Remember in my iPhone 5 review I said that developers would be doing more than just making their apps longer for the new screen size? This is a perfect example. When djay got updated they added functionality in that extra space.
I’m always on the lookout for gadgets that make my office prettier, and Twelve South has an almost supernatural knack for doing just that. The latest gadget they’ve announced is the HiRise, a new accessory aimed at iMac and Apple display users looking to maximize their physical desktop real estate, while raising the display height to a more ergonomic level. The HiRise costs $79.99 and is available direct from the manufacturer.
Killing two birds with one stone, the brushed metal HiRise is a pedestal for your iMac or Apple Display with a built-in storage bay that hides cables and other gear. The bay is covered using a magnetically secured faceplate that matches the look of a little baby Mac Pro on its side.
Inside is an adjustable shelf you can use to store a hard drive or anything else you might want to keep within a short distance of your iMac or Apple display. The faceplate can also be screwed into place for a bit of additional security.
The design features 3,650 cursor icons to symbolically represent every day the store was live. Printed in 2 hits of black with mirror chrome ‘liquid foil’ printing. Designed at Apple, Inc.
This looks very cool, except the cursor is white (Windows), instead of black (Mac).
Schmidt said Google and Apple were in constant communication “at all kinds of levels.” But he said any decision on whether Google Maps would be accepted as an application in the Apple App Store would have to be made by Apple. “We have not done anything yet,” he said.
Last week rumors surfaced that Google had readied a new Maps app for iOS 6, and that Apple was dragging its heels to approve it. This confirms that the rumor was wrong.
The office of Wendell Weeks, Corning’s CEO, is on the second floor, looking out onto the Chemung River. It was here that Steve Jobs gave the 53-year-old Weeks a seemingly impossible task: Make millions of square feet of ultrathin, ultrastrong glass that didn’t yet exist. Oh, and do it in six months. The story of their collaboration—including Jobs’ attempt to lecture Weeks on the principles of glass and his insistence that such a feat could be accomplished—is well known. How Corning actually pulled it off is not.
A fascinating look inside the company that makes Gorilla Glass, and the story of how the substance came to be.
Verizon Wireless said Monday that it won’t prevent its version of the iPhone 5 from being used on AT&T’s network.
This marks the first time Verizon has sold a phone that will work on other U.S. networks without it needing to be unlocked.
What it means for consumers is that if you buy an iPhone 5 from Verizon today and decide when your contract is up to switch providers to, say, AT&T, you can continue to use the same phone without having to jump through hoops to get it to work.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong smashed his guitar on stage because he was angry that his set was cut short for Usher and Justin Bieber. He is now “seeking treatment for substance abuse.”
“A Pale Horse Named Death is the brainchild of Brooklyn, NY native Sal Abruscato, and sounds like Alice in Chains mysteriously sneaking up behind Type O Negative with a butcher knife while being filmed for a future episode of “Law & Order”.
Among the things we like in the new Apple TV software (in addition to the obligatory stability and performance fixes) is the ability to easily save multiple iTunes accounts and switch between them, support for Shared Photo Streams and AirPlay broadcasting from Apple TV to other devices
I understand why people would be upset for with Apple’s Map application, but if you are going to mock it, you should have a product that, you know, people want.
“This is the first quarter we are expecting zero subscriber growth – a loss in enterprise [customers] offset by a small gain in international consumer subs,” said Kris Thompson of National Bank Financial. “Starting next quarter, we see the sub base in a downward spiral with Blackberry 10 potentially slowing [the losses], but we’re not holding our breath.”
Marshall notes that many of those first-day pre-orders, as well as ones made after that date, have yet to be delivered, and thus Apple can not yet count them as sold.
That would boost the sales numbers by quite a bit.
Apple announced Monday that it has sold over five million iPhone 5s during the first three days of its availability.
Apple also announced that more than 100 million iOS devices have so far been updated to iOS 6.
Obviously the iPhone 5 is a dismal failure and customers are staying away in droves.
I’m only partly being sarcastic, by the way. Some fart-sniffers on Wall Street had predicted higher opening weekend numbers, so there’s bound to be some grousing from analysts.
The ridicule that Apple has suffered following the introduction of the Maps application in iOS 6 is largely self-inflicted. The demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn navigation, spectacular flyovers…but not a word from the stage about the app’s limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps. Instead, we’re told that Apple’s Maps may be “the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever.”
Gassée is the former president of Apple’s Products Division and founder of Be Inc. He’s currently in the venture capital business.
His point is that Apple shouldn’t have tried to convince anyone that Maps was superlative, but should have been up front about its limitations. That sounds uncommon for Apple, but consider that the company has referred to the Apple TV as a “hobby” and Siri as a beta, so it wouldn’t be unprecedented for Apple to admit that Maps needs a lot of work.
Verizon believes unlimited data plans are on their way out, the company’s CFO told investors at a Goldman Sachs conference on Friday. “The good news here though is the dilution is not as much as we expected,” said Fran Shammo, explaining how the company hasn’t seen much attrition after dropping its unlimited data plan in May. Shammo added that “Unlimited is just a word. It doesn’t mean anything…”
No – it doesn’t. Mostly because you cell phone providers have made it meaningless. You used it to sucker in customers and once you got your hooks into them, you removed or “redefined” the word to suit your needs – but not the needs of the customers.
So you’re right, it doesn’t mean anything – when weasels like you use it.
My source — a contractor who worked on Google Maps as part of a massive undertaking to integrate Street View and newly licensed third-party data to improve European coverage, as well as develop the platform’s turn-by-turn navigation — says that when attention turned to indoor mapping, things started to become less interesting and a lot of staff began looking around for other opportunities. That turned out to be good timing for Cupertino.
They should have done this a long time ago, but it’s still good to hear.
Subscriber counts and stats have been missing for days for publishers. At least they acknowledge the issue. Feedburner’s biggest issue is being owned by Google.