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    enTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous

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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    10/20/09

    In reply to enTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous
    It is ugly, but the concept is very good. Dedicated ebooks are not the answer, if I am going to carry around something as big as an ebook, I want it to do more than just display a book. Until we get colour screens as crisp as an ebook, these hybridized transitional forms are the next best thing. #entourageedge
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    10/20/09

    In reply to enTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous
    Personally I think the idea is great. I'm not sure I would call the thing hideous but it certainly use some work. Why use such a thick and chunky bezel? Whats with that hinge? Is is functional ie; you can use the screens back to back so you can see one at-a-time is desired? or is it simply a misguided design statement?

    I say thin up that bezel, and ditch the white/grey color scheme/laMe Name and you might have a pretty nice piece of hardware. #entourageedge
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    Image of zablyplux zablyplux
    10/20/09

    @Bertone77: Click the link and you'll see that the hinge does in fact let you use it back to back so you can see one at a time, and there are four colors available, two different blues, and a red, not just the white/grey.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    10/20/09

    @zablyplux: Oh, I see, I'm going to give this one the big thumbs up for the back to back awesomeness. #entourageedge
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    Image of frigg frigg
    06/16/09

    In reply to 'Incoming' iPhone App Allows You To Use Skype Over 3G and Edge
    Not all my friends are as attractive as the ones in the picture. Will it still work?
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    Image of doctorSpoc doctorSpoc
    01/14/09

    In reply to Apple Approves New Browsers in App Store, As Long As They're Based On Safari
    ok, you guys are officially idiots!


    you have it bass akward... safari is based on webkit, not the other way around. how the hell can you be writing this story and not have any idea of what the hell your are talking about.


    webkit come from the rendering engine from the konqueror browser that was used as a part of KDE (an open source UNIX windowing system).. apple used the open source code and has been adding to the project ever since..


    webkit is not even a browser it's a rendering engine... Google Chrome and Palms new bowser also used webkit actually lots of new browsers use it and are adding to the code base... it's not an apple or a safari thing at all..


    idiots!

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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    01/14/09

    @doctorSpoc: This has been typical of late. Its what happens when you have a blog being run by people who are tech addicts, but not necessarily tech savvy. Unfortunately more often than not it means the wrong information is put out there, as unlike reporters, bloggers have a tendency to write now, research after the fact, though a lot of reporters as of late like to do that too.
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    Image of apt94jesse apt94jesse
    01/14/09

    @doctorSpoc: I don't see the issue. They said "but they're all based on Safari's WebKit." I guess technically it's not only Safari's webkit rendering engine, but do you really expect them to site the history all the way back.


    "these browsers are based on webkit, which is safari's rendering engine, which apple took from konqueror, which is kde's browser, which is a graphical desktop environment for many linux distributions, linux of course being the brainchild of Linus Trovalds, grandson of poet Ole Torvalds..."


    Seriously, if people don't know that webkit is Safari's rendering engine then they're not paying much attention anyhow. Lighten up.

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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    01/14/09

    @apt94jesse: Except they make it sound like its Apples which it isnt. Google, Palm, even some forks of Mozilla are all including aspects of Webkit into their browsers as of late.


    Saying it has to be "based" on Safari is just plain wrong, as Chrome is certainly not based on Safari.


    Face it, it was poor reporting.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/14/09

    @Jim Topoleski: My cat's breath smell's like cat food. WTF?
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    01/14/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Dudes, the main issue is that you can only implement browsing functions in your app if it calls on Safari's engine. Yes, that's WebKit. But it's Apple's fork of WebKit, not any other--you couldn't use Chrome's, for example.


    The issue is that the rendering engine does not vary from the one in Safari's, so these aren't really new browsers.

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    Image of Inception Inception
    01/14/09

    In reply to Apple Approves New Browsers in App Store, As Long As They're Based On Safari
    How about they make a "stable" version of Safari instead?
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    Image of biikman biikman
    01/14/09

    @Inception:


    no kidding! While the crashes have been less frequent with 2.2, they still happen and it is damn annoying.

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    Image of EBone EBone
    01/14/09

    @biikman: My crashes occur on Javascript heavy pages. There is an option in the preferences for Safari to turn Java off.
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    Image of verythrax verythrax
    01/14/09

    In reply to Apple Approves New Browsers in App Store, As Long As They're Based On Safari
    As Long As They're Based On WebKit, you mean.
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    01/14/09

    @verythrax: Sort of, but not quite.


    It doesn't look like you could bring in your own branch of webkit here, or even interfere with any of the rendering functions at all. As Long As They're Based On Safari Mobile's Branch of WebKit would be a totally accurate (goofily long) title.

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    Image of Ehrich Blackhound Ehrich Blackhound
    01/14/09

    In reply to Apple Approves New Browsers in App Store, As Long As They're Based On Safari
    That's like Ford when it was still making the Model T. You could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black. WTF, apple?!
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    01/14/09

    @Ehrich Blackhound: What's wrong with black?
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