Macgasm

So the moment we’ve all been waiting for (see dreading) just went down. Apple announced the sequel to iPhone 4 with the iPhone 4s.  Aesthetically speaking, it’s the same as the iPhone 4, but just beneath the surface you find all new innards designed to really speed things up and allow for some new software enhancements.

It starts off with a new Dual Core A5 Arm Based processor, built by Apple, and rumor has it this thing screams. Numbers are being thrown in our faces such as graphics performance 7x faster than that of the iPhone 4. iPhone gaming is set to really start getting serious now, so be on the lookout for great new games, likely to be available only on the  iPhone 4s.

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According to MacRumors, the Apple 27-inch Thunderbolt Display is now shipping to stores.  So what,  you might ask. A new display is shipping. Big deal. Well, in this case it is much more than just another great looking Apple display.  It has something new that no other display has — the Thunderbolt port.

When Apple announced the Thunderbolt connection standard would be included on their new Laptops, most consumers said, great now I have to worry about another connection standard?  On the other hand, many professionals in graphic design and video sat up a little and said, “wow!”

Shortly after that Apple came out with its first display that used the standard.   The standard allows you to daisy chain all sorts of things together through that one little port, and it all happens with speeds approaching the PCI bus in a Mac Pro! But the 27-inch display can be the answer to a lot of usage scenarios out there.

There is a move to more portable machines. I know I have an iMac at the office, but I would love to have just a laptop again. Well, now I can thanks to the 27-inch Thunderbolt display.  The display has two connections for your laptop, a MagSafe Power tap for your laptop and the Thunderbolt connector. But, where the power lies is in the display.

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This story might get confusing, so I’m going to start at the beginning. Webkit is an open browser standard that Google already uses in its chrome browser. When I say open, I mean it. Apple help to create webkit from other Web browser standards. It uses webkit throughout Safari and the Mac OS to render web pages. They also use it for Safari on iOS, since the desktop and mobile version are very closely related. What that means is, if you develop to a webkit standard, you’re going to be in pretty good shape no matter what device it is seen on. Then comes the confusing part.

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So we are all waiting on the realease of the next iPhone and iOS 5.  We know it will be this fall, but just when this fall was a little bit of a mystery.  But thanks to AT&T we might have a 2 week window when we might see it all.

An AT&T executive has reportedly stated that:

“Expect things to get really, really busy in the next 35-50 days, so prepare your teams accordingly.”

So we might have a window on when iOS 5 and possibly a new iPhone will be revealed. What makes this rumour different?  Boy Genius Report has a pretty good track record and when well known “connected” guy, Jim Dalrymple from The Loop  tends to agree:

“Yep.”

It’s a pretty good bet that we have something happening in early October.  I know that my 3GS is on its death march right now.

Source: MacRumors, Boy Genius Report, The Loop

When I think of products that have changed my digital life, I think of the iPhone, iPad, Dropbox and Google Reader. But one app that I use almost everyday in both my personal and business life is Evernote. For those of you not familiar with Evernote, a quick one paragraph tour.

Lets say you come across something on your voyage through the inter webs and you think to your self, “hey, I could really use that later.” Now you have a couple of choices:

1. Bookmark the site and pray they don’t remove or delete the post.
2. Print it on a piece of paper and get it lost in your filling system.
3. Print a PDF of the page and then proceed to lose it on your hard drive.

None of these have ever worked for me. I have folders and folders of PDFs that I still need to go through to figure out what the heck I saved that page for. Then along comes Evernote. Evernote lets you store any document, tag it and access it from anywhere with the help of the web or native apps. I use it for everything from photos to recipes to technical documents I might need later.  It is a truly useful service.

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In what seems to be becoming a daily occurrence, someone is suing Apple for something they have been doing for quite some time, in this case, managing the very storage that you use everyday. [...]