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STFU_FPU!
07/31/09

In reply to LG BL40 Ad Offers Clues About How on Earth You Use a 21:9 Screen
wasn't the pinch-zoom patented by Apple? I may be wrong, but I saw a few things that resembled patent law-breaking. pls. don't flame me....ahhh what the hell it's Friday! ;-)
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tande04
07/31/09

@World iS Mi iPhone!!: You're wrong.

That was never part of the patent actually. There was supposed to be some fireworks when palm put it in on the pre but it never happened when that didn't happen everyone jumped on pinch to zoom. HTC's phones have it now too.
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Stingers
07/31/09

In reply to LG BL40 Ad Offers Clues About How on Earth You Use a 21:9 Screen
Any chance this drops on Verizon? Preferably around mid-October?
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tande04
07/31/09

@Stingers: Something like it is going to hit VZW. Its just going by Chocolate touch. Could be the exact same phone with different guts. Could be completely different.
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lpranal
07/31/09

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this video tells me almost nothing about how this thing actually works! there's like 6 seconds of actual UI.

I think 1:09 of the 1956 scifi classic Forbidden Planet would have been way more interesting, plus the screen and aspect ratio of the film would actually match up perfectly.
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TheGerk
07/31/09

In reply to LG BL40 Ad Offers Clues About How on Earth You Use a 21:9 Screen
What I can't believe, is that they'd reuse the Chocolate name. The original Chocolate had to have been one of the most poorly designed phones ever made.

At least it doesn't have Chocolate written all over it.
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tande04
07/31/09

@TheGerk: Don't confuse the VZW chocolate with the LG chocolate. The one that LG eventually made for VZW was no where near as nice.

Since LG is apparently making a "chocolate touch" for VZW I'm hoping they don't do the same thing and release a high quality BL phone for the rest of the world and put out a crappy copy for VZW.
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pretsal
05/25/09

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Now, just being a curious noob, he is using a stylus for this correct?
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bosskev
05/25/09

@pretsal: I believe he actually used his finger, if you can assume the New Yorker article is being literal calling it "finger painting". And that actually is more than possible; I've used Brushes and it is (or can be) completely finger-driven. That said, there is an optional capacitive touch stylus one can get, the Pogo Sketch from Ten One Design, about $15 and easily well worth the investment.

I have the stylus, it is nice, much more control than just using a finger, although there is something quite satisfying about using only your finger to paint. However, do be careful not to tilt the Pogo Sketch too far toward horizontal as the metal ferrule around the spongy tip can scratch into your iPhone's surface--at least on mine, where I have one of those clear "mylar" shield thingies on the glass, it did manage to scratch the shield. Lesson learned.
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Baroness
05/25/09

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Loved the funny about the 93 year old editor with the monocle. Happily the editor in charge of covers is sprightly 50-something Francoise Mouly, whose long experience in comix (she's Art Spiegelman's wife, was an editor of the classic RAW etc.) has made her NYer cover picks far from fusty.

It's a very nice illustration, iPhone or not (and let's face it, it's just PR).
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MINI Driver
05/25/09

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I hear that the editors of BSOD monthly have commissioned a WinMo generated cover, but no one can get an App to run that provides a touch interface...
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bosskev
05/25/09

@MINI Driver, @p0op, @Dafrety: I myself AM a die-hard Apple fanboy and, ya' know, MINI Driver, both p0op and Dafrety are right--your comments ARE consistently annoying as hell. Please develop a new schtick or move on. You are not appreciated on EITHER side of the flame wars.
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LessthanZach
05/25/09

@bosskev: Agreed, after looking at @MINI Driver: profile, there seems to be a pattern of comments... I.E.

Swoon for apple/mac

Disparage ms/windows

call someone an idiot for having their own opionion

disparage ms some more

end with some impressive apple statistic

I don't get it. It's like a f&@#ing fanboy haiku! I LOVE apple products. I have a first gen iphone, and a macbook pro 15inch (sadly only with the core duo) which just took a shat unfortunately, and had a G4 prior to that. I also have an HP DV5 which I love for everything my mac products don't do. Moral is, both companies DO bring something to the table. If someone likes MS better, just leave them to their own opinion and preference.

On a higher note, Mini's are pretty cool cars..

(you see that's called being nice to people)
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MINI Driver
05/25/09

@LessthanZach: you all need to chill the hell out!
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bosskev
05/25/09

@MINI Driver: Well, while it wasn't "everybody roll-your-eyes" at the rabid fanboy drivel, I'm not sure I'd call this most recent comment an improvement...
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MINI Driver
05/25/09

@bosskev: I know it's hard for you to grasp - but I'm really not looking for your approval...
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bosskev
05/25/09

@MINI Driver: Nor, apparently, anyone else's approval either.
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bosskev
05/25/09

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That this has happened, while an enormous achievement and milestone, is not completely surprising to me. Artists have been using the iPhone for many months now as a sort-of "mini-Wacom Cintiq tablet" (itself considered the gold standard of drawing tablets for digital artists).

