iPhone 4 Gyroscope Teardown - iFixit

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"three red blood cells lined up side by side"
And we're worried about a bunch of people with minor reception issues?

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Say What #1

An occasional post where I review my twitterfeed over the last x hours and post some juicy ones.

Popularity Contest
(being where I was retweeted)

Remind me ... why exactly did people elect Kevin Rudd? What was it he was going to do? /via @GreenJ not be Little Johnny nose hair

Is Jon Stewart the TV equivalent of a Cyberbully? 24 mentions of Fox News so far this year!http://nyti.ms/cOpFB2

libs should cut the crap on a lot of things really. Especially electing anachronisms as leaders #alot

 I hope little Kev enjoys his discount purchase of a second term. #smallbrainssmallideas

Raiding Gizmodo

Today I had an interesting back and forth with one or two others over the all too often used 'fanboi' term or "Applevangelists" in this case when it was alleged we would be 'defending Apple' because the Police in San Mateo county, California raided a Journalist house as part of a felony investigation.

I wrote;

Gizmodo should have checked the California law on receipt of stolen goods. Journalism, FTW!

For me, experience tells me - in any country, Police tend to raid first and ask questions later. So we shouldn't be surprised. The suggestion that Apple were prompting the raid was just ridiculous. So I wrote;

AFAIK, if the Police are asked to investigate a crime, the complainant doesn't really dictate the terms of the investigation

The rest of the conversation was mainly asking questions. I don't know enough about California law to judge. In any case, plenty of others have a more informed opinion on this one;

reading @hblodget on the Gizmodo, iPhone thing. It appears the Police have overstepped the mark.

Leaving Facebook

I'm still toying with the idea of committing Facebook suicide due to their ridiculous tell everyone everything non-privacy;

deleting Facebook Applications in prep for possible FB-suicide due to this FB everywhere crap

Twitter love

I need a tiler for a small job for my house. The Joy of twitter includes getting numbers!



Appreciating Politicians

The ruling party in Australia is outdoing itself this week

I hope little Kev enjoys his discount purchase of a second term. #smallbrainssmallideas

Mind you the other crew are trailing in their wake

Libs should cut the crap on a lot of things really. Especially electing anachronisms as leaders #alot

and finally...

It's 2010, there should be Hoverboards!

allegedly this ipad thingymajig is a cleverly disguised hoverboard #2010 

Customer Experience, Apple Style

I just had to go through my entire iPhone Camera Roll to identify Photos and Videos which hadn't been taken on the iBone.

Why?

Apple think that you shouldn't be allowed to get your Photos off your iBone if you have the temerity to save MMS or Emailed Photos into your iBone Camera Roll.

But they don't stop you from saving them there, and don't tell you it will stop you from getting ANY photo off the iBone. Not only that, there isn't an alternative location to save them.

Even if there are technical reasons why they want to prevent Photos not taken from the device to be able to be pulled into your iPhoto (or even using Image Capture), preventing the computers Image Management from even recognising the device is some sort of bug. Exacerbated of course by not even correcting the Image Management on the iBone so that it stores these Images or Videos in a separate hierarchy.


Exacerbated further by Apple not even appearing to recognise the bug, which appears to have been spoken about online for at least 12 months and probably longer

Thank Christ for DropBox etc.

See more information on this ridiculous #fail by Apple.

The iPad-Adobe Flash Argument Concluded, Completely aka "more shit from Fast Company"

February 22, 2010 at 7:53pm by Jason Van Pelt

This is a ridiculous argument. I've written Flash apps for tablet PCs for years. You do lose the mouse over state - but that's not imperative for all flash apps, especially if you are designing FOR tablets. If anything it is a short-coming of tablets, not Flash. Are HTML hover states are any different?

Then there's multi-touch support for flash...
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/multitouch_gestures.html
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1666

How can we not argue that this is a content-control issue on Apple's part? Flash isn't the answer to everything, but neither is Apple.

Report Content

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What a pile of tosh. I just used the new Foxtel App from Telstra on the iPhone and it has a form of hover control. I hate it, but that's not the point - it exists in multi-touch. I think I'll take Mike Chambers opinion on that when it comes to Flahs too; http://bit.ly/cXsH82
Do some Journalism 'Kit'.
Two articles from Fast Company, two pieces of poo - Unsubscribe.

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Tablet Part Two: The true significance of the Tablet

That’s why Kindle is such a piece of shit. All they did was pave the cowpath

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Legend. something like iTunes LP for (book, magazine, news) Publishing is what would work. Note: I put the terms in brackets becuase I think those terms are meaningless in a Digital Environment

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A (sort-of) Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo

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Today's game. Spot the Missing Business Functions, the incorrectly entered dots (Apple does 'Gaming Sw"??), the missing dots, the half assed dots. Dear Nick, B-

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It's awesome when the comments make more sense than the snark piece dressed up as an Article

Gee. Dismissing the usefulness of a product that hasn't been announced. Where you can only speculate on its OS, form-factor, software, connectivity, ruggedness, target-audience, etc.

You must be clairvoyant.

I hope you'll excuse me if I think you're opinion is worthless, since you have no facts to base it on.

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Dunno who 'Bill Snyder' is, but he lives in a controlled world which belongs in the last century. Move over your time is past.

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