tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230882882010-05-21T14:57:36.129-05:00My blog about Apple, the iPhone, photography, tech news, video games and other random things that I think are fun or cool! Enjoy!Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00143597918523755629noreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23088288.post-66439521715861746192009-05-28T08:39:00.003-05:002009-05-28T08:42:42.524-05:00

Things are all coming together... This looks to be the bezel for the new iPhone (perhaps a 3.5G version which should ship with a better camera, video functions, faster network, etc.) There have been other photos posted, but this is the first one which shows an all black bezel and the speaker near the very top of the iPhone.Purported next-gen iPhone bezel shows speaker, color changes | iLounge

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This is strange. Apple has never let anything but an iPod sync with iTunes. They must not be too worried about competition for the iPhone, or maybe they're just worried about monopoly issues with iTunes.Scooplet: the Palm Pre syncs with iTunes - Apple 2.0: "Plug a Pre into a Mac and it syncs, seamlessly, with Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes.In fact, the iTunes Store treats the Pre just as it would an iPod

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This is crazy fast. If you've not experienced on of the current 8-core Nehalem-based MacPros, and even if you have, you can't wrap your head around this. Basically with this hyper-threading (the current MacPros have this) you get a "virtual core" concept. What this does is lets the 4-core chip available today run 8 threads (computations) simultaneously - basically double what is should be doing.

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Not bad, but I don't know if I understand the gameplay mechanics just by looking at it....DJ Hero's turntable, crossfader peripheral spotted in E3 preview

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Some people are saying that this delay is coming from lack of competition. Currently AMD doesn't have anything near this power at this price point so it sounds like Intel is going to give the market some time to burn up the older boards and let the competition heat up.Intel delays debut of Core i5 platform until early September: "Intel has decided to postpone the debut of its new mainstream

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This is pretty cool. If you've never played this game it usually uses the two analog sticks on your controller to drive the on-screen ball like a tank. This would be much easier...Kellbot! � Life-Size Katamari Lives: "It uses an optical mouse to track the ball. I gathered up some cheap PS2 controllers, ripped out the potentiometers on the analog sticks, and replaced it with a digital

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GameStop has setup pre-orders for Tony Hawk's Ride - you know, the one with the faux skateboard sans wheels/trucks and a few more buttons than your current Birdhouse.Tony Hawk's Ride coming to GameStop October 13th for $120: "That'll be the damage due according to GameStop where Tony Hawk's Ride game with skateboard peripheral lists for $119.99 with a simultaneous Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 launch on

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Now I'm not saying texting is bad, but this is crazy! I'm all for texting to a certain level, but when it interferes with actual human interactions then we've got a problem. One of my biggest peeves is when you're with someone who cannot stop checking their phone. A few times is fine, but when it's every 60-90 seconds then you're obviously not spending time with the people currently in the room

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This isn't a huge shock. This photo was leaked a long time ago and seems reasonable. The current iPhone 3G with it's glossy back can become impossible to hang onto if there is any moisture on your hands or it is raining.Next Generation iPhone Case to Have Matte Finish? Enhanced 3G? - Mac Rumors: "The models are described as '3G, enhanced 3G ('3.5G/3.75G'), and mainland China versions'. The case

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New Yorker Cover Art Is Painted With an iPhone - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Colombo drew the June 1 cover scene, of a late-night gathering around a 42nd Street hot dog stand, entirely with the iPhone application Brushes. Because of the smears and washes of color required by the inexact medium, it comes off as dreamy, not sharp and technological."

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More Evidence of Apple's Massive Marketshare Growth in Higher Education - Mac Rumors: "The chart above shows that Apple has made steady gains since 2003 in the percentage of incoming UVA freshman who own a Mac. The latest year (2008) shows that 37% of incoming students owned a Mac while the percentage owning a Windows computer had shrunk to 62% from a peak of 96% in 2001. The growth tracks

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Here's a great editorial from Engadget's Michael Gartenberg about the ad from M$ for the Zune Pass, and I think it makes a lot of really good points. Check out the full article, but here's a snippet...Entelligence: Time for Microsoft to tell a better Zune tale: "What's wrong? First, it took a shot at Apple that felt silly -- after all, most consumers don't spend $30,000 to fill up their iPod (how

