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Right, now after the rumor press has gone mad and there has been a lot of spoiling the wait for the announcement I share my take on things.
First off, let’s take another look at the picture that was used on the invitation:
What if this was it?
What if just this element was the notebook and there [...]
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“Late Tuesday, in response to questions from Forbes.com, an Apple spokesman said Apple has agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi. The company, which is known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips, could spell a new future for Apple’s flagship iPhone, and possibly iPod products as well.
The 150-person chip [...]
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Here’s a little something that I will most likely spend some time with soon. It sure was fun when I was a kit and got my first electronics kit and then my chemistry kit. Now several years later, I discover this thing (I know it’s been out for a while) and am quite intruiged.
With Arduino [...]
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Last weekend I finally took some time to load up a great Linux build, namely Ubuntu (desktop edition), onto a partition on my MBP that I created using BootCamp.
Partitioning
Well, let us say I initiated the partitioning using Bootcamp. Since it prepares a FAT32 partition alongside the HFS partition I had to play around a little with [...]
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Based on everything I’ve seen at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and what has been subsequently announced I believe we will see a 3G version of iPhone in the 2nd half of the year. 3G radios are getting smaller and less powerhungry, NANDs also get smaller and cheaper. So we’ll probably see one [...]
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Wow, no post since November? Time sure flies. OK, let’s recap then …
# MacBook Air: Wow, want one but I will wait until the first revision. I would want one that at least comes close to what my 1st Gen MBP can do. The amazing aspect is the battery life. My MBP dies after about [...]
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UPDATE:
Give 1 Get 1 is only available to US and Canada residents. What’s that about?!
15 days, limited stocks, so if you happen to live in the US or Canada, hurry to give 1 and get yours soon.
ORIGINAL POST:
The OLPC (1-laptop-per-child) campaign is already producing the $100 laptop and shipping them to Uruguay as the first [...]
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So last week in the US I finally got my iPhone which I, purely for educational purposes, activated, jailbreaked and unlocked. It did work like a charm. The first time around it took me a little longer, the second time (why, a second time? for fun of course) the whole process including downgrade and [...]
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since the last OS upgrade (10.4.8) you can easily zoom in on the cursor area by holding the CTRL key and using the scroll function of your track pad (ie. using two fingers to move forwards and backwards).
limitations: track pad scrolling must be enabled in the keyboard & mouse preferences where zooming options can be [...]
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Gestures for touch sensitive input devices- looks very much like a GUI for a tablet with a touch sensitive screen. Clearly, there are lots of example of prior art but Apple has put a lot of thought into this and hopefully it is a glimpse of a future product.
>> check out the patent application details
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