20/02/09

Design The definition of design by Steve Jobs

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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

15/07/08

iPhone Free open source native iPhone app to manage your Wordpress Blog

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Join the advanced features on the iPhone, a fair flat rate data plan and the power of open source and you have Wordpress for iPhone, the first open source native app for the iPhone downloadable from the iTunes App store (which means installable with a single tap).

It supports self hosted blogs as well as the free blogs at WordPress.com

You can see all about it this screencast

Behold! You’re seeing the birth of the true mobile internet.

Stay tuned for the release. In the meantime you can install the iPhone Mobile Admin plugin to your blog and manage it from the iPhone’s browser.

20/07/2008 Update: The iPhone Mobile Admin plugin doesn’t work for WP 2.5 nor WP 2.6. Follow the discussion on Dan Cameron’s blog for more info.

12/07/08

iP Telefonica: Ten things to do to screw the launching of the iPhone in Spain

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When I learnt about the launching of the iPhone by Telefonica in Spain I knew that something was not right. One only has to see the visual and conceptual interference that the Telefonica logo produces on Apple’s website.

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09/06/08

A CSS error on Apple’s website!!!!

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Apple got so carried away with the launching of the new iPhone 2.0 that didn’t take into account the lenght of the headers in some languages. Bad CSS.

Snapshot taken with Safari on Mac OS Leopard.

27/04/08

No internet in Southpark

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Don’t miss Southpark’s season 12 episode 6 “Over Logging” about the effects of losing your connection to the internet at home. Remember last time your beloved internet provider left you out in the blank and you had to check your Facebook and IM your pals? Well, you get the feeling.

Funny to see that this episode comes out shortly after Soutpark decided to put all their episodes online with no geographic restrictions. You can’t check this episode online yet due to contractual issues but it will be available in June. If you can’t wait, you know the drill.

Incidentally all the browsers featured in the computers in Southpark are Mac OS Safari showing a distressing “You are not connected to the internet message” (The TV station though shows an IE not found page).

Check the full Southpark online episodes guide here.

16/01/08

Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds or how to save a 1Gb dowload

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I was following the life coverage of Steve Jobs Keynote at Macworld yesterday via Engadget waiting for the final “one more thing” thing. Well this time the rumors got it right and out of the envelope came the much hyped MacBookAir; a nice piece of engineering, design and portability.

As usual, the day after I rushed to iTunes to learn from the master of all em cees only to realize that the whole keynote is available at a cost of a 1Gb download (must be HD) and some 45 minutes of your iLife. I obviously cancelled the download.

But thanks to a comment by Xavier I found a version on YouTube where you get about the same info in a minute plus the fun of the edit.

Watch Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 keynote in 60 seconds.

15/01/08

Apple Macworld 2008: Keynote final predictions (comments roundup)

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People are more than excited about today Steve Jobs’ keynote and the term MacBookAir is blogged about everywhere.

I’ll be following the event via Engadget.com life blogging as I did last year (this year they even have Spanish).

If you want to follow it here’s the schedule:

07:00AM – Hawaii
09:00AM – Pacific
10:00AM – Mountain
11:00AM – Central
12:00PM – Eastern
05:00PM – GMT / London
06:00PM – Paris
08:00PM – Moscow
02:00AM – Tokyo (January 16th)

But as much as I enjoy the keynote with Jobs’ “booms” and “one more things” I enjoy the rumors prior to it. Here’s a compilation of predictions taken from the comments at Engadget.com.

• Steve is going to wear a black turtleneck w/ jeans tucked into jeans sans belt.
• Not only that, I bet Steve’s first words will be, “Good Morning”
• People are going to applaud when no applause is necessary
• Yellow Submarine iPod, Beatles music
• 1 more thing = iSoap. Cleans all mac touch-based products
• one more thing announcement: “I’m retiring”
• Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on stage to announce the Beatles on iTunes
• iPhone SDK will be Android
• He will announce that those who take his apple-flavored serum will be invited into Promise City, and the rest will remain at the Gates.

They’re all funny but somehow they make you think.

And one more thing: the macbookair.com domain registration and the redirection to http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday is a fake.

Try http://www.apple.com/?ganyet.com+featured+best+blog+by+Apple and you’ll land on the same page with the image avobe.