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Tapbots: We are going to take option #1 so you’ll have to select a song to play if you want Pastebot to run in the background. All you need to do is add a short silent audio clip to your library and use that. After all, silence is golden and nobody can prevent you from…
Tapbots:
We are going to take option #1 so you’ll have to select a song to play if you want Pastebot to run in the background. All you need to do is add a short silent audio clip to your library and use that. After all, silence is golden and nobody can prevent you from listening to nothing if you choose.
Very clever.
Priya Ganapati: If the hardware is capable of tethering and acting as a hotspot when running rooted firmware, why can’t it do that with the stock firmware? A Motorola spokesperson says, “The original Droid by Motorola was not offered with a mobile hotspot feature and will not be upgradable for that feature in the future,”…
Priya Ganapati:
If the hardware is capable of tethering and acting as a hotspot when running rooted firmware, why can’t it do that with the stock firmware?
A Motorola spokesperson says, “The original Droid by Motorola was not offered with a mobile hotspot feature and will not be upgradable for that feature in the future,” she says. “Our newer devices, such as the Droid X, are enabled for mobile hotspot.”
That is weak.
Jenna Wortham: Research In Motion has a lot riding on the release of the Torch. The company has been losing market share and mindshare to Apple and Google, as more users clamor for the iPhone and smartphones powered by Android, Google’s mobile operating system. They are giving mobile users just what they want a Blackberry…
Jenna Wortham:
Research In Motion has a lot riding on the release of the Torch. The company has been losing market share and mindshare to Apple and Google, as more users clamor for the iPhone and smartphones powered by Android, Google’s mobile operating system.
They are giving mobile users just what they want a Blackberry with a physical keyboard on AT&T. Wait.
Neat idea, but I don’t see it being that big of a hit. Basically it allows you to create a link log out of Posterous posts, problem is not that many good blogs are on Posterous – they should have tried to get Tumblr.
Neat idea, but I don’t see it being that big of a hit. Basically it allows you to create a link log out of Posterous posts, problem is not that many good blogs are on Posterous – they should have tried to get Tumblr.
Very cool extension to save your session state (all your open tabs) in Safari 5. [via Jim Ray]
Very cool extension to save your session state (all your open tabs) in Safari 5.
Minimal: Tablet PCs, on the other hand, have had all the size and weight of conventional laptops, with all the software of regular laptops, but without the human interface devices to make them useful. Spot on.
Minimal:
Tablet PCs, on the other hand, have had all the size and weight of conventional laptops, with all the software of regular laptops, but without the human interface devices to make them useful.
Spot on.
How awesome is this, I had no clue: I like, but rarely remember to use, the synonym operator. Search for “~auto loan” will find info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc.
How awesome is this, I had no clue:
I like, but rarely remember to use, the synonym operator.
Search for “~auto loan” will find info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc.
Fred Vogelstein: Here’s the math: I think we can all agree that Apple is selling iPhones at a rate of 4 million a month. Add the 1 million iPads/month Apple is selling and another 1.85 million/month as a guestimate for iPod Touch sales and you get … wait for it … 6.85 million iOS devices…
Fred Vogelstein:
Here’s the math: I think we can all agree that Apple is selling iPhones at a rate of 4 million a month. Add the 1 million iPads/month Apple is selling and another 1.85 million/month as a guestimate for iPod Touch sales and you get … wait for it … 6.85 million iOS devices a month, or 42 percent more than Android. Apple doesn’t consistently provide iPod Touch numbers, but over the years it has provided enough data to make an educated guess.
I don’t disagree with the math here, but I do disagree with the iPad being in this category. I would say you need to include the iPod touch, but that the iPad should be considered a portable computer not a phone, likewise for any Android tablets (like the monstrous new Dell Phone/Tablet).
