Chrome started life as a browser, now it’s an OS. Well, sort of an OS. If you’re only running one application, you don’t need much OS. The Chrome Notebook is Google’s very early foray into the world of hardware – backed, of course, by its extensive existing online software products. Here’s an overview video: The [...]
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Google’s Macbook Air: Say Hello To CR-48
Chrome started life as a browser, now it’s an OS. Well, sort of an OS. If you’re only running one application, you don’t need much OS. The Chrome Notebook is Google’s very early foray into the world of hardware – backed, of course, by its extensive existing online software products. Here’s an overview video: The [...]
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iPad Drives Apple to Third Place Worldwide, First in North America for Mobile PC Sales
Research firm DisplaySearch today announced the results of its latest quarterly estimates for shipments of "mobile PCs", which include notebooks, netbooks, and tablets. The estimates for the third quarter of 2010 highlight the "iPad Effect" ... MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
Danish newspaper protests App Store censorship
According to The Mac Observer, Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet isn't too happy with Apple's App Store policies regarding nudity. In a series of recently published editorials, the newspaper takes issue with Apple banning the Ekstra Bladet iPhone and iPad app because of their Page 9 Girl, a nude photograph of a woman they have been publishing for 34 years. Accusing Apple of double standards and acting like "an American nanny", the paper's Heine Jørgensen writes that he can't understand why they would ban something seen by Danes as "an innocent Danish institution on par with The Little Mermaid."Whether seen as an innocent institution or not, it really shouldn't come as a surprise that Apple has rejected an app from the App Store for nudity. As mentioned here on TUAW before, Apple has been not only been banning sexual content in the App Store for quite some time now, but they have also started banning anything seen as controversial, such as the Manhattan Declaration which we wrote about just last week.
While what offends me may not offend you, Apple has to draw the line somewhere -- and they have decided to start with the idea that even "innocent" nudity is sexual content. I can't blame the folks at Ekstra Bladet for being upset at the removal of their app, but them's the rules as they stand right now.
Danish newspaper protests App Store censorship originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Is The iPad Lock Smart or a Crock?
If you have your hands on Apple’s latest must-have gadget the iPad, you’ve probably wondered how to keep other people’s hands off it. Sure, you can password protect the screen. But that’s not going to do much if someone decides to pick up the handy tablet and run with it. Enter the iPad lock. Well, [...]
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iFan Charges Your iPhone with Wind Power
Taking the windmill concept to a personal level, Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven has created a custom wind-powered charger for his iPhone. Made from a computer cooling fan and a soft rubber bumper case with integrated dock connector, the iFan recharges the phone as you walk around town: By using a modified computer fan it took [...]
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iPad 2 to Ship by End of February 2011?
Digitimes reports that Foxconn Electronics have recently been notified that they will ship Apple's iPad 2 within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units..
The sources pointed out that the iPad 2... MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
Apple’s App Subscription Plan Has Been On Table For Months But Print Mags Aren’t Interested
Even though the introduction of the iPad-only publicationThe Daily is slated to also herald the coming of iTunes app subscriptions early next year, don’t necessarily expect that move to suddenly make your iPad a digital stand-in for the local newsstand: traditional magazine publishers remain skeptical of Cupertino’s app subscription plan because of the company’s refusal [...]
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Teen Listening to iPod Survives Brush with Train
A teenage girl reportedly listening to her iPod survived getting clipped by a freight train in Ohio. According to police reports, 16-year-old Isatu Kanu was late to school on Friday morning, making her way from home to Olentangy Orange High School at about 10:30 am. She had the hood of her coat up and headphones [...]
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iPad 2 may start shipping by end of February 2011
Warm up your credit cards: Digitimes reports that the next-generation iPad may start shipping as early as late February of 2011. Digitimes' Taiwanese sources claim that Foxconn, Apple's leading product manufacturer, will ship the next-gen iPad within the next 100 days, with an initial shipment run of 400,000-600,000 units.
The current iPad, announced in late January, was not available for sale in the US until early April (WiFi-only) and late April (3G). While a late February ship date for an unannounced iPad 2 may sound far too optimistic to be true, Digitimes has been a decent source of component-related rumors in the past. Over a month before the release of the iPhone 4, Digitimes described the then-forthcoming handset's internals to a tee, correctly describing the specs of the Retina Display and the CPU and RAM upgrades.
[via Mac Rumors]
iPad 2 may start shipping by end of February 2011 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
iOS 4.2 prevents some USB devices from working via Camera Connection Kit
According to 9to5Mac, changes introduced in iOS 4.2 have caused Apple's Camera Connection Kit to become a lot less useful for iPad owners. As of iOS 4.2, the amount of electricity the iPad's 30-pin dock connector can put out has apparently been slashed from 100mA to 20mA. While this is good news for the iPad's battery life, it's bad news for anyone trying to connect almost any unpowered USB gadgetry to the iPad via the Camera Connection Kit; most USB keyboards, flash drives, and USB microphones won't work via the Camera Connection Kit anymore. Instead, connecting a USB device that draws more than the allowable 20mA will throw up an error: "The connected USB device requires too much power."
For its original purpose, plugging a self-powered camera into the iPad to upload pictures, the Camera Connection Kit should still function as it always did. Many users were happy at the unexpected ability to use non-camera devices with the kit, and those same users will undoubtedly be dismayed that it's no longer possible. Hopefully this new behavior is a bug rather than a "feature" in iOS 4.2 and something that can be addressed in a future update.
iOS 4.2 prevents some USB devices from working via Camera Connection Kit originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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