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Until the W3C gets some consensus on HTML 5 video, this is all academic. Having to create a cascade of video options (H.264, WebM, Ogg, Flash) in order to reach an audience is so lame. Maybe when 90% of that audience is on iOS we can spend less …

in MPEG releases H.265 draft, promises twice the video quality by 2013 Comment by flowney August 2012

How does this compare with Verizon's shared data plan?

in AT&T to join Verizon in offering shared data plans beginning August 23 Comment by flowney August 2012

I hope that Apple exposes this technology to third parties via an API (may already be available). This could power speech-to-text apps that create captions and subtitles for video, I can see this in iMovie (for home movies) and in conferencing …

in Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: Dictation & speech Comment by flowney July 2012

Poor Woz. After DWTS, he's become incurably addicted to media attention.

in Steve Wozniak on Microsoft Surface: 'Steve Jobs came back reincarnated at Microsoft' Comment by flowney July 2012

My current Mac Pro has four new 3TB Serial-ATA drives. Obviously, I want to retain and use these drives in any new MacPro I buy. So, will the new MacPro support the same HDs as the Early 2008 models?

in New Mac Pros rumored with 8-core Xeon E5 CPUs, Thunderbolt & USB 3.0 Comment by flowney June 2012

So what ever happened to Apple's scheme to perform the same functions in software or firmware? This would enable switching carriers on the fly with an intuitive app that lays out the options available for any geographic area. Prepaid would be a …

in Motorola & RIM propose nano-SIM compromise with Apple Comment by flowney May 2012

The major conceptual gap between iCloud and MobileMe is sharing. Specifically, MobileMe (and iWork.com) had some decent sharing capabilities whereas iCloud has nothing. The iCloud philosophy seems to be that it's "all about me." That doesn…

in Apple extends MobileMe subscribers' free 20GB of iCloud storage until September Comment by flowney May 2012

This will be very hard on the folks in Microsoft's Mac Business Unit. They develop MS Office for Mac which actually turns a profit! How will they get Office on iPad? Maybe they have a special dispensation. Then, too, it will be hard for MS mar…

in Microsoft rumored to stop funding employee purchases of Apple's iPads, Macs Comment by flowney March 2012

A "sumptuary tax" is NOT the best corporate response in this case.

in AT&T introduces larger, costlier data plans: $30 for 3GB, $20 for 300MB Comment by flowney January 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna There is an ePub template for Pages but it's not very pretty Actually, it is quite good if you take the time to explore it beyond the admittedly terse tech notes.

in Apple's 'Bliss' e-textbook project inspired by Al Gore's 'Our Choice' Comment by flowney January 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich HyperCard used to be intuitive. Keynote is fairly intuitive. These are examples of the program doing the grunt work so the author/designer/etc. can focus on the content. Web page design is horrible drudger…

in Apple's 'Bliss' e-textbook project inspired by Al Gore's 'Our Choice' Comment by flowney January 2012

You've correctly identified most of the tools that Apple could enhance (iAd Producer, Pages and the Automator tools showcased by padilicious.com). However, there is more. Take a look at what the Open University has done in iTunes U. They have de…

in Apple's upcoming textbook event to focus on ebook distribution, not tools Comment by flowney January 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil No, it works fine. Here's Air Force One, straight from the iTunes Store a few years back (sorry, but it's obviously not captioned; I'm just showing that it's possible). You can see everything about it. …