The new Apple TV seems to be a great little piece of living room hardware, especially at $99
Oh wait, should I rather say 119€, or 100€ less tax, which is still like $128.
Tell me, why do we have to pay $30 more fore the same product Apple?
Why am I getting worked up about just $30 at all? Bottom line is: It is still much cheaper and better than the old Apple TV. Silly me, it must be the wine…
All airline services have been cancelled over the most of the European airspace today due to an eruption of a volcano under the Eyjafjallajökull Glacier in Iceland.
As the molten lave goes through the ice of the glacier, it quickly cools down and forms small glass shards. These shards practically sandblast any aircraft through them and can cause anything from engine failures to windscreens becoming opaque.
A Wikipedia article regarding the British Airways Flight 9 on June 24th 1982 illustrates the dangers very clearly. Quoting the captain of that flight, as a perfect example of british understatement some 30000ft from the ground:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.
I just got my iPad thanks to I friend living in New York.
In general it is an interesting device but in my case it is severely limited by the fact that Apple does not allow customers with non-US iTunes accounts, for instance Germany in my case, to download and install iPad apps.
Other than that the keyboard is HUGE and needs some getting used to after the iPhone keyboard. Two-thumb typing is barely possible in the vertical orientation and impossible in the horizontal orientation, but the horizontal keyboard is large enough for 8-fingered typing.
And finally, I realized my new app for the iPad is very buggy on the actual hardware. A weekend of testing and debugging is ahead of me.
This is huge. iAds is definitely a game changer for free app developers. I can’t wait to take advantage of this.
Multitasking seems cool, too. I wonder how it’ll fare on an iPhone 3G, though, let alone an original iPhone. My iPhone 3G is slow as it is without multitasking.
Exciting times, we live in…
I’ve just come across this really cool toy which analyzes your last.fm profile and lists your most favorite musical keys. Not really useful but fun.
Apparently, I am a A-minor person. With C-major coming in a close second. I guess I don’t like the black keys that much.
(Via Music Machinery)
Steven Frank has written the best piece about the iPad. I was planning to write something like this but I don’t need to bother now. I agree with him whole-heartedly.
Although the iPad as a device leaves much to be desired, the computing model originally introduced by iPhone and recently blown up in size by iPad, is potentially the computing model of the future. Just as we shifted our paradigms several times in the last five decades, from punch card machines to command line prompts and from there to mouse and desktop computing, eventually the desktop paradigm will have to make place for something better.
Apple is betting with iPhone and iPad on ease of use and simplicity instead of flexibility and raw power. It is not yet certain if that bet is going to pay off but the next five to ten years are definitely going to be very exciting.
But did you really have to call it the iPad after Mad TV did this in 2007, Apple?
Umida Akhmedova is an Uzbek photographer whose album called “Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk” shows Uzbek people and their way of life and traditions. The album was published in 2007 contains about 100 pictures, 10 of which can be seen here.
It all sounds fine. But it isn’t. Umida is being accused of defamation and insulting Uzbek traditions because the authorities feel that she is depicting Uzbekistan as a backward country. A special commission set up by the general prosecutor has already found that her images distort reality. She has been banned from leaving the country and faces up to 6 months in prison and up to 3 years of public labor.
This is simply outrageous. Something is depicting Uzbekistan as backward, alright. But it is definitely not Umida Akhmedova’s pictures. They are one of the best examples of photojournalism I have seen recently. More of her fine pictures can be seen here.
I think this is a clear case of the ones in power reflecting their own dislike and disrespect for their own people to Umida. The Uzbek state can only see backward and uneducated people in those pictures because they think of those people as backward and uneducated people which need to be modernized, educated and westernized, to fit in with the image of the ideal Uzbek citizen the Uzbek state have in their mind.
This quite a common mindset of the state in many countries who had to go through a period of nation building in their recent history. Similar issues can still be seen in Turkey after almost eighty years of the independent republic. In Uzbekistan’s, case this is clearly even more drastic, having gained their independence from the USSR less than 20 years ago.
Developers, including yours truly, participating in Indie+Relief had pledged to donate all of their proceeds on Jan 20th to Haiti earthquake victims.
Now, that the Jan 20th is behind us, the results for Translate are in: Translate managed to raise $36 for Haiti.
Which is not much when compared to bigger boys participating in Indie+Relief, but it is still better than nothing and will be donated in full to Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - German Red Cross, I hope it helps someone help someone…
Indie+Relief organizers have yet to make the grand total public but latest numbers I heard were around $30,000…
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