 Cult of MacRead Leander Kahney's latest commentary about Apple and Mac News in Wired.com's Cult of Mac Blog, including Mac, Mac Pro, MacBook, iMac, iBook, Mac mini, iPod video, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iTunes, iPhoto, iPhone, Apple TV, OSX, Steve Jobs, and Macworld. http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/ другие подписчики этой ленты также читают >> |
- Is This The First Picture on the Internet Shot With An iPhone?
Yes, this image of a woman in a hoodie eating a piece of toast might well be the first image ever uploaded to the Internet from an iPhone. Remember this moment -- I'm sure your grandkids will ask you about...
Yes, this image of a woman in a hoodie eating a piece of toast might well be the first image ever uploaded to the Internet from an iPhone. Remember this moment -- I'm sure your grandkids will ask you about where you were when you saw the first iPhone picture.
It came from a set of two that got posted to Flickr, got marked private and finally got deleted. The EXIF data is interesting, but could easily be fraudulent -- this is editable stuff. Still, I like this story, because it involves toast. A second photo, along with the EXIF data, is posted after the jump.
Technorati Tags: camera, iphone, rumor
Camera: Apple iPhone
Aperture: f/2.8
Orientation: Rotated 90 degrees clockwise
Date and Time: 2007:04:21 10:23:45
Color Space: sRGB
Tag::EXIF::0xA500: 11/5
Compression: JPEG
Image Width: 1600 pixels
Image Height: 1200 pixelsThe second photo below, which was also EXIFed as coming from an iPhone, is reputed to be from Alexander's restaurant in Cupertino, very near to AppleHQ. That tip comes courtesy of MobileGuerilla reader YourMom. Anyone know for sure?
First Pictures Taken With an Apple iPhone - MobileGuerilla
Via Digg.
Pete Mortensen - iLounge Opens Can of Whoop-Ass on iLoad
Most of you have probably never heard of iLoad, a $300 device designed to rip CDs to iPod without the use of a computer. Granted, it is a high price, but I can see the market need, as many people...Most of you have probably never heard of iLoad, a $300 device designed to rip CDs to iPod without the use of a computer. Granted, it is a high price, but I can see the market need, as many people can't afford to buy a computer, but at $300, there's no reason they couldn't get a computer instead. It's been pretty niche, but the product's manufacturer has promoted it fairly aggressively.
As they are wont to do with all things iPod, the venerable iLounge reviewed the little box in a not-so favorable light, and then the fun began. Wingspan, the maker of iLoad, allegedly declared war on iLounge. And that's when the fun began. Check out this hilarious YouTube video, then head over to iLounge for the full sordid story. It's well worth your time.
Getting Rid of iLoad and Wingspan: The Full Story | iLounge
Technorati Tags: humor, iload, ipod
Pete Mortensen - Report: iPhone Battery Life Great, But Device is 'Slippery'
The iPhone hype-tornado is blowing at full gale now. Best sign? The rumored problems with it change from day to day. You know how it is: Massively anticipated device is less than two months from shipping, but an anonymous tipster...
The iPhone hype-tornado is blowing at full gale now. Best sign? The rumored problems with it change from day to day. You know how it is: Massively anticipated device is less than two months from shipping, but an anonymous tipster has uncovered a DISASTROUS design flaw! This time, MacScoop reports that it might be doomed by a slippery case! Look out! It might slip out of your hand, which would be a first for a phone!
Overall, our source found the iPhone awesome but he mentioned, as a sole negative point, that the material used on the device's case makes it feel even more slippery than the iPod and will probably require the purchase of a protective skin or case so as to avoid unintentionally dropping it.
And we all know just how slippery the iPod is! Or something. This is too funny. Apple always ships its products without the rubberized handles or raised edges that Palm and some competitors do, but it seems to work out OK most of the time. My phone is covered in rubber to prevent slipping, but I'm STILL thrown it across the room. Sometimes, it's about the person, not the product.
