Not only President Obama got to talk with Steve Jobs at a private meeting last night to discuss Silicon Valley, technology and America’s issues with people losing their jobs, he also had the chance to sign an iPad a few days ago at a really in Seattle, WA at the University of Washington.
Mr. President, Sign My iPad
iPad: Scroll or Card?→
iPad: Scroll or Card?
You often hear the argument that the iPad is all new and the Internet is all shit (too cold, too technical, not pretty enough), so the nerds should be ignored. After all, the iPad is closer to printed magazine than that damned Internet, right? No, it’s not. It’s a touch screen device. Touch SCREEN device. The fact that you touch it doesn’t mean that it’s like print. As a matter of fact it’s lightyears away from print.
Amen.
RIM Losing Both Inches and Enterprise To Apple
With its upcoming “Playbook”, RIM aims at redefining the rules of tablet devices and ship a tablet that’s both fun and focused on “serious” productivity tasks for businesses.
Many things had happened before RIM finally realized it was about time to take a second look at the mobile in Enterprise, and Apple has taken off.
Pastebot 1.4 Adds Clipboard In The Background - Kinda
Pastebot, the excellent clipboard / data management utility from Tapbots, has just been updated to version 1.4 which, among other things, adds support for the much requested clipboard in the background. How that works, however, is a little different from what the developers originally had in mind. Read more
Omni Group Will Publish Apps In The Mac App Store
The Omni Group team has announced they will publish the same suite of desktop apps they’re porting to the iPad (OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, OmniGraph Sketcher, OmniPlan, OmniOutliner) in the Mac App Store. The announcement comes a few hours after the unveil of the Mac App Store by Steve Jobs at the Back to the Mac event. Read more
A Peek Inside The New MacBook Air
That was fast, iFixit. As usual when a new Apple product comes out, these have taken a look at what’s inside the new beast from Cupertino, and here some interesting notes:
Apple apparently doesn’t want you inside this thing. They decided to use 5-point Security Torx to attach the lower case.
This battery is 35 watt-hours. Previous revisions of 13” MacBook Air machines have included 37 or 40 watt-hour battery packs. Since this Air has a smaller screen and lacks a spinning hard drive, we’d expect run time to be somewhat better than earlier Airs.
Although in a different form factor, the new MacBook Air uses the same Broadcom Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip as the current lineup of MacBook Pros.
Mac App Store Review Guidelines Breakdown→
Mac App Store Review Guidelines Breakdown
Nilay Patel at Engadget takes a look at Apple’s review guidelines for the Mac App Store. This caught my attention:
6.2 Apps that look similar to Apple Products or apps bundled on the Mac, including the Finder, iChat, iTunes, and Dashboard, will be rejected. This one’s quite odd, as there are lots and lots of Mac apps that look like Apple’s own apps – DoubleTwist looks like iTunes, for example, and almost every FTP app looks like the Finder in some way. And what about an app like Delicious Library, which actually inspired Apple apps like iBooks and iPhoto 11’s new books interface? This one’s going to be hard to enforce in a reasonable way.
FarmVille Lands On The iPad
Uh oh, look at what Zynga released today: an update to their world-changing (really, must be something like that) game FarmVille which includes native support for the iPad. The latest 1.09 update allows in fact iPad users to enjoy cultivating their farms with much more real screen estate and redesigned and more accessible menus.
The app is free. Go download it, but you’ve been warned: I heard this one’s pretty addictive. Screenshots and changelog below. Read more
Mac App Store: What Do Developers Think?
The announcement of the Mac App Store caused mixed reactions between developers and users alike. We don’t know if the App Store will work on the Mac platform, where we’re all used to software licenses, developer websites and no restrictions, but it’s very likely that Apple will nail this one once again.
MacStories polled a few developers about the subject, and I collected some thoughts from around the blogs of other devs. Here’s what they think of Apple’s latest plan for the Mac. Read more