Apple is hanging banners for the WWDC at the Moscone Center. We’ve gathered some photos from Twitter and Flickr, check them out after the break.
Also, stay tuned for our live coverage post on MacStories later today.
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Apple Gets Ready for the WWDC [Photos]
New Mac Mini Headed our Way?
One product I seriously considered before I purchased my Black Macbook had to be the Mac Mini. And I still think the Mac Mini is a rather overlooked machine that’s quite powerful on its own; I love its small form factor and green output. But recently they’re becoming slim pickings according to AppleInsider. With Apple slowly cutting off the air supply to the current model, can we expect to see a Mac Mini refresh?
You still can’t get iPhone to iPad Tethering
So AT&T has some new plans out. What you need to know is what exactly you can and can’t do with tethering. First (and maybe last) in this rundown is the fact that you cannot have your iPhone tether to your iPad for wireless wifi or bluetooth.
iPad 3G 64GB Removed from the Canadian Store?
UPDATE: And…it’s back up. That was fast.
What’s going on with the iPad 3G + Wifi 64GB model in Canada? We’ve just noticed that the mode has been removed from the Store. The picture of the unit is simply not there anymore, as you can see in the screenshot after the break.
Cheap iPad Stands In the News (Again); We Recommend Something Better
I thought this had already been settled? Our friends over at TUAW have already talked stands to death. Again. And Again. And this floated around when the iPad came out. But John Gruber (whom I dearly admire) is just getting on the band wagon, and now everyone is gawking about cheap iPad stands galore. Of course we don’t want to feel left out, but we’re not for cheap or practical things. After all, a plastic stand doesn’t deserve to seat the magical aluminum and glass iPad. No ladies and gents, it needs a seat made promptly for a king.
Services in iPhone OS? Yes Please.
Currently, multitasking on the iPhone is a bit of a shamble, and many productivity killers will still remain even as iPhone OS 4 rolls out onto devices. The biggest problem is making apps work with each other; developers often integrate services like Text Expander or Instapaper, but you may not necessarily have those apps on your phone. Chris Clark calls them ‘convenience features,’ and he suggests that the iPhone OS should adopt services to absolve this problem.
Apple Getting Ready to Launch Free MobileMe? [Screenshot]
9to5mac suggests that Apple is getting ready to introduce a free version of MobileMe. As a proof to that, the MobileMe preference panel for Mac OS X now shows “Full Member” for previous customers who paid for the service.
Considering that the WWDC is in 4 days, we won’t have to wait much longer to find out the truth.
UPDATE: On PC as well: http://cl.ly/1GXn
[Thanks, @chrisherbert1]
“Take Control of iPad Basics” Free eBook Available
Available for free on Take Control Books, great resource by Tonya Engst for everyone who’s getting started to the iPad. If you’re new to iPhone OS / iPa platform, look no further than this eBook to learn the basics.
From Minority Report to Apple Patents, This Is the Future of UI
What’s the future of user interfaces like? In a matter of 20 years, it will all be about gestural interfaces applied to the real world. Something like Minority Report, basically. And we’ve seen Apple exploring this concept before, with patents surfacing here and there showing how the engineers at Cupertino are indeed considering gesture-based UIs to manipulate objects in a 3D space.