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.
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, 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.
Dev Team’s Musclenerd has just announced the first public jailbreak of the iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1. Aimed only at developers of jailbroken apps, this jailbreak is done using RedSnow (Mac-only) 0.9.5 beta, available here.
The jailbreak doesn’t work on the iPad and, again, is still very broken and unstable. Still, it seems to be working.
Also, iPhone 3G only for now. More to come in the next days.
With a post on the official company blog, the Omnigroup has announced the roadmap for all their other Mac applications which are being ported to the iPad.
Omnifocus, surely one of the most popular apps from the Omni guys, is coming in less than two months:
“We’re currently working on OmniFocus and OmniOutliner in parallel. OmniFocus has a bit of a head start, thanks to the work we’d already done in bringing it to iPhone, so we anticipate its iPad app will be ready in June. OmniOutliner is a little further out, and our current projection is that it will ship this summer. Finally, after we’ve shipped those four apps, we’ll round out the set with OmniPlan for iPad which we’re currently anticipating will ship sometime this fall.”
Great news. We’ll take a look at it as soon as possible.
The idea of using the iPad as a tool in school is an interesting prospect. On one had the tablet form factor of the iPad allows it to be used like an open notebook - the screen is suitable for writing text and taking notes. However, Apple has nearly killed that idea without the option for a stylus, and unless you happen to love sausage or ill-reviewed Pogo Stylus, it ain’t happenin’. While we have a keyboard, what student wants to type on a virtual keyboard? My whole success to taking notes via Evernote on my laptop is because I can furiously type on my Macbook’s keyboard without ere - eyes fixated on the instructor and not on the screen. But the idea is still intriguing: how well does the iPad fair as a note taking device? For this review, I’ll be using an application called CourseNotes. Read more
Very difficult subject, and a simple and clear take about it over at Parollo’s blog.
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“Now I have many friends who actually buy application and games for their iPod Touches or iPhone, and I almost see it as a half miracle. Mainly, because it is easy to get apps.
If you want to sell things, make sure that it is easy to buy them.”
I’ve been a NetNewsWire user for a long time. It’s my default RSS app on Mac OS X, and I downloaded the iPhone one with a lot of excitement the same day it was released in the App Store. Sadly, for as much as I love the Mac iteration of NNW (seriously, there’s no better app - yet) I was very disappointed by the iPhone counterpart of Brent Simmons’ app. It was slow, sluggish and, also, it didn’t look nice as I expected. I was so disappointed it that I uninstalled and never installed back again on my iPhone.
For this reason, and because I’m always hoping things may eventually change, I approached NetNewsWire for iPad with a lot of caution. I mean, it comes at 10 bucks, and it will soon go up to 15. It’s a considerable expense, and I didn’t want to be disappointed again like it happened before.
Fortunately NetNewsWire for iPad is a good application, a great first version, which I’m sure many people out there are already loving. I’ve been testing it for over a week now, let’s see what it looks like.
There was a time when I used to play a lot of videogames. Back then I spent almost 5 hours a day playing, inviting my friends over to beat them at Tekken and share tips and tricks about Final Fantasy VII. We had great times together, and that is also how I got started to English.
Problem is, I don’t have time to play anymore. Work, other business and family stuff and a a dog to take care of are all things that keep me away from firing up my Xbox 360 and enjoy some FF XIII. Yes, I do have a 360. Just as I have a Wii, a PS2 and every Nintendo console you may ever think of. It’s just I don’t have all that time anymore, and if I want to relax a little bit I open Guerrilla Bob or Orbital on my iPhone and spent 15 minutes catching up with my previous records. But still, it’s no console experience.
I still enjoy reading articles and news about games though, and that’s why this new app called GameTapp got me interested when I first saw it in the App Store.
