Apple - Support - Discussions - Screen auto-dimming when I hit delete ….
LOL, this had me puzzled for a bit. While playing with my mac, I noticed the screen dimmed everytime I hit the delete key.
What happened:
the mac book pro adjust screen brightness to the ambient light
it has two light sensors in the stereo speakers
when [...]
What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t.
Business week has an interesting article on the economics of platforms. Interesting, but flawed. They compare two platforms (Facebook, and Apple’s mobile platform). The argument goes roughly as follows: Apple is using it’s platform to create a new market by being open and Facebook is using traditional methods of using [...]
There is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged beer, google, microsoft, nokia, Software in General, ubuntu, windowsI flew to San Francisco yesterday to do some sight seeing, visit my colleagues in NRC Palo Alto, and attend CCNC in Las Vegas next week. The flight was pretty long. I took the 6:15 flight to Amsterdam from Helsinki (i.e. I got up 3:30 am) and was supposed to leave to SF at 11:10. [...]
Also tagged travelingNormally when I play with a new browser (like a few weeks ago when I tried out Flock 1.0) I usually post at least something. In the past week I played with no less than three new browsers.
I started out by installing opera mini 4.0 on my N95. Earlier versions of this program were already [...]
Convenience finally won me over. I made my first online music purchase with iTunes plus, the DRM free music shop of Apple. Initially, when they launched this shop, they chose to offer music at a higher price than the DRM music. A few weeks ago, they reduced prices to what they were charging for their [...]
Also tagged reviews
Apple iPod Classic | Reg Hardware
i want this
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VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
If you are remotely interested in computers, watch this. Take the time to watch all of it.
(tags: apple microsoft billgates stevejobs)
As you may know, I currently use iTunes. And despite it’s quirks which include difficult to migrate library and the occasional instability it’s a very nice application overall and I’ve been reasonably happy with it for more than a year now (ever since I bought my ipod).
Well, there’s a great new music player called songbird. [...]
