Apple’s flagship products consist of their Macs and MacBooks, but nobody really thinks of the MacBook Air as a machine that would showcase new concepts which in turn could be later introduced into the rest of Apple’s product-line. Though I have my own thoughts about why a MacBook Air totally shouldn’t be replaced by an iPad (it’s an amazing machine), Cupertino might be prepping to blow our minds with its next vital update. It’ll no longer be a product that says, “Look what we can do!” Rather, it’ll be a product that implements new technologies and reveals where Apple is planning to take their entire MacBook line.
Will the MacBook Air be the First to Embrace a new Design Concept?
Apple, Dozens of Companies Hit With Patent Lawsuit over Spam Email Identification
Apple, Google, Dell, HP, and even companies like the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group are all being slapped with patent infringement via InNova Patent Licensing (patent trolls) in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall.
Build Your Own iPhone 4 Steadicam
The iPhone 4 has proved to not only be the perfect snapshot camera, but an excellent camcorder as well. While tools such as iMovie can help steady the shakiness found throughout your videos, an easy to build steadicam might be just what you need to launch that blockbuster hit.
Wait: Is Geohot Back?
A few days ago Geohot “announced” his official retirement from the jailbreak scene and there was so much drama around it. First he said the jailbreak tool he was working on didn’t exist. Then he deleted his Twitter account. Then he made the blog private. And, he said that we shouldn’t think about him anymore and follow his good friend @Mikecohen instead.
Now, iSpazio noticed that Mike Cohen just tweeted something very, very interesting: make it ra1n.
Flipboard - Revolutionary News App for iPad Available
Sometimes a new app comes around and reinvents a genre. A few times (a very few times, actually) a new app arrives and reinvents everything you thought about a device. I’ve mentioned the “second wave of iPad apps” before: I think that a new generation of applications for Apple’s tablet is ready to invade the App Store to show everyone, not just its 3 million users, what the iPad was meant to be since the beginning.
I think that the second wave starts today with Flipboard.
Apple Fires Back At Nokia with N97 Antenna Performance Video
Well, this is shaping up to be an interesting war between cellphone makers about who’s got the tightest grip on…whatever. Customers or devices? As you maybe have read, Nokia responded to Apple’s Antennagate with this statement:
“In general, antenna performance of a mobile device/phone may be affected with a tight grip, depending on how the device is held. That’s why Nokia designs our phones to ensure acceptable performance in all real life cases, for example when the phone is held in either hand. Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying how people hold their phones and allows for this in designs, for example by having antennas both at the top and bottom of the phone and by careful selection of materials and their use in the mechanical design.”
And they sounded pretty serious about it. Too bad the folks at Cupertino have just posted a new video showing the Death Grip killing a Nokia N97 reception.
Tabs-on-top Now Available On Firefox For Mac Nightly Build
Unless you’ve been living under a giant rock for the past - well - few years, you should know that Firefox 4.0 is coming. A major new version of Mozilla’s browser with redesigned interface, new addon manager, new engine, lots of improvements and tweaks. Mozilla die-hard fans look at it as the ultimate program coming to a computer near them. We Mac users just think about how Mozilla badly screwed up with the UI on OS X in the past and wait with curious eyes for some stable version to actually ship.
Now, we have a nightly version (as usual, it’s dubbed Minefield) with the much-discussed tabs-on-top available for testing. You can also download a 64-bit enabled build for Snow Leopard.
So, how about these tabs?
“Tethering App” Approved - Apple’s Inquisition Arrives and Pulls It
You might have noticed this on other blogs earlier today: Apple approved an app called Handy Light, which was pretty similar to other flashlight apps on the App Store. Except for one little insignificant and absolutely unnoticeable detail for American users: it allowed tethering on the iPhone.
With AT&T. For free. Boom.
iTunes in the Cloud Launching in 2011?
We’re following Apple’s earnings call live, and during the Q&A section a question about the data center Apple is building in North Carolina just came up. The response:
“Apple NC data center build is on schedule, should be complete end of the calendar year, start using it in 2011.” And, they said that today they couldn’t share more details. Now this is just speculation, but many times we reported that NC data center could be meant for the possible migration of iTunes in the cloud. The must requested cloud music service from Apple everyone is waiting for.
If the rumors of the data center hosting the huge iTunes catalogue are true, then we might not see iTunes.com in the cloud until next year. Maybe even the second quarter of next year. Which is WWDC period.
Sounds interesting? Could iTunes in the cloud be more than a simple music streaming service? Hosted databases, movie streaming, TV shows? Perhaps to integrate with the new Apple TV?
Time will tell.