| rss2email.ru | На что подписаться? | Управление подпиской |
 |  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) http://www.tuaw.com рекомендовать друзьям >> |
- TextMate 2: He's working on it
Filed under: Software
For fans of Macromates' flagship text editor, TextMate, the current version may be all they need. For the last three years, TextMate has been stuck at version 1.5 (and change). In a blog post yesterday titled "Working on It," however, developer Allan Odgaard talked about what's coming in TextMate 2.0.TextMate 2.0, according to Odgaard, is "taking shape" amid steady progress. It's not a small update, either: Odgaard says it's a "major undertaking with a long timeline" and he doesn't want to get people's hopes up about release dates or finished features just yet.
He says most of the modules for the application are nine-tenths complete, and he uses 2.0 day-to-day. The front end, he says, needs work, and an alpha release may be ready "before too long."
TUAWTextMate 2: He's working on it originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Multi-touch coming to older MacBooks? Not so fast.
Filed under: Hardware, Hacks, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, Snow Leopard
Mac Life and Gizmodo are both reporting that Snow Leopard will add multi-touch gestures to all older MacBooks and MacBook Pros. This has gotten a lot of people's hopes up that three- and four-finger multi-touch gestures will be back-ported to all Apple portables that previously did not have them.
Unfortunately, this is incorrect. Apples own information on Snow Leopard's enhancements reads, "All Mac notebooks with Multi-Touch trackpads now support three- and four-finger gestures." (emphasis added)
This raises the question, what's the difference between a multi-touch trackpad and a regular one, and which models have it?
The multi-touch trackpad was introduced with the first MacBook Air in early 2008. Not only does it allow two-finger scrolling like older models, it also allows advanced three-finger gestures like swiping to go back in Safari.
One month later, the early 2008 MacBook Pro received the same trackpad, with the same gestures. The multi-touch trackpad gains this new functionality because it has an embedded controller chip, identical to the one in the iPhone and iPod Touch, which allows advanced input from more than two fingers at once.
Later, the unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros debuted with multi-touch trackpads, but also introduced new four-finger gestures, which will not be officially supported in the older MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros until Snow Leopard's release.
The original MacBook Air and early 2008 MacBook Pro are the only machines which will gain additional gestures via Snow Leopard. The only reason these notebook models are able to gain these gestures via software updates, while earlier MacBook Pros and all plastic MacBooks are not, is because they possess the multi-touch controller chip in their trackpads.
Just to break it down, this is a list of the only, and I mean only, notebooks that support multi-touch gestures, either now or after Snow Leopard:
MacBook Air (all models)
Early 2008 MacBook Pro
Late 2008 17" MacBook Pro
Unibody MacBook (all models)
Unibody MacBook Pro (all models)
If you have a MacBook Pro manufactured before early 2008 or any plastic MacBook, then Snow Leopard or not, multi-touch isn't coming your way...
Continue reading Multi-touch coming to older MacBooks? Not so fast.
TUAWMulti-touch coming to older MacBooks? Not so fast. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Worldwide Mac: Using the iPhone in New Zealand
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, iPhone
In a previous post, I discussed some of the shortcomings of New Zealand's broadband infrastructure. A lot of you gave some great responses, which led me to realize that although it's certainly not world-class, NZ's broadband isn't quite as bad overall as I thought - it's just my ISP isn't the greatest in the country, and it doesn't help matters that I don't live in a major city like Auckland or Wellington. When we first got here last July, we were kind of bewildered by pretty much everything (moving to a new country will do that to you), so we signed up for what seemed to be the best value for our money at the time. This turned out to entail a one-year commitment to Vodafone. Well, as it turns out, Vodafone NZ's broadband plans kind of stink compared to some other offerings people brought up, so we'll be ditching them for something better as soon as that commitment is over next month.
With my iPhone, however, I don't have the option of giving Vodafone the heave-ho for at least another 20 months. In fact, right now if you want to buy an iPhone in New Zealand, unless you're willing to jump through a lot of hoops and pay a lot more money, Vodafone is pretty much the only horse in town.
While some Kiwi commenters pointed out that broadband here isn't necessarily as terrible as I made it out to be, one thing they all agreed on was that the mobile phone pricing here is just barely short of criminal. No, let's not mince words: it is criminal. New Zealanders pay some of the highest mobile rates in the world, both for plans and for handsets. What we get for our money down here is pretty astonishing, and not in a good way.Continue reading Worldwide Mac: Using the iPhone in New Zealand
TUAWWorldwide Mac: Using the iPhone in New Zealand originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Mac laptop glossy screens hazardous to your posture?
