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Apple iPhone SDK Liveblog Archive
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We're on campus, getting read to liveblog Apple's iPhone roadmap event at 10AM California time. Updates will start soon at: [Live.Gizmodo.com and the Macworld 2008 Archive]
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Apple iPhone SDK Liveblog: It Has Begun
We're on campus, getting read to liveblog Apple's iPhone roadmap event at 10AM California time. Updates will start soon at: [Live.Gizmodo.com and the Macworld 2008 Archive]
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ripping made legal
Fox's Legal iTunes DVD Rip Works Great, Wastes Plastic
Amid all of the MacBook Air hullabaloo, you might have forgotten about the Apple announcement that Fox would begin providing "free" iTunes versions of programs via DVD. The first release was Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest, a Star Wars parody. Being the brave product testers that we are, we tried it out. It was, well, kinda weird. More »
macworld 2008
All Things Macworld 2008: Get it Right Here
Just in case you missed anything, here is all of the news from Macworld 2008: More »
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Fastest Macworld Keynote Liveblog Ever: Thanks
It happened again•According to not a few people, we had the fastest and most reliable liveblog around. From what I was told, we had roughly 5 minute lead on our closest competitors on images with publish times at about 10 seconds from snap, and for text, we were neck and neck with the always fast Macrumors. And we never went down. Thanks to the tech teams at Gawker and Wordpress, the flying fingers of Giz's editorial staff, and of course, all you readers who stayed fixated on the Jobsnote via the Giz.
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Hands-on With FastMac's iV iPhone Battery Pack
The Gadget: iV iPhone case and battery, which adds 4x as much battery time to the iPhone while not adding too much more bulk.
The Verdict: The rubberized plastic feels nice, the LED flash/flashlight on the back is good for finding your keys or taking low-light pictures and it clips neatly onto your belt if you're one of those belt dudes. There's also a USB port on the back for charging another device while your iPhone is being charged/docked. $79. [Fastmac]
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GIzmodo Live at Macworld 2008
We got the Justin.tv cam ready to go and we're going to walk you through the latest offerings at Macworld 2008 between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. PST. In-depth looks at the MacBook Air, Time Capsule, Apple TV Take 2 and the new iPhone firmware can all be expected. Stay tuned. More »
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Updated with battery life stats, by popular demand. We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It's so thin! You can't argue with that! But if you're in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option? I pored over specs for four similarly positioned and more-or-less similarly priced laptops to see if you'll get your $1,800 worth out of the Air. Let's go to the chart, shall we?
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Is MacBook Air Worth the Money? Five Slim Laptops Face Off
Updated with battery life stats, by popular demand. We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It's so thin! You can't argue with that! But if you're in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option? I pored over specs for four similarly positioned and more-or-less similarly priced laptops to see if you'll get your $1,800 worth out of the Air. Let's go to the chart, shall we?
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1:00 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Adam Frucci
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Latest by Philscbx: With so much of today's data is image/video based, it's not a contender w/o firewire. Guess I'll struggle along on the old G4 Powerbook. 3 years old and the best of firewire ports. I was hoping the MBA was going to be more »
buyer's remorse
MacBook Pro Woes: What Should I Do Now?
Alright, so I was fairly impressed with the Macworld keynote. Lots of neat little bits, and the MacBook Air is a pretty amazing sliver of a machine. But it's not what many of us had hoped for. All I really wanted for Macworld was a 13-inch MacBook Pro. A serious but compact workhorse, not a sexy will-o-the-wisp. And now I'm too scared to even buy the current 15-inch MacBook Pro. Why? More »
breakingomfg
Apple Introduces Manila Case—The World's Thinnest Notebook Case
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 16, 2008—Apple® today unveiled Manila® Case®, the world's thinnest case for the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. When empty, Manila Case measures an unprecedented 0.07-inches at its thinnest point, but its dynamically adaptable height goes up to a maximum of 6.9-inches, adapting perfectly to the MacBook Air shape as well as to a standard* Reuben sandwich, made with pastrami, sauerkraut, swiss cheese and russian dressing on rye bread.More »
macworld 2008
The End of an Era: Steve Jobs Says Only One Boom!
