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- Macworld 2010: The lowdown from Macworld's Jason Snell
Nobody was safe from the hot seat in our Macworld Expo booth, including Macworld magazine's fearless leader, editorial director Jason Snell. We caught up with him shortly before the five-man iPad panel event and got his impressions of the 'new' Expo.
Thanks to Jason for joining us & sharing his perspective!
image courtesy MacworldTUAWMacworld 2010: The lowdown from Macworld's Jason Snell originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Macworld 2010: iPad mockup hands-on
Filed under: Macworld, Hardware, iPad
The other day at Macworld Expo 2010, we did a quick interview with Tim Hickman, CEO of Hard Candy Cases. During that interview, in which they showed off an already-made iPad case, I asked him how they knew what the iPad would be like. He said that they had heavily researched the dimensions, including stats from Apple's site, information from over 300 pictures of the keynote (in which they compared the iPad's dimensions to things like a wristwatch band), and even some not-quite-public plans from an unnamed Chinese manufacturer. With all of that information, they had actually simulated and constructed an "as-close-to-real-as-you-can-get" mockup of the iPad's size and form.
Then, on Saturday, the folks from Hard Candy Cases came back by the booth, and their VP of products, David Adam, said he'd actually brought the iPad mockup to the show, and asked if we would like to see and hold it. Considering that there wasn't actually a working iPad at Macworld this year, we of course gladly said yes. You can see what it looks like above, and hit the link below for our impressions of what it's like to finally hold and touch the closest thing to an iPad that money can buy.
The first thing that struck us on holding the iPad mockup, as Dave Caolo says in the video above, is the curvature on the back. It's much more curved than you'd realize just looking at photos -- there might be as much as a quarter-inch difference between the sides and the center of the back, which Adam pointed out made the iPad look thinner than the hardware inside it actually was. The curve makes the whole thing feel more like a book -- it's about the same size across as a novel with the cover folded over, or a small notepad, and the feel is about the same.
We also noticed that the icons were smaller than we'd expected -- the screengrab on the manufactured model was from a picture on Apple's website, Adam told us, and there was quite a bit of space in between each icon, both in the upper homescreen part, as well as the lower dock. The sides of the iPad are almost exactly as big as my thumb, which makes sense -- in the iPad panel earlier in the day, some folks who'd used the iPad suggested the bezel was designed to give you a grip from the front, something the back curve does as well. They also suggested that the homescreen would actually see a UI update before release, and looking at the size of the icons adds credence to that -- the icons are very spaced out as compared to the screen at large. They are still the size of a finger press, but there is a lot of what seems like wasted space in between.
The mockup was actually lighter (under 1 lb) than the real thing (1.5 lbs), so we can't talk much about how it actually feels to carry around. But we did find that the surface area seems somewhat small, at least in portrait mode, for a full keyboard. In landscape mode, our hands fit much better, but of course that's more screen real estate taken up. In terms of just viewing, however, I found that the screen size was more than adequate. Of course, filling a screen with spreadsheets or more complex apps might make it seem more cluttered, but the 10" screen definitely gave off a more expansive feel than using my iPhone.
The ports on the mockup are all in exactly the right places (headset jack and power buttons along the top, mute and volume controls on the side, and dock and speaker/mic on the bottom), because Hard Candy needs to make sure their cases won't block any openings. I thought the home button was surprisingly small, but on comparison, it's the same size as the iPhone's button, which just seems small on the bigger device.
Of course, we haven't actually tested the iPad's software, or gotten to see upscaled iPhone apps on the bigger screen. But just holding the exact form factor of Apple's tablet was enlightening -- I'm more sold than ever on its function as an ereader, and holding the actual screen size in my hands has convinced me that Apple did the right thing going with 4:3 for usage (though watching movies on it will still be an issue).
We still haven't held or seen the iPad, and very few people in the world outside of Apple have. But getting to hold and play with this almost exact physical reproduction definitely gave us a new appreciation for Apple's form design, and got us even more excited to see what they do with the software.TUAWMacworld 2010: iPad mockup hands-on originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Toy Story 3 and the Mac
Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Multimedia, Apple, Macbook Pro
One of the things I missed in the news last week due to being so busy at Macworld (along with most of the Olympics, though we did get to watch the opening ceremony at a post-show dinner) was the brand new Toy Story 3 trailer -- Pixar's latest movie has Buzz and Woody in a third adventure, and while I won't spoil the details, it does appear that Apple plays a big part in the movie. Macenstein has a quick breakdown of all of the places that Macs appear in the new trailer, with cameos by both Safari and iTunes, and director Lee Unkrich actually tweeted a picture of his editing session for the movie on a MacBook Pro (in Avid Media Composer) at 36,000 feet!
