Who Says You Can't Dual Screen iPads?
Working while waiting on my flight at Dulles. I'm using my iPad with a Bluetooth Apple keyboard and Steff's iPad as my second screen as I write documentation for our new website.
Sensationalist Headlines Swarm Apple Blogs
From Apple Insider:
Every week Apple doesn't act on iPhone 4 antenna could cost $200M
A new analysis has found that resolving the much publicized iPhone 4 antenna issues could cost Apple up to $900 million, and each additional week that Apple takes to resolve the issue could add another $200 million as sales increase.
And every hour that goes by for the next few weeks increases the likelihood that an analyst will pull some outlandish number out of their ass. These are the same analysts that consistently, incorrectly, make predictions about Apple's financial or sales figures. When they do get these predictions wrong, all of the Mac/Apple Tech Blogs poke fun at them. Yet, those same writers (who presumably all have Alzheimers) are so eager to hold up this bullshit as actual news. Pathetic.
New Old Spice Commercial
I can't wait to see the "making of" video with these guys explaining how they shot this one:
Via @saralangArtist Paints Portrait Using 'Brushes' for iPad
Someone also forgot to tell David Kassan that the iPad wasn't a content creation device:
"Apple of My Eye", a Short Film Created on iPhone 4 with iMovie for iOS
Someone forgot to tell Michael Koerbel that the iPhone 4 wasn't a content creation device:
First Legitimate Facetime Use
My wife and I just used FaceTime on our iPhones for the first time, for a legitimate purpose. We recently moved into a new apartment and my parents who live 5 hours away have not been to visit yet. I fired up iChat tonight to call and talk to them from my 27" iMac to their 24" iMac using our webcams/microphones. On the call, they were asking how well our unpacking was proceeding, and I tried to tilt my iMac downward a bit so that they could see all of the boxes stacked up behind us still. Then I had an idea.
I snatched my iPhone 4 from my desk, called my wife's iPhone 4 and handed the phone to my wife. Telling her to stay put, I ran into the other room and grabbed her phone, answering the facetime call. My wife proceeded to hold the iPhone up to the webcam on my iMac, which my parents said they could see O.K., well enough to make out what was on the screen with reasonable detail. I then walked around the apartment with my wife's iPhone 4 giving them a mini-tour. iChat to iChat over the internet, analog from webcam to iPhone 4 screen to another iPhone 4 over wifi, from the other iPhone's rear-facing camera. And it worked.
They like the new apartment by the way.
iOS Icons Made In Pure CSS
Louis Harboe has made a bunch of Apple default apps using pure CSS. No images used, what-so-ever. An incredibly amazing effort on his part.
Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4s in first three days
From Apple
CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2010—Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24.
Previously, Apple sold just over one million iPhone 3GS units in 2009 (in the same 3 day period) and the same amount in 2008 (again, in the same 3 day period).