A lot of you have complained about Steve's "Booms" in the past. Old. Tired, you say, especially in our cartoons. Well, judging by yesterday's keynote, the Apple head man thinks the same. Compare and contrast yesterday's miserly tally of one "Boom!" to last year's bumper crop of 15 B-words. So, what word should El Jobso start repeating like a Tourettes-addled teenager now? More »
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Meet MacBook Air's Kids: Ethernet and SuperDrive Peripherals
If the MacBook Air is the mother of all slimline notebooks, then these two must be her offspring: you may have to ferry them around a lot if you watch DVDs or use wired surfing while you're on the road. While the Superdrive is a slot-loading 8x number in an aluminium jacket, and weighing just over a pound, the Ethernet adapter looks to be a standard Apple white, and gives you that RJ-45 connector for 10/100BASE-T support that everyone's talking about. Combined together they take up around 25 cubic inches we think, showing just how skinny the Air itself actually is at 52 cubic inches: More »
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Want a sense of how thin the new MacBook Air really is? Here is full rotation of the MacBook suspended in Air, showing you all sides, and providing a perfect visual reference to how surprisingly thin the computer is. [Full MacBook Air Coverage on Gizmodo]
MacBook Air: 360 Degrees of Video
Want a sense of how thin the new MacBook Air really is? Here is full rotation of the MacBook suspended in Air, showing you all sides, and providing a perfect visual reference to how surprisingly thin the computer is. [Full MacBook Air Coverage on Gizmodo]
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Highlight Reel: Apple's Official MacBook Air Tour in 60 Seconds
Why sit through all 7+ minutes of the MacBook Air guided tour when we have what you need right here? Take a look at the Air's thin frame, check out a hand gesture or two, and learn how to install software via Remote Disc, from a Windows PC or a Mac. Stay until the end for two bonus shots of the MacBook Air up close. If you can handle more, hit Apple's site for the full-length video. [Apple]
Why sit through all 7+ minutes of the
4:24 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Benny Goldman
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Latest by n/a: Its all fine and well that your willing to throw out your flawed magnetic storage but with blue ray doing what its doing optical media aint no frisbee...50Gb on soon to be inexspensive reliable yet disposable medium... to sweet to more »
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MacBook Air's Fatal Flaw: Battery, RAM, HD Sealed Like an iPod
The MacBook Air is an amazing piece of hardware. It's iPod sexy, but there's an iPod catch. Because just like an iPod, you can't just crack it open to replace the hard drive, memory or even battery, according to the Apple employees on the Macworld floor. Obviously a slew of services and devices will fill this battery replacement gap, but just know that when Apple pitches you 5 hours of runtime with the Air, that's all you get. More »
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Apple TV Take 2 Impressions
Apple TV's new interface is looking really fantastic, sucking only the best parts of Cover Flow for eye candy, while keeping the interface efficient and large-scaled for plenty of data accessibility. The biggest surprise? Streaming is lightning quick. While users of Amazon's Unbox know that streaming delays can be a pain in the butt, ruining the experience of a spontaneous rental, Apple TV SD and HD clips were both ready to stream after only 5 to 10 seconds. We'll see how speedy the service is once Apple's servers are supporting the weight of thousands of fanboy hearts, but for now, we're pretty excited about the new direction of Apple TV.
UPDATE: Ars just uncovered that hi-def content can only be rented (not bought) and is only accessible through Apple TV (not iTunes on computers). Until our hard drives get a lot bigger, I don't mind not buying digital HD movies. [arstechnica]
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MacBook Air Multi-touch Gesture Pad Hands-On
Using the multitouch gesture pad felt like the next step in Apple's trademark MacBook mouse replacement (the Trackpad/Touchpad), rather than an iPhone screen being shoved into a laptop (as it was pitched at the keynote). For the most part, it's responsive. We found hiccups when scrolling through an image in iPhoto (zoomed), but our guess is that such issues were due to processor power and not the pad itself. Pinching (zooming) in to photos is fantastic, especially when you are in a multi-picture view in iPhoto (allowing you to scale the photocentric UI with ease). Rotating seems fairly flawless. Two second verdict: great, but not an iPhone. It's more like Touchpad 2.0.
PS. The MacBook Air feels like a giant iPod Classic. So good. Video by Chris Mascari.
2:34 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Mark Wilson
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Latest by mac4drew: @WorkingOnYourInvoice: The one I played with today was actually the 80GB HDD model. I'm not sure if they had any SSD models on the floor. I didn't notice any lag on the sample image I played with, although it seemed more »
time capsule
Time Capsule Hands-on
Apple's Time Capsule backup server is a great idea, and looks great as well. It's the same size as the Airport Extreme, but seems heavier. It has the exact same ports as the Airport Extreme (four Gigabit Ethernet ports, normal power ports) and has 802.11n. The top is different and has a chrome reflective Apple logo. There's not much else to say until we get our hands on it at home and test it ourselves, so check out the gallery to see how it looks. Bad news: The hard drive isn't user replaceable. A guy said he didn't think you could use it for NAS, but it connects to Finder like a normal NAS, so it probably can be used that way.
