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How would you change Amazon's Kindle? {Engadget}
Feb 5th 2008 2:08PM Use the forthcoming iPhone SDK to create a Kindle book reader for the iPhone. And another one for the Air. Support Windows if you must (grin).
It comes down to a single question: Does Amazon want to be in the hardware business, or the book business?
MacBook Air review {Engadget}
Jan 26th 2008 1:35AM Yeah, the x505 really sounds like a winner. From CNet: Very expensive; terrible speakers; no built-in optical drive or modem; skimpy battery life.
MacBook Pro rumored to be getting multi-touch trackpad, sun also rumored to rise tomorrow {Engadget}
Jan 22nd 2008 10:10PM That's all well and good--and as you say, obvious, but Apple also needs to bring that same technology to the desktop.
See: http://www.iSights.org/2008/01/i-want-multi-to.html
Hands-on with iTunes movie rentals: quirky and restrictive, but dead easy {Engadget}
Jan 16th 2008 5:41AM It appears that all of the studios have joined the online RENTAL service, but the movie PURCHASING side of the fence may still be a bit thin.
http://www.iSights.org/2008/01/apple-nabbed-st.html
AT&T CEO outs 3G iPhone: "You'll have it next year" {Engadget}
Nov 29th 2007 7:44AM Actually, the power problems with 3G chipsets have only been half the equation.
In order to have 3G support one also needs a 3G network, and AT&T has been struggling to roll it out nationwide. Only 38 states have 3G access, and even there it's limited to a handful of cities.
See: http://www.iSights.org/2007/11/3g-iphones-defi.html
How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2007 12:35AM Verification is a performance hit if you have to get the data, write it to the disk over a USB link, read it back over a USB link, and THEN send an acknowledgement.
How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2007 4:33PM More likely they're changing the protocol, sending a stream of blocks, getting back an independent stream of verifications, and resending blocks as needed. Much better performance-wise, since the AirPort is in a much better position to verify the write. (Kind of like how dropped packets work in TCP/IP.)
And as to "users" getting pissed, well, Apple DID disable AirPort drives, remember? If they used this hack to get around the safeguards Apple put in place, then they don't have much to grip about...
How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2007 4:20PM Actually... no. The TM problem lies in the COPY of the data potentially being corrupted when communicating with another computer (the AirPort is a computer). While the move problem exists between multiple drives on the same computer, since in a move the original is supposed to be deleted (just not if the move failed). They're related conceptually, but entirely different processes.
How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2007 6:52AM Yeah, you can do that to allow TM to access AirPort disks... as long as you don't mind potentially losing some or all of your data.
See: http://www.iSights.org/2007/11/more-airport-ex.html
