Tag: apple
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Suggestions to Improve Screenshots on Android Wear
Michael Mahemoff once called screen capture functionality for iOS Apple’s Million-Dollar PR Gift to Developers. Written in 2011, Android still hasn’t learned that lesson. Here’s how to take a screenshot on your Android Wear device: Starting from the watch face, navigate to the desired screen on your Android Wear watch Switch to your Android phone…
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The Microsoft Surface will have a retail price comparable with competitive ultrabook-class PCs. Steven Sinofsky addressing pricing expectations at the Microsoft Surface event. I was very curious to see what a “competitive ultrabook-class PC” cost. So I googled some stuff. From the Wikipedia entry on Ultrabooks, I gather that ultrabooks typically cost between $800 and…
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From Ken Segall’s new book, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success: Steve’s idea was to do a Willy Wonka with it. Just as Wonka did in the movie, Steve wanted to put a golden certificate representing the millionth iMac inside the box of one iMac, and publicize that fact. Whoever opened the lucky…
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Safari Web Inspector versus WebKit Web Inspector (pictured above) The latest Safari 5.2 Update 3 (available to registered Safari developers) includes a Safari-specific Web Inspector enabled by default. You now have two web inspector’s to choose from: Safari’s, or WebKit’s. You can use the Develop menu to switch between the two. Overall, there’s more consistency…
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Testing Sencha.com with iPad 3 Retina display. Click to view full-size. This morning I opened up the new iOS Simulator 5.1 to test our website and see how it looks when every pixel is doubled as on a high-resolution retina-display. I soon wondered why I couldn’t accomplish this same feat in the desktop Safari application……
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When that camera gets of such quality and capability that you’re proud to use it as your everyday camera for photographs, we call it an iSight camera. And the new iPad has a great iSight camera. There’s been rumors for a while that Apple would create a small handheld device specifically designed for taking photos…
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This Magic Mouse-inspired iPhone mockup is a cool concept. Though it would feel good in your hand, setting it down on its back would be chaotic. I’m not sure Apple would ever release a device with such a dramatic curve. Perhaps something between this and the curve on the iPad 3 could work. Click through…
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iOS ’86 by Anton Repponen (via szymon) Oh my, this is beautiful.
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QR UX: Some clever ideas for integrating QR readers into Apple iOS.
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Apple has a free device to generate tons of buzz for itself and its developers. It’s called Screen Capture. Michael Mahemoff, “Apple’s Million-Dollar PR Gift to Developers*” This, and the fact that you’ve always been able to get a big, beautiful iPhone graphic from the iOS Simulator.
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uxuiuxui: NeXT was acquired by Apple in February of 1997. It took him one year to go from that to this.
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My Week with Google Android Nexus S
I’ve been using a Google Nexus S running Android OS 2.3 as my phone for the past week and I like it. It makes for a very decent smartphone. Frequent needs can be met quickly with a minimum of amount of fuss. (Accomplishing the same task on iOS, though pretty, is not as easy nor…
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I can’t communicate to you how awesome this is unless you use it. … carrying around these computers with tons of data in them is byzantine by comparison. — Steve Jobs, WWDC 1997. If you want to hear a bit of subject matter that Steve Jobs will reignite tomorrow, listen to his closing remarks at…
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When will iTunes allow you to search by lyrics?