So, a Japanese Apple fan gets tired of waiting for the perfect iPad stand to arrive and decides to build his own. Pretty usual story. But this one is different. A Japanese Apple fan gets tired of waiting for the perfect iPad stands, takes an old iBook case and builds an iPad stand out of it.
Now that is awesome.
Hopefully when all of you brilliant developers aren’t attending every session you can at this year’s WWDC, you’re reading MacStories. Today, we want to pass a little deal along – Snippets is running a little promo this week to show their appreciation of all things Macintosh. A runner up for the Most Innovative OS X App in the 2010 Ars Design Awards for Mac OS X, Snippets is your ticket to libraries of code.
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If you followed our WWDC keynote live coverage, or watched the keynote online yesterday, you should know that the white iPhone 4 was unveiled during the last part of the presentation.
It’s gorgeous, but Steve himself walked on stage with a black model. iSpazio has found a high-quality hands on video with the white unit on Youtube, check it out after the break.
While many of you may not be familiar with this name, Rich Dellinger is the man behind the widely acclaimed webOS (Palm, acquired by HP some weeks ago) notification system. And he’s now working for Steve Jobs.
Apple has announced the winners of this year’s Apple Design Awards (ADA), which unlike the past years are restricted to the iOS platform. We’ve talked about this before.
The Apple Design Awards “recognize applications that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption, and quality.” They represent the best that you can have on iPhone, iPads and iPods.
Even though the website hasn’t been updated yet, we’ve followed the event and you can check out the winners after the break. Congratulations to all the winners!
Steve Jobs offers the world freedom from porn. Freedom from Porn offers WWDC all the porn you can get. The vandalism proudly on display in San Francisco, we’re going to warn you: clicking past the break may be slightly NSFW.
Remember D8, when Jobs said they were pissed at Flurry for abusing Apple’s developer agreement with their ad analytics? It’s Day 2 of WWDC, and Apple seems to have loosened up a bit. MediaMemo via MacRumors posts:
“If you compare and contrast with Apple’s earlier version, you’ll see the message is clear: It’s OK to collect user data to help sell ads – though you will need to get their permission to do so.”
MacRumors clarifies, however, that there is one interesting catch.
The new iPhone really is the most advanced phone in the world. And when you own the single most important piece of smartphone technology, you better patent its technologies pronto. Today, we go hands on with some of Apple’s newest iPhone related patents pertaining to the gyroscope and video calling.
