July 2010
8 posts
iPhone 4 Antenna Performance, Outside the U.S. →
Stephen Fenech, reviewing the iPhone 4 for The Daily Telegraph in Australia: I’ve been using the iPhone 4 for nearly a week to make calls, send and receive emails and surf the web from various…
Telstra Increase Data Packs for iPhone 4 Plans →
Telstra heard from us nerds that their plans didn’t have enough data – so Telstra increased them! If you get an iPhone 4 before 1st of November, you get 500mb on the $49 Cap and 1GB on the…
Santo, Sam and Ed's Cup Fever! Kiwi TV →
I liked a YouTube video: Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever! KiwiTV
Marco.org - Know why the iPhone 4’s antenna grip... →
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Not to mention that most of those Droid phones are American-only phones on Verizon. It’s hardly worth the international media writing a story like, “Oh hey! A phone you’ll never…
iPad - (nearly) 2 months later
So I promised a few people I’d do a bit of a wrap-up with my iPad, and talk about some of the things I really like, and some of the things I don’t. I’m also going to talk through some of my favourite apps on the iPad so far.
iPad The Object
First of all, I think the iPad is a fundamentally different portable computing device, because it has a couple of physical qualities that...
I’ve been using Firefox 4 for WinXP all morning - it is good. Like, really good.
June 2010
3 posts
According to McCloskey, the optimal ergonomics in his home for the iPad involve...
– Confession - I have also used this ‘false boner’ to prop up my iPad when sitting on the couch.
Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Serious iPad Flaw Discovered
http://vuvuzela.fm/ - because everything is better with horns
sick at home, so I decided to give the iOS 4 GM a whirl. Looks great, but no multitasking support yet.
May 2010
17 posts
just wrote my first hello world app in xcode / interface builder. suhweet!
iPaddin’
Stephen Conroy is dumb. http://ping.fm/xbUyH
i’m retiring my friendfeed account because of it’s association with facebook. i don’t trust it anymore, frankly.
My new MacBook Pro arrives today, and I have named it Saul Goodman.
I updated Automatic on Mac to version 2.0 and accidentally sent myself 90 automated emails via Growl. FML
I don’t think I’ll be buying any more desktops going forward. I...
– What iPads Did To My Family - Chuck’s Blog
April 2010
29 posts
got my phone back. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
my phone is AWOL today, so I can’t do… er…. anything. Phone related. Wait, why am I shaking? Is this withdrawal?
Gearing up for Roller Derby tonight; the best fun for 10 bucks in Beenleigh without a copping a pool cue to the back of the head.
Sony announces "division two" VAIO laptops | News... →
This is hilarious. What better way to trash the public perception of a premium brand name by making crappy offshoots of that brand?
There’s a reason you don’t see ‘Gucci, by Target’ or ‘Hugo Boss, by K-mart’. Your brand will always equate to the lowest common denominator of what you sell under it.
Justifying it by labeling it VAIO ‘division two’...
I must say Apple, late May is the latest ‘late April’ that I’ve ever seen. Also, I hate you.
In light of this, says one of those competitors, Rob Glaser, founder and C.E.O....
– The Guts of a New Machine - NYTimes.com
Even in 2003, Rob Glaser was never right. I love his interviews; I think he must live in a parallel universe or something.
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/dev/why!?! - /dev/why!?! - Its all about the... →
In either event, they [Adobe] announced the product to their customers and sold them on an idea they were not in a position to deliver, hoping Apple would be unwilling to piss off developers by not fulfilling Adobe’s promises. They tried to force Apple’s hand by putting Apple in a position where in order stop the Flash they would have to do it publicly in front of Adobe’s users. That was a bad...
What’s with the overuse of the phrase ‘tentpoles’ in an Apple keynote? I blame Scott Forstall.
Prediction Scorecard
limited multitasking
verdict: yup, multitasking is now supported with 7 different services supported: background audio, VOIP, location, local notifications, task completion, fast app switching. -win-
notification revamp
verdict: the introduction of local notifications, but no change to the notification UI itself. -fail-
unified mailbox support
verdict: yup, mail now supports...