Apple

Our lounge recently welcomed an Apple TV first generation. It’s a simple, slick, beautiful piece of hardware. It’s Intel-based, has good hardware specs and has all the necessary output ports that a modern media center should have. And can do 1080p because is powerful enough: the new one can’t. Very self explanatory I bought with one aim in mind: Boxee! This media center project is just super, and I wanted something to run it on. Initially I though about a Mac Mini, but figured out that was too expensive (even a 2nd hand one) to do “just” mediacenter. ...

This is a set of commets to some of the asserts made by Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Flash. Safari has just ~5.5% of web users share […] Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers. […] Ehm, what about Netscape Gecko? It’s not just Firefox and it’s share of web users, much larger than the one of Safari, but also the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is very much involved in building (W3C) standards like HTML5 et similia. I can see that you used the word “Almost”, but that’s not a good start: Steve, let’s try to be more fair here. ...

I would have just posted it on Twitter, but I have some comments about this video. One of the first video of the iPad Simulator Watch it in Full screen at 720p: it help “feeling” the proportions used by Apple in the UI It clarify how it does execute iPhone apps: they most probably implement the iPhone API as is: indeed even the Keyboard that you get in an iPhone application is the same (no super large/super cool keyboard of the iPad ...

Google just introduced a new service, Latitude. I will not go in the details of explaining what it does, simply because the official web page is detailed enough, and has a nice/fancy video. What is relevant for me is the list of phone with which it will work: Will it work with my phone? Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile on these phones: Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1 (coming soon) iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon) most color BlackBerry devices most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones) many Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, such as Sony Ericsson devices (coming soon) This service is free from Google; carrier charges may apply. ...

[](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/BrickBookUnboxing#)[BrickBook Unboxing](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/BrickBookUnboxing#) Simply, the Best laptop I have met. Ever! P.S. Yes, I manage to grab one ;-)

Tuesday or Wednesday last week, Appleintroduces one of the Greatest Piece of Art that the world of Technology has ever (EVER!) seen. This: Yesterday, the less than a week after, at 235 Regent’s Street they were Sold-Out!!! The guys there said that «it was sold-out almost the same day it went on the market!!!». ...

Devo resistere. In fondo a cosa mi serve il [en:GPS] ed il [en:3G]? Ad andare piu’ veloce e piu’ facilmente (dato che la copertura 3G e’ di gran lunga superiore a quella 2.5G)? A poter andare in giro come turista e avere una mappa che mi localizza in maniera ancora piu’ precisa? Il [en:2.5G] e’ piu’ che sufficiente per: navigare siti web e, soprattutto, email. Il locationing basato su Triangolazione basta e avanza con uno che ha un buon senso dell’orientamento come me, e permette di imparare anche meglio i luoghi, pur usufruendo della mappa se davvero mi perdo. ...

You know, I’m picky when it’s about woman and technology (and food, but not as much as for the previous). Apple, a while ago now, get rid of the the normal/classical keyboard with big and deep keys (that every proper geek/software engineer loves)… … to replace it with the crap, ultra slim, no-noisy, no-tasty, no-feedback alluminum+plastic keyboard. A shame. A real shame. ...

Coca di fianco al mio MBP. Una mano agitata di troppo (e’ la mia natura, non ci posso fare niente). Una superficie di alluminio e plastica metallizzata… ricoperta interamente di friccicante coca. Spegnimento istantaneo automatico (ancora non so perche’, ma dalla velocita’ e l’immediatezza assumo sia presente un sensore water-proof). 1299 pound che salutano con la manina, insieme ad una quantita’ infinita di dati dal valore inestimabile. Iastemme di tutti i tipi. Richiesta di aiuto (prima in Italiano, poi in Inglese). 3 disperati che tentano di asciugare per salvare il salvabile. ...

I was playing with my Jailbroken iPhone when I decided to install OpenSSH and login. 1 minute after I discovered there is a password I should use to login: for user root is alpine for user mobile is dottie After I connected to my loved iPhone trough SSH (don’t be impatient: it takes a minute or two for it’s ARM cpu to generate the Keys), I changed straightaway the password for both the above named users (using just passwd). ...