The place João Bordalo calls home: Tag apple

Apple soundtrack

bordalix — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:09:00 -0400

With only Mac OS X sounds, this guy composed a music, using, of course, GarageBand. How geek can you get?

iPhone vs Symbian

bordalix — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:57:00 -0400

The following graphic, proudly copied from a TechCrunch post, blowed up my mind: I was expecting a big success for Apple's iPhone, but not this kind of numbers, this is huge!

The next Apple product?

bordalix — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:19:00 -0400

It's a rumor, so treat it like that, a rumor. MacDailyNews reports the next Apple cutting edge product will be what someone called the MacBook Touch:

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion's haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at "low" price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.

I was wondering what would be Apple's 2008 breakthrough product. Guess I found it. I recall to see some photos of this, but I lost them, do someone knows where to find some mockups of the possible MacBook Touch?

Apple WWDC in 60 seconds

bordalix — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:39:00 -0400

Enough said:

All your iPhones are belong to us

bordalix — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:02:00 -0400

Following our discussion, iPhone Dev Team gave a step further in a totally open iPhone platform. Watch the following video till the end, there is always one last thing:

RSS readers should click here to see the video.

A tale about security

bordalix — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:23:00 -0400

Once open a time, a company which had a lot of people using his digital media player, pushed people to use his browser through an 'almost automatic' software update. People complained about this behaviour, others defend it, and there was what someone called a nano-scandal, and a lot of people installed the new browser.

And then there were the bad guys (cause a tale has always bad guys), who found a way to break into someone's computer through a bug in the referenced browser. So, the company was/his installing a lock into a lot of personal computers, and someone has just found the master key.

Bad timing? Bad luck? Or karma?

Safari 3.1 Gmail problem

bordalix — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:10:00 -0400

If you upgraded your Safari to the new 3.1 version, use Gmail, and now your Shift or Tab keys are making your cursor jumping back to the To: field, here is the solution: change your default language to English (US); click on "Newer version" on the top right of the screen - only English (US) version has this option enabled; you are done, Gmail should be working perfectly now.

I guess people at Cupertino doesn't use Gmail...

Update: the same problem happens with Gmail for Google Apps, and I don't know how to solve it. Need a hand.

Apple, please open the iPhone

bordalix — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:25:00 -0400

Dear Steve, you should sell the iPhones as you sell your computers: like an open plataform where anyone can install whatever application they want, with full responsability and without your paternal control.

This way, you will sell millions of iPhones worldwide, and will be doing what you do best: selling state-of-the-art hardware running a gorgeous, user friendly operating system.

Trying to gain from the mobile operators is buying a war you don't want (or need) to. Trying to gain from the developers community by restricting the free flow of creativity is wrong, and against the values of the Apple brand.

So, please, don't be greedy, change your mind, or they will force you.

iPhone unlock in 3 minutes

bordalix — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:01:00 -0500

Finally, on the 8th of February, George Hotz (please donate) cracked the protection scheme used in the iPhone. In a matter of hours, a lot if scripts and applications arose in order to facilitate the job to the average joe.

Yesterday, a new tool hit the radar, and is now possible to unlock, jailbreak and activate iPhones 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 OTB in less than 3 minutes. So, if you are one in the million that have a locked iPhone, grab the ZiPhoneGUI tool (available only for windows) and happy cracking.

Macworld 2008 keynote in 60 seconds

bordalix — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:23:00 -0500

Due to a heavy lack of time, I was not able to watch this year Macworld keynote. But that's ok, since Mahalo has done a great job trimming the 90 minutes Steve Jobs' keynote to a 60 second video.