New iPhone OS 3.0, the phone that will dominate!
So everyone knew now. We will get new iPhone 3.0 in summer. New features? Yes, many of it.
New iPhone 3.0 operating system will have:
- Cut, copy, and paste, even without additional button! Nokia, BlackBerry, is that smart, huh? This thing available across all apps.
- Notifications via a push server
- MMS
- Bluetooth improvements (including A2DP)
- Landscape orientation and keyboard support in all key apps (including email)
- Search in contacts and calendar, mail. Nah, BlackBerry folks, can you shut up? Our phone now can do that too!
- New spotlight to search to entire your phone information, tough the detail still unclear
- 3G Tethering, This feature will allow you to connect your iPhone 3