Filed under: Hardware, Bad Apple, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air
Well, we're still not sure our iPhones are safe to use, and now comes word from Australia that our brand spanking new glossy screens might be hurting us as well, through bad ergonomics.
An HR advisory from Queensland University of Technology suggests that:
"Reflections and glare on high gloss monitor screens and their relation to the angle of the monitor screen, could cause the operator to adopt awkward postures when viewing the monitor screen and using related equipment. These reflections on the screen can be from internal and external sources such as the overhead lighting and/or position of windows.
Awkward postures adopted by the operator may in turn lead to an injury."
Of course Apple has moved to high gloss screens on every laptop except the 17" MacBook Pro, and the matte screen option on that laptop costs an extra fifty bucks. The iMacs are also only available with glossy screens.
Of course there are other health hazards associated with having Apple equipment, such as a tendency to have panic attacks or heart palpitations when you learn you can't update your iPhone cheaply through AT&T. At any rate, there is one advantage to those glossy screens. You'll be able to clearly see your pained face as you try to stretch into position to avoid those reflections on those mirror-like screens. So there.
Thanks to one of our readers who tipped us to this happy news via this web siteTUAWMac laptop glossy screens hazardous to your posture? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Talkcast tonight: 10pm post-WWDC wrap-up
Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts
Last week the TUAW Talkcast was jam-packed with pre-WWDC excitement! Michael Rose, newcomer Michael Jones, and myself talked rumors, expectations and took calls from the beautiful people in web-radioland. Our on-ground reporter Brett Terpstra joined us at the end of the show and it was a great time. Check it out in Talkshoe or subscribe in iTunes.
Tonight, we're live again going over the post-WWDC wrap-up, discussing the new iPhone 3G S, the new MacBook Pro line and updated MacBook Air, Snow Leopard, hatred of cell phone subsidies (it's not just AT&T), and the latest trend in App Store rejections. I'll be hosting, Mike R. will be joining us later in the call and we'll have some new members of the team to introduce to the Talkcast regulars. It's going to be a blast, so make you tune in!
To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, or you can try out the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the "TalkShoe Web" button on our profile page at 10 pm ET/7 pm PT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VOIP lines (take advantange of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *-8. Talk with you then!Recording support for the talkcast is provided by Call Recorder from ecamm networks.
TUAWTalkcast tonight: 10pm post-WWDC wrap-up originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - WWDC Live: Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software
Filed under: Software, WWDC, Developer
I was excited to speak with Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software, creator of Default Folder X, which is an invaluable tool to me. He is also an important voice in the OpenMeta debate and evolution happening right now, which will get its own article in the near future. He attended WWDC with his son, Ben Gotow, and had a lot to say about the state of Apple and looking forward. Continue reading for the video.
Update: This video has been moved to YouTube and is now watchable.
Continue reading WWDC Live: Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software
TUAWWWDC Live: Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - The iPhone: most dangerous cell phone ever? (No.)
Filed under: Accessories, Audio, iPhone
Is the iPhone the most dangerous cell phone ever?
Dr. Joseph Mercola thinks so. He's concerned about that great modern boogeyman, cell phone radiation. But lucky for you, he's got a solution he can sell you: the Blue Tube headset.
The Blue Tube headset looks to be a 2.5 mm plug hooked into a tiny speakerbox at the other end. That speaker box then emits sound up a long, hollow tube (similar to how a stethoscope works) and into an earpiece similar to those found on higher-end headphones from Shure and Etymotic.
What exactly makes an iPhone more "dangerous" than other cell phones? Well, Dr. Mercola helpfully points out that the iPhone emits radiation way more often than other cell phones, mostly because of what he calls "data waves."
Hookay. Let's be real for a second: cellular phones do emit low-level electromagnetic (EM) radiation. I used to work as a radiological health physics technician, so I know a fair bit about radiation (which is why I used to be in that field. Not anymore). Without getting too science-lecturey about it, let's just say there's two basic types of radiation:
1. The scary kind that can turn you into a sewer mutant and/or kill you. This is called ionizing radiation. It comes from nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, nuclear waste, nuclear medicine (I'm sensing a pattern here), x-rays, and Cleveland.
2. The not-so scary kind that doesn't do much of anything to you at all. This is called non-ionizing radiation. Sources include power lines, your computer's display, cell phones, and the North Korean government's secret mind control rays.
It seems like every other week we get to hear about how the microwave radiation from cell phones is going to cook all of our brains like popcorn, and yet over decades of cell phone use by hundreds of millions of people, it hasn't happened yet. In fact, the U.S. National Cancer Institute has said, "Studies have not shown any consistent link between cellular telephone use and cancer." If anybody should know, I think it'd be those guys.
