Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED

This site is an rss/xml news reader containing our favorite feeds. All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them.

AT&T sues Verizon over "there's a map for that"
ads

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 03 November 2009 04:40:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

AT&T on Tuesday sued Verizon for allegedly misleading customers with its...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=0cb03e0563c630dc6173b6250b8dade6

Digg this

LaCie outs Network Space 2 NAS, media server

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 03 November 2009 04:35:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

LaCie on Tuesday revealed its latest storage solution, the Network Space 2 Network Attached Storage ...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=935ae500feb5e75ff9f4e1e7267206b6

Digg this

Koyono intros new HyperMac, Magneat accessories

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 03 November 2009 04:35:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Koyono has introduced two new products for its line of Mac and iPhone accessories, the HyperMac and ...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=94b096132e7fc4536ce4845db9eb84f2

Digg this

Apple stores to use customized iPods for new
checkout

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 03 November 2009 04:20:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Apple is reportedly developing a new checkout system based on the iPod touch, according to an ifoApp...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=7b51aa7ff2a0eff4cec599af515e1f5d

Digg this

Sorenson Squeeze 6 makes performance improvements

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 03 November 2009 04:10:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Sorenson has launched Squeeze 6, an upgraded version of its video encoding tool. The program is aim...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=a83a5f0f627ad4453047b15998a76d89

Digg this

iPhone now makes up 33% of all touchscreen phones

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 03 November 2009 03:55:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

The iPhone now represents almost exactly one third of all touchscreen phones in the US, new comScore...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=79b33ff903675ac58b28b61c4729a4f3

Digg this

Gestures as a Language

post from Daring Fireball on 03 November 2009 03:54:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jeffrey Sambells nails it:

Gestures should be treated as a language, like sign language for touch devices. We need a common set of gestures to interact with all touch enabled devices. I shouldn?t have to learn a different language just to use a different device.

I spent all day yesterday trying to figure out why I cared so much about Android 2.0’s lack of standard multi-touch UI gestures. That’s it exactly.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://jeffreysambells.com/posts/2009/11/03/gestures-as-a-language-not-a-technolo
gy/

Digg this

Pierre Igot on Click-Through in the Snow Leopard
Finder

post from Daring Fireball on 03 November 2009 03:38:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

The rules are complicated. As Igot describes, click-through can change the selected item only in icon view, not list or column view, but click-through is enabled for double-clicks in all views. Igot writes:

How is the user supposed to ?know? and remember intuitively that click-through now only works in icon view mode and not in list view mode and column view mode? And how is the user supposed to ?know? and remember intuitively that, even though click- through no longer works, ?double-click-through? (to coin a phrase) still does?

I don’t think the behavior is specific to the Finder, though — I’m pretty sure that in list and column views, what Igot describes is the standard behavior for Cocoa table, outline, and browser (a.k.a. column) views. The problem is the complexity of the rules. If the rules are hard to explain, it’s a good sign the rules are too complex.

Count me in with Chris Clark: click-through should be disabled.

?

Read The Full Article:
http://www.betalogue.com/2009/11/02/click-through/

Digg this

Dutch Teenager Hacks Jailbroken iPhones, Tries to
Extort 5

He used port scanning to identify iPhones on T-Mobile’s network, and took advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones have SSH running and most use the same default password for the root account. The hack seems to have been nothing more than a wallpaper image that shows a fake alert dialog box. (A clever attack, but the fake alert was poorly done — he didn’t even use Helvetica.)

?

Read The Full Article:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/11/dutch-hacker-holds-jailbroken-iphones-h
ostage-for-5.ars

Digg this

Hacker attempts to extort Dutch iPhone owners

A hacker in the Netherlands has attempted to extort several iPhone owners, reports say. The hacke...

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=773232577c281ebbbebe86fecf63bd76