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Tag Archives: Apple
Windows vs Apple, blu-ray envy
Microsoft is swinging at Apple again with this new commercial featuring a Windows 7 laptop showing Avatar on a blu-ray disc and a jealous MacBook looking from the side. In countries such as Sweden it sure can be painful that there’s no Apple computer with a blu-ray player available – since you can’t rent any movies through iTunes. But in other countries where you can rent HD movies the problem is much smaller. I use a Mac mini as the center of my home entertaiment system and it sure is a shame that I need to have a blu-ray player as well. I definitely see why Apple want to skip this step and move directly to streaming media, but we’re not there yet.
The New MacBook Air
The most interesting part of the show was when Steve Jobs showed the ‘one more thing‘ of the evening – the new MacBook Air family. They come in two models, 11-inch and 13-inch models, and are quite affordable as well starting at just US$999. They are available today and the best model you can get is the 13-inch with 256 GB of storage, 4GB of RAM, and a 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. All models comes with solid state flash storage and the new really cool ‘instant on’ features. More info and images inside.
Live stream from today’s Apple event
Check out Apple’s live stream from the current Apple event (happening right now!). We’ll hopefully get to see a new MacBook Air and some great, new software:
Apple Q4 Results – 14.1 Million iPhones Sold
I just got a press release from Apple letting us know that they sold a record breaking 14.1 Million iPhones during their last quarter (fiscal quarter, ended September 25, 2019). They also sold 4.19 Million iPads, 3.89 million Macs and 9.05 million iPods. Pretty massive. Read the full press release after the jump.
Live stream from Apple’s event!
Apple’s hosting their yearly music event tomorrow and for the first time in many, many years they will provide a live stream as well. The event starts today at 10:00 a.m. PDT. Full press info after the break.
Apple Reports fiscal Third Quarter Results
Apple presented record revenues for their fiscal third quarter (ended June 26), with 3.47 million Macs sold, 8.4 million iPhones, 9.41 million iPods and 3.27 million iPads. Pretty amazing.
Shrink & burn 8GB DVD to a 4GB DVD
Yesterday I had to do a quick backup of one of my DVDs and it turned out that it was a dual layer 8GB DVD so I had to shrink it to 4GB to be able to burn it. I solved the problem with the following steps:
1.) Installed ‘Fairmount’. A tool that basically will let you copy and DVD content to your hard drive, it also includes decryption of protected DVDs. You can get Fairmount here.
Fashion set shot with iPhone 3GS
The photographer Lee Morris got tired of people letting him know that taking good photos was all about having the right camera. He arranged a fashion photo shoot and took all of the photos with his cell phone – an iphone 3Gs. Amazing results! Next time someone tells you that the iPhone camera sucks show them this article.
I posted a few of the images and asked people to critique them (never exposing that they were shot on my cell phone). I couldn’t help but laugh when a few of our readers claimed that these were “the best images I had ever taken.” Nobody ever claimed that they were too grainy, too soft, or lacked detail.
The iPhone Fashion Shoot By Lee Morris [fstoppers.com]
via [Feber.se]
30 years of Apple computers in 2 minutes
This guy has made a short movie featuring all of his Apple computers – lots of them! It’s quite interesting to see how ugly they were at some point, especially the big, bulky beige ones.
Source: The Apple Museum – 30 years in 2 minutes [macmd.com]
3 Million iPads sold in 80 days
The success Apple are having with iPad is huge. Incredibly huge. Today they reported that they have sold 3 Million units in the first 80 days. As a reference it Apple 74 days to ship 1 Million units of the original iPhone, and approximately six months to reach 5 Million units. As a sidenote Apple also informed the market that they got 600 000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4 – in a single day. Amazing. Read the full press release after the jump.