Author: dsellers

An iPad by any other name…

Posted by | Feb 9, 2010 | |

An iPad by any other name would still be an iPad. And another name would probably have been a better choice for several reasons.

One: as many folks have pointed out, it sounds like a feminine hygiene product.

Two: it’s too close to iPod. You can bet that there’ll be articles in which an understandable typo will say “iPod” when it means “iPad.” And vice versa.

Three: there are other claims to the name: STMicroelectronics, ST, a French-Italian company, uses the IPAD name in chips sold to mobile phone makers. IPAD stands for “Integrated Passive and Active Devices.

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iPhone/iPod apps for Feb. 8

iPhone/iPod apps for Feb. 8

Posted by | Feb 8, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Wonder Bread has served up its first iPhone/iPod touch app. The Sandwich Wonder-izer app is free and lets you create sandwich combinations from a list of more than 120 ingredients –from cheddar cheese to cucumbers and sprouts to salami — while calculating the sandwich’s nutrition values in real time with each added ingredient.

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Mac software updates for Feb. 8

Posted by | Feb 8, 2010 | , |

ZiggySoft has released a new version (2.3.7) of iWeb Valet (http://www.ziggy-soft.com/News.html(, a tool to enhance and upload iWeb pages. The upgrade: adds basic support for international fonts; removes FTP real-time logging to increase listing speed; corrects an iDisk transfer bug; and enhances the Text menu.

Tension Software has updated Password Repository (http://www.pomola.com/products_passwordrepository/passwordrepository.html), a Mac OS X password storage utility, to version 2.11.9. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs.

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Adobe on Flash bug: sorry ’bout that

Posted by | Feb 8, 2010 | , |

Adobe Systems has apologized for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player “languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported,” reports “Computerworld” (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9153520/Adobe_apologizes_for_16_month_old_Flash_bug).

Adobe says the bug was fixed in the beta of Flash Player 10.1, which was released last November. The final version of Flash Player 10.1, however, won’t ship until later this year.

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