Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

3G iPhone : The plot thickens…

April 9th, 2008

Mossberg said he sees it sometime in the next 60 days (or, maybe he didn’t).
Gruber calls bull:
Mossberg’s the same guy who claimed in July last year that Apple would release an iPhone update with Flash support “within the next couple of months”.
Update: Regarding my “I have no idea why…” question, reader S. Ben Melhuish writes: […]

What’s with the iPhone SDK FUD, O’Reilly?

March 26th, 2008

I just came across a hack job of an article on O’Reilly’s Network regarding Apple’s iPhone SDK.
It’s by Jonathan A. Zdziarski and you can read a printer-friendly version of it here.
Let’s examine mr. Zdziarski’s claims.
With the release of Apple’s SDK for building iPhone applications, many have plunged head-first into this new platform for the […]

What comes after Leopard? Musings on OS X 10.6

March 7th, 2008

[A repost of a rather nice post that went under the radar. I will post a new one with more current ideas and observations soon]
Leopard is finally out and on its’ way to our desktops. Is our inner geek happy? Well, yes. But it he is also restless. You see, Leopard is old news. We’ve […]

An iTunes iPhone App Store for the rest of us…

March 7th, 2008

The iTunes iPhone “App Store” (besides being a mouthful) is the official way for third party iPhone apps to be distributed and installed on the iPhone.
Briefly, application developers get to upload their app to Apple, and have it distributed and sold thru a special section on the iTunes Store. Apple take cares of transactions, bandwidth, […]

iPhone 3G solution

December 3rd, 2007

Here’s an idea that just occurred to me regarding taking advantage of 3G networks from iPhone.
How about someone makes a small gadget that has EVDO access and shares its internet connection via Wi-Fi?
Then the iPhone (and every appliance using Wi-Fi, come to think of it) will be able to take advantage of all those 3G networks. Since there […]