Hugo Miller: Pricing for the device will be in line with the iPad, which starts at $499, the person said. RIM is focused on reaping additional profits from the tablet effort, rather than competing on price to sell a large number of devices, the person said. Something tells me that there will be someone ‘reaping…
Hugo Miller:
Pricing for the device will be in line with the iPad, which starts at $499, the person said. RIM is focused on reaping additional profits from the tablet effort, rather than competing on price to sell a large number of devices, the person said.
Something tells me that there will be someone ‘reaping additional profits’ and that someone is not RIM.
One of the things that annoys most every MobileMe subscriber is the speed of the iDisk online storage that you get – it is miserable to try and use. Great for storing small files, but unbearable for storing large files, which is annoying because it is 15gb of online storage. A couple of days ago…
One of the things that annoys most every MobileMe subscriber is the speed of the iDisk online storage that you get – it is miserable to try and use. Great for storing small files, but unbearable for storing large files, which is annoying because it is 15gb of online storage.
A couple of days ago I came across a great tip for using iDisk: use it with an FTP client like Transmit. I own and love Transmit so I decided to give it a try, and wow is it fast. Nothing ground breaking here, but never again will I use iDisk via Finder, it is easily faster using a program like Transmit. I have no clue why, but trust me it is faster.
Now some of you may be wondering why I use iDisk to begin with. Well for starters I pay for it, and DropBox is just to small of storage to store large backups. Large backups are what I use iDisk for, it houses tons of archived websites and PSD files.
Give it a try with an FTP client (not all work with it) and see if you can’t give it new life.
Nothing ground breaking being reported here, and we all saw this one coming I think. However take a look at the picture that they use for the article – hilarious.
Nothing ground breaking being reported here, and we all saw this one coming I think. However take a look at the picture that they use for the article – hilarious.
The developer: I also collected device id,phone number and subscriber id, it has no relationship with user data. But why collect the phone number?
The developer:
I also collected device id,phone number and subscriber id, it has no relationship with user data.
But why collect the phone number?
Joshua Topolsky: There isn’t anything truly magical, revolutionary, or groundbreaking about the Magic Trackpad. It’s not the first of its kind, and it doesn’t turn our current computing paradigms on their ear. It’s an excellent device for those who prefer touch input to mouse or trackball, and it’s a solidly built piece of gear that…
Joshua Topolsky:
There isn’t anything truly magical, revolutionary, or groundbreaking about the Magic Trackpad. It’s not the first of its kind, and it doesn’t turn our current computing paradigms on their ear. It’s an excellent device for those who prefer touch input to mouse or trackball, and it’s a solidly built piece of gear that will compliment the uncluttered workspaces of lots of geeks out there. But it’s not a game changer or the death knell for our modern day method of interacting with our PCs as some have speculated. In all, at the $69 price tag it’s difficult to call something like this a must-have — it’s a niche product for a niche user.
I am still going to get one, I am guessing that it will be perfect for my home office.
Worth installing Microsoft Silverlight for, also zoom in.
Worth installing Microsoft Silverlight for, also zoom in.
Aside from email (which I hate) there are two things that really distract me while I work on my Mac during the day: Tweetie and Things / OmniFocus. Before the iPad (Bi) I used to have Tweetie open on one screen and my task management app of choice open on another. Between those two apps…
Aside from email (which I hate) there are two things that really distract me while I work on my Mac during the day: Tweetie and Things / OmniFocus. Before the iPad (Bi) I used to have Tweetie open on one screen and my task management app of choice open on another. Between those two apps I would spend a stupid amount of time organizing tasks and changing due dates, and reading tweets and replies.
A few weeks ago I thought this was all a waste and that there had to be a better way of dealing with these distractions. Keeping them on their own space was not good enough – I had to remove them from my Mac. The answer was of course the loyal iPad sitting in its lovely stand next to my computer.
Now I check Twitter during the work day on it with Twitterific and review my tasks on it as well. I keep the task management app open on my Mac, but the window closed, so that I can quickly enter a new task, but I never actually mark off tasks on my Mac. Same goes for Twitter, Tweetie stays open so that I can tweet quickly if I desire, and so that if someone DM’s me I can see it via Growl, but I never read through the stream on my Mac.
