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Adobe Media Player Beta now available {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 1st 2007 10:36AM Oh my God, I hate AIR. I got introduced to it via Pownce, and it's such a pain. It's unstable, slow, and completely un-Mac-like. Cmd+W doesn't close the window, and if you do close the window, you're unable to retrieve it and the program just sits in the Dock until you force-quit it (that's right, without the window, a normal quit isn't possible). It doesn't chew up a huge amount of system resources, but everything else about it sucks.
Wake me when something better comes along (oh, wait, sorry, it has: Java. Say what you want about Java, but at least it's better than AIR!)
Sony teases us with Drive {Engadget}
Sep 28th 2007 4:48PM It's a paper cutter. Duh.
Rock Band wireless guitar for PS3 rocks the FCC {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2007 11:42PM GH3 is confirmed for PS2, isn't it?
Aiptek cranks out 720p pocket camcorder for $170 {Engadget}
Sep 13th 2007 3:23PM Well, hold on there! Doesn't Canon make a high-def recorder that dumps to SD? What's so wrong with SD? Dump speeds are faster than MiniDV, which means you can more easily do more with a single SD card.
Aiptek cranks out 720p pocket camcorder for $170 {Engadget}
Sep 13th 2007 3:21PM It dumps video to H.264, not MPEG-2. Apple's trailer for The Golden Compass is 59 seconds long, uses H.264, and consumes 39 MB. That's .66 MB per second of video. That's 25 minutes per Gigabyte. Four GB SD cards aren't too expensive, and would store nearly an hour and a half of footage. Now, granted, you're not about to be running around with as many 4GB SD cards as you own MiniDV cassettes, but considering how fast you can dump footage, you can probably get by with a single SD card. And that's assuming that the A-HD dumps to the same bitrate as that particular Apple trailer.
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 27 {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 10th 2007 2:10PM I choose, the T-Mobile Wing. I'd be cool with the Cingular 3125 too (something about a WinMo flip-phone seems cool to me), but I'm guessing I only get to pick one.
More secret iPhone codes {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 13th 2007 12:40AM @Molly Metis: Alas, there doesn't seem to be one. While I believe it would be one of the most useful USSD (That's what those are called, and I'm pretty sure that they're specific to GSM as a standard, and not specific to a region) codes since I, probably like a decent number of AT&T customers, have a bazillion roll-over minutes. Another bit of useful information would be for those without unlimited data packages: amount of data unused.
But, of course, those aren't anywhere to be found on any carrier I'm aware of.
BTW: easy way to remember some of those USSD codes: *bal# for your account BALance, and *min# for your remaining MINutes. Sure beats remembering numbers.
Sony's new PSP is slimmer, includes video output {Engadget}
Jul 11th 2007 6:08PM Those speaker notches on the front were always there.
iPhone hacked for shell access {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2007 1:41AM For anyone too lazy to look this up in Google Translator:
"I hope that they manage to hackear it and abrilo soon, single I am hoping that to buy it and to be able to use it in Mexico here… "
And while I don't live in Mexico, and I'm hardly a fan of Slim's monopoly there, I have to say that a Mexican iPhone would be cool.
iPhone hacked for shell access {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2007 1:32AM I don't think you quite understand what shell access means. First off, that's an edited picture I'm going to guess, since the article talks about the use of a serial connection.
Second, shell access is the ULTIMATE hack. In a UNIX system, EVERYTHING goes through the command line. Everything from The Finder to Quartz to Photoshop is invoked via the CLI, your GUI is just a way to make it pretty. Now that we have shell access, you can edit system files (like the kind that lock us out) to allow you to do nearly anything with your phone.
Maybe once the iPhone is completely hacked, I might actually be interested in it, because if I can trick mine out, whip up a document editor, get some MMS and maybe some video going on, I'll be interested. Especially if it does WPA Enterprise.