That said, MacScoop does report that the battery life of the iPhone is even better than anticipated. And that's all I care about. If this thing can keep on ticking for hours and hours of talking and mobile web-browsing, it has a right to be the smuggest phone on the block. Sign me up.
iPhone's true battery-life to surprise us - source | MacScoop
Via Business 2.0Technorati Tags: iphone, slippery, speculation
Pete Mortensen - One House, Two People, and Five Macs
Anthony Sigalas, a Mac nut par excellence from Athens, Greece, has filled his home with Macs. The pictures below, lifted from his Flickr set "My Mac Home," shows that every corner of every room has a Mac. Here's the workspace...Anthony Sigalas, a Mac nut par excellence from Athens, Greece, has filled his home with Macs. The pictures below, lifted from his Flickr set "My Mac Home," shows that every corner of every room has a Mac.
Here's the workspace with His and Hers MacBooks, plus a Mac Mini under the telly.
Here's the view from the bed: a 20'' iMac. Anthony writes: "It's the mac that wakes us (via Aurora and iTunes) and put us to sleep (via Sofa Control, VLC and our favorite TV Shows and old Greek Movies). Furthermore its huge internal hard drive houses our music library (iTunes), our photo library (iPhoto) and a large collection of movie files. All in all a worthy media extender for the bedroom."
Check out the cool Greek interface:
And then there's a 12'' iBook G4 in the "office room" that acts as a backup server, a wireless print server and a fax.
lkahney - What Do You Think Sucks About Firefox on Mac?
Firefox makes me crazy. So much about it is great: Cross-platform functionality, a dedicated community of developers, a massively extensible plug-in system, it's nice. But it's also slow, buggy and burdened with a non-standard Mac OS X interface. Friday, Developer...
Firefox makes me crazy. So much about it is great: Cross-platform functionality, a dedicated community of developers, a massively extensible plug-in system, it's nice. But it's also slow, buggy and burdened with a non-standard Mac OS X interface.
Friday, Developer Colin Barrett put out a call to know what Mac users would fix on Firefox if they had the chance. The conversation's been good, but make sure to make your voice heard! I'll add my own pet peeve: Drop the XUL garbage and build a real Mac interface. Oh, and learn how to constrain functionality so that you don't get memory leaks every few hours. Oops, hang on. Am I just describing Camino?
Firefox on the Mac
Image via Kstruct
Via Digg.
Technorati Tags: firefox
Pete Mortensen - Watch Jobs/Gates Film For Free Online
For my money, there are few Mac geek rites of passage more fun or worthwhile than watching "Pirates of Silicon Valley," the ever-so campy made-for-TNT in 1999 movie about the beginnings of the long-standing rivalry between Apple founder Steve Jobs...
For my money, there are few Mac geek rites of passage more fun or worthwhile than watching "Pirates of Silicon Valley," the ever-so campy made-for-TNT in 1999 movie about the beginnings of the long-standing rivalry between Apple founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. And lucky for you, it is now available to watch for free on Google Video. Noah Wylie is barely believable but well-cast as a wide-eyed Steve with a series of hilarious moustaches, and Anthony Michael Hall is oddly brilliant as mulleted Gates. The entire thing manages to be both so over-the-top and so nerdy that you can scarcely believe anyone thought it would be a good idea to greenlight it. Also, the opening scene on the set of the 1984 ad? Genius.
Pirates Of Silicon Valley [Vodpod]Technorati Tags: apple, pirates
Pete Mortensen - Disguise Your iPod As A Pack of Smokes!
Ladies and gentleman, I think we've reached a new peak for an iPod case that hides your digital media device as something much less desirable. Meet the Gama-Go Pack-O-Smokes Mp3 case, perfect for use in rough neighborhoods where it's more...
Ladies and gentleman, I think we've reached a new peak for an iPod case that hides your digital media device as something much less desirable. Meet the Gama-Go Pack-O-Smokes Mp3 case, perfect for use in rough neighborhoods where it's more important to look like a crazy person listening to your cigarettes than like a rich kid with an iPod. Gama-Go iPod case [BoingBoing]
Technorati Tags: game-go, ipod
Pete Mortensen
| rss2email.ru | отписаться: http://www.rss2email.ru/unsubscribe.asp?c=6895&u=24004&r=142365972 управлять всей подпиской: http://www.rss2email.ru/manage.asp читать наш блог: http://www.olevarty.ru |
