By Greg Mills
The uproar was tremendous when Apple refused to support Adobe Flash with the iOS. I will admit some frustration as web pages loaded on iPad with the admonition to load Flash to view the content. I knew I couldn’t do that. Oh, well, I figured I didn’t need to see that content any way or bother with web sites that didn’t support compatible graphic display software.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said that the use of touch screen technology on Macs will be via devices such as the Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse, not by touching the screen itself. We’ll see; however, if Apple is planning a touchscreen desktop Mac, the iMac would be the most likely choice. And HP’s new TouchSmart PCs might offer a glimpse at what Apple has in mind.
The TouchSmart Consumer PC and TouchSmart 9300 Elite Business PC sport a 60-degree reclining display, enabling users to adjust the display’s position “for a comfortable user experience.” They recline from upright to almost flat.
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By Greg Mills
As with a lot of us who have embraced the iPad experience, I downloaded The Daily app and have been using it each day to read the first virtual newspaper. While certainly things commonly improve over time, I am reluctantly of the opinion that The Daily lacks any killer features that would cause me to pony up my hard earned US$40 a year.
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Apple’s Tony Fadell is named as the inventor of a novel method of using various existing cell phone company’s excess capacity cobbled together to create a new Apple branded virtual cell phone network.
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Apple is eyeing ways to beef up the color correction on its electronic displays. A patent (number 20110032275) for color correction of electronic displays utilizing gain controls has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It generally relates to display correction and, more specifically, to correcting the displayed color by reducing its dependency on various variables, such as temperature.
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