All of this means that I check Twitter once or twice and hour instead of every 15 minutes and that I only look at tasks when I need a new one. The best part is that the iPad screen turns off automatically after a bit so I really can’t be distracted.
Hello focus, welcome back.
I was reluctant to buy OmniFocus for the iPad when it came out – I had just switched to Things (for the fourth or fifth time) due to the lack of an iPad app for OmniFocus and have been very happy with Things. Ultimately my curiosity won over and I got OmniFocus for the iPad…
I was reluctant to buy OmniFocus for the iPad when it came out – I had just switched to Things (for the fourth or fifth time) due to the lack of an iPad app for OmniFocus and have been very happy with Things. Ultimately my curiosity won over and I got OmniFocus for the iPad to use. A couple of quick things before I get to my otherwise quick thoughts: I have been a heavy OmniFocus user since before it was available for purchase and have switched between OmniFocus and Things regularly, the only reason that I have been using Things for the past couple of months is due to the lack of an iPad version of OmniFocus.
I will of course be doing a full write up on OmniFocus versus Things in a couple of weeks so look for that here. I am not just going to be looking at the iPad apps, but at the full suite of apps for each.
Clive Thompson: We’re moving, in other words, toward a fascinating cultural transition: the death of the telephone call. This shift is particularly stark among the young. Some college students I know go days without talking into their smartphones at all. I was recently hanging out with a twentysomething entrepreneur who fumbled around for 30 seconds…
Clive Thompson:
We’re moving, in other words, toward a fascinating cultural transition: the death of the telephone call. This shift is particularly stark among the young. Some college students I know go days without talking into their smartphones at all. I was recently hanging out with a twentysomething entrepreneur who fumbled around for 30 seconds trying to find the option that actually let him dial someone.
I bet that if it was not for my current job I would make one phone call every other day – the rest I currently make are all for work.
MG Seigler: As you can see on this page, the videos are nowhere to be found. Instead, the page now only shows the overview of the antenna design and test labs. A search of Apple’s website brings up a few of the landing pages where the videos used to be — here’s the Droid X…
MG Seigler:
As you can see on this page, the videos are nowhere to be found. Instead, the page now only shows the overview of the antenna design and test labs. A search of Apple’s website brings up a few of the landing pages where the videos used to be — here’s the Droid X one, for example — but now those just redirect to the antenna design page as well. Odd.
That is odd.
Kevin C. Tofel: Perhaps another opportunity will appear when Microsoft can create its own phone, but even then, the company is at risk. Four of the five handset partners are also companies that build Microsoft Windows computers. If Microsoft cuts them out of the loop in mobiles, it won’t sit well with them from a…
Kevin C. Tofel:
Perhaps another opportunity will appear when Microsoft can create its own phone, but even then, the company is at risk. Four of the five handset partners are also companies that build Microsoft Windows computers. If Microsoft cuts them out of the loop in mobiles, it won’t sit well with them from a notebook and desktop standpoint. Granted, I doubt that any of these partners would completely jump ship to Ubuntu, but such a situation would raise tensions between Microsoft and its partners.
I’m sorry, but no. This is a dumb point, and to be frank most of the post I disagree with. Now is the time for Microsoft to break out with their own device while licensing the OS, they must do it or face dying a slow death.
John C Abell: Retailers like Amazon push for $10 digital bestsellers. Customers don’t see why something which costs “nothing” to produce should cost as much as a printed book. Publishers are afraid of losing their pricing prerogatives. Authors are scared that the already minuscule chance of making a living through their words will shrink along…
John C Abell:
Retailers like Amazon push for $10 digital bestsellers. Customers don’t see why something which costs “nothing” to produce should cost as much as a printed book. Publishers are afraid of losing their pricing prerogatives. Authors are scared that the already minuscule chance of making a living through their words will shrink along with cover prices.
Let us try not to forget that without writers there would be nothing to read – and without livable salaries writers won’t be able to write novels.