Toshiba debuts 500GB, 7200RPM notebook drive

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 16 September 2009 11:00:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Toshiba has debuted a new line of hard drives, the MK5056GSY series, that expands the company's note...

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NAVIGON adds Traffic Live option to iPhone
navigation app

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 16 September 2009 08:20:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

NAVIGON has expanded its MobileNavigator iPhone app to include an option for the company's Traffic L...

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Monetizing the Hate

post from Daring Fireball on 16 September 2009 06:40:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Brilliant idea: Heather Armstrong is publishing her hate mail.

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TAB Welcomes: Alfredo Padilla

post from TheAppleBlog on 16 September 2009 06:34:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

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Where to begin? I didn’t always aspire to write about technology, but my complete lack of interest in a real social life got me noticed on a discussion forum about three years ago and led to a job offer. I’ve been slaving over a keyboard ever since.

I became a Mac user just before that, purchasing the first generation Intel Macbook. I’ve never looked back, and just recently upgraded to the new 13-inch Macbook Pro (which I love). I also picked up an iPhone when it was first released and have upgraded every year, although I have to admit that I’m not happy with Apple’s app store policies and have strongly considered switching to an Android or S60 device.

My favorite Mac programs include 1Password, Fluid and iBank. On the iPhone side I’m partial to Kindle, Fieldrunners and Byline (iTunes links). I have an absolute obsession about to-do applications and have tried them all on both the Mac and the iPhone.

Aside from Technology and Apple, I love hiking, reading and spending time with my family (which consists of a beagle, cat and wife). I also love baseball, Go Mariners! I just moved to South America and am improving my Spanish skills and exploring my new home.

I’m very excited to be writing for TheAppleBlog. When it was time to look for a new gig I started by asking those sites that I loved reading the most, and imagine my surprise when my number one choice was willing to take on silly old me? I’ve always been impressed by the high quality of writing on this site and I hope I can continue that tradition.

If you want to learn more about me (lord help you) find me on Twitter @AlfredoJPadilla.

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Palm Pre to get revamped WebOS, app sales to
begin soon

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 16 September 2009 06:30:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Palm may be ready to launch WebOS 1.2 on the Pre as early as next week, an unnamed source told PreCe...

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Whats New in Android 1.6

post from Daring Fireball on 16 September 2009 06:16:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Official video from Google showing what’s new in the latest release of Android.

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Reports of Trackball Trouble With the BlackBerry
Tour

post from Daring Fireball on 16 September 2009 06:13:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Sounds like the scrollball in the Mighty Mouse:

In a research note, Hallaren writes that RIMM is ?having a big trackball problem,? especially with the Tour. He reports that RIMM ?needs customers to clean the track ball frequently, and preferably with compressed air.? He adds that, ?not surprisingly, most customers prefer not to.?

TownHall reports that return rates on the Tour at Sprint ?have been climbing toward 50%.? He adds that Sprint perceives RIMM overall quality control is a huge problem.?

The Tour is the new flagship BlackBerry model.

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Kottke on the iPhone as the Universal Pocket
Device

Crackerjack piece by Kottke on how the iPhone — and, to a lesser extent, other mobile platforms like BlackBerry, Android, and WebOS — isn’t just competing against phones, but against dozens of different types of pocketable gadgetry: cameras, music players, game players, e-book readers, etc.

In a footnote, he speculates that Apple might soon change the iPhone’s name:

You’ve got to wonder when Apple is going to change the name of the iPhone. The phone part of the device increasingly seems like an afterthought, not the main attraction. The main benefit of the device is that it does everything. How do you choose a name for the device that has everything? Hell if I know.

If Apple were worried about the applicability of the noun in iNoun formations, they’d have changed the name of iTunes, of which tunes are now just a part of it, years ago. If this platform is here for the long run, the general purpose name that best works for a general purpose device is already here: iPod. In fact, iPod, semantically, is a better name for the iPod Touch than it ever was for the original focused-on-music models. As I see it, the phone in iPhone isn’t about telephony, but about the necessary contract with a mobile carrier.

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Michael Tsai on the Precedence of or in
AppleScript

I’ve gone back and tested it on 10.5, and Tsai is correct that my original script, although it ran without error, wasn’t doing what I thought it was doing. And I concur with his suggestion that this is the most AppleScript-y way to do it:

if _browser is not in {"Safari", "WebKit"} then

This syntax also has the advantage of scaling better if you’re comparing against more than just two strings. I’ve edited my previous entries on this technique accordingly.

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