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Monthly Archives: March 2009
iPhone OS 3.0 – the news
Tonight Apple showed a sneak peek of what we can expect when the next version of the iPhone gets available later this year. Highlights are copy & paste, MMS support, a much improved software development kit (expect some really cool apps!), a new voice memo app, horizontal keyboard and more. Full press release inside.
iPhone OS 3.0
Ok, first of all OS 3.0 for iPhone (and iPod touch probably) won’t be out for another few months, but on March 17th Apple will host an event where they will show off the new upcoming version of the iPhone operative system. I’m really looking forward to see if there are any aces up the sleeve, but I really hope we will get copy&paste and other nice new features. So, more info later on.
Demo of the new iPod Shuffle
Yeah, I know it’s a promotion video from Apple, but I found it interesting and I think you will like it as well. Check it out, the voice over is quite an innovation.
Eco-friendly desktop PC from MSI
Power consumption is getting a bigger and bigger issue globally, and people have started looking for gadgets and items that doesn’t consume more energy than necessary. Today MSI unveiled a new eco-friendly desktop PC, the Nettop CS120, that runs at full speed while consuming only 35W (in comparison, a typical computer will consume at least 300W). The machine features WiFi, slot-in DVD, Intel 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor, a 160GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM. The suggested retail price will be $319.99. More photos and info inside.
Scosche earphones for the new iPod Shuffle
Yesterday we wrote about the new iPod Shuffle and one of the first comments to that post was that it was too bad that the remote was so tightly integrated into the earphones as the standard earphones that comes with the player is considered quite bad generally. But, as always when Apple launches something, it doesn’t take long until there’s a wide range of accessories available and first out is new earphones, including the new Shuffle remote, from Scosche. You can also use the adapter and plug in any other earphone. More info and photos inside.
iPhone – most popular mobile camera
I am the first one to admit that the iPhone camera is bad. Really bad. Still, I use it a lot! The rest of the phone is so good that you can live with having a quite lousy built-in camera. Above you can see a graph of the most used mobile camera on the most popular photosite, flickr.com – and as you can see, the iPhone kills the competition. I wonder how the graph would have looked if the iPhone would have had a good camera? And I’m pretty sure it won’t take long until we will get a new model with a better camera.
10 bacon gadgets
Here’s something you don’t see everyday – a top 10 list featuring nothing but bacon gadgets. Some of them are quite corny but still! Weird stuff.
Ten Ways to Show Your Love of Bacon [divinecaroline.com]
Smallest iPod ever
Today Apple closed down it’s store and unveiled a brand new iPod Shuffle. It’s a really small and slim player that comes with a whole new voice mode where your iPod actually speaks your song titles, artists and playlist names. Neat. It can store up to 4GB of music and can be yours for $79. More images and info inside.
OneSwarm
OneSwarm is an interesting new software technology coming from University of Washington. It’s a whole new peer-to-peer technology (like bittorrent) with the big difference that it’s completely anonymous. It will be interesting to follow the development of this new piece of software, but the usage of it will probably explode within the next year or so. The client is available for Mac OS X, XP, Vista and Linux – and the source code is open.
OneSwarm [washington.edu]
Nerds on a plane
One of the twitter flows I follow and read regularlys is the one from Kevin Rose, founder of digg.com and other cool things. Earlier today he tweeted about that it was great that the flight between NYC and San Francisco had a WiFi connection. And a few minutes later he tweeted again letting all his followers know that he had set up a live uStream. I clicked in and a few minutes later Virgin Atlantic tweeted about it as well. And in a few minutes close to 1000 people was watching Kevin Rose, sitting in his airplane chair listening to music and chatting. Kudos to Virgin Atlantic for their great use of social media – impressive.
