Iphone Updates

Seth Weintraub (computerworld) reports that a survey conducted by Canalys for Symbian “shows that iPhone sales are second only to Blackberry in North America. That means that iPhone has passed Windows Mobile, Palm and Linux in sales in North America.”

Even though most say the iPhone is a failure of a device and quit possibly a runner up for worst product of the year, it still continues to get noticed by top media as quite possibly the best. Consumer Reports January 2008 edition points out that the iPhone has outperformed it’s smartphone competitors in many different aspects. 

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The editors at tech.com.uk report that Google Zitgeist 2007, the “list of the most popular search terms it processed in” 2007 “has just been made public and, as expected, is topped by everybody’s favourite gadget, Apple’s iPhone. The iconic device was the fastest-rising search term both globally and in the US, which is where most of Google’s stats are drawn from.”

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is making plans for a meeting amongst DoCoMo and Softbank Corp. to discuss rights to which mobile phone service can carry the iPhone in Japan. The iPhone only has EDGE and DoCoMo doesn’t have EDGE available, so the iPhone released in Japan would definitely have to be 3G.

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According to Jonny Evans (Macworld), “iPhones are the most popular mobiles on the Christmas wish lists of 13 to 25-year-olds in the US.” As he explains, “the statistics drawn from the survey of 1,175 Gen-Y consumers are a ’bellwether for up-and-coming consumer trends,’ said Murtaza Hussain, chief executive officer at Peanut Labs.”

Google lined up another iPhone service last Wednesday after realizing there was a programming ‘language’ called AJAX. Google’s new web application allows individuals to view their Picasa albums on their iPhone. You log in to Picasa on your iPhone, the interface comes up and allows you to scroll through pictures landscape or portrait.

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Bryan Gardiner (wired.com) reports that Google has optimized its popular Picasa photo service for the iPhone. He quotes Google software engineer Joe Walnes as saying: “Today, I’m happy to tell you that we’ve just released this new iPhone interface for Picasa. After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log in, you can quickly see all your albums that you’ve uploaded to Picasa web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of your picture with comments from your friends.”

Navizon had a great idea providing jailbroken iPhones with an ability to emulate GPS through tower triangulation, but it only gave somewhat accurate information. Partfoundry has developed a working prototype dongle for the jailbroken iPhone that provides real time GPS locationing with an accuracy of 16ft-32ft using the SiRF Star III chip. It’s sleek look definitely goes well with the iPhone. Though the dongle makes the iPhone a bit bigger, it can always be removed and used when needed. The dongle will be available from February 2008 at a respectable $89. Be sure to check the working prototype video after the cut.

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After thoroughly testing the new iPod nano, Dan Frakes (Macworld) concludes that “it’s been improved in almost every way.” It offers “very good sound quality, excellent battery life,” and an “improved user interface.” And one great screen for watching video. “Even though this is the smallest video-playing screen we’ve used, after watching a 90-minute movie on the nano we were pleasantly surprised by the experience. Picture quality is comparable to that of the iPhone, just smaller.”

True, the tantalizing rumor of a TomTom GPS for the iPhone suffered a rather untimely demise, but not to worry — as a navigation aid, we figure the iPhone’s sizable touchscreen and dock connector just make too much sense for a GPS solution to not get willed into existence. Engineering firm partfoundry is taking a real (as in, confirmed) stab at developing a custom, purpose-built GPS module that slots into the iPhone’s port, delivering 16 channels of satellite reception to the software of your choice. Notice the “of your choice” there — it looks like partfoundry will be requiring jailbreaked phones and relying on the developer community to serve up apps capable of processing the module’s output and making use of it. The current plan is to get these bad boys out of the door in February, though they’re taking orders now for $89. Oh, and don’t worry, there are plans for a “stylish plastic enclosure” to bring the 1337 hax0r appearance down a notch or three.

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The picture says it all, Intel’s going crazy small with its latest SSD chips, but it’s certainly not leaving capacity behind. The new Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD chips come in 2GB and 4GB capacities, are extendable up to 16GB, and weigh less than a drop of water. We’re already impatient for phone manufacturers and DAP makers to start cramming these into their devices, and the RAID opportunities are really sinful. Intel should be showing the chips off at CES in January, no word on when we’ll see ‘em hit the market.

