New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

icrowkitchen

Pretty sure there isn't going to be multitasking, tbh. Do expect some kind of live widgets on that clearly underdesigned homescreen -- no way you get a full-screen weather widget, for instance.

You could get some kind of dashboard for desk accessories, too: double tap home to bring down overlay.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/01/iphone_home.jpg

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=179957&d=1246335195

got this on my iphone like two minutes ago

got what?

John Appleseed? fuck him he's holding you back. 'sounds great' my ass.

also Anna's gonna dump you.

in mexico

nah she's going to mexico with paul. emily knows all about it.

cutty: the app, pictured above my post

what is it called pray tell?

it is called jailbreaking yr phone and getting an app called "lockinfo"

NB - sms notification does not appear to work, i tried it out from google voice

Adobe's Flash Developer Blog on the iPad

It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck.

So wait a second here. The examples you're using are Hulu (which as I said earlier is going to be irrelevant soon), ESPN (which already has it's own iPhone app), and fucking FARMVILLE? That piece of shit that spams everyone on Facebook and Twitter? BWAHAHAHAHA!

If I wasn't so dependent on Illustrator and InDesign I'd delete all Adobe apps right now.

Hulu is going to be a non-entity exactly one day after they start charging for subscriptions. They haven't set a day for this other than "sometime in 2010" but that will be the end of it.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If comcast don't detonate it first

lol jibjab

where will i get my biting political satire now

I actually don't mind lack of multitasking, as the things I do rarely require realtime. but it is nice to use safari while making a phone call ON IPHONE or whatever

also I just tried to use time machine for the first time and it didn't work. also my coffee was awful today. FUCK YOU JOBS

time machine has saved my ass a bunch of times!

I'd love to delete all adobe apps but then I'd be SUPER broke. I'll switch back to Freehand and Quark and make really messed up PDFs.

Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet

CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.

if you put your documents outside of Documents, Spotlight won't search it

spotlight only searches inside your documents folder??

I exaggerate. It also searches Applications, System Preferences, Music, Movies ... check Spotlight Preferences to see the whole list.

But it does not, for example, search ~/Library/, and there's no way to make it search that or any other random folder not part of the default list. Annoying!

Ok, playing around ... it seems to search your whole home folder *apart* from Library, which makes sense for 99% of users. Still, wish I could change that.

aha i see. yes that sucks. but not as much as i thought it did

Geeky ideas for iPad: I know this is going to make iPad seem even more lol California/Segway, but mind maps! Multitouch makes iPad even better than pen and paper for this.

Really any sort of graph (I mean a connected set of nodes, not a chart - org charts, process diagrams ... ) would be fun to make with this.

but mind maps!

It's too early to be reading this.

spotlight searches desktop too im pretty sure

oh wait that's in home folder

*blushes violently*

guys you can search the entirety of the hard drive with the search (apple-f) function

yeah i know - i always use Cmd-space though

i know it's hard for you to press another two button combo

your understanding comforts me, cutty

;)

It's too early to be reading this.

It's 7pm where I am, Ned. Time to drink a beer and reminisce about our days together in management consulting.

That does have an appeal. The beer part.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a03edbd7/pee-wee-gets-an-ipad

somebody needs to rip off take inspiration from the lemur and make it an ipad app. and let it work over bluetooth. wondering if jazzmutant will do it themselves, out of fear of being undercut.

dumbest response I've seen yet:
http://kotaku.com/5458822/why-the-ipad-is-crap-futurism

Reinventing The Television

Apple is marketing the iPad as a computer, when really it's nothing more than a media-consumption device - a convergence television, if you will. Think of it this way: One of the fundamental attributes of computers is that they are interactive and reconfigurable. You can change the way a computer behaves at a very deep level. Interactivity on the iPad consists of touching icons on the screen to change which application you're using. Hardly more interactive than changing channels on a TV. Sure, you can compose a short email or text message; you can use the Brushes app to draw a sketch. But those activities are not the same thing as programming the device to do something new. Unlike a computer, the iPad is simply not reconfigurable."

sigh kotaku

what a tard.

apple is being clear _not_ to market this thing as a computer: "The best way to experience the web, email, photos"

Jobs rallies the Apple troops

Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting at Apple late last week following the iPad launch to field questions from Apple's employees about the launch. Wired reports on what was said at the meeting by Steve Jobs. Two of the big topics included Google and Adobe.

On Google, Jobs confirms the much-reported competition between the two companies.

Quote:
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says.

As for Adobe, Jobs said they are lazy and Jobs blames Adobe for a buggy implementation of Flash on the Mac as one of the reasons they won't support it.

Quote:
Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
Those are the main points covered by Wired's article. We had received a more detailed report of the Apple meeting, but hadn't been able to corroborate it until now. Many of the details of the Wired report line up with our anonymous submission, so we believe it likely to be accurate. Some additional key points that we learned:

- Apple will deliver aggressive updates to iPhone that Android/Google won't be able to keep up with
- iPad is up there with the iPhone and Mac as the most important products Jobs has been a part of
- Regarding the Lala acquisition, Apple was interested in bringing those people into the iTunes team
- Next iPhone coming is an A+ update
- New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level
- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

- Next iPhone coming is an A+ update

when is this incoming? march?

it's typically June or July. doubt it'll be sooner, conflicting w/iPad

you know what would be awesome - integrated dictionary app for iPad. for the iBooks thingy. hover your finger over a word and the definition pops up. does this exist on other eBook readers?

you know what would be awesome - integrated dictionary app for iPad. for the iBooks thingy. hover your finger over a word and the definition pops up. does this exist on other eBook readers?

In OS X (think it's 10.5 and later), hold down cmd-ctrl-d and hover over a word. (you have to be in a Cocoa app for this to work). Hopefully, something like this will filter down to iBooks

Or just select the word, right click and choose "look up in dictionary"

doesn't work in either chrome or ff :(

cocoa only