TagsTagsI guess everyone knew this was coming when Steve Jobs had to step down as head of Apple. The sad announcement arrived tonight that Jobs has died at the age of 56.
Apple, Steve Jobs, Visionary, Technology, Computers, iPod, iPhone, Macintosh
An awesome iPhone hack that I'm definitely going to try, via Gizmodo: How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10. These odd images were all taken using an iPhone cleverly equipped with a 45x microscope. The best part though? You can add such an upgrade to your ...
Apple, Computers, iPhone, Cell Phones, Microscope, Photography
Steve Jobs is hosting an Apple "special event" to announce some cool new stuff, including iOS 4.1, which will feature automatic High Dynamic Range photography for the iPhone 4 (I can't wait to try this). The event is streaming live at the Apple website here: Apple Special Event September 2010. ...
Since all bloggers are required by law to post about it when they acquire some cool new technoid gadget, today my iPhone 4 was delivered unto me -- and yes, it really is a big improvement. I'm glad I skipped the 3GS model and waited for this one. First thing that ...
Apple’s Steve Jobs announced today that they will provide free cases for iPhone 4 owners to address the antenna signal problem that caused a slip in Apple’s stock price this week, after a negative review in Consumer Reports. MacRumors has an interesting interview with Jobs about this and other topics: ...
One Mac utility that has maintained its incredible quality for many years, through many different revisions of the Mac OS, is Alsoft’s DiskWarrior 4. And I want to give them a big plug right now, because once again DiskWarrior has resurrected a startup disk that lost its startup. This morning I ...
Apple, Computers, Hard Drive, DiskWarrior, Utilities, Tech Review
The iPhone OS 4 event held this morning had some fantastic news for iPhone owners (which includes me), with a host of great new features including the big one: true multitasking. Apps running in the background will be able to use system calls to provide multitasking services, avoiding the performance ...
Here’s an interesting article at MacWorld on the Apple A4 microprocessor, the CPU for the iPad and the first Apple-branded system-on-a-chip: Apple inside: the significance of the iPad’s A4 chip. With the A4, Apple still maintains its long-standing relationship with ARM while delivering on performance, with a design that no ...
Apple, Computers, iPad, iPhone, Tablet, Gadgets, A4, Microprocessor
TidBITS has an interesting overview of the features of Apple’s new iPad device: Hands-on Impressions of the iPad.
The technoidosphere is buzzing about the fact that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Flash. Adobe, being the maker of Flash, is unhappy about this; so unhappy that yesterday they played the porn card.
Apple, Computers, iPad, iPhone, Tablet, Gadgets, Flash, Adobe
Apple’s new tablet computer, dubbed the iPad, was announced today; the device looks like an oversized iPhone or iPod Touch, runs iPhone Apps, and will be shipping later this year. It weighs 1.5 pounds and has a 9.7 inch display, Bluetooth, 802.11n wireless, a battery life of up to 10 ...
Don’t you hate it when you turn on your monitor and nothing happens? The 30” display for my Mac Pro desktop machine simply failed to light up this morning. No power light, USB ports don’t work, screen dark. I have two monitors, so I swapped the cables into the video ...
The curvaceous top of the mouse is a multi-touch surface.Apple’s new Magic Mouse is a very nice mousie indeed. No obvious buttons, no scroll wheel, just a sleek multi-touch surface and some groovy new software that lets you scroll with momentum — similar to the way scrolling works on an ...
Review, Computers, Mouse, Magic Mouse, Amazon, Snow Leopard, Software, mac os x, Apple, Gross Finger Oil
Amazon has some great deals on computers and accessories, including hard drives (1TB drives for $99 — I picked one up for myself), webcams, video cards, mice, speaker systems, laptop cases, etc. And don’t forget Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday, June 21st. UPDATE at 6/18/09 5:08:12 pm: Since several people asked ...
Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, a colleague ...
Security, Computers, Passwords, Internet, Social Engineering, Schneier
Well, the big computer security mystery of the year turned out to be just another spammers’ tool: Conficker Doomsday Worm Sells Out For $49.95. Last night the dreaded Conficker worm finally got the update we’ve been waiting for since April 1. But cyber Armageddon will have to wait another day. ...
If you’re using a Windows PC, it would be a very good idea to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date, because the “Conficker” worm is preparing to do ... something ... on April 1st. This article is skeptical about the danger, but since no one really knows ...
Q: What does Little Green Footballs have in common with Cuba? (Besides our Nazi-like suppression of dissent?) A: We’re both running Linux.
Apple announced today that Steve Jobs will not deliver the keynote address to the MacWorld conference this January, and that this will be Apple’s last appearance as an exhibitor. Whoa. Big rocks, thrown into big pond. Ripples soon. TidBITS Tech News has a good story on it: No Jobs Keynote at ...
With nearly 10,000 votes, the results from yesterday’s OS poll are a bit surprising; Windows XP had the largest percentage (58%), as expected, but LGF readers apparently prefer Mac OS X at a rate about 4 times that of the general population (21%). So here’s another poll, to find out which ...
Because I’m curious, and to help with LGF design issues as we go forward into the new frontier, here’s a poll asking which computer operating system our readers use the most. I didn’t include all OSes, obviously; you won’t find CP/M or BeOS or Atari’s TOS on here, but there’s ...
I’m going out on a limb to make a wild prediction: Bill Gates is going to regret saying this. “We made it way harder for guys to do exploits,” said Mr. Gates. “The number [of exploits] will be way less because we’ve done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the ...
Computers, Operating Systems, Technology, OS X, Vista, Windows, Microsoft, Apple
The $100 laptop computer is here (well, a working model anyway, running Red Hat Linux), and boy is it ugly.