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So called "push" notification has always come across as a bit of fiction to me. If my device is sleeping, there is no magical way a remote server can wake my device and force a message upon it. Somewhere underneath the hood, the device is waking up,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider He adds that new software standard called Tru2way might help Apple in this regard. It eliminates the need for special tuning cards and allows two-way communication from the user's box to the cable system,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Apple is slowly dropping PowerPC compatibility with its latest software releases as evidenced by a major new feature of iLife '09 that will function only on Intel-based Macs. [...] System requirement…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton This is ridiculous. I know, absolutely, 100%, that I will not purchase anything or subscribe to anything through an online ad. Therefore, the ad serves no purpose to me, except making my browsing experience less…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Most Flash Lite implementations actually depend on an app that runs entirely outside of the web browser and are often based on older versions of Flash that limit their performance and feature set; Jobs has…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pk22901 Sorry. How's this obvious? [...] Thanks for your time. Enjoy the obvious. http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
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Great, more junk patents. Somebody stop the madness please.
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Um, who cares. I'm still waiting for that Mac mini update everyone thought was happening weeks ago. Now they're posting rumors about an iMac that apparently isn't designed yet, because they don't even know which chips are going into it?
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell "Multitouch may not be new, but "using the pinching motion where the zoom is relative to the space between the users fingers ? meets the base requirement for patentability," according to Peterman. Can Appl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 Apple has said *nothing* about Palm or the Palm pre and nothing about Palm violating their patents, that was all the work of the "industry analysts." Apple's COO Tim Cook made a couple of related brief co…
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BTW, this guy's a genius! Now he's got AppleInsider covering his app to generate more ad revenue.
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Doesn't Britney Spears have another song in the top 10? What's the difference?
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Well, it crashed the first time I quit out of it, but otherwise, it seems to be less buggy than the previous version ... so far anyhow. What always bothered me with the previous versions was that the Flip4Mac WMA/WMV plug-in actually worked bette…
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It's long past time for stock market reform. Reduce the capital gains tax, and start taxing stock trades. The whole purpose of a stock market is to encourage long-term corporate investment (and sometimes short-term), not gambling on the day-to-day h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "I start out by telling you where to download the hacked operating system software," Chen wrote. I'd suggest not starting out like that in the future. Quote: A similar legal complaint was delivered la…
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Quote: Originally Posted by badtux I have an iPhone. I like what I see thus far of the Palm Pre. [...] 3. Elegant multi-tasking UI design. You can definitely see the Apple influence there. Android and Windows Mobile are butt-ugly, inconsistent…
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Well, if we're suggesting other RSS viewers/readers, let me put in a plug for Vienna. Switched to it a couple of years ago and never looked back. It's free, specific to the Mac, and open source. So open that I've even mucked around with how it displ…
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So is there any reason to believe that web-based apps won't be just as big of a flop on the Pre as they were on the iPhone?
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Quote: Originally Posted by zunx Palm, WHERE IS THE NEW VERSION OF Palm Desktop for Mac? It has not been updated for a decade, being limited and buggy!!! LOL! Yeah, the #1 reason I stopped using my last two PDAs (Palm OS and a Zaurus) was lack…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brentsg I voted no simply because I still can't buy into the "all in one" nature of the iMac.... so it's nothing against a 28 in particular. Same here. I have no interest in buying an all-in-one desktop. Waste of a …