Good god sir, what are you doing? Not only have you taken my precious iPhone and turned it into some Debian abomination, but it looks like Windows 95! This is all wrong!
iDroid Shows Off iPhone’s Portly Side
We Love You, We Hate You - We Even Send Emails About You
Here’s a story for you. You have to think as Adobe and Apple as two lovers who chose to slept in two separate beds. They argue, they fight - but in the end they still love each other. Even if money - a lot of money - is between them, they don’t forget about where they come from.
So Steve Jobs wrote a letter against Flash, and Adobe run an ad campaign in Flash to tell the whole world they love Apple. Oh yeah, the founders also wrote an open letter with lots of trademark symbols and such. Steve attacked, Adobe spreads love. Unusual, isn’t it?
The point is, Apple loves Adobe too. And as MG Siegler over at TechCrunch notices, Apple this morning has started emailing customers that “Adobe CS5 is here”. A coincidence? Maybe. Good timing? For sure.
Until your next thoughts, Steve. Adobe loves you.
Japan’s iPad 3G is in Fact Unlocked
Tokyonian Doug Lerner was incredibly concerned about the state of the Japanese iPad 3G Micro SIMs being locked down in the land of the rising sun. So what better way to vent and express one’s frustration than emailing Steve Jobs himself. Doug wrote,
“But in Japan we won’t have the option to buy an internationally usable iPad 3G. SoftBank has been given exclusive rights to sell the iPhone 3G, and the unlimited data option at about $35/month requires committing to a 2-year contract. There aren’t any no-commitment unlimited contracts like the $30 AT&T plan.”
And Steve Replied.
The iPad’s Micro SIM Fitted for iPhone
We’ve seen plenty of articles on how to take your iPhone’s SIM card and cut it down to size for use by the iPad, but what about going the other way around? Fear not people, Hijinks INC has found a hacky (uber geeky) way to make it all work. If you have the guts, click the link below for more information.
Tripmix, Music Blocks made Easy
In North Carolina, my respective radio station is 106.5 The End (link might contain NSFW content). And while I don’t know too many people who still listen to their local radio stations, I’m a huge fan, thus the shameless plug (and the window sticker). Occasionally they’ll have a block party weekend, where they’ll play two or three songs by the same artist in a row, and it’s a format I really love. But now when I travel, I can have a block party weekend wherever I go with Tripmix.
Sorted, Beautiful To-do App for iPad
So I decided to stick with Things from Cultured Code as my GTD iPad app of choice. In the long run, I think Things is going to be the best I can have on all the devices I’m running it on (iPad, Mac, iPhone) and as soon as Cultured Code will introduce support for OTA sync, it will be just perfect. Read my review of Things for iPad here.
But what about those of you who bought an iPad, want to be productive on it but can’t really stand the whole GTD method? Well I’m afraid to tell you that there aren’t many alternatives right now into the App Store. Whether you want a simple checklist app or just another note taking software that you can use as todo solution, really - the choice is limited. You have to give a spin to this app though: Sorted by Savage Interactive.
Adding HTML5 Video to iBooks
It turns out that it’s pretty simple to add media to your .epub iBooks, and by “pretty simple” I mean the HTML5 <video> tag.
Things Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for entering our huge giveaway of Things for Mac, iPad and iPhone. A big special thanks goes also to Cultured Code, who offered these tree licenses of Things to MacStories readers.
Here are the lucky winners:
Mac: Zac Harmany
iPad: Abraham Vegh
iPhone: Dan Palmer
Congratulations folks, you’ll receive your copy of Things soon. Until the next giveaway, take care!
Cappuccino gets NativeHost Component, Brings Web Applications to Desktop
Exciting times are ahead for Cappuccino, so I’m sure you already know about NativeHost. Wait, you don’t? Oh good, I have a story then. If you’ve never heard of Cappuccino, it’s an open-source application framework that utilizes web technologies, and is flavored with things like Apple’s Cocoa framework for example. But instead of specifically targeting the web, the folks working on Atlas (which itself is a Cappuccino application) found a way to distribute to the desktop environment with minimal work. NativeHost allows Cappuccino applications to, ya know, run natively as a desktop application. Cooked right in to both the Cappuccino build tools and the Atlas IDE, you’re welcomed to give it a try and read through all the “whys” and “hows” over at Cappaccino’s blog.