Archive for January, 2007

Apple Releases Multi-Coloured iPod Shuffles

In five brilliant colors and just $79, the 1GB iPod shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs1 on your sleeve. Or your lapel. Or your belt. Clip on iPod shuffle and wear it as a badge of musical devotion
Read more here

Photo Booth Flex App (now with realtime image filters)

View the app here.

Flex 2.0 Photo Booth Application

A fun prototype, I cannot believe how quickly I was able to bulld this app. Flex is Great !
It’s a little rough around the edges and only indended to be a proof of technology rather than a master piece of software engineering!
I thought it would be an interesting little experiment to hand this over [...]

iPhone – Does the browser support Flash or Java — NO !

Well at least not according to David Pogue (NYT). Read more here

No indie development for the iPhone!

“We define everything that is on the phone. You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers.”
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AirPort Extreme Base Station 802.11n

Probably missed by all of the iPhone hype, but Apple silently released a speedy update to the Airport Extreme Base Station.
Great for those of us with macbookPro’s.
Read more here.

Apple Computer Inc is officially Dead….

…Long live Apple Inc.
“From this day forward we’re going to be known as Apple, Inc. We’ve dropped the computer from our name.”
Steve Jobs 9/1/2007
Not sure what to think of this, I guess devices are converging but is music and phone really more(as) important to a company like Apple than computer hardware?

“Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages.”

Lets start the year with a controversial post!
‘”Patterns” that are used recurringly in one language may be invisible or trivial in a different language.’
There are some really good points in this article.
“What I imagine is that when pattern P applies to language L, then, to the extent that some programmer on some project [...]

PC & XBOX 360 games playing together

This is going to be huge !
Click here to view the video.

Apple ‘iPhone’ tomorrow ?

The rumor mill is going crazy with this one, will Steve Jobs release the almost mythical Apple iPhone tomorrow read more here
What are the implications for Adobe / Flash Lite ?