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iPad 3G is here

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:54:34 +0000

So, after a little while waiting, we now have an iPad wifi+3G 64gb version for our main portable. While all our development work has to stay on the Mac, our Macbook Air will go our to pasture.

At this stage we are using the iPad on wifi 99% of the time, but it has a prepay SIM loaded for that occasional use. There is a school of thought which says to hack your iPhone and use a tether system, no point, and who wants a hacked phone when a simple prepay data SIM is so easy to get!

So far, it is just an iPad, walk out onto the street, and it still an iPad! The wifi version without a data connection is kinda like a dataless piece of glass.

iPad wifi

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:53:39 +0000

The iPad wifi is a cool machine, in fact I’m using one now to write this using Wordpress for iPad. Works well. I’m curious to see how the people who like to import iPads will go with the 3G model. I hope it goes smoothly, but i have a feeling that there is more to it than just dropping in a sim.

I have also found that Safari doesn’t quite display pages like the desktop version, the pages work, they just don’t render the same way. I guess you can’t have it all!

HTML5 dev environment

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:10:03 +0000

HTML5 needs a dev environment!

While we can hack away in our text editors to get HTML5 out there – it should be noted that there is an opportunity for a company to write a hot editor as Adobe are certainly not going to do it! Maybe Apple should do it? Part of the iAd suite?

This is a cool learning tool

iPad Mad

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:46:34 +0000

The iPad has caused a frenzy already – reviews were out early and the public got in touch with it this weekend past. Without doubt this is a big change for mobile computing. The iPad will be the machine which changed it. While it may not be the only machine out there – it is the one which solidified the idea of a high powered specialized piece of hardware with a HUGE array of applications for free or sale.

Which one am I gunning for? The 32GB iPad 3G. I’ll drop a cheap data SIM into it and have everything I need like I do with the iPhone now – but with a keyboard I can actually type on and applications which make sense. Ever tried using a terminal on an iPhone?

Numeraders 2.0 still coming!

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:16:07 +0000

We have had a few emails about where Numeraders 2.0 is – its on its way!!! Just a few more days/weeks maybe! It may be iPad compatible too….

Get your site iPad ready

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:07:55 +0000

Just because we are big fans of the iPad concept, we HOPE that a lot of you will head down the whole html and jquery style website rather than the Flash site. Why? So we can enjoy your site on any device we choose to use!

We have even come across some sites which blog about how the de-Flash is starting to happen – and then the next week launch their own Flash based site! Funny.

Building a site completely in Flash is not something we understand – using Flash to deliver some of the media content seems like a better idea (and even display an alternative if Flash is not detected). Those sites which use Flash for primary navigation need to be changed. Flash for primary navigation of your site just isn’t a good idea. There are a number of things you can do with other (more compatible) technology.

We look forward to visiting your sites on !

JellyVNC tech

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:25:40 +0000

JellyVNC Beta 2 has been out for a couple of days and a few people have asked how to edit their bookmarks since the edit button is not yet working. Easy.

Open your fav text editor (Text Wrangler/BBEdit/TextEdit) and navigate to /Users//Library/Preferences/JellyVNCBookmarks.xml

The structure is quite basic and should be easy to follow. Don’t alter the structure or it will crash JellyVNC on launch. If you have crashing problems and you suspect a corrupt file – delete it. (You will lose your BMs)

iPad ad

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:19:06 +0000

The oscars bring up the unexpected every year – but this year it was Apple who pulled a bit of a surprise. Don’t worry, nothing too scary – just a new iPad ad. It shows the interface of the iPad a bit more and shows it isn’t just a big iPhone – it is the first true Macintosh.

Check it out here

Why would you get an iPad?

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:52:33 +0000

Its been done to death on the internet – the iPad and who would want one? The iPad represents the first real chance of a change in the way we compute. The smartphone showed us how mobile phone can change from those terrible Nokias from the 1990s to something which is always connected and is actually useful.

The iPad may well be the first real Macintosh. In 1984 the Mac was released as a computer for the rest of us – a kind of computing toaster appliance. Trouble is, it has disks, a OS which you had to work with and this keyboard/mouse combo. My mother could use it, but it wasn’t natural. And if you got a system error, you had to know how to diagnose and fix it. Too hard.

The iPhone showed how we can use a small handheld computer with a huge AppStore library. Make the screen bigger and add a few new ways of interacting with content, and you have a new platform. A true Macintosh. No visible OS. No System Errors. No mouse. Just swipe the unlock and you are away.

Of course the geek is going to not like this device, they want to see the bits and bytes, climb into the kernel, hack a bluetooth keyboard into it. Go ahead! But for the user who just wants email, web, Facebook, Twitter, a bit of word processing, update the budget spreadsheet, a few recreational games, an eBook or two – this is it!

JellyVNC b2 for Mac OS X

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:06:24 +0000

A beta of JellyVNC is out for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard users. This is a simple bookmark manager for Apple’s built in Screen Sharing. The edit button doesn’t work in this build – but everything else does!

Download it here.