A former Apple executive has been appointed CEO of the premier Haptic technology developer Immersion Technology, this, and their board talking about how they’re in talks with Apple, is fueling talk of Haptic Technology coming to the iPhone.
Wanna know more about what this is? Check out the Youtube video with the lovely Veronica Belmont below:
On Lewis Blacks excellent Carnegie Hall Performance (available from Amazon on CD or downloadable MP3!), jokes that while iPods are the size of credit cards and play music, they still haven’t created a good method to harness solar power, he jests “iPods are geting so small, pretty soon, you’ll just be wearing underwear and hear music playing in your ears!”And now, reports in MacWorld now say your clothing will soon be powering your electronics: ”Professor explains Nanotech power for iPods“From the article:
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk down the street listening to your iPod or using your smartphone without ever worrying about the battery dying?Zhong Lin Wang, a professor and nanotechnology researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that within five years, you might be able to do just that. According to Wang, instead of using a battery to power phones, MP3 players and other portable devices, you could harvest the energy generated by the movement of your shirt. Yup, you read that right - a “power shirt,” which would provide users with a flexible, foldable and wearable power source.”
Not extremely surprising! These devices are well suited to toting around the new HD Videos’s that iTunes is selling and renting!
A company by the name of Newsgator make a bunch of solutions in relation to RSS, They make everything you need to create, publish and read Really Simple Syndication feeds from the biggest sites, like cnet.comand nyt.com.If you have Leopard, then Apple’s Mail program does a great job of aggregating feeds so you might be all set, if, however, you use more than one computer or cell phone for reading your RSS newsfeeds, then, you’ll need something which synchronizes across them and has a good interface. Enter NetNewsWire, currently a new Beta for Leopard is available here: http://nnwbeta.com, NetNewsWire is a very effective RSS reader designed for OS X, it synchronizes transparently across the internet, to ensure that your other Macs, and iPhones, and iPod Touch’s will all be aware and up to date on what stories you’ve read, flagged, marked etc. Give it a try!Screenshots below:
In the spirit of our usual high quality recommendations, comes another great recommendation for a piece of software that runs transparently in the background on your Mac.
It’s a great Password Manager that will start remembering all your passwords and form information after a quick two minute setup, as if that wasn’t enough, it’ll generate ultra strong passwords with a single click if you need them for future accounts, want more? okay, it’ll easily create new fake personalities and profiles for using on sites that you are wary of, not sure if this video sharing site is the real deal or not, then let 1 Password generate your alter ego’s information for it’s registration form.
So, enough said, it’s a great Password Vault and Manager with great back end security and plugs into all three of your favorite Mac browsers, Safari, Firefox and Camino, so, if in two months you switch to(or back to) Safari from Firefox (which has it’s own password manager) you’ll still have all your bank passwords and user profiles, indeed, in two years if you switch to camino, all your profiles will come with you.
Oh, did I mention that it syncs all these passwords to your iPhone… just not enough room on the page for how great 1 Password is…
1Password is available from http://1passwd.com/ for $29.99 with 100% money back guarantee, or, you can get a free copy for a limited time through a Macworld promotion from http://agilewebsolutions.com/promo/macgems.
Either way, enjoy it, you’ll love having your computer enter your passwords for you, and of course, it’s fully controllable with super master passwords for safety!
P.S There’s a version for your Palm Treo too!
Fantastic News!
From Ars Technica:
The global data plan will be $59.99 per month for iPhone users, which will be added on top of your domestic iPhone plan. So if you already have an iPhone plan for $59.99 per month in the US, it’ll be another $59.99 on top of that to use this plan internationally. That’s a total of $119.98 per month (or for that particular month that you want to use it internationally).
An Apple certified evangelist is awaiting your phone call to help you get the most out of your Mac. Certified by Apple in OS X support, I provide consultations on Panther, Jaguar, Tiger and the amazing New Leopard operating system. Would you like it to do more for you? automate your calendar events, simplify your music collection, handle the party music for your elaborate home audio system.
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Apple has just posted three new commercial spots for it’s groundbreaking product. The commercials are three average users on the streets of new york, professing the feature that they find useful. Watch them here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads
and boy is it great. Today’s software update for the iPhone brought with it a couple of really nice new features and the Wifi pickup seems to be twice as strong as before, I had a list of over twenty wireless networks at one point today. But the really great feature is the ability to access iTunes from the iPhone and make quick purchases, to illustrate how easy it is, search for “Car Crash” by Matt Nathanson on your iPhone or iPod touch, the single will preview really quickly, and if you tap buy, after tapping once more to confirm, your iPhone will download the song straight to your iPhone.Once you reconnect with your iTunes library later in the day, iTunes will transfer your newly acquired song to your library, it’s easy and fun and may be enough to keep iTunes market dominance growing despite Amazon’s spectacular entry to the digital music business.
A sample of one of our tutorials:
Obviously, to use this, you’re going to have to have a mac with at least Tiger, and a copy of VisualHub.Let’s say you’ve got your iPhone, your mac with Tiger, and a copy of VisualHub.
First, you need to be able to script VisualHub. To do that, you’re going to have to download this special script dictionary.Next you’re going to install this script library. To do so you need to…
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