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Posts Tagged Apple

The next big thing: Internet-enabled set-top boxes

Do you know anyone who is still saving up for an iPad? I bet you don’t. That ship has sailed. The iPad did not really disappoint, but it never proved itself as a necessity. Sure, I’d like one to keep on my living room table, but I’d much rather have the new Kindle. But, I [...]


Experience Is The Product

Peter Merholz (Adaptive Path) posted on his blog this week that his slidecast “Experience Is The Product” hit 400,000 views. Peter gave the talk at dConstruct 2007 in Brighton, UK. The presentation argues for focusing on the experience rather than technology and features. It’s a great talk that uses examples of good user experience design [...]


SmartScreen: Time to jailbreak my iPhone?

I haven’t found a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone, but SmartScreen for iPhone just might be one. The application allows for widgets on the iPhone lock screen. Of course, there are all sorts of privacy concerns here, but for simple useful applications like weather or a calendar, this is great. Check out the demo [...]


Revolutionary New Laptop with No Keyboard

The Onion just released one of its funniest Mac-bashing videos yet. It’s the day before the last (and Steve Job-less) Apple keynote at MacWorld, and I think this video is a great follow-up to my last post on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). BCIs are keyboardless and so is this new laptop dreamed up by The Onion [...]


iPhone Tip: Enable Caps Lock

Here’s a quick tip for all of you iPhone users: Settings > General > Keyboard > Enable Caps Lock Now, when you quickly tap the Shift key twice on the keyboard, it will turn blue and become a Caps Lock! Why wasn’t this enabled by default? I have tried, on numerous occasions, to figure out [...]


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