It appears that Apple has addressed and resolved the problems that some customers had with their iPod touch displays. Customers at the MacRumors forums have confirmed that the defective iPod touchs had serial numbers beginning with 9C737, and that units with serial numbers beginning with 9C738 seem to be free of problems.
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iTunes doesn’t allow editing of the information for multiple video files. But it does, sort of.
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Apple’s press release confirms that T-Mobile will be the official carrier for the iPhone in Germany. The iPhone will go on sale November 9, 2007 at Telekom Shops of Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile web shop. “iPhone requires a new 2-year T-Mobile tariff and will be available in an 8GB model for €399 including V.A.T. [...]
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As pointed out by Macenstein, this picture from the Engadget gallery shows the option of “TV Out” in what is most likely a simple software update of the iPhone. One of my initial complaints of the iPhone was its lack of any video out option for watching videos on a TV. I am pleased to [...]
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Apple just released the iPhone for the UK and stated that the carrier will be O2. The iPhone will go on sale for £269 including VAT starting November 9. There are new iPhone commercials for the UK. They are the same as the US versions, but with British voice-over. The Guardian has replaced the New [...]
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Ars Technica has an in-depth review of the iPod touch. Ars also confirms that the iPod touch screen is inferior to the iPhone’s screen. Other than that, the iPod touch still sounds like a nice device.
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There have been many reports of the iPod touch’s display not being as good as that of the iPhone. I look at some of the pictures, and I see a definite difference, but it is the difference I see with many LCD’s when viewing at an angle. Is this truly a case of bad or [...]
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John Gruber at daringfireball.net reports that redeeming your $100 iPhone credit is “Easy as pie”. Typical Apple style. Apple iPhone Store Credit
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Back in 2002 I created this font modeled after the font on the C5 Corvettes. I made it available on my webserver at home, and a few people downloaded it and liked it. The following year I moved, changed jobs, and just became rather busy, and I no longer had the font hosted for public [...]
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If you haven’t heard of Folding@home, it is a distributed computing effort organized by Stanford University to aid in the study of how proteins fold. From Stanford’s site: What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology’s workhorses — its “nanomachines.” Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they [...]
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