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1 Feb 2010Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Multimedia , Apple Financial It’s Monday, let’s sue Apple! Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial is reportedly considering suing Apple over the design of the iPad, claiming that it bears too close a resemblance to their P88 . in an interview with El Mundo , Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial’s president Xiaolong Wu said that the two devices are “completely identical.” In fact, the P88 features that are “completely identical” to the iPad include: Windows XP A webcam A 250GB internal hard drive A thicker and heavier body A resistive touch display (the iPad uses multi-touch) 1.5 hours of battery life Plus they’re both rectangles. With black borders. Ed Sutherland summed it up best at Cult of Mac : “How do you get more attention for a largely unknown netbook at a time when the tech press has the vapors for Apple’s iPad
AppleInsider reports that Apple is currently overhauling the design of the MacBook, looking to bring a fresh exterior look to the aging entry-level notebook while also rebuilding the computer’s interior architecture. People familiar w…
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4 Aug 2009In Pages, you can vary the design in a page layout document by creating columns in text boxes, and in a word processing document through layouts separated by layout breaks. In a word processing document, layouts are separated by layout breaks. A layout is part of a document in which you’ve defined specific column attributes and space around the columns, called the layout margin. You can have multiple layouts in a section of your document, or even on a single page.
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29 Jul 2009The ColorMunki product line achieves very good color management at a reasonable price. Both the hardware and software are easy to use and the digitizing features of the Design and Photo software make it an indispensable tool for those who need to match colors to paints, fabrics, and other physical objects
Filed under: Software , Cool tools , Developer Wade Cosgrove, code ninja over at Panic , has released a freeware Developer Color Picker that helps developers of all stripes pick and paste color declarations for a variety of languages. Any color picker will let you choose a color from anywhere on your screen, but Developer Color Picker turns that into usable code for your Xcode and web development projects. Developer Color Picker generates code suitable for NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML declarations.
Filed under: Accessories , Cult of Mac , Macbook Pro , MacBook , Graphic Design If you’d like to see your design on a laptop and earn a little extra money to boot, head over to Infectious and check out their Cut to the Core design contest . They are accepting entries for a new run of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop skins from now until August 4.
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9 Jul 2009Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , iPhone , Apple History , App Store Early in Apple history, long before Jonathan Ive came along and performed his design miracles, there was frog design . Under the helm of Hartmut Esslinger , frog design was responsible for some of the more memorable early Apple designs, including the iconic Apple IIc and the Imagewriter II printer
In the Place Stanislas, an 18th-century public square in Nancy, France, Motion and three Mac Pro computers help the design firm Spectaculaires mount extraordinary light shows each summer night. The team projects fantastical animated images on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville, and “without Motion,” says artist Clément Barré, “we never would have completed this project in time.”
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9 Jun 2009No matter how great an Apple Keynote goes, there are always disappointments. Changes not made, rumors left unrealized
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.