Of course, Steve Jobs was the owner and CEO of Pixar for twenty years, and he now is the largest individual Disney shareholder with a seat on the company's board of directors. Pixar always produces excellent films -- Toy Story was the studio's first big feature as a studio, so it'll be interesting to see what happens with the franchise after moving on to more mature pictures like Finding Nemo and Up. As always, when the movie comes out on June 18th, we'll have to keep an eye out for nods in Apple's direction.TUAWToy Story 3 and the Mac originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Swede's iMac takes a burnin' and it's still turnin'
In what should be used by Apple as a testament to the solid construction of their computers, a Swedish man, Anders Norman, suffered a tragedy last Wednesday when his house burned down. To Norman's surprise, his iMac survived the conflagration despite being burned and partially melted.
Norman's experience (translated from Swedish) follows: "Unfortunately, the whole house and all things in there completely destroyed, so even the iMac. What's funny is that it is still in operation. While damaged from smoke and dust and partially melted, but yet, however in operation.
After I plugged in the burned power cord and wiped off the worst dust from the screen I pressed the melted start button. Imagine my surprise when the startup sound sings from the speakers! The screen turns on and the machine connects to the wireless network.
The mouse works flawlessly and the scroll wheel as well. Firefox starts and I take up the article from the local magazine about the fire ... Fantastic!
On Friday I bought a new iMac at the Apple Store here in Umeå, which I now rejoice."
To see just how bad the damage was, take a look at this second photograph by Anders Norman that was shown on the Feber.se website:
Thanks to TUAW readers Emil and Roger for the tip.TUAWSwede's iMac takes a burnin' and it's still turnin' originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Macworld 2010: Video demo of Square's credit-card reader for the rest of usLast week at Macworld 2010, I had an opportunity to chat with Jim McKelvey of Square, the company that wants you to be able to take credit card payments for ... everything! TUAW has covered Square before, mainly discussing the big investors in the company including Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Digg's Kevin Rose.
Beginning in April, Square will be giving away a small card reader that plugs into the headphone jack of your iPhone, iPod touch, and eventually just about any device that has a headphone jack. You sign up for a service, buy an app to go on your device (it's estimated that it will cost just US$1.99), and then you can start taking credit cards for all of those daily transactions where you normally exchange cash. Square makes their money off of a small percentage fee, and even donates a penny to a charity of your choice with each transaction.
McKelvey was taking donations for the American Red Cross at the Square kiosk in order to demonstrate how the system works, and it was impressively simple. Square was created for the purpose of making it easy for anyone to take credit cards without the expense and hassle of setting up a merchant account with a bank and/or purchasing an expensive card-reading attachment for their iPhone.
The software captures signatures, pictures, and even the location where the transaction took place. My receipt for the $10 donation to the Red Cross had an embedded Google Map showing that I had made the purchase at Moscone Center. Check out the video for my interview with Jim McKelvey by clicking the Read More link.
We apologize for the low quality of the sound on this video.
TUAWMacworld 2010: Video demo of Square's credit-card reader for the rest of us originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Macworld 2010: Violet Blue
Filed under: Macworld
A couple of years ago Violet Blue attempted to make nice with Steve Jobs (or just shake his hand, really) and was rather infamously rebuked by the persnickety CEO. Despite this, she's maintained a love affair with Apple before and after, citing the style, design and attention to detail and user experience that Apple products are famous for as logical reasons for her affinity. In addition to being an unrepentant Apple fangirl, Violet is a sex educator and author of several books on the subject, and she stands at the intersection of sex and technology, once giving an excellent talk on sex and privacy on the Internet for Google which you can watch here.
I chatted with Violet about Macworld without Apple, the iPad, the lack of Flash on iPhone and iPad, and the squeaky-clean App Store. Part one is below and part two is on the next page.
Part two of our interview:
TUAWMacworld 2010: Violet Blue originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Macworld 2010: Fastmac's USB-enabled wall outlet
Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, Peripherals
I didn't go to Macworld in San Francisco -- something about having the world's largest ocean between me and there made the trip's cost prohibitive -- but I've been keeping tabs on the product announcements anyway. There's been quite a few things that have piqued my interest, but there hasn't been anything that I've seen that made me sit up straight in my chair and cry, "I want that. I want that NOW!"
Until now, that is. Fastmac has developed the U-Socket, a power outlet you can buy to replace the existing power outlets in your home. That doesn't sound particularly noteworthy until you note its one very enticing feature: two USB ports built right into the sides of the outlet.