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If you’re carrying around a Mobiado Luminoso cell phone, it’s a safe bet you might be interested in Bissol’s brass-encased 4GB flash drives — so why not jack the ritz factor by combining them in Mobiado’s new battery cover for the Luminoso, which features a storage / display compartment for the included drive? That’s right — Mobiado asked itself what its customers wanted, and came up with a custom battery cover that only holds an opulent brass flash drive. Damn, we knew we weren’t exactly the target market, but you’d think they’d at least try to go quadband first.

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The holidays. A time for joy, a time for gathering, a time for product smackdowns. So which is the better buy? A Mac mini or a festive honey baked ham? Let TUAW do the comparison work for you.

We’ve posted a couple of times about “virtual” GPS solutions for the iPhone that depend on cell tower identification, but now The partfoundry has announced the real deal. They will be offering a GPS dongle for the iPhone based on the SiRF Star III chipset. Needless to say this will require a jailbroken phone and the software “will be open source/community based.” They’ve already got a prototype working (video embedded after the jump) that can report its location and send it to the Google Maps application.

No word yet on how the dongle will affect battery life. They’re also working on the iPod touch, but support for it remains to be determined.

The partfoundary GPS module is apparently available for purchase now at $89 and is due to ship in February. Check out the prototype video after the jump.

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Update: The “update” at the root of this issue HAS NOT been issued by Intuit (see the posts in this thread), the recommended course of action for all QuickBooks 2006 and 2007 users is to run the terminal command as detailed at the bottom of this post. This will turn off all automatic updates and prevent whatever this is from installing on your system. Furthermore, at this point in time, I tend to agree with Tangrams, the user who first reported this issue in both the Apple and Intuit forums, that the best course of action for QuickBooks for Mac users is to not launch the program at all until this mess is sorted out.

At the risk of spreading unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), It’s not FUD, we want to caution Intuit’s QuickBooks users of installing the most recent update, without proper back-ups – especially if you typically store lots of important files on the desktop.

This information comes courtesy of reader Kelly, who also sent us a link to an Apple Support Thread about the issue. It appears that in the latest automatic QuickBooks update, the updater is coming up with a “not enough free space” message (regardless if enough free space actually exists – and keep in mind, this appears to be a 100K update), if the user then clicks “OK” – the result is that any documents, files or folders that were stored on the desktop are then deleted – and as of right now, no simple recovery method appears to exist.

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Mac Developer Chad Barraford dropped me a note to let me know about his recently released program — SimplePrint.

SimplePrint is a suite of 3 apps that make the painful art of network printing a breeze. Use the Admin tool to set up your printer(s), then you can easily set the default printer, stop and restart print jobs, and view every print queue on your computer — all with one click. Also included in the suite is the SimplePrint Traffic manager, which will allow you to view all of the printing traffic, move jobs to another print queue, and change priorities of the jobs.

The best thing about SimplePrint … it’s free; at least while in beta. Donations are accepted, however.

“With the Intel Macs,” explains Brian Allen, director of technical support at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, “students now have the potential to have both systems on their machines, so they can run both Windows and Macintosh applications. They can easily switch between Apple’s iLife suite and AutoCad. It’s the best of both worlds; they’ll really have two computers for the price of one.” In addition to offering students more flexibility, Allen and his team discovered that “Windows applications run faster on the Mac.” Best of all, dual-booting Mac computers offer BSU “the potential to save $150,000 to $200,000 a year in lab hardware purchases.” What’s next for Boot Camp at BSU?

No use kidding around: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 3-Way SLI kicks benchmark ass. Reviewers across the board found the setup to be far and away the best money can buy when it comes to graphics, but the price is certainly steep. Not only are the cards super pricey — you’re limited to the 8800 GTX and 8800 Ultra — but you’ll need a 1000+ watt power supply, and pretty much a fresh system from the ground up unless you’re already running the nForce 680i SLI motherboard. PC Perspective crunched the numbers, and you’re looking at about $2828 in costs before you even get to the case, hard drive, DVD drive and all that other superfluous stuff. That said, the third card really makes a big difference, since performance scales surprisingly well with the addition. You probably don’t need this kind of power if you’re not trying to game at full-res on a 30-incher, but if you don’t mind dropping $3k on a system purely designed to play Crysis at Very High, then you just might have some 3-way SLI in your future.

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You probably thought exactly the same thing I did when I first saw Piet Jonas’ tip: the iPhone as a digital picture frame? That’s a pretty darn expensive digital picture frame. And his tip is pretty simple– all he suggests is to turn off the AutoLock feature on the iPhone, thus leaving the screen on to display a slideshow. At first glance, it’s not that big a deal.