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Electronista | New iPhone said getting 'next-gen' CPU: "The next revision of the iPhone should be characterized by a dramatic increase in processing power, an alleged scoop by veterain technology writer John Gruber says. He refers to 'informed' sources who say the iPhone will jump from its existing 412MHz clock speed to 600MHz but adds that a change in architecture should lead to a

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This is great! They actually patented this...Pay Up: Microsoft Wins Patent for Crippling Your Computer

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Not a huge surprise if you've noticed that Microsoft is nearly paying people to buy Vista machines. If you don't believe it go configure a Dell mini with Vista and DOWNGRADE to your XP and it will add $150 to your machine. Anyways...Electronista | Dell warns Windows 7 will raise PC prices: "He sees the price change as sufficiently high that some smaller businesses, governments and schools simply

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Jonny Ive is pretty cool. If you don't know him I guarantee you know his work. He is the lead product designer for Apple. He is behind the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and even little things that you might not notice like EVE from WALL-E!Jonathan Ive | Fast Company: "Ten years ago, before the iPod and the iPhone became objects of the world's electro-lust, Jonathan Ive sat down with Fast Company to

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So some of the videos were pulled from YouTube so check these out before they're gone! I particularly like the editing of the Services menu.MacNN | Some Snow Leopard imagery pulled, more surfaces: "More such images and videos have appeared at a French website however, allegedly exposing the look and features of Apple's next operating system. The software should for instance support native screen

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iPhone Push Notification Settings and Screenshots - Mac Rumors: "Apple began high volume testing of the upcoming Push notification system for iPhone applications earlier this week. The system offers 3rd party applications the ability to push notifications to the user even when they are not the running application."

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Whoa! So a big leak made it's way out today. We finally have screenshots from a build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard! Very exciting stuff...Trash "Put Back" so you don't need to remember where that document used to liveOkay, maybe not that exciting, but let's hope there are more updates than just these little shots.Finally there is a preference for searching the current folder as default instead

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Normally I'd avoid all things Windows Mobile, but Fennec from Mozilla (yeah, the Firefox guys) is now available for download to devs. It's worth a note.Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile at Brad’s Blog: "We are pleased to announce that Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile 6 is available for download by developers and testers."

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According to these guys at Macbidouille (it's a French site, deal with it how you will, but I linked to Hardmac for my English) are saying that the new iPhone - probably due this summer - will be the same size and have the same shape. This holds up most other leaks that are hinting at minor updates to the iPhone 3G for this summer.The more interesting bit is that they are saying that the iPod

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It looks like some Best Buy employee was poking around the inventory system and found some random phones from AT&T that have an...interesting, name. "Project Charlie" might be some lame phone case, but who knows...Project Charlie - three secret AT&T devices bound for Best Buy (Phone Arena News): "Taking a peek into Best Buy's inventory system reveals three AT&T phones that have a “Project Charlie

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HDMI 1.4 brings internet sharing, dreadful tiers of quality: HDMI is pretty much awesome. The newest version of HDMI, 1.4, has just been shown off and it's got a ton of tricks for being just another video cable."Put simply, this could allow a 'broadband-connected television using its HEC-enabled HDMI port to provide internet connection sharing with another HEC-enabled device such as a game

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Quad-Core Nehalem Apple Notebooks Possible in Q3 2009? - Mac Rumors: This is one I've been waiting on for a while now. I love the current MacBook Pro design, but it's so similar in specs and design to the MacBook it's hardly standing out of the crowd. Let's just dream of a Quad 2.0Ghz MacBook Pro...."Intel, however, is said to be only launching three mobile Nehalem processors this year -- all

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I'll just leave this here....Wild and slim PS3 redesign caught on camera?: "There seem to be a lot of similarities to the Slimline PS2, while still holding onto that curvature the PS3 is so well known for, and even squeezing in a slot-loading disc drive and 120GB hard drive. Of course, Sony has issued a pretty strong denial of existing PS3 slim rumors, stating that 'We currently don't have any

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