Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Earlier today Steve Jobs game his keynote address at MacWorld. There was some cool things announced, including a new MacBook called MacBook Air. While the new MacBook Air is pretty cool, there was another product that I was more interested in. The Time Capsule. This sucker is about the size of the Apple TV and is a wireless NAS system. You use it with Leopard’s Time Machine feature to create point in time backups of all your files. It’s wireless (802.11n) and comes in 500 GB and 1 TB sizes. What really amazed me though was Apple has it listed for only $299 and $499, which is reasonable compared to similar wired devices.
Remember the bit about the Time Capsule having 802.11n built in? It is it’s own access point. You can connect it up to your broadband modem and use it to share your network, or use it to extend an Apple Air-Port based network. So, you’ve got a wireless router and a NAS system all in one. Pretty dang nice.
Of course there was more that came out of MacWorld. (more…)
Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Google, Google Maps, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, iTunes, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacWorld, NAS, Time Capsule
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
We already know that there is an iPhone SDK in the works, and Apple plans to have it available for developers next month. And there is a pretty good chance that we’ll see something about it this week, if not today during Steve Job’s MacWorld 2008 keynote.
My question is, once the SDK is available will we see an Opera browser on the iPhone? I’ve not had any problems surfing with my iPhone, aside from the occasional “safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding” error message. If my experience is already good, could it get better? (more…)
Tags: Apple, AT&T, iPhone, MacWorld, Nintendo, Opera, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, Safari, SDK, web browser, Wii
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
It’s been stated that Apple is working on a way to allow people to order and pay for items via their phone (iPhone of course). Today images surfaced that show how iPhone ordering could work at Starbucks. Real or not, it looks pretty fraking sweet. Could something official about this come next week at MacWorld 2008?
Tags: Apple, iPhone, MacWorld, Starbucks
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