MacBook Pro screen. From the other side
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MacBook Pro, not so pro screen
In case you're wondering about the displays on the MacBook Pro, this little rant from Iconfactory designer Louie Mantia should give you some idea. In short, Apple isn't hot on revealing the actual qualities of their display screens (shock horror!).
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New Glyphboard arrangement
Looks like Neven Mrgan updated Glyphboard, the character palette offline web app for iPhone OS. As you can see from the pics, the degree symbol º has been replaced by the en-dash as per this blog entry and the circle with a dot in it on the bottom left corner is also gone, replaced by the envelope icon. Unfortunately he seemed to have forgotten to refine the yin yang symbol to fit in the corner so for now it doesn't look as nice.
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Apple and its two girlfriends
Apple to Nvidia: Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out
Things have been pretty heated between Apple and Nvidia but this latest word about their relationship would seemingly leave people wondering whether Apple is going back to ATI for future Mac hardware upgrades.
Smaller devices such as AppleTV, iPods and iPhones shouldn't be affected as they either use or can use variations of the PowerVR graphics technologies by Imagination Technologies.
Now who can remember how many times Apple has switched between its two girlfriends since 1998?
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Gmail cuts back from 7GB to 2GB?
Was alerted earlier today over Twitter that Gmail cut back 5GB over its email space allocation. While it was hard to believe, it lingered in my mind since I was out and couldn't check the full gmail interface. Well, I could but it would have taken a lot more bandwidth that the regular mobile version I get with the iPhone so I didn't bother.
Around last year, I've stopped actively deleting most of my emails and started using Gmail the way they wanted us to since the beginning and that is to never delete an email. Well, spam and clearly useless ones I delete, most I keep. Instead of deleting, I archive them.
I didn't realize it until a while later that archiving actually takes up my space allocation so I began to be more careful about archiving and today I discovered that my archive had gone beyond 2GB. Prior to archiving, I've never used more than 1% of the given space and now I've used over 20%.
Suddenly recalling the message about Gmail cutting back to 2GB, I signed out to see if it was true. Well, as you can see for yourself, the login page showed me Gmail provides just under 3GB of space. Upon logging in however, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Around last year, I've stopped actively deleting most of my emails and started using Gmail the way they wanted us to since the beginning and that is to never delete an email. Well, spam and clearly useless ones I delete, most I keep. Instead of deleting, I archive them.
I didn't realize it until a while later that archiving actually takes up my space allocation so I began to be more careful about archiving and today I discovered that my archive had gone beyond 2GB. Prior to archiving, I've never used more than 1% of the given space and now I've used over 20%.
Suddenly recalling the message about Gmail cutting back to 2GB, I signed out to see if it was true. Well, as you can see for yourself, the login page showed me Gmail provides just under 3GB of space. Upon logging in however, I breathed a sigh of relief.
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Study: Apple leads in phone-based tech support
"Apple shone when it came to actually solving the problem, compared to the competition—53 percent of Apple customers reported their problem had been resolved on the call, while 45 percent of Dell customers and 39 percent of HP customers reported the same"
(via macworld)
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Apple without Steve Jobs is looking more likely
"At this point, losing Tim Cook would be a bigger deal to investors than if Steve Jobs stepped aside" - Gene Munster
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Google Translate Fail
Have you ever tried using Google Translate to help your work or understand a text passage from another language? I checked it out a few moments ago just for kicks and it came out with something that's rather interesting.
Check out the image attached. If you understand Indonesian, you'll know that you should never even attempt to consider asking Google to translate text for you.
Check out the image attached. If you understand Indonesian, you'll know that you should never even attempt to consider asking Google to translate text for you.
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Steve Jobs and Tim Cook
It's a rarity to see Dan Lyons, a.k.a Fake Steve Jobs, receive a compliment on his analysis of anything related to Apple but the eminent John Gruber thinks Lyons has got it down pat this time.
According to Lyons, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook are like James T. Kirk and Spock. One is hot headed and impulsive, the other calm and calculating.
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No groups on Mac Twitter apps?
"Tweetie, if you add groups right now, you will destroy TweetDeck. This is your window of opportunity. Make it happen" (Taken from a blog post by @cksample)
I don't understand why the Mac native Twitter app devs seem to have such an aversion to adding groups. So Twitter doesn't support it. Wahhh.
Tweetie has already destroyed TweetDeck in the future. It just hasn't happened yet.
Groups are one of those features that are demanded by high-needs web celebrities and completely unnecessary to 95% of users … and Tweetdeck was designed to appeal to those people. Tweetie will never "beat" Tweetdeck for that audience. Different design priorities.
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