Category: apple
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iPad SIM-locked in Japan
You’ve said “The iPad with 3G, which is locked to a mobile carrier…”, but it’s not locked. It’s unlocked. Mr Jobs says so in the keynote at 1:14:33. I’ve uploaded an excerpt of it here for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vakJfz1X7aoI don’t see any reason at all that all iPad models won’t be supported for warranty issues globally.…
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Fraser Speirs: Getting really real on soft dev in the future
Excellent article. Some choice quotes: Be clear: I’m not saying OS X is dead, nor that Apple has no interest in improving it. I am saying that I suspect that the days of everyone buying a MacBook to get online are soon to be over. I’ve already written about how I see our three-Mac family…
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Substandard web-browsing experience on the iPad and iPhone
An astounding number of websites on the Japanese web fail to declare charset, resulting in garbled text (文字化け), requiring the user to manually switch encoding. Safari on the Mac or PC allows you to switch via the View menu. Unfortunately there is no such menu for Mobile Safari. The iPad is billed as an amazing…
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Finder sepia-tints successive generations of alias icons
When Finder creates an icon for an alias, it adds a tiny arrow to the bottom-left corner. However, it also slightly tints the resulting icon with a sepia wash. … the icons will gradually get more faded, like a re-photocopied document. Finer things, indeed. Finder sepia-tints successive generations of alias icons
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PSA: If you are living in Japan, you might want to wait for the iPad
The iPad has been released in America. Many of you in Japan might not be able to wait until it is released here and use your extensive network of shady international connections to somehow import the device. I am jealous of your reach, but I come with a word of warning: one of the most…
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2ちゃん：ドコモのiPhoneキラーの歴史
Brilliant. Note how every catchphrase but one has the word “iPhone” in it. What is the first rule of marketing again? Anyways, I checked out the Xperia at the new Sony store. As it is an Android phone, there is nothing really special to say about it from a software perspective. But I have to…
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Merlin Mann: Power User
Excellent hour and a half with one of the Grand Old(?) Men of the MacVerse from a new to me podcast called Mac Power User. I really like the lesson taken from the description of UNIX: Small pieces loosely joined. Pare down your tool kit with the simplest, most effective tools that can be easily…
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Order your iBAP with your iPad this morning?
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Order your iBAP with your iPad this morning?
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Influence of the iPhone on smartphone design
I love this bit from Gruber: During Jobs’s iPhone introduction keynote address in January 2007, before showing what the iPhone looked like, Jobs put up this slide showing four of the then-leading smartphones on the market: the Motorola Q, a BlackBerry, a Palm Treo, and the Nokia E62. Those pre-iPhone smartphones Jobs displayed all shared…