I don't know about you, but I have a ton of devices that charge via USB: an iPhone, several iPods, PS3 controllers, and more. Sure, all of them will charge through one of my MacBook Pro's three USB ports, but if I'm using those for something else, it's into the wall with them, and that requires a USB power brick of some sort to take up room on my already very crowded power strips. It would be far easier to just plug them straight into the wall. With Fastmac's U-Socket, you can do exactly that, and for less than the cost of Apple's $29 USB charger -- currently the U-Socket is available for pre-order for $19.95 and is expected to start shipping in the first quarter of this year.
You will have to replace your existing power outlets yourself, but that's honestly not all that difficult to do. Personally, if I was a homeowner instead of a renter, I wouldn't hesitate to replace every outlet in my house with one of these. I'm not the only one: according to Ars Technica, Fastmac is looking at selling the U-Socket to hotels, conference centers, airports... basically anywhere business road warriors or travelling geeks with lots of gear they need to charge on the go, so even if you don't get one for your own home, you might be seeing a lot of U-Sockets in the near future.
[Via Ars Technica]TUAWMacworld 2010: Fastmac's USB-enabled wall outlet originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Macworld 2010: Rogue Amoeba shows off RadioShift 1.5
Filed under: Macworld, Software
Leading indie Mac software shop Rogue Amoeba had a piece of prime real estate on the front wall of the Moscone expo floor, and CEO Paul Kafasis gave us the latest news on RA's product line. Overall, Paul expressed satisfaction with the traffic level at the show, and he was pleased with the investment he made to exhibit on the floor.
The recent RadioShift 1.5.x refresh (first introduced at the very end of 2009; the latest version, 1.5.3, came out February 3) now features thousands of additional streaming sources, including many in the Windows Media and Real Media formats that are inaccessible to iTunes users, and several sources previously only playable via the station websites. The web radio tuner & recording app received a thorough UI facelift, improved compatibility with RA's Airfoil audio distribution utility, better third-party player installs, and more sophisticated fallback logic to handle stream dropouts and hiccups. RadioShift 1.5 requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and costs US$32.
Speaking of Airfoil, the most recent update (3.5 on 12/16) added support for both EyeTV synchronized playback and VMWare Fusion/Parallels Desktop audio. Airfoil can send your Mac's audio to any networked Mac, PC, AppleTV, iPhone/iPod touch, or Linux workstation. The app is $25, or you can get a bundle of both Mac and Windows version for $40. The company's Pulsar client for Sirius/XM satellite streaming radio was also recently updated; it runs $15 for browserless playback of the radio services (with a separate Sirius/XM online account).
It's definitely a good sign that independent Mac developers like RA, Boinx and Omnigroup are maintaining their high profile at Macworld Expo. We look forward to seeing the blue unicellular beastie with theeyepatchsunglasses and the automatic rifle back next year.TUAWMacworld 2010: Rogue Amoeba shows off RadioShift 1.5 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - SlingPlayer Mobile finally works on 3G
Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone
We all knew it was coming, and it's here. Yes, Apple has finally approved, with the belated blessing of AT&T, a version of the SlingPlayer Mobile app that now works on the 3G network.
The original release of SlingPlayer Mobile [iTunes link] was WiFi only, and was one of the great disappointments of the whole iPhone experience. The folks at Sling Media worked hard to get the app approved, and AT&T finally relented, probably because the FCC has been breathing down the necks of the cellular providers who seem a bit, shall we say, arbitrary about what gets on the network. AT&T had no problem with streaming MLB games, but kept giving the Sling developers a big honking rejection.
Whatever the reason, it's good to see the SlingPlayer app working as it was designed. I just ran out to the front yard to test it and it worked as advertised. I had 3 bars of signal strength, and the picture was acceptable with good sync between audio and video. Channel changes were a bit slow, but tolerable.
So if you're in a downloading mood, and have the hardware to support it, go to it. The upgrade is free to all who have the crippled WiFi version, as it darn well should be.
[Thanks Jim for the tip!]TUAWSlingPlayer Mobile finally works on 3G originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Macworld 2010: Guy Kawasaki comes by the booth
Filed under: Macworld, Cult of Mac
Few former Apple employees embody the six-color spirit more than evangelist & web entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki; we were pleased that he took a few minutes to talk with us about his experience of Macworld Expo and his relationship to modern-day Apple, Inc. (Hint: He's not holding his breath for that free iPad to show up in the mail.)
Of course, Guy's day job is keeping him well up to speed on Apple news, as the Alltop aggregation sites now include apple.alltop.com, mac.alltop.com, iphone.alltop.com,
ipod.alltop.com and the latest addition of ipad.alltop.com.
You can keep track of Guy on Twitter at @guykawasaki, and see his top stories from across the web every day on his Alltop "Holy Kaw" blog.
TUAWMacworld 2010: Guy Kawasaki comes by the booth originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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