February 2012
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iMac Prediction: All-Glass Exterior
Here’s a crazy thought: At some point, I think maybe the iMac will have an all-glass exterior. Maybe the next model.
Here is a visual history of the iMac exterior design since it changed to the current form factor. (All images courtesy apple-history.com.)
iMac, circa 2004:
iMac, circa 2007:
iMac, late 2009–present:
The aluminium “chin” at the bottom is getting...
iPhony →
daringfireball.net
John Markoff’s New York Times article speculating about a vaporware Apple-branded mobile “iPhone” is getting a lot traction. Go ahead and read it, but remember that it’s all bullshit speculation at this point.
Flashback: Gruber snorts at the possibility of a mobile phone made by Apple, dubbed “iPhone”. http://daringfireball.net/2002/08/iphony
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Remedy: Inconsistent Bluetooth headphone volume
I’ve been having a problem with Bluetooth headphones on my iPhone 4S (iOS 5.0.1), where sometimes the volume, even when turned up to maximum, is very low. Sometimes it seems to fix itself, but other times, I couldn’t fix it even by rebooting the phone and the headphones.
Although this doesn’t fix the problem permanently, I have found the following to be the quickest way to...
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Apple Tick Tock
Listening to @siracusa’s podcast, he prescribes an interesting solution to the problem he perceives with OS X moving to a yearly update schedule: Intel’s tick-tock model.
It certainly seems to fit with Apple’s behaviour in recent years.
Exhibit A: iPhone
The iPhone 3G, a big update to the original iPhone, was followed by the relatively modest 3GS. It had an identical...
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"See iTunes for more information"
iTunes Sync
2 items could not be synced. See iTunes for more information.
…But iTunes appears not to show any information about this error. And it keeps happening. And it seems a lot of people are having the same problem:
Well I figured it out, so I’m posting it here in case I forget later. Hopefully it’s also useful to you as well.
There’s a little,...