Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with shareholders

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Daniel Eran Dilger:

Tim Cook met with shareholders for the first time following the passing of Apple’s cofounder and former chief executive Steve Jobs, revealing his own very distinct personality but also strong commonality with Jobs’ wit, passion and analytical focus.

Mobile web design mistakes

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Webdesigner Depot: Mobile Internet usage is on the rise, and the world of Web design continues to evolve—so designers must learn to accomodate mobile devices. Thinking “Oh, my users won’t visit my website on a mobile device” is the worst … Continued

Shanghai court denies injunction against iPad

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Eric Slivka for Mac Rumors: A Shanghai court has declined to issue an injunction that would have barred sales of Apple’s iPad in the city, a ruling that is part of the dispute between Apple and Proview Technology over the … Continued

Microsoft Office for iPad and the iPad 3 keynote

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Microsoft’s denial of Office for iPad was half-hearted at best, saying only that the story was “based on inaccurate rumors and speculation.” I said at the time the statement was released that something seemed strange.

Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad order

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Bob Brewin:

The command did not provide any explanation for the move in its notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website. Officials originally planned to acquire 2,861 iPad2 tablet computers to serve as electronic flight bags, storing digital versions of paper charts and technical manuals.

That’s unfortunate, I wonder what caused that?

Apple agrees to privacy changes in App Store

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Matthew Panzarino:

Following several weeks of controversy surrounding the way that applications were handling customer data, the California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that several companies with a stake in the app game have agreed to new privacy protections for users of apps, including Apple, Microsoft, HP, Amazon, Google and RIM.

Now users will be able to view an app’s privacy policy before downloading.

Screens 2.0 VNC client for Mac, iPhone, iPad

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I’ve been playing around with Screens 2.0 all day and I love it. The app allows you to connect your Mac or iOS device to another computer on the network, see its screen and interact with the computer. I tried it on my Mac and iPhone, but haven’t gotten around to the iPad yet, but I haven’t had a single problem. It took a couple of tries to nail the position of my finger when using the iPhone version, but that’s a minor user thing.

Apple considered AMD for MacBook Air

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Brian Caulfield for Forbes:

AMD’s engineers were trying to do too much, too quickly, however, shifting to a new manufacturing process at Global Foundries for a processor with a radical new design.AMD couldn’t even get early working samples of Llano to Apple on time, one former employee says. Several former AMD employees disagree on just how close AMD came.

HP earnings fall 44 percent

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Reuters: The storied Silicon Valley company, which has been trying to move past the internal upheaval that marked 2011, posted quarterly sales declines in three of its key units: personal computers, printers and enterprise equipment. The PC market sucks for … Continued

MarsEdit update

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Daniel Jalkut released an update for his great blog editing software, MarsEdit. Fixes improves how the app works with Safari 5.2 and it prevents a possible hang while parsing Lightroom libraries.

Apple sued over voicemail patents

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Erica Ogg at GigaOm:

Apple is being sued by Brandywine Communications Technologies over multimedia voicemail in its iPhone and iPad products. In the complaint filed in the U.S. district court for the middle district of Florida Tuesday, Brandywine claims that Apple is infringing on two patents it owns related to mobile voicemail.

A patent holding company — I hate that.

Accordion with CSS3

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Anything that uses CSS3 is good with me. Another good example here, although I’m not a big fan of the accordion effect.

Pro Tools SE Jump Start

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Russ starts at the beginning with opening and saving a session, then goes into recording and editing audio, using virtual instruments, built-in effects and exporting your masterpiece for CD and the internet.

I really like the Pro Tools videos at Groove3. This video is a great place to start your Pro Tools training.

Galaxy Note ‘is the most useless phone I’ve used’

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Jonathan Geller:

The phone is too big. You will look stupid talking on it, people will laugh at you, and you’ll be unhappy if you buy it. I really can’t get around this, unfortunately, because Samsung pushed things way too far this time.

But, but, it has a stylus.

iPocketWatch

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The iPW (iPocketWatch) lets you wear your iPod Nano the old school way, on a chain, in the pocket.

Cool.

Dell stock tumbles on weak sales outlook

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Shares of Dell Inc fell more than 7 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday, after the world’s No.3 personal computer maker forecast weak sales for the current quarter.