Windows 7 announced and on its way!
Posted on | October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Windows 7. Yeah I know, catchy huh? You know, I have to say I’m a tad bit proud of the Microsoft crew for taking this step… Naming it Windows 7, as it is the seventh release of Microsoft Windows.
/../ coming up with an all-new “aspirational” name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve /../ Mike Nash says in his blog post, and I can only assume one of two things. A) They want to get away from anything that may remind their potential consumers of Windows Vista, which really didn’t do Microsoft any good at all. Or B) They’re simply trying to make sense. Either way, I believe it is a good name. Call it uninspiring, call uncreative, heck even unoriginal. But frankly, it makes sense. It sounds good. Not so pretentious.
Landscape typing mode in iPhone with TouchType
Posted on | October 8, 2008 | No Comments
I was so happy when I read Michael Arrington’s article over at at TechCrunch about how Mike Schneider have developed an application called TouchType (webpage link, iTunes link) , which allows you to type in landscape mode when typing emails. This was a given built-in feature for me and I was so disappointed and frankly even more surprised when I discovered it was not.
The price for this nifty software is a puny $0.99, so be sure to try it out! I wonder if Apple could ever take an idea from a guy like this and implement it into the platform. Wouldn’t be nice to the developer in question, but probably appreciated by the end users. Although, I doubt Apple did not think of this, there must be a good reason why they didn’t implemented this from the beginning. Otherwise they’d just be plain dumb if you ask me. Anyway, kudos to Mike Schneider.
Via TechCrunch
Hidden features in iPhone 2.2 — Google Street View and Emoji
Posted on | October 7, 2008 | No Comments
The new platform version 2.2 for the iPhone recently pushed to develpers is said to have some — as of yet — hidden features. These features include Google Street View, support for the japanese emoji icons, and the option to disable auto-correction within the keyboard settings.
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music to kill iPhone?
Posted on | October 3, 2008 | No Comments
According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.se, the new Nokia phone 5800 is a real iPhone killer. Let’s start by looking at the price. €279 with no plan, no commitments, no nothing. That sounds very good indeed. That price might take out the Apples Iphone, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and Htc Touch Diamond right on the spot.
Secondly, let’s look at the music side of it. It is indeed called Xpress Music. In countries where the Nokias Music Store is available, users can download directly to their mobile device, nice. But oooooh. The music is DRM protected. Not good, seems to me like Nokia is a bit after its time.
Apple drops iPhone Dev. NDA — Right after Android is released…
Posted on | October 2, 2008 | No Comments
Apple decided to drop the not so popular iPhone Developer Non-Discloser Agreement. Hopefully this will attract even more developers to the iPhone market. The timing of the announcement is suspiciously convenient as the T-Mobile G1 was announced recently, which features the Google made platform Android, released under the open source license. To me, this feels like a good response to the customers feedback, and also perhaps a necessary strategic step. Not that I think developers would simply stop developing for the iPhone, but it definitely makes the platform more attractive and might result in even more high quality applications.