by Keith M (via: tuaw) Back before the iPhone was formally announced, there was talk that Steve Jobs was simply not happy with the product because Apple’s engineers couldn’t figure out how to eliminate all of the physical buttons. There was just no practical way to put the functions of a power switch or home [...]
Here’s yet another thing the iPhone can do: it’s a universal remote. This ThinkFlood RedEye system includes a dock that communicates with your iPhone via WiFi, creating those infrared (IR) signals that your AV components obey. Like our favorite Logitech Harmony 900 remote, the RedEye’s macro operation is sophisticated, letting you create “actions” that turn [...]
Now that Windows 7 has been released, multitouch is now substantially supported in one of the big two operating systems around, and countless new all-in-one desktops are being released with built-in touchscreen functionality. Fans of the other big operating system — OS X — have got to feel a bit left out in the cold, [...]
Steve Jobs said people don’t read any more. But Apple is in talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a “new device.” And they’re not just going for e-books and mags. They’re aiming to redefine print. Several years ago, a modified version of OS X was presented to Steve Jobs, running [...]
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Apple’s latest operating system update, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, should be ready to roll on August 28, and while Apple says the new OS is “refined, not reinvented,” it’ll become the de facto competitor to Microsoft Windows 7 come October. We love a good argument, so here’s your fodder: five innovations for each OS being [...]
HTC Touch HD HTC Touch HD: multi-touched by the hand of Ballmer? Pictures and video of a mysterious leaked handset running HTC’s TouchFlo 3D OS suggests Windows Mobile 6.5 will embrace multi-touch. If Windows Mobile 6.5 does support multi-touch, it’ll put it back in the game against the iPhone and finger-friendly Android phones like the [...]
The last MacBook standing. Apple’s lowest-end laptop occupies a special place in the Mac spectrum. As of WWDC 2009, it’s the last MacBook standing in the lineup–all the other Apple notebooks are now MacBook Pros. The MacBook (we can call it “the” MacBook, now) also is the last to retain the polycarbonate white plastic glossy [...]
Saturday, May 09, 2009 – 11:43 AM EDT “Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard),” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “The build (10A354) adds one particularly interesting new feature to Apple’s Mac operating system: Chinese handwriting recognition specifically for multi-touch capable machines,” Kim reports. “This could open [...]
Even though Microsoft is no longer actively developing pptPlex, a new release of the pug-in is now available for download. The multi-touch-enabled version of pptPlex is designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows 7, the Redmond company informs, and to take advantage of the multi-touch capabilities of the operating system. This of course, provided that the [...]
The iPhone and iPod Touch can become the dominant gaming platform because of constant connectivity and the App Store model, NGmoco founder Neil Young says. In order to be successful at creating iPhone games, NGmoco founder Neil Young asked one question: What would Nintendo do? Speaking at a keynote at the Game Developers Conference on [...]
