Remember those screenshots of the upcoming “iPhone 4G” many blogs posted yesterday?
This is he answer.
Once Upon a Fake
Steve Jobs Doesn’t Want Shit In His App Store, And Neither Do I
“Steve Jobs wants Apple to be the arbiter of quality in the App Store, denying apps that are ugly, poorly-thought, lame, explicit or featureless. He can’t say that in the Terms and Conditions so instead they’re using carefully-worded language that excludes certain technologies associated with the kinds of apps he doesn’t like. Steve Jobs doesn’t want shit in his App Store. If you’re a developer who may be interested in building shit, there’s another platform right down the street.”
Amen.
An Ode To Clipmenu
There are two kinds of desktop applications: those that work and require you to pay attention to them, and those that work and you don’t even notice them.
I have many applications on my Mac, many of them for reviewing purposes, but I tend to keep a very few in the dock and some running in the menubar. Of all these applications I have most of them belong to the first category, they are apps that require me to look at them and perform actions basing on their user interface. 1Password needs me to input some letters in a text field to unlock its database, and Cyberduck wants me to select the proper folder to upload pictures. My action is needed, always and immediately. Without my action, these applications are lost like an empty car. I have to drive them to go somewhere (working with them), but I also had to learn driving them in the past to get used to their system.
Then there are applications that live quietly in the background, do their job without requiring my attention and are there when I need them. From a technology standpoint, they’re not that different. I use these “quiet” apps just like I use the other ones. But from a user point of view, there’s an immensely huge advantage when using the quiet apps: even if you actually use them, you don’t notice them. So I guess that their biggest feature is that of melting with the OS and become an invisible layer of your workflow.
Clipmenu is an application I’ve been using for many years now and, just like the Finder or Mail, is an application I’m highly dependent on, mainly because it’s become so well integrated with the OS that I don’t even notice using it anymore. Any Mac that doesn’t have Clipmenu installed doesn’t feel like a real Mac to me.
Marc Maiffret: “Windows Is More Secure, Apple Community Is Ignorant”
Marc Maiffret, popular hacker and security expert, told CNET’s Elinor Mills during an interview that Microsoft cares more than Apple about security and that the Apple community is ignorant to the risks they’re exposed every day.
Ego for iPad: With More Pixels, You’re More Important
You have a blog, and you know that keeping an eye on stats is important. You track visits and unique visitors, but you’ve gotten used to monitor outbound links, referrers and landing pages, because you also know that details are important. You track your Twitter followers, RSS subscribers and Vimeo play counts. Sometimes you wish you could track who follows and unfollows you every day, oh wait - you’ve installed Birdbrain on your iPhone for that. You’re a web analytics junkie. You can’t wait to wake up in the morning to see if someone on the Internet is talking about you, just to see if your latest post has turned out to be that success you expected.
Your most loved iPhone application is Ego. And now you can have it on the iPad as well.
Magical Device: The First iPad Marriage Proposal
Steve Jobs told us the iPad was magical, and it turns out that many people took that words really seriously. TechCrunch reader Zach Iniguez used his new iPad to ask her girlfriend to marry him, in the same spot he asker her out 2 years ago. We’ve heard of many other “Apple-related” marriage proposals before, but this is one stands out for the “implementation”.
Really, take a look at the original email from Zach below.
“Hi TechCrunch,
I’m a huge fan of your blog and read it every day, and I thought you might be interested in this. This weekend I brought my girlfriend to a local ice cream shop where we had our first date. I also brought along my iPad, since I wanted to “field test” it, as I told her. We sat outside on the same bench we had 2 1/2 years ago, and I asked her to put on earphones. I then handed her the iPad and played a slideshow with music and photos of the two of us together, with a message at the end: “will you marry me?” I got down on one knee and proposed, and fortunately she said yes. Maybe Steve Jobs was right–the iPad is magical!
Thanks for providing me with years of news and entertainment.
Zach”
Oh by the way, she said yes.
MacBook Pro 15″ Core i5 iFixit Teardown
iFixit has announced that they’ve finally completed the teardown of the new MacBook Pro 15” Core i5 released earlier this week, and they’ve found some surprising and subtle changes.
The Airport and Bluetooth card has been redesigned and repositioned to allow a better signal reception in the Macbook internal case. Other tweaks include a redesign to the speaker casing and an increased capacity of the battery.
TouchPad for the iPad. A Giant Mac Trackpad. Review & Giveaway!
You know it had to happen. We’ve already reviewed Edovia’s TouchPad for the iPhone and iPod touch, but now it’s back and better than ever in high def for Apple’s very own Moses Tablet (quoting @patrickrhone). If you’ve ever wanted a touchpad the size of a dinner plate, strap in, because I’m about to blow your mind.
Issuu Updated for HTML5 iPad Reading
Issuu, the popular website that allows you to upload any kind of document and make a magazine out of it, has been updated for the iPad.
Instead of displaying content in Flash, now there’s a fallback in HTML5 for Apple’s new device, together with a nice interface that fits the iPad screen. Take a look at the screenshot beyond the break.