I was surprised when I read earlier in the year that John Browett of Dixons fame was joining Apple. This is an appointment I didn’t see coming; a very bizarre choice given the type of retail outlet Browett has been in charge of in the past.
Apple has begun upgrading portions of its website, such as the iPad section, with high-resolution images that are large enough to fit on the third-generation iPad’s Retina Display.
Interesting enough article, but “the iMan cometh”; is that the best title they could come up with for the piece?
A good comparison to show how far screen technology has changed over the years.
Here are some numbers to blow your mind: The original Macintosh, released in 1984, had a monochrome 512 × 342 pixel display. That was 175,104 points. Today, the icons on iOS are 512 x 512 pixels, drawn from a 16.7 million color palette plus 256 levels of transparency.
So for the last few days I’ve been fiddling with my Apple TV, routers and VPN accounts to see if I could get access to US Netflix programmes on my TV. A few folk have asked, so I thought I’d share my setup. This is not a detailed configuration step-by-step, it’s a general overview of the solution I ended up with. Detailed support for each part of this process is available from your VPN and/or firmware supplier. You’ll need the following: an Apple TV a Netflix subscription a VPN account with US servers a VPN...
Note: This is a minor update to a post I made last year, migrated from a previous blog. One of my pet hates (there are many), is being presented with the incorrect keyboard, or having auto capitalisation forced upon me, when entering information into web forms on my iPhone or iPad. This is something that’s very easy to control and can be done so with a little sprinkle of HTML5. You don’t even have to worry about old browsers - I’ve tested this to work perfectly well even in IE6. The screenshots used in this...
Utterly pointless, but impressive none the less.
I found this quite amusing. Marco Arment has posted a revised chart comparing the Amazon Kindle Fire to the iPad 2 in response to the one Amazon are pushing.
A couple of weeks ago Chris Coyier tweeted the following “You could wake up tomorrow and your main hard drive could be dead. Are you ready?”. This got me thinking; if I woke up tomorrow and my main hard drive was dead, what would I lose? As it happens, after giving it some thought, I think I’m pretty much as safe as I can be, and I don’t even take any backups. Unintentionally, I’ve got myself into the situation where I’m working almost exclusively from “the cloud” with almost zero reliance on local data… and I...
The Cosmonaut, from Studio Neat. I’ve been on the look-out for a stylus for a while, reckon this one is worth a look.
EDIT: I ordered one, received it within a couple of days and it really is excellent.
