Just like the original, this new licensed product shoves the machine INTO the keyboard enclosure, The dodgy, non-ergonomic enclosure, sure. And it's now a PC with a 1tb drive in it. But still. Nostalgia for this bot. My first!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/comm ... -a-replic/

LOAD "SWEET_AS" , 8 , 1

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Items of interest to me:

-iPhone iOS4.2 offers some new enhancements, some fixes, just general stuff. Good.
-iPad iOS4.2, more importantly, gets the iPhone 4's OS, so we get multitasking, folders etc. PLUS wireless printing and streaming audio AND video from your network, which was missing originally and obtained via two separate third-party apps. Excellent. That wi-fi printing is a stealth detail that will make a big difference for a lot of users of iPads as day-trip laptop substitutes. Also, HDR photos, which is that extreme saturation technique, for science.

-new Apple TV: This is fun. 25% of the size, none more black, whisper silent. Rentals only, no purchasing, plus rents TV shows now too at a buck a pop. Still streams from your home network, for guys like me. And biggest detail: Netflix integration. Excellent. I do this with my TIVO but I'd rather use an ATV for same. Gorgeous.

Items of less interest to me but of interest to others:

-new iPod Nano, shaped like a square and entirely touch
-new Shuffle, back to the click wheel, which i think makes sense, based on my wife's complaints with the control-free surface of hers.

-new iPod TOUCH: uses the new OS, has the new fast chip, 3-axis gryo for gaming, and CAMERA. With FaceTime videoconferencing. Seems like a good time to sell your second-gen iPod Touch and get this, thereby gaining a high rez camera... basically, it's now an iPhone minus the phone that often fails on AT&Ts network, minus AT&T, and minus a front camera. AWESOME.

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The world in which we live.
I suspect, as kids, we would have had little meltdowns if someone tole us that we would soon have iPhone/Touch controlled helicopters with dual cameras on them.

http://w.tuaw.com/2010/07/30/parrot-ar- ... rookstone/

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No better way to handle purple puppets than with effing TONGS.

If you have kids, you have grown tiresome of cutesy puppets.
If you don't have kids, you may have already harbored a fantasy or puppet murder.

So, now both issues are rectified.
It's so awesome I can't stand it.

Review:
http://toucharcade.com/2010/06/16/puppe ... me-street/

itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puppet-w ... 49023?mt=8

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It was hot, I was doing some data restore on the iPad from the MBP, and then it suddenly hit me: I was talking to wifebot(tm) about my concurrence with the theary that the Apple Touch pad accessory is the gateway to a touch-based next-gen OS after OSX, allowing them to use touchscreen laptops (yay us) and provide these post-mouse touch pads for big screen users so their arms won't fall off. Then I realized, looking at the laptop in the dark in blistering 89 degree heat at 11pm, sayyyyyy anything that runs on the iPhone runs on the iPad. So I launched Logitech Touch Mouse server and then launched it on the iPad. Wheeee......


It's not as intuitively useful as using a Wacom or, I assume, Apple's accessory product, since it doesn't scale the map of the screen to the map of the desktop, but it's still as useful as Lung finds it for his Mini management on his Touch, with more finger-space for navigation, and that's key to using such a device as a full-on mouse substitute. Using it on the Touch or iPhone is great for getting by, stoned on the couch, but sitting by your computer, or looking up at a large screen, you need one-hand ease, just like a mouse, something larger for greater distance of hand gestures for precision, etc. And in the case of the iPad, like the Touch, you have the ability, if you choose, to use the same input device as a keyboard...

So thinking forward to the Apple next step plan... I think it's very reasonable to think we will see an Apple TV refresh in the coming weeks that has an OS built off of iOS, not OSX like the current models, and one that uses the iphone/touch/iPad as an input device (not using a third party app like the Air Mouse or Touch Mouse) through a direct app or mod of the Remote.app we already have. Then this bridges to bringing in these same hand devices as input controls, out of the box, to a desktop/laptop OS. Regardless of whether or not the next OS is an iOS model or an OSX hierearchy model, the big step is getting people comfortable with using the portable device to control everything, from the Apple TV to their computer to their cloud accounts to their media.

Anyway, yay, look, I have an iPad-based touchpad interface for the MBP.

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This marketing viral for Microsoft Live Search, by Evolution Bureau, featured an actress against a background delivering your results witha variety of responses, everything from lab coats to assault rifles to, I'm choosing to believe, lots of office tease pin-up style action. It didn't stay live, sadly, or I'd be trying it right now.

'Trying it'.



Here's an old write-up about it from a few years back:
http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archive ... ting-tips/

And here's EB's archive page about the project:
http://evb.com/work/ms-dewey-microsoft/

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This rather non-controversial product review for Apple's new touchpad accessory ends on a pretty profound observation: sure, it's just a touchscreen trackpad in lieu of a mouse (or, for those of us in the graphics industry, a Wacom, with which it competes on a consumer-grade level with the Bamboo Touch) but looking at the bigger picture in terms of interfacing, it's a pretty big deal: the one thing holding us back from a touch-screen interface environment on our computers is real estate. It's easy to imagine a touch MBP, as we often do when criticizing the iPad's lack of computer guts. But imagine touch on an iMac or a Cinema Display. You'd get TIRED really quickly, and the specter of fingerprints would grow, regardless of the magic coatings. But add full-function multitouch as a mouse substitute, and suddenly they are free to go full-tilt touch with the OS. Many tech prognosticators believe the OS of the iProducts is the future of desktop computing as it is: the app launching and quick app switching and new means os organizing material without the clutter of a directory structure... all the things power users depend on and consumer users don't need that make the use of an iphone/ipad so subliminally EASY for people. As it stands today, most of us computer users would blanch at the prospect. But the two things holding it back in my opinion have been lack of feasible touch interface and lack of directory structure. i suspect the trackpad may have solved the first part. On the latter issue, all they'd need to do is work in a file tree for those that WANT it, and I'd be fine using Photoshop on an iPad like OS interface. Why not? The rest is just clutter.


http://gizmodo.com/5598828/apple-magic- ... r-mac-os-x

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Kind of reminds me of the days of beta products being released early, allowing the users to be the QA/QC team, covered by a long warranty. Which, some might argue, happens today. Anyway, I had high hopes for Google Wave, and was looking forward to implementing it for a TRDL Carbon campaign. But we'll just wait and see what options we have when the time comes. It was excruciatingly obtuse in terms of operation and flow, I do admit. It had potential, but you needed to get comfortable with it first, and few did. Fail!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/ ... -wave.html

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a TARGET.

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i talk a lot of shit on the ipad cause i'm not the target market, but that doesn't mean that i don't see it's usefulness. and if you're gonna have one, goddammit get a cool PURSE for it.

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