But the more I thought about it, the more genius it was. I’ve been pining after a Nabaztag lately, and an always-on iPhone just sitting there on the charging dock could serve exactly the same purpose– you could have it spit out the time, constantly updated stock info, or even watch your email come in. With Piet’s suggestion of webcams, the iPhone could work as a little monitor right there on your desk. And if Apple ever gets this rumored RSS reader off the ground, you could watch RSS headlines fly by on that screen. When you think of all the things you could display on an iPhone sitting in the dock, it’s not a bad picture frame at all.

Any other ideas of constantly updated information you could put on your always-on iPhone?

A while back, we reported on a study that (not only had all kinds of holes in it, but) claimed the iPhone’s keyboard was two times slower than other phones. But as many commenters said, the keyboard just requires practice.

And there’s no better way to get it than to jump into a typing tutor. We’ve seen one before for the iPhone, but reader Travis (thanks!) sent us a tip about TypingWeb.com‘s free iPhone tutor (just go to their site on your iPhone, and enter some information to create an account), and I was impressed by how smoothly it worked. During the Basic test, I moved pretty quickly– a nice 36 words per minute. But on the Advanced test, they throw all kinds of things at you (including intentionally misspelled words, so you have to dodge Apple’s corrections), and I dropped down to about 16 wpm.

Definitely worth a try. A lot of iPhone typing seems to be situation– moving around in a car or bus, for instance, makes things a lot harder. But at least this will give you a ballpark figure of your typing prowess.

Once upon a time the Mac vs. PC debate found a kind of synecdoche in the FireWire vs. USB debate. FireWire had been invented by Apple way back in 1986 essentially to replace SCSI. USB 1.0 arrived on the scene in 1995 from Intel, Microsoft, and a few others. Somewhat ironically, however, it was the original iMac that gave USB a needed kick-start in adoption. In any case, for a while there was a clear sense that FireWire was the Mac peripheral interface in contrast with the Wintel USB, and even now FireWire 400 tends to outperform the higher-spec’ed USB 2.0 on Macs in the real world. Nonetheless, with Apple moving to Intel there has a been a notable shift in Cupertino away from the interface Apple invented (witness the USB-only iPods), and with the forthcoming USB 3.0 standard and the increasing prevalence of eSATA the future looked somewhat bleak for FireWire.

But FireWire is not going down without a fight. The industry trade group has announced a new standard, FireWire S3200 which will use the same connectors as FireWire 800 but deliver approximately 4 times the performance. What’s interesting to me is the question of whether and how far Apple will go to support the new standard. Is FireWire destined to become the bastard stepchild or will Apple once again reclaim its old standard and live happily ever after?

Last night, after installing the QuickTime 7.3.1 update on my Leopard machine, upon restart I was greeted with a distressing sight: the OS X Setup Assistant that’s only supposed to run when you first install OS X. Furthermore, even if I completed the Setup Assistant it would just run again in a kind of permanent loop; I was caught in Setup Assistant hell! No matter how many times I restarted, the Setup Assistant would appear each time and never let me get back to my desktop.

A little searching (on another machine) revealed that I was not alone. In fact, this was the second time this had happened to me on this machine. The first time, not knowing any better, I ended up reinstalling Leopard. This time, however, I discovered that Apple has acknowledged the problem with a Support Document. Fortunately, there is a way out of Setup Assistant hell: booting into Safe Mode.

You do this by restarting your Mac and immediately holding down the SHIFT key when you hear the chime. Hold it until you see the rotating gear below the grey Apple on the startup screen. Release it and the computer should eventually take you to the login screen with “Safe Mode” in red. One word of caution: give the computer plenty of time. Even if it appears stuck give it a chance to work; go get a cup of coffee and come back. Anyway, once you’re in Safe Mode you can now hit “restart” and things should eventually get back to normal (perhaps after some updates are installed).

This problem seems to be a Leopard bug related to software updates. It’s so disconcerting that I thought it would be a good idea to get the solution out there in case it should strike any of our dear TUAW readers.

Time to fire up the ‘ole Software Update as Apple has just released a Java update for Mac OS X. This update will fix vulnerabilities in both server and client versions of 10.4. Apple explains that, ‘A malicious webpage can remove or insert items in the keychain,’ which sure doesn’t sound good to us.

If you are running Tiger client or server, you can download the update using either Software Update or by getting it at Apple’s website.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

Podcasting news has put together a helpful guide to the most impossibly bad iPod accessories. These include the “Rock My Teeth” tooth whitening appliance shown here as well as the Griffin iBeam–perfect for frying your retinas, and the iFrogz Tadpole case that allows your toddlers to throw their iPods around like frisbees.

