Guess who — and what is this about?

After he leaves, I am finally left alone with an iPad. Finally I get some finger time. I peep under the slip holder, and there it is. When I switch it on, a little sigh escapes me as the screen lights up. Ten minutes later I am rolling on the floor, snarling and biting, trying to wrestle it from the hands of an Apple press representative.

That is not strictly true, but giving up the iPad felt a little like that. I had been prepared for a smooth feel, for a bright screen and the “immersive” experience everyone had promised. I was not prepared, though, for how instant the relationship I formed with the device would be. I left Cupertino without an iPad, but I have since gotten my own, and it goes with me everywhere.

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It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist’s rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands. One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker’s Guide that humankind has yet devised.

Either Apple has paid Mr Fry a whole lot of money … or they didn’t. It could also have something to do with the fact that he’s got an iPad now — before the official launch. Anyway, this is quite an amusing article with a bits of interview with yet another Steve — the one on the cover; worth reading (on of a very few of such kind in Time magazine). Read on.

The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?

Start-up airline Virgin America has decided HTML is “good enough” for animating online content on its brand-new website, which went live Monday, dumping Flash.

I would only say I am not surprised at all by this step — given amount of pressure Apple has pressed on Flash-based content (and obvious progress of JavaScript support in modern browsers) it is not surprising.

© The Register — http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/virgin_america_html_flash/

Well, how’d you like a reason: when I swap my SIM cards I am not necessarily at my home iMac so I can connect iPhone to iTunes to do an iActiva..damn, just to activate it! I don’t want it, really — it’s nowhere simple and counterintuitive like hell: I’ve activated it already once, and I’ve unlocked it once — why should I bother doing it every now and then? So I had my iPhone blackra1n’ed, installed blacksn0w — whoa! It turns out, swapping SIM cards could be just that — swapping SIM cards. And this is the way it supposed to work.

It was an ordinary Saturday morning, a bit rainy, a bit grey but otherwise quite normal. So, one by one, I turned on all my four laptops and iMac and proceeded to my usual morning routine… 

So, you see, Mac is good and Mac is cool, but quite a few things could be improved. (however, maybe I should spend a little bit of my time and write a script to fix all this stuff for me? that would certainly work…)

FingerMgmt001.mov (4974 KB)

As it’s been proved empirically by many users (using this application) MacBook Unibody’s touchpad is able to recognise touches of up to 11 fingers. Well I have only one question and don’t you dare call me deviant: where is this 11th finger and who are the target audience of these laptops? :-) 

Grab blä.se/FingerMgmtUB.zip and find out by yourself!

Author of this wonderful bit of software — one Johan Nordberg and when I’m telling you this guy has very little to no problems with his creative thinking, believe me, I am just jealous.

(via lericson)