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- Next Mighty Mouse May Implement Multi-Touch
The most obvious way for Apple to bring their amazing research on multi-touch from the iPhone to the Mac platform would be a touchscreen iMac or tablet laptop, but a recent patent shows Apple might have something more simple --...
The most obvious way for Apple to bring their amazing research on multi-touch from the iPhone to the Mac platform would be a touchscreen iMac or tablet laptop, but a recent patent shows Apple might have something more simple -- and powerful in mind.
As it turns out, the Apple interface designer behind the iPhone, Brian Huppi, has a mouse that can sense your gestures in minds. Based on how you splay your fingers out, you could indicate, for example, that you want a contextual click. Or a spread-finger grab-and-scroll. I have been off mice for years now -- a touchpad does me fine, but this could bring me back.
Next-gen Apple mouse may dump scroll ball for touch housing: AppleInsider |
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Pete Mortensen - Miranda July Pushes Final Cut Studio, Too
On the off chance that the Coen Bros. talking up the virtues of Final Cut Studio 2 doesn't have you reaching for your charge card yet, you could try out this testimonial from director Miranda July, who made the truly...
On the off chance that the Coen Bros. talking up the virtues of Final Cut Studio 2 doesn't have you reaching for your charge card yet, you could try out this testimonial from director Miranda July, who made the truly wonderful "Me and You and Everyone We Know" last year.
If nothing else, this NAB keynote is bringing us plenty of insight into the creative process for a wide range of directors.
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Pete Mortensen - Bevy of New Get a Mac Commercials Posted
Despite rumors of its demise, Apple's Get a Mac ad campaign rolls on. Introduced this week are Stuffed (above) Computer Cart and Flashback, both after the jump. Of the three, the journey back to the childhood of Mac and PC...Despite rumors of its demise, Apple's Get a Mac ad campaign rolls on. Introduced this week are Stuffed (above) Computer Cart and Flashback, both after the jump. Of the three, the journey back to the childhood of Mac and PC is my favorite, but this series is really starting to feel tired. There's only so much more that Apple can do here, and I'm ready to see them, you know, actually show the goods with OS X instead of just going abstract.
Just my 2 cents. Click through to see the others.
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Pete Mortensen - OS X and iPhone Development Aren't Unrelated
I've been thinking a lot about Apple's much-analyzed decision to delay the release of Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, until October. Ultimately, it's not that big a deal. If you read between the lines, the diversion of software development resources...I've been thinking a lot about Apple's much-analyzed decision to delay the release of Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, until October. Ultimately, it's not that big a deal. If you read between the lines, the diversion of software development resources to finish the iPhone could have long-term benefits for the platform.
As a refresher, here's what Apple had to say for themselves:
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones.
I have to agree. After all, many of the best innovations -- or at least great new products, are created by mixing the DNA of one successful platform with another. OS X and the iPhone OS share a hell of a lot of code. Apple should have no trouble at all adding multi-touch support to Macs. I'm hoping to see the world's greatest tablet laptop -- and the first one worth owning -- emerge from this delay in the first place.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has an interesting view of just why Apple fell behind in the first place, too. Check it out.
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Pete Mortensen - CNN: Excellence in Technology Reporting
Don't you just love when mainstream business media try to use technology code names? For the future record, guys, Apple is working on Leopard. Jaguar came out almost five years, under the unsexy name "Mac OS X v10.2." But hey,...
Don't you just love when mainstream business media try to use technology code names? For the future record, guys, Apple is working on Leopard. Jaguar came out almost five years, under the unsexy name "Mac OS X v10.2." But hey, it's all big cats, right? (Thanks for submitting, Brandon!)
Technorati Tags: apple, jaguar, mac os x
Pete Mortensen - Meet the Airpod (Yet Another Industry Copies the iPod)
I had thought, by now, that Apple would have sued everyone using the word pod in the name of their products. Not so. Shopping at Whole Foods this afternoon, I spotted the Airpod, a high-tech air filter system that goes...
I had thought, by now, that Apple would have sued everyone using the word pod in the name of their products. Not so. Shopping at Whole Foods this afternoon, I spotted the Airpod, a high-tech air filter system that goes out of its way to look like an iPod, right down to placing the circular wheel filter at the bottom of the rectangular form.
It's shameless appropriation of the form. Maybe it's just bombastic enough for Apple to leave them alone? Click through for a picture of the packaging. It's like a nano gone wrong.
Pete Mortensen
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