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November 21, 2009

iTablet at the hands of Huffington Post

Occasionally I check out the HuffPo for things people write about what's going on in the US but I'd never thought I'd read anything about the Apple tablet there. It's a riot. Have a read for avoid laugh. Here's a taste; a 10" screen tablet that works as a dashboard- mounted GPS device. And it's a phone too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-sindell/itablet-beta-tester-break_b_364351.html

On a funny though possibly disturbing note, TUAW posted a seemingly serious story on the HuffPo piece. http://bit.ly/5RoMRs

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Filed under  //   apple   humor   satire   tablet  

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November 20, 2009

Facebook blocked in Vietnam

Pressure from competition? Government sanctioned? At the moment, who knows but www.facebook.com and apps.facebook.com are blocked. Alternate sites such as Facebook touch and Facebook lite are still accessible without proxy.

FAQ on Vietnam block of Facebook

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November 19, 2009

Camino 2.0

It's finally out. Camino 2.0 has tab overview which is like Exposé but for browser tabs, it warns you of phishing sites and sites with malware, you can rearrange the tabs, has growl support, has pop-up and flash blockers, and it also supports Keychain.

It's my preferred browser after Safari.

Download Camino 2 here

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November 16, 2009

Tips on creating iPhone apps | Smashing Magazine

iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context

iPhone design mistakes: Over-Design

iPhone App Design Trends

How to Create Your First iPhone Application

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November 12, 2009

AppStore claims another developer

Joe Hewitt, developer of Facebook application for iPhone announced via Twitter that he's handed off the development of the app because he was frustrated with how the App Store review process works (or doesn't work, depends how you see it). Hewitt has sworn off iPhone apps.

Yes, Apple has 200 thousand iPhone developers and 100 thousand apps on the App Store and counting, but there's been a steady stream of news of developers quitting app development for iPhone OS and going back to Mac work or switching away to other mobile platforms because they see them as having a more open process.

Mike Rose of TUAW has some sound suggestions regarding the App Store approvals:

Once a developer has had an app pass the traditional review, any further releases by the same developer would be pushed but not made public until a proper review is completed. People would still be able to search and find the updated versions but it won't make it on to the lists or the front page of the App Store. Said app will also carry a warning on its App Store page that it's not completely approved yet, so buyer beware.

This does however mean that people are expected to not irrationally complain if the app goes awry, because they knowingly download an untested app.

via TUAW

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November 9, 2009

Twitter partners with Axis in Indonesia

I had a feeling something was up a couple of months ago when Three announced their Twitter by SMS feature. They pushed it hard and even collaborating with @infoll, and @lewatmana to co-promote their services during the Idul Fitri homecoming period. However there was no peep from Mashable or even on Twitter's own blog. Today, Twitter's Director of Mobile Products and Partnerships Kevin Thau announced that they're partnering with Axis (@axisgsm) to provide Twitter's SMS services in Indonesia.

This pretty much confirms that Three's Twitter service was not official. If you send via SMS, normally it would show up as a tweet sent via txt but with Three, it's via TwitPakeTri. Bottom line, does it matter if it's official? Not really, it just means that now there are two providers that let you use Twitter via SMS.

Twitter Blog: SMS for AXIS Indonesia

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November 6, 2009

Fortune Magazine names Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade

While Fortune magazine named Jobs CEO of the decade (really, who could argue with that after seeing how well Apple performed this last ten years?) Leander Kahney from Cult of Mac interviewed a Ken Segall, former creative director at TBWA\Chiat\Day who revealed that Jobs initially hated the name iMac, even so far as to reject it twice along with about eight other names, four at the first submission, and four more at the second.

Although Jobs never got back to Segall about it, he ended up growing fond of the name and the rest is history.

Fortune supplements the appointment with testimonials from eight other high profile business executives about Steve Jobs which you can read here, starting with Intel's Andy Grove's.

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November 4, 2009

CrunchPad Crunched?

A couple of days ago I asked on Twitter about Michael Arrington’s $300 CrunchPad. The announcement of the device caught the attention of just about every tech head on the internet as he was aiming for a low cost tablet mainly for internet access back in 2008. The latest design that made the rounds was a pretty straight forward tablet. You can see it from the link above.

Turns out I wasn’t the only one wondering about it. Well, d’uh, the whole thing went into hype mode for about a year and then nothing since last summer.

John Gruber posted this story by Dan Frommer from Business Insider that says apparently Arrington couldn’t get it into production likely due to rising costs. Frommer also suggested that perhaps Arrington is working with Google to launch the device with the Chrome OS. 

Previously Arrington had said he’s working with Singapore’s Fusion Garage which developed a browser-based system used for the prototypes.

Either way, the CrunchPad is looking like a vaporware right now and competitors are beginning to fill the space. Amazon’s Kindle went international, Barnes & Noble is expected to launch the Nook soon, although they’re facing a lawsuit right now, and no doubt the East Asian companies are hard at work in making Android tablets.

And of course, the 10,000 pound gorillas that are the iPhone OS devices are making a killing in the market, costing less yet with more abilities.

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November 2, 2009

From a dedicated Windows user

"I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's grim, it's slow, everything's badly designed and nothing works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn't change it for the world, because I'm an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life."

The Age: Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks (via @dirgayuza)

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November 2, 2009

Twitter as news reader?

Smoking Apple's Milind Alvares on using Twitter for news feed instead of RSS:

"with the new ‘lists’ feature in Twitter (and especially so when major clients support it), you can pretty much have an RSS client right inside your twitter client."

Goobi's Soggy Tumblr : About RSS, Twitter RSS, and 'the personal touch'

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