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All About Apple

The Apple Matrix

July 27, 2010

Today wasn’t a day for paradigm-shifting product announcements from Apple, but you’ve got to be impressed nonetheless. Every product that was updated or launched today showcased the company’s attention to detail, the consistency of its design philosophy, and the complementary nature of its product line.

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Shawn Blanc on Event Reminders

July 19, 2010

What I’d really like is improved handling of event reminders. Including a way to keep my laptop, iPad, and iPhone from all buzzing an event reminder at the same time if they’re in proximity to one another, as well as syncing the dismissal of on-display reminders.
via David Chartier on MobileMe Calendar Beta – Shawn Blanc.
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Lifehacker: Squeeze Functionality Out of Your Mac with the Option Key

July 15, 2010

Squeeze Hidden Functionality Out of Every Corner of Your Mac with the Option Key.
I would be shocked if you didn’t pick up a couple of new OS X tricks after reading this Lifehacker article.

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KHAAAAAAN! Apple Fixes iTunes Smart Playlist Bug

July 6, 2010

What Apple’s recent smart playlist bug fix has in common with William Shatner’s infamous “Khaaaaaan” scene from Star Trek II.

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Daring Fireball Analyzes Apple’s Most Recent Press Release

July 2, 2010

Daring Fireball: Translation From Apples Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4.
Absolute gold.

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FaceTime – An Egg McMuffin or Coca-Cola?

June 30, 2010

These are the treasures that await when you take the time to read a 6000 word Andy Ihnatko review. Not only is Andy the only journalist I can think of who would even put an analogy like this into a review, he is the only one who could pull it off.

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Apple Patents Multi-haptic Interface for Touch Devices

June 25, 2010

The system would allow users to essentially feel the screen as they manipulate objects on it. One example included in the application has a user pinching to zoom in on a map of California. The haptic feedback would follow their fingers as they pulled apart on the device. In this example, the haptic feedback would [...]

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A Day in the Life of Microsoft Entourage

June 21, 2010

A Day in the Life of Microsoft Entourage

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Create Tumblr Bookmarklet in Safari on the iPad

April 12, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous post, Safari on the iPad supports bookmarklets in the Bookmarks Bar. If you’re looking to add the “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet, I don’t believe Tumblr has an updated Goodies page that supports dragging the bookmarklet to the iPad Bookmarks Bar, so here’s how you do it. It’s a little cumbersome, but once you understand the concept you can do it for any bookmarklet.

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On Steve Jobs and Email

April 11, 2010

I loved this comment from Henry Blodget of Business Insider in the wake of the latest emails from Steve Jobs about the Apple and Adobe wars:
This habit of Steve’s of responding to emails is remarkably winning, by the way.  He somehow manages to be god-like and accessible at the same time, which makes him even [...]

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