Here is a link to an amazing diversity of this iPhone with Brushes art:

[www.flickr.com]
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hu_hu_cool
05/25/09

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I wonder how he exported it so it was good enough quality for the front cover of the new yorker? Does the app do 300dpi letter size?
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robot-shmobot
05/25/09

@hu_hu_cool: I'm going to assume it's vector based because that image would look like balls if it was exported at 72 dpi and scaled up.
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bosskev
05/25/09

@everybodyl: Having just tried it for myself, I would assume he was using the free Mac OS X app Brushes Viewer, which does a whole hella lot more than just view. It lets you take any iPhone/Brushes-created art and not only see it as it was created, stroke by stroke, it also somehow upscales these lilliputian art pieces into hi-res very, very effectively using a methodology that I can only ascribe to magic.

Try it for yourelf. Here's the link:

[brushesapp.com]
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bosskev
05/25/09

@bosskev: Oh, and the Brushes Viewer app (TERRIBLY misnamed, if I may say so, given all it does) includes several sample pieces of finished Brushes art so, even if you don't have an iPhone, you can still see how it all works.
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hu_hu_cool
05/25/09

@robot-shmobot: Its deffinatley not vector, its too detailed. Something like that would crash the iphone if it was in vector, although if it was pixel it would crash it too.
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twilight-arc
05/25/09

@bosskev: I am guessing that there is a vector export?
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bosskev
05/25/09

@hu_hu_cool: Hey, hu_hu_cool, don't take this the wrong way, but the usually-dormant spelling nazi in me just can't let this one go, it's just too wonderfully wrong:

And the 2009 Awskur for Most Creative Spelling of the Word "DEFINITELY" goes to...hu_hu_cool!

* thunderous applause *

Cheers, buddy, stay kewl...er...cool. ;^)
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bosskev
05/25/09

@twilight-arc: That's what I'm guessing. I mean, the Brushes app apparently is not recording just pixels, it seems to be recording the actual strokes. Converting to hi-res must be taking these strokes, aka vectors, and reinterpreting them for a larger file size.
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Jose Alvear
01/07/09

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@daftrok

Tivo had search too for a very long time. It introduced Swivel Search about a year ago, which let users search Amazon as well as TV broadcast content. But Swivel Search, er sucked.

Anyway, this new search function looks great. But I agree with @qmuser who said that it should include NetFlix in the search results. It's crazy not to.
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MegaZone
01/07/09

@Jose Alvear: Netflix doesn't have an accessible search API. Users have to go to their website and set things in a queue. So if you want search on Netflix titles, tell Netflix.
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ZLevee
01/07/09

@Jose Alvear: as i said to qmuser, and as MegaZone pointed out, it has more to do with Netflix than with Tivo. Since Tivo implemented search for everything else, obviously they could have done it for Netflix if there wasn't an issue on Netflix's end.
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mykie
01/07/09

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Looks like this isn't going to hit S2 boxes ever.

That and with Tivo's staunch refusal/inability to support satellite users, I have a feeling that I'll be turning in my box soon.
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MegaZone
01/07/09

@mykie: Since this new UI is designed to take advantage of HDTV, and the S2 doesn't DO HDTV, you're right, you won't see this on an S2.

As for satellite - TiVo and DirecTV are back together and new DirecTiVos are coming this year.
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qmuser
01/07/09

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The one thing I wish they would add to the search is Netflix. It makes no sense to me that TiVo will show me video that I can purchase/rent from Amazon and download without having to fire up my computer. But when it comes to the Netflix streaming now, I have to add the movies using my computer then I can access them on the TiVo.

Lame!
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ZLevee
01/07/09

@qmuser: Since, as you point out, Tivo had no problem implementing search for Amazon movies, I would think Netflix is to blame for the the lack of Netflix search, not Tivo.
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MegaZone
01/07/09

@qmuser: Playing with this new interface it isn't limited to Amazon, I also shows things available from Jaman and Disney/CinemaNow, I didn't notice Netflix but I don't subscribe to them so that may be why it didn't show up. Or I just didn't search on anything they have available: [www.gizmolovers.com]

Remember Netflix is queue based - they don't allow access to their full library for any of the streaming devices. So it probably has more to do with them than with TiVo - they need to allow a search API and not require users to setup a queue via the web.
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Captain_Eh
01/07/09

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Wonder if it will work with my series 2?
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Platypus Man
01/07/09

@Captain_Eh: Same here. I don't search from the TiVo much, but I'd still like to be able to do this kind of stuff. Seems doubtful, though...
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elgringoguapo
01/07/09

@Platypus Man:

My fellow Series 2 brethren, Tivo has forsaken us and will continue to forever more.
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ZLevee
01/07/09

@elgringoguapo: Not really. They did give the Series 2 a "video on demand" update within the last 2 months.
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