Articles by Rene Ritchie
Wanna put some pictures to the live meta blog? Streaming not your thing? Need something you can sync over to your iPhone for a little drooling on the go?
iTunes has you covered, with Apple’s Keynote feed now updated to include today’s Spotlight Turns to Notebooks (iTunes link) special event.
Click it. Download it. Sync it. Live it.
Ha! No iPhone news indeed! We knew Steve Jobs wouldn’t abandon us completely, not his baby, not his “third-leg” love child! Jason Snell, putting the new MacBooks under the microscope for Macworld, discovers (via Daring Fireball):
Yes, it’s true — these new MacBooks work with your iPhone headphones. If you click the button on your iPhone headphones, iTunes pauses. Click again, and the music resumes. A double-click advances one track, and a triple-click moves back a track—just like on the iPhone. What’s more, the headphones’ built-in microphone appears as the input device “Microphone port” in the Sound preference pane.
How awesome — and completely Apple-like is that?
(But is it enough to make you order a new MacBook?)
While an iTunes Podcast downloadable version will no doubt follow, Apple has just launched their usual Quicktime Streaming Video of the “Spotlight on Notebooks” Keynote.
TiPb’s latest, greatest contest is AT WORK, where all the members of TiPb iPhone Exchange & Enterprise Forum votes on their top two Productivity Apps, we review them head to head and app-vs-app, and one of the voters wins the winning App!
Week 2 voting is now over, and the To Do/Task showdown is set: Things vs. Appigo To Do!
Brian will reveal the winning App tomorrow (Wednesday), but right now we can tell you which Forum voter will win it! So who gets the best Task/To Do App on the iPhone?
coreymol!
Congratulations! We’ll contact you with details on how to claim your prize.
And for everyone else, you’ll still have a chance to win the Task/To Do App by commenting on the blog post tomorrow, and come Thursday, we’ll post our next poll, and another Forum member will have a chance to vote for — and win — another great App!
(Full contest details can be found here!)
Congratulations again, coreymol, and everyone else — get ready, you could be next!
No love from Apple for the iPhone today, despite glass trackpads, with multi-touch being introduced into the MacBook line. We have a transcript of our full meta-live blog coverage available now if you want the details, but the broad strokes are all in aluminum and black. The long-standing rumors mostly came true, with design unified around the current iMac model — with a gorgeous new 24″ Cinema Display being a near kissing-cousin to last year’s desktop rev.
15″ MacBook Pro and MacBook’s available now-ish. Air’s to follow soon (November?). Rumor has it there are issues with the 17″, so we may only see those later.
Check out the MacBook Video, featuring the now legendary Jonathan Ive, at Apple for more.
But with the lines being blurred in every sense, if you’re in the market for a new Apple laptop, it’s gotten really hard to choose. No worries, though. Apple’s got you covered. Head on over and see which MacBook you are — and what your iPhone might just be syncing itself with next!
(And let’s hope Apple turns back to the iPhone in time for its quarterly conference call coming later this month, b’okay Steve?)
We repeat, this is not a drill! The Apple Store is Down! Reports are flooding in from all over the intertubes… Details are sketchy but authorities urge everyone to stay calm and proceed to TiPb where Live Meta-Blog coverage of Apple’s “The Spotlight Turns to MacBooks’s” will begin soon!
Now find your loved ones. Cling to them. And hold to hope. The Apple Store WILL be back. And it will once again restore your childlike sense of wonder.
We’re beyond the looking glass. Boom-time approaches people…
RIM calls it “ClickThrough” and introduced their version with the Blackberry Storm. While we here at TiPb were initially dubious, Crackberry.com was apparently right about the Storm as the Big Sites loved it quite a bit. Still, we never saw Apple adopting it, and it’s scroll-click metaphor, to the iPhone, but it looks like they may have already put a similar concept to use in the new MacBooks set to be announced today. Daring Fireball has the spoiler alert:
The new trackpad is similar to the Air’s, in that it is bigger and supports additional multi-touch gestures. But unlike the Air’s, the MacBook Pro’s new trackpad is made of glass, and is a button itself. You just press and it clicks. This is not like the current software option where you can enable “Tap to Click” in the trackpad preferences, but instead a glass trackpad that acts as a physical button, with a click you can feel. Sounds odd, but I hear it’s very cool in practice.
TiPb will be live meta-blogging the Spotlight Turns to MacBook’s event today, which starts at 1pm EDT/10 am PDT. See you here!
You’re listening to the latest, greatest TiPb Phone Different Podcast. Mike and Dieter are on fire. And then… out of nowhere… they cross the line. They say something so outrageous you just have to respond, to retort, to — quite frankly — set them straight. You grab your iPhone, hit the Favorite for Phone Different Feedback and…
You get the soothing tones of the answer-bot, asking just what extension you’re trying to reach… What extension?! D’oh! Rantus Interuptus!
Next time you want to give our humble hosts (or anyone else) a quick call, save yourself some frustration and add the extension right into your iPhone contact info!
We’ll show you how, after the jump!
Okay, here’s how you can add extensions — or any form of extra digits — to a telephone number on your iPhone.
First, access your Contacts (either via the Phone App, or the dedicated Contact App in 2.x). Pick the Contact you want, and tap Edit in the top right corner. Next, pick the phone number you want to add the extension to, and then tap the +*# button on the bottom left of the Dial Pad.
As the button label implied, you can add the plus, star, or pound symbols. Tap Pause to add a comma (,) — or short, silent wait period. Add the numbers for the extension, then tap Save to apply the changes.
And we’re done! Have more Contacts you’d like to extend? Simply rinse and repeat as often as needed. Then get ready for the next Podcast, and let Dieter and Mike know how you really feel — fast!
When Apple launched the iPhone, they teased a “breakthrough internet device” and promised us “just the internet” in our pocket. Increasingly, the internet is becoming synonymous with Google, and how does Google make it’s Microsoft-rivaling money again?
No, not search. Advertising! And now, everyone’s favorite online advertiser is getting ready to better serve up their ads on the iPhone. With MobileSafari’s monstrous browser share, who couldn’t see this one coming?
Says Google (via Ars Technica):
As part of our ongoing commitment to help advertisers more effectively reach their target audience, Google is currently testing a feature that gives advertisers more control over how their ads will appear on mobile devices with full Internet browsers, like the iPhone. This feature is currently in a limited beta with a small number of advertisers.
So is this a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? Ads are a fact of life. They keep many internet sites free to the end user the same way TV ads keep shows free on the networks. If we don’t want to pay a premium in cash (HBO-style), we pay it in visual clutter. Google taking the iPhone into account and — hopefully — minimizing the impact of online ads we’ll see either way?
We’re filling it under “hope for the best” for now. How about you?
Whoabuphew! Tell Buffy to stand down, Giles to close the books, and Willow to de-dark — for the moment-ish. Turns out the above travesty video of what we first thought was Windows Mobile running on the iPhone may just have been viral marketing much.
But you can’t un-raise that demon, now can you? The Hellmouth has been harshened, and it’s only a matter of time before someone gets all Voldermorty with it and tries to conjure up some Windows Mobile — or Android — style iPhone possession.
Sure, some people may be looking forward to that. Be we’ll just keep the crosses, garlic, and holy water at the ready. B’okay?
Next time it could be for realz!