Be aware, some of the items listed are not safe for work, and the hilarity of the other items may cause physical injury.

Simplify Media allows you to stream music from your home computer (or from the iTunes libraries of 30 of your close personal friends) to your iPhone or iPod touch via WiFi. Admittedly this video is pure marketing, but the concept is cool. I installed a copy of the 1.0 alpha build from Installer.app, and gave it a spin–or at least I tried. The program requires that you have a Simplify Media account so I had to step back and grab a desktop client first. Then after painfully installing the software, signing agreements and clicking “I don’t have an account yet”, I finally got signed up and added my music folders. The whole process took about 20 frustrating minutes but persistence paid off. I then returned to my iPhone, signed in with my new account, and although I was able to get correct listings of my music library, none of the songs actually played back–causing “Server is not responding” errors instead.

This is one of the caveat lector instances: Boy, does this tool sound like it’s going to be great but at the same time it doesn’t really work as well as you might hope, at least it doesn’t for me right now (some commenters have had better luck, see below). Simplify Media for iPhone is an alpha release and presumably will be finalized sometime after the official iPhone SDK ships.

Welcome to the first of many AppleScript and Automator “how-tos.” These tips are mostly geared toward Mac users who may know a little AppleScript, but want to learn more. If you’ve never opened Script Editor or Automator these tips will also help you get up to speed.

First things first, what the heck is AppleScript? It is an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn programming language. AppleScript was created in the early 90s as a simple way for people to create their own custom automation programs. This is one of the reasons the Mac remains popular in the printing and creative industry, where users can take large work flows and automate them relatively quickly.

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Website iPhone Atlas reports that unlocked French iPhones may not actually be as unlocked as you’d initially guess. They write that these €649 devices will only work with French SIM cards. If you buy the “unlocked” iPhone in France, head over to Spain or Canada or wherever, and stick in a foreign SIM, you’ll end up paying mucho-euros in roaming fees to a French carrier. Head over to iPhone Atlas to read the entire story.

So is this not-entirely-unlocked thing for real or FUD? Let us know in the comments.

‘Tis the season to be jolly.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Skin your Mac with Winter folly.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Dress your Mac with seasonal apparel.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Set System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects to a upbeat carol.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Ho. Ho. Ho. Merry Christmacs.

So how do you know if Apple has made a big policy change and snuck it through the back door? Is it because:

1. Porcine aviation establishes itself as a viable transportation mechanism.
2. Chicken entrails begin to dance and rearrange themselves into oracular shapes while you’re fixing up some nice korma.
3. Apple sneaks in a new technical support page adding a “Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes” option to Garage Band.

The answer is, if you’ve been playing along at home, three. One more blow against the official iTunes extortion and shakedown store.

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Hello TUAW readers, my name is Cory Bohon. I’m the newest TUAW blogger and very excited to be blogging for one of the best Apple blogs anywhere.

I started blogging in 2004 at the “young” age of 15 (I am now 18). 2004 was a big year for me, since that is when I got my first Mac as well. I started learning AppleScript soon after – it was fascinating to me, and still is.

I look forward to blogging here. I hope this will be a fun journey for us all.

Disclosure: I am involved with a freeware product that was reviewed on TUAW in the past. Readers should also be aware that there are impartiality clauses we agree to adhere to as part of our contracts on ANY Weblogs Inc property.

Office 2008 for the Mac is a huge release for Microsoft, and a big deal for most Mac users. I’ve been anxiously waiting for the newest version of Office for one thing only: Entourage 2008. For my money Entourage is the best mail client on OS X (feel free to call me names in the comments), but Entourage 2004 certainly shows its age.

Entourage 2008 looks great, but not all is sunshine and daisies. Entourage 2008 stores most everything it uses in one big database file. There are many reasons to do this, but are also a few drawbacks. One of the biggest Leopard related drawbacks is the fact that Time Machine does file level, not bit level, backups. Every time a file is changed it is included in Time Machine’s backups. Every time Entourage gets an email, you add a contact or event, or label something Entourage’s database file is changed. Add to this the propensity for that database file to grow rather large and you can see the problem here. Microsoft suggests you simply exclude Entourage’s DB from Time Machine’s backups, but I hope they come up with a better solution in the near future.

