Yeah, how could I not write an article on how I switched to a Mac and the world got a better place. Don’t read it, it’s useless. I did not really have to debate getting a MacBook Pro, because they are simply the best made laptops. I was just a bit curious about the choice [...]

Daily reads Here’s What Oil Industry Insiders Are Gossiping About The Oil Spill – “BP has found the largest and most powerful well in history”. So it’s not bad at all or what? Scientific hypotheses from 1956 – What? The Credit Card Expiration Blues – Well, America is absurdly dependent on credit cards. Something else [...]

So, Apple introduced “facetime” with the new iPhone. A lot of critics came out swinging after the keynote, ridiculing Jobs for adding something to a phone that was never used for several years on basically every other device on the market. I felt the same. Video calling? Only on Apple devices? Only via wifi? Thanks, [...]

“I did a quickie test with the new YouTube HTML5 beta. On a site that embedded a video (so Flash was used), my browser CPU utilization was 22%, and the Adobe Flash plug-in CPU utilization was 55%. (dual core macbook pro, so total CPU% = 200%). After the video played, I watched the same video [...]

When it launches, the iPad’s initial target audience is iPhone and iPod touch users. Why? Because they are already very comfortable with the way you need to interact with this device. The moment I picked up the iPad today I knew exactly what to do with it. It was second-nature. It was the iPhone, only [...]

Dass das iPad nun vorgestellt wurde, hat ja jeder mitbekommen. Meine Meinung und Eindrücke dazu in Kurzform: Sehr slicke Hardware, auf jeden Fall mit unglaublichem “want”-Faktor. Das ist Apple’s Domäne und es war klar, dass sie hier brillieren. Die Software ist ein iPhone OS (in Version 3.2), das an die Gegebenheiten des Tablet angepasst ist. [...]

Ein netter Artikel in der Süddeutschen zu den Hoffnungen der Verlage bezüglich der Applikationen. Medienforscher Ruß-Mohl hält diese Einschätzung für falsch. Er empfehle den Anbietern von Qualitätsjournalismus “nachhaltig”, auf den neuen Markt zu setzen. Der könnte noch attraktiver werden, wenn Apple Ende Januar tatsächlich sein Riesen-iPhone präsentiert. Der Lesekomfort dürfte sich damit noch einmal deutlich [...]