluminum MacBook.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
John is really on a roll today, writing yet another great article, this time it is about CSS animations.
Apple, and the WebKit team, have recently proposed two different additions to CSS: CSS Transitions and CSS Animations.
The two specifications are confusingly named - and it’s hard to tell what the difference is between them at first glance. However, to put it simply: CSS Transitions are easy to use, while CSS Animations are made for programmers.
I hope the proposals make it into the CSS spec.
Fake. But Cool.
Monday, November 3, 2008
So what happens at an Apple Store Field Trip? We sent one of our classes to the Apple Store last week, and it was generally considered a good trip. There were six machines in the store set aside for the trip and the focus was podcasting. The kids were taken through a start-to-finish recording of their own ‘podcast’ in GarageBand including using Photo Booth to add chapter artwork and burning the CD in iTunes.
Seems as though little Johnny didn’t think things through when he went on his little tirade.
This may well be Apple’s best MacBook to date.
Very true.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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