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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
Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Video , Odds and ends , Podcasting , Beta Beat , Deals If you’re wavering on the edge of switching to the Mac as a consequence of the impending release of Windows 7, this may be news that will push you over that edge.
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3 Aug 2009Filed under: Multimedia , Portables , Software With just a few months to go before launching the Windows Marketplace for mobile applications , Microsoft has published details on porting iPhone apps to its Windows Mobile platform. It’s a case study of the app Amplitude App Store link , which lets users hear far-off sounds with ease. It’s a detailed writeup that takes readers through the entire process.
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24 Jul 2009Filed under: Multimedia , Tips and tricks , Mac mini For those of you that haven’t heard me tell the beginning of this story on the
Filed under: Multimedia , iPhone , First Look I’m a big David Bowie fan, regardless of the era.
Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Video While being a useful tool for several years now, VLC has finally reached that first pinnacle of software development: 1.0. VLC is an alternative media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that handles a wide variety of media file formats without requiring additional software (like Perian ) to be installed on your system
Filed under: Accessories , Multimedia , iPhone ZGrip iPhone from Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA on Vimeo .
Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Freeware , iPhone , App Store Shazam is an app that’s been on my iPhone since the beginning, and in fact, everyone should have it. Besides the fact that it’s free, it’s useful in a very innovative way: if you hear a song anywhere that you don’t know the artist or name of, just pull up the app to hear it, and it’ll tell you what you’re listening to. I still use it occasionally to find new music that I hear and like out in the world, but I never really paid attention to updates — they usually just got included in my monthly or so “download all updates” click. Apparently Shazam’s been updating something fierce , however, and the newest version has all kinds of functionality that you might not expect. At some point, they added in Twitter integration, so if there’s a tune you want to share that way, you can do so
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10 Jun 2009Pictures and screenshots taken with the iPhone are stored on the Camera Roll. When you sync or perform a restore, iTunes creates a backup the contents of your iPhone, including the Camera Roll
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.