At any rate, it's kind of unnecessary to shell out close to $30 for the Blue Tube anyway, since the iPhone comes with a perfectly decent set of headphones already; and unlike the Blue Tube, they have a built-in microphone as well. If you're really as scared of iPhone-induced brain cancer as Dr. Mercola seems to think you should be, just use the free pack-in headphones instead.
Thanks to reader Chuck Cooper for sending this in!TUAWThe iPhone: most dangerous cell phone ever? (No.) originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Photogene is a photo genius for your iPhone
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
In my recent review of AutoStitch I mentioned Photogene [App Store] which is kind of like a miniature Photoshop for the digital pictures you take on your iPhone.
It has a boatload of functions, which will let you fix and enhance your digital images without having to offload them to another image editor on a Mac or PC.
Here's some of the functionality:
- Enhance photos with color adjustment and sharpen tools
- Crop and straighten photos
- Add text balloons
- Create a variety of frames
- Adjust Histogram
- Correct Gamma
- Increase/decrease saturation
- Adjust color temperature
- Multiple undo and redo
Some of the icons are not obvious in function, but they are quickly learned. I would have liked to see noise reduction among the features, but the developer has created a separate app called NoiseBlaster [App Store] that removes noise from iPhone images. It's an additional $0.99, but I would have liked it included in Photogene.
Photogene works on the iPod touch as well, but you'll have to import images since the touch has no built in camera, at least not yet.
At US$2.99 it's hard to go wrong if you use your iPhone camera as much as I do.TUAWPhotogene is a photo genius for your iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - WWDC Live: Andrew and Phil from Evernote
Filed under: Software, WWDC, Developer
This video is from a chat I had with Phil and Andrew, CEO and Lead Mac Developer for Evernote, respectively. We covered Evernote when it first came out a while back, and it's been fun to watch it evolve since then. We talked about WWDC and recent Apple news, as well as some upcoming improvements in Evernote for both Mac and iPhone (searchable voice notes! UI improvements!). The interview ended up running quite long, and while it's still a bit lengthy, this version is cut to about 1/4 of the full video. I think I got all of the important bits in, though. Enjoy.Update: This video has been moved to YouTube and is now watchable. Due to YouTube's length limitations, the video has been split into two parts, both embedded here.
Continue reading WWDC Live: Andrew and Phil from Evernote
TUAWWWDC Live: Andrew and Phil from Evernote originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - iPhoto 8.0.3 updater bug bites many
Filed under: iLife, Software, Troubleshooting
Yesterday I tried to open up iPhoto '09, and was greeted with a screen telling me that my iPhoto library needed to be updated. This was sort of odd, since I had run the program many times since the software update of June 4th bringing the program to version 8.0.3, but what the heck. I clicked on upgrade and the program crashed displaying one of the wonderfully unclear error screens of hex numbers.
After trying all the usual things like rebooting, resetting the PRAM and saying 'Candyman' three times in front of a mirror, I sheepishly gave up and called Apple. It turned out that this has been happening to many people. Up until two days ago, Apple had been capturing reports to find the source. I was told that they stopped capturing reports when they numbered around 3,000.
What Apple found was a bug in the 8.0.3 updater, and apparently the bug could bite just about anytime since it didn't necessarily rear its head directly after the update. The bug, in various incarnations with various solutions, is to be cursorily found in the support forums, but here is the authorized Apple fix:
Hold down the option key as you boot iPhoto and you'll see a screen like the one displayed here. Just choose your library (there should only be one) and iPhoto will boot normally. Problem solved! As of now the problem hasn't resurfaced for me, and according to Apple tech support, it shouldn't. This bug will be squashed in a future iPhoto update but for now it's easy to get around. TUAWiPhoto 8.0.3 updater bug bites many originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - WWDC quick cut: AJ from Marketcircle on Billings' ADA
Filed under: Software, WWDC, Apple
We caught AJ from Marketcircle again shortly after a surprise win in the Apple Design Awards for Billings 3. Here's a quick reaction!TUAWWWDC quick cut: AJ from Marketcircle on Billings' ADA originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - WWDC Live: Andrew Stone, Twittelator Pro
Filed under: Software, WWDC, Developer, iPhone
Victor and I met Andrew Stone about an hour after the latest version of his iPhone Twitter client, Twittelator Pro, hit the App Store. He gave us a quick -- and very animated -- demonstration of some of the new features while we were at the Macworld party.
Update: This video has been moved to YouTube and is now watchable.Continue reading WWDC Live: Andrew Stone, Twittelator Pro
TUAWWWDC Live: Andrew Stone, Twittelator Pro originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Worldwide Mac: getting online in New Zealand
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Internet
Last year, after years of planning, my wife and I left the United States and moved to New Zealand. Moving to the other side of the world has meant adjusting to an entirely different geography and culture. Driving on the left, the "reversed" seasons, the completely unfamiliar constellations and upside-down face of the moon, and having everything expressed in metric are ever-present reminders of just how much life has changed for us since leaving the U.S.
Another thing that's changed is our internet situation, and some of the changes have been big enough that it's profoundly affected our computing habits.
In the U.S. we had a fairly decent internet connection, especially for the Cleveland market: a 5 Mbps download speed, 768 Kbps upload, all delivered over the same cable line that delivered our television service. That internet connection, plus basic cable and a DVR, cost us a little over US$100 per month.
In New Zealand, the broadband landscape is completely different, and it's forced us to completely adjust our usage patterns.
According to a recent Norton Online Living Report (links to NZ Herald) commissioned by Symantec, New Zealanders spend an average of only 12.7 hours online per week, compared to a global average of 23.6 hours. Analysts are unsure why New Zealand lags so much in internet usage compared to the rest of the developed world, but after nearly a year of sampling the best they have to offer down here, I'm not at all surprised.Continue reading Worldwide Mac: getting online in New Zealand
TUAWWorldwide Mac: getting online in New Zealand originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - WWDC Live: ds MediaLabs at the iPhone Intelligence Party
Filed under: Software, WWDC, iPhone
Ben Stahlhood of ds MediaLabs presented 3 new iPhone games to TUAW when I met him at the iPhone Intelligence Party at WWDC. A 3-D version of LightRiders (think TRON), a carnival game and a role playing game designed to get role players out of the basement and into the world. Have fun watching!
Update: This video has been moved to YouTube and is now watchable.Continue reading WWDC Live: ds MediaLabs at the iPhone Intelligence Party
TUAWWWDC Live: ds MediaLabs at the iPhone Intelligence Party originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - WWDC Live: AJ From Marketcircle
Filed under: Software, WWDC, Developer
AJ, CEO of Marketcircle (Billings, Daylite, Daylite Touch) sat down with us to talk about WWDC, new iPhones, Snow Leopard and the upcoming Billings Touch, which I'm personally pretty excited about. Read the rest of the post for the video of our chat. I apologize to AJ and our readers for what is, by the sound of it, some iPhone interference on the soundtrack.
Update: This video has been moved to YouTube and is now watchable.Continue reading WWDC Live: AJ From Marketcircle
TUAWWWDC Live: AJ From Marketcircle originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать - Think you're good at Flight Control?
Filed under: Gaming, Odds and ends, App Store
Here I was, thinking our fine TUAW readership was pretty great at playing Flight Control. Yesterday, as part of a post about the new game Trains, I asked for everyone's high scores, and I thought we were doing well.
Commenter DJ won our informal competition (no prizes, sorry, beyond the satisfaction of a job well done) with a score of 1036. Dan came in second with 575. Rounding out the top three was Matthew with a high of 275.
Now, however, with the latest update, your high scores can be uploaded to cloudcell.com, home of high scores for not only Flight Control, but Real Racing and Fast & Furious. There, it's clear that TUAW readers have much better things to do than play Flight Control all day.
Just a few hours ago, a user named TommyRoissy landed 14,439 aircraft before two of them collided. Ridonkulous. Our own Mike Rose speculates that some are playing the game
inside the iPhone SDK's simulator mode to gain higher scores. I agree -- pair simulator mode with a graphics tablet, and you've got yourself quite the landing machine.Update: Thanks to our commenters for correcting this; it's not technically possible to run purchased iPhone apps in the Xcode simulator, as it cannot emulate the iPhone's ARM processor.Even so, that's a lot of time spent playing Flight Control. I mean, it's a good game, but let's say the average landing time is five seconds. 14,439 landings is over 72,000 seconds -- or 20 hours -- of playing time. I'm certain there's some pauses in there, but that's still a lot of landing.
TUAWThink you're good at Flight Control? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Переслать
Об этом говорят! Ссылки на самые горячие темы интернета!
| rss2email.ru | отписаться: http://www.rss2email.ru/unsubscribe.asp?c=6894&u=24004&r=484673635 управлять всей подпиской: http://www.rss2email.ru/manage.asp |
