Ember is a great Campfire application Federico and I occasionally use when we’re mobile. Jason Fried must have thought it was so great, it was worth buying the app from Overcommitted, then making it available for free on the iTunes App Store.
You can download the Campfire app (renamed) at this link. If you have a Campfire client and you’re interested in the mobile app, you can read our original review of Ember here.
[via TechCrunch]
Surely this slate of aluminum is really pretty to look at. I don’t think anyone would deny that this gargantuan trackpad of love isn’t just so inviting to your fingers – looking at the gallery, I could dip my fingers right through the screen to touch it. But despite the invitation, is a giant touch surface like this actually practical? Without any hands-on experience yet with the Magic Trackpad, I will say yes.
So you’re not tired of all these new Apple products today. Ok, here’s a brand new 27-inch LED Cinema Display, shipping in September and priced at $999.
Check out the press release below.
So you want to put your hands on that shiny new Magic Trackpad, but how are you supposed to use it? With batteries, of course. And which batteries? Apple’s ones, of course.
With a brand new Apple Battery Charger.
The Mac community’s own John Gruber predicts we’ll see an awesome update to the Cinema Display line with the unveiling of a new 27-inch, 16:9 Cinema Display, accompanied by new Mac Pros and possibly speedier iMacs tomorrow or at a later date. This all comes at the return of The Talk Show, so Gruber must be in an incredibly good mood to give us this tidbit of info to chew on. Hopefully he’s right!
Update: Now there’s the inclusion of the Magic Trackpad we’ve been hearing about.
[Daring Fireball via Gizmodo]
Apple and related smartphone manufacturers probably aren’t happy with this one. The Library of Congress has announced new anti-circumvention exceptions to the DMCA policies that legally allow people to jailbreak or root their phones.
Today I have designated six classes of works. Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these six classes will not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention.
Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.
Engadget has linked to the full press release at the source link below.
[Copyright.gov via Engadget]
iPhone 4 will launch in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland this Friday.
[via Ars Technica]
Successful discussions with record labels, followed by the promise of an excellent cloud based service that can be accessed via Android, makes Google’s impending music service incredibly appealing. With the opportunity to instantly open-up a new market to millions of new users and the desire to expand past Apple’s iron fist, there’s an interest here that can’t be avoided.
