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Quote: Originally Posted by RetroRichie I am quite certain that "most people" do not do that, but that is irrelevant to the point. Apple seems to think there is value in a higher resolution on a 13" machine. But apparently they don't want to se…
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It's happening, folks. The assault has begun. Yesterday a website asked me if I wanted to install a "Safari Update" as an Extension to Safari. The page looked VERY official, with the Apple favicon, Apple fonts, and images. But the URL was of cour…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Great idea. Very interesting idea, for sure. But I wonder if it violates wire-tapping law. It would be nice but a bit creepy. To be honest, I don't trust Apple any more. I don't trust many companies b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism What iOS lacked until version 4.0 was multitasking of App Store apps. I say App Store apps and not 3rd party apps because even Apple’s own App Store apps didn’t have the option to multitask, only the apps tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism That has been possible in the iPhone OS since version 1.0. Maybe, but the pushing to a server to analyze seems to work well enough. Plus, It?s not like any desktop OS has this handled well. I think the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Does Android have speech-to-text? I can imagine the new iPhone or the next having speech-to-text as really quite breakthrough. Sending an SMS just by talking would be awesome. As well as having someone's SMS…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I'm almost expecting Apple to lower the base frequency on the CPU though. Even 1.4 and 1.6 GHz would offer a huge advantage over the current CPU's. Save a few GHz here and there to save battery life. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quillz I don't agree at all with your Win7 comment, but I agree with you that the OS should get out of the way and let the applications take over. I'd take a minimal OS over a flashy any day. (This is why I still appre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlese So when they produce the retina screen version of the MBA later this year you'll be able to fold the screen back on itself and it will immediately boot up iOS and the screen will become touch sensitive and the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips ClicktoFlash is by far the best option for keeping Flash out of the way unless absolutely needed. +1 more vote for ClickToFlash. While I love what Flash can do, I sure hate Flash ads!
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone This the direction Flash should be going. Back to full featured applications that are far beyond the scope of HTML5. While Adobe has been the default video player for several years it has been mostly due to the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleStud why? TB is infinitely better, and I imagine many peripherals (such as DSLRs and external HDDs) will come with both a TB and USB port. Mice, keyboards, and printers are all wireless now. Peripherals need po…
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Quote: Originally Posted by junkie Agreed. I liked the preview 2 tabs better. I like that the brightest one is selected. That makes the most sense to me and is very easy to read. I don't like this new look. I think the selected item is not c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I think it all depends upon where Apple is trying to position AIR and if that positioning requires the support of OpenCL. The other component would be how important gaming is to the AIR platform. The fli…
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Hmm. I like the new look! It would work well for color-blind people, too. It's a good thing they revised it. The original look in DP2 with a giant "slider" was horrible. Still, a dash of color would be nice. I think somewhere between how Aqua is…
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I tried Office 2011. Word and Excel crashed. a lot. I lost work. Anyone else seen that? I will stick with 2008 a while longer. Also that save bug in Excel alone means it's worthless. MS really continues to suck. Nice to know some things don't ch…
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Quote: Originally Posted by azentropy I really dislike the dis-coloration of the interface. I thought it was bad with iTunes, but now in Mail and the Finder... Wow, flash back to the 90's it is just soooo boring. I was hoping it would grow on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 First I don't want anything to do with Google and Android. The company is simply to unethical to do business with. Second I rather see HP or RIM succeed if for nothing else they are atleast trying to innov…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton "Basically an iPad 2 but with Android..." Hahahahahahahaha!!!! You do get the concept that it's the OS that makes the iPad the iPad, right? "Basically a MacBook Pro but with Windows!" "Basically an X…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GMHut Food for thought. 18 months before the release of the last iPhone and with little fan fare, Senator Jon Kyl introduced legislation that allowed Jobs to file a patent on technology code named, "butterball" afte…