The iPad parody

Now this is an old parody of the iPod but hey I guess it’s more humorous now that the iPad is the name for an actual product.

Apple’s annouces the Apple iPad

At Apple keynote conference today Apple announced it’s tablet device called the iPad. The Apple iPad is a multi-touch tablet device  with a 9.7-inch LED backlit glossy wide-screen display, a 1GHZ Apple A4 processor, supports 16 GB,32GB,64 GB flash drive and a ten-hour battery life.

The iPad will have the same operating system that runs on the iPhone. the home screen on the iPad is very much like the home screen on the iPhone. The iPad features a dock connector so it will be able to  connect to a hardware keyboard. And will have the safari web browser for surfing the web. Mail application for email which will also work with all the email providers Mobile Me,Yahoo Mail,Gmail,Hotmail & AOL. The iPad  will support the Apple App Store it will support iPhone based applications. But developers can create applications that will run on the iPad. A new feature shown on the iPad was the iBook store, this is an online store similar to the iTunes store where you are able to buy books and read them on the iPad. The most interesting thing about the iPad is that it has a large on-screen keyboard for inputting text. The device will play HD movies and TV show as well as YouTube content. The iPad  also comes with  iWorks which is an MS Office like productivity  suite that has Keynote for presentations,Pages for word processing & Numbers for spreadsheets. The video below show’s off some of the features of the iPad.

The service provider for the Wi-fi & 3G iPad models since Apple has a deal with At&t they will be  the provider . It will be a non-contract service agreement that you can cancel at anytime.  The data plans are up to 250 MB for only $14.99 a month or unlimited for $29.99 a month. Steve Jobs did mention that the iPad use a new GSM micro sim cards and that it will be unlocked. So a customer will be able to use with other service providers that uses the same GSM micro sim cards. Though by the looks of the frequency it seems like it will only run on the AT&T network .  Steve Jobs also announced that it expecting to have international carriers added.

The iPad will have two models one that just supports Wi-Fi connectivity and another model that supports Wi-Fi & 3G. The Wi-Fi version will cost $449 for 16GB, $599 for 32 GB, $699 for the 64 GB. The other model will have support for both Wi-Fi & 3G which will cost $629 for 16GB, $729 for the 32GB,$829 for the 64 GB. The iPad comes with a casing that doubles as a holder to prop it up for viewing movies. The iPad is

Well I think the product name is a horrible idea I can see so many people not trying to laugh when then say that they bought the iPad, it sound’s like a product Tampax created. But seriously I think this device would be good for universities and schools to replace textbooks with and that’s about it. So tell me what you think of the Apple iPad?

For more info go to Apple.com

Microsoft Stores Song & Dance

Well, I for one have never been inside a Microsoft Windows store and this video is the first time that I’ve ever seen the inside of one before. And not only do they look exactly like the Apple Computer Stores, but the sad thing is they make their workers do a flash mob like dance to the song “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Pea’s. When I saw this video I felt sorry for the people who had to work there and the people shopping there. If you noticed the customers of the store are trying to ignore the workers dancing & the workers in the store should be wearing t-shirts that fit (what Microsoft to cheap to give their workers the right size t-shirts), so everyone please leave a comment on what you think of the video.

Apple release’s java update in mac os x

On June 15 Apple released a software update for mac os leopard and mac os x tiger for the java that the operating system use’s. This update will make surfing the web on the mac safe and you can enable java on your safari and other web browser for you mac, after you have downloaded the update. So everyone out there go to your system preferences and run software update download the java update mac os x 10.5 update 4 and java for mac os x 10.4 update, release 9. And then after you’ve downloaded it and restart your mac. Go into your safari preferences and check mark the java applet box and the java script box. On firefox go to preference and then click on the content tab and check the enable java applet box and enable java script box.

Java Exploit in Mac OS X

Well a few days ago i read about a java exploit in mac os x. According to securemac.com they have found a java issue that would allow some one to put spyware on a person’s computer or even running a command in the mac os x command line. All a person has to do is vist a site with malicious java to be affected by this exploit. Now i am not sure what Apple plans on doing in regards to fixing the issue. From what i have read we are supposed to turn off java in all web browsers for the mac . And for the story on how the java exploit can run on your mac and affect your mac here the link

Here’s how you turn off java in the safari web browser go to the safari tab click on preferences and then click on the security tab. and then uncheck the enable java and uncheck enable javascript.

Apple Shows snow leopard at wwdc

Apple today also announced features mac os x snow leopard. Snow Leopard is going to be a 64-bit operating system. They also put expose into the dock. This allows you to organize your windows. You can draw charters for languages with by using your finger on the touch pad on the laptops. And a new version of quicktime called quicktime X. Which has a new cleaner interface and the controls fade when watching video and you get a time line of your video. Another feature of quicktime is sharing you can upload video to youtube, itunes and mobile me.

They also introduced a new version of safari 4 on snow leopard. The new version has a crash resistance feature. And it’s available for download on apple website.

Mail, i cal and address book will have support for Microsoft exchange in snow leopard.

Snow leopard will be only on intel based mac’s. And it’s a $129 dollars at retail price and $29 dollars if you are upgrading from leopard. the family pack is $49 dollars. And will be available in September.

Am glad to hear more things on the snow leopard. I neglected to mention the new technologies that snow leopard will have. Snow leopard will have the ability to take advantage of mutilcore processors with use of grand central station, which is built into the operating system. Snow leopard will also have open cl, which allows the graphics processor to be used for general purpose computing. With this technology the graphics processor will not be limited to just games and graphic intensive applications. And I love that the mac will now have Microsoft exchange support, I myself don’t need it but it’s always good to have that for people who do need it. I love that it’s going to be 29 dollars for mac ox leopard users. And I love that quicktime has a new user interface I think quicktime needs to be updated. I do wish they would have gone more in depth with the opencl and the grad central station that I assume will make the mac run more smoother.

Apple update’s Macbook line at wwdc

Apple also updated the 17 inch macbook pro model now has a 2.8 ghz and 4 bgs of ddr3 memory, and a 500gb hard drive. They are also updating the macbook 13-inch model with a 7-hour battery life. the macbook also has a sd card slot, it also is expandable to 8 gb of memory. the hard drive is expandable up to 500 gb’s of storage and 256 gbs of solid state drive. The 13-inch macbook a led back lite keyboard and fire wire 800. And its being sold for $1,199 with a 2.26ghz core 2 duo processor, 2gbs of memory and 160gb hard drive, nvida 9400m graphics card, sd card slot and firewire 800. They have dropped the macbook name and renamed it macbook pro. The 1,499 model has a 2.53 ghz core 2 duo processor with 4 gigabytes of memory and nvida 9400m graphics card 250 gigabytes of hard drive space and an sd card slot and fire wire 800. Both the 13-inch and the 15-inch both have new displays. They also updated the macbook air models starting at $1,499 it has a 1.86ghz core 2 duo processor, 2 gigabytes off ddr 3 memory and a 120 gb hard drive. And at 1,799 comes with a 2.13 ghz care 2 duo processor, 2gbs of ddr3 memory, 9400m nvida graphics card and a 128 gigabyte solid state drive.

Well I saw this coming with the refresh of the cheapest macbook. And I am glad that they put a lot of the features that the pro has into the lower end laptops. I think they should have done this from the start it would have made them more profit. I am personally upset since I just bought a macbook about four months ago and now it’s obsolete so now I have to trade in my laptop and get a new one. Am still wondering what they are going to use that firewire 800 port for. They could use it for video cameras I think most devices just use usb 2.0 now.