Loyal TUAW reader Mike Schleifstein wrote in on our tip line with a thoughtful commentary about the CompUSA closings. Losing CompUSA means losing local Apple Certified Repair centers for a large segment of the United States without access to Apple Stores. More, without the brick and mortar CompUSA stores, many potential customers will not be to try out Apple products in person or buy Mac software at a real store. We decided to ask you, our readership, how the CompUSA closings will affect you. Here’s an Amazon Unspun poll that you can expand and add your own feedback to. I’m curious to see how these closings will affect the TUAW community as a whole.

Apple has posted a special Christmas flavored Get A Mac ad. This ad, as you can see above, features a stop motion-esque (I’m going to assume that they are actually CGI) PC, Mac, and Santa singing a little Christmas carol for you. PC makes sure to let you know to never buy a Mac, or else Santa might not like you.

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Apple has just released QuickTime 7.3.1 which addresses that nasty RTSP vulnerability recently discovered (and discovered with zero day exploit code no less!). This update also fixes 2 other security problems with QuickTime. It looks like Flash is being handled in a safer way, and a heap buffer overflow has been fixed. Apple suggests all QT 7 users install this update.

Quicktime 7.3.1 is available for:

• Panther
• Tiger
• Leopard
• Windows

Read the full release notes for the gory details.

iPhone developer Drunknbass has been working amazingly hard for some time now getting video recording working on the iPhone. I’ve been following his effort and seeing him struggle with some major obstacles. It’s not a simple thing. There are issues about capturing the data and producing output in real time. And here, sometimes events outpace us. I was hoping to post a real video with this write-up but since the software has already been leaked, I decided to go ahead and write about what currently exists.

Drunknbass’s program is groundbreaking. It records 5 seconds of video at 10 fps and then immediately plays it back and proves that usable video capture is possible.

Read more about his work and visit his website at monsterandfriends.com.

Everyone knows that you can use a single finger to scroll web pages in Mobile Safari but it’s less well known that you can use two fingers to scroll frames and other subpage elements. Normally, on personal computers, you use a separate scroll bar for webpage frames. On the iPhone and iPod touch, these scroll bars do not appear and the content expands to fill the frame set area. By using two fingers at once, you tell Mobile Safari to scroll the element rather than then entire page. I find this especially useful when filling out forms with scrolling selections such as when I do blog posts and need to add categories.

Here’s an interesting list of applications supposedly killed by Leopard. There’s no question that there’s a huge amount of functionality in Leopard that was taken care of in Tiger by third-party apps (and this is just a list of freeware– commenters pointed out last week that Jisho was made almost obsolete by the Japanese dictionary included with Leopard), but I’m not so sure this list is all it promises to be. No amount of tweaking to Spotlight will ever replace Quicksilver, and as good as iChat has gotten, I still like Adium for its easy customization.

And apps like CenterStage, who used to have a one goal (an open source Front Row replacement), have now been able to spread out and become more their own program instead of worrying about Apple’s missing functionality.

As always, the best app for the job depends on both the job and the person doing it, so there are probably more than a few places where Leopard stepped up to fill functionality that users used to trust third-party software for. But it’s a stretch at least to say Leopard killed these apps– replication of one function now built into the OS doesn’t mean all the apps other functions are useless.

As anyone who has followed the Optimus Maxiumus saga will know, after a while people get sick & tired of renders and want to see the real thing.  Up until now, we’ve only had digitally-created images of Meizu’s range of iPhone-clones, but now there are leaked photos of the iPod Touch lookalike handset the M9 M8 to prove that it isn’t just a designers folly.  Update: the device is a mockup, bizarrely not even using the final production materials. 

 

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Orb on the iPhone isn’t new, as such, but the media streaming company has a newly designed interface especially intended for the cellphone and its iPod Touch cousin.  That puts pay to our overriding criticism of the service from last time - that the desktop UI wasn’t as compatible with the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser as would be nice – and now means that place-shifting music from your home PC to your iPhone via an MP4 stream is indecently simple.

Check out the video of the Orb iPhone interface in action, after the cut

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Sure, there are 2 iPhone docks inside this concept vehicle, on in the center console next to the driver, and one in the removable speakers in the rear, but I’d be willing to wager that by the time this thing hits production one or more of them will be missing. But, the coolest feature, the iPhone when placed in the center console can be used as a key to start the car.

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Everyday something new comes out for the iPhone. Maybe it’s an app you could care less about, but recently a few iPhone hackers provided a proof of a working iPhone video capture application everybody has been waiting for. While still in beta and very buggy, the application can capture up to 15fps at only a short 5 seconds.

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Social Networking website Myspace, has been working on an iPhone optimized version of their page to provide easier access for Myspace addicts users. The mobile iPhone version of Myspace will include optimized profile pages, notification, and touch friendly buttons specifically for the iPhone. I’m sure come SDK time, these companies will be signed with Apple and be allowed to create applications for the iPhone that don’t require Safari.

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Looks like Microsoft have decided they’ve had enough of hearing that the iPhone has “killed” traditional touchscreens.  Earlier this week, Microsoft software test engineer Hilton Locke spilt a tidbit about Windows Mobile 7, the follow-up to Vista:

“If you are impressed by the “touch features” in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7″ Hilton Locke, TabBlogger

It looks as though Microsoft are also doing their own work with capacitative displays, the sort that Apple use in the iPhone and iPod Touch; in fact one has shown up in Dell’s Latitude XT Tablet PC, which the manufacturer is calling the “forerunner to emerging multi-touch capabilities”.  Ever since the iPhone launched and gathered dropped-jaws by the bucket load over its incredibly intuitive interface, the Mac faithful have been begging for the same touchscreen technology to be included in a MacBook or MacTablet; could Microsoft beat them to it?

See Dell’s capacitive interface in action, after the cut…

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While the iPhone’s EDGE capabilities appear to be slow, it’s rendering of web pages makes up for difference in speed between EDGE and 3G. Here is a video of the iPhone on EDGE, and a Nokia E61i on 3G. You can clearly see that both of their loading bars end at around the same time, with the iPhone finishing before the E61i loading eBay. If the iPhone had 3G, it would blow all other 3G devices away in website loading times.

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After an Adobe Support Engineer was asked when the iPhone and iPod touch would support flash on Mobile Safari, a response concluded that the wrong company was being asked. It doesn’t look like an update with Flash is near, but possibly a member of any of the iPhone dev teams can hack it up.

I personally think that Google bought exclusivity of flash video’s for YouTube on the iPhone, taking away any thoughts of flash for Safari on the iPhone, not allowing you to browse other flash video websites other than YouTube. We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. There is flash somewhere in the iPhone as it’s running the YouTube app, but not being used for Safari. Hopefully Apple has future updates with the iPhone allowing Flash to run with Safari.

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Robota Softwarehouse, the creators of SysInfo and Screenshot, this time bring us an application called iSpit to use as a portable HTTP server, providing sharing of files from your iPhone. This app provides the simplicity of all the other iPhone apps with just turning the server on or off, and pointing your browser to 192.168.0.2. Once on the page you’ll get a list of the filesystem on the iPhone.

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Gaming emulators for the iPhone and iPod Touch will soon swell in ranks as psx4all, an original-Playstation emulator, joins the fray.  Currently pre-beta, the software works on the Apple devices but is currently being tweaked so as to increase speed as well as screen placement and scaling.  Controls, too, are due to come in for some attention; as you can see from the screenshots, packing all of the original joypad functionality onto a touchscreen – even when that screen has MultiTouch capabilities – makes for a complicated system, and developer zodttd is planning on scything out some of the extraneous buttons.

 

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Calling iMac a “metal-clad masterpiece,” James Holland (t3.com) gives the popular all-in-one computer a 5-star rating (out of five). “Overall,” he says, “ the build quality, slick and tasteful aluminium finish, huge screen and jaw-dropping keyboard make this a winner. Paired with OS X and iLife ‘08, this is simply the finest all-in-one your money can muster. We’re iMac converts, and we couldn’t be happier.”

Saying that iPhone “changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform,” Time Magazine put iPhone at the top of its list of “Top 10 Gadgets.” iPhone’s design, Time says, “is exceptional inside and out: It’s got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy. It’s an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video clips display vertically or horizontally—they reorient themselves depending on how you hold the thing. When the phone detects a wireless network within range—your own home wi-fi set up or somebody else’s—it lets you tap once to connect, and then proceed with your Web surfing, Google mapping, emailing and other activities.”

Now you can browse the files on your Mac as easily—and enjoyably—as you breeze through album covers in iTunes or flip through photos on your iPhone or iPod touch. Just choose Cover Flow (a new viewing option in Mac OS X Leopard) instead of Icon, List, or Column view in your Finder window. Learn how you can “Go with the Flow”—and pick up some handy keyboard Cover Flow shortcuts—by reading our latest Pro Tip of the Week.