At its annual music-based event, Apple today announced an all-new iPod nano. The new player is small — 1.48 inches tall and 1.61 inches wide. Gone is the click wheel that for so long defined the iPod. Instead, the iPod nano’s face is defined by a 1.54-inch color, Multi-Touch display. The OS is still in [...]
Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman, on Delicious Library 2: So Delicious Library 2 would ship with a whole new back- and front-ends—in effect, it was like a whole new product. But Shipley didn’t stop there; instead, DL2 piled on new features, including a whole list of new product categories it could track, like video games, tools, [...]
Very cool, but I’m not sure how easy this would be to use day-to-day. I guess we’ll know tomorrow. [via 9 to 5 Mac]
Steve Jobs, in this video linked to by All Thing D’s John Paczkowski: This is a very complicated world. This is a very noisy world and we’re not going to get a chance … to get people to remember much about us. No company is. And so we have to be really clear on what [...]
John Gruber linked to this article on Flood Lite today: In July 2002, Apple filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.” The average [...]
Inkling: Textbooks don’t have to be text. They don’t have to be books. Stunning. The future of textbooks aren’t in dead trees.
Leo Babauta: I love the simplicity of the MacBook Air — when I have to use someone else’s MacBook Pro, it feels heavy and clunky. Don’t get me started on how it feels to use someone else’s Window machine. It would be nice if my Air lasted for 20 years. I agree. The Air is [...]
Charles Jade: The new Mac Office 2011, currently in development, will easily best iWork ’09, and with every feature update demonstrates just how far behind iWork has fallen. I’ll take iWork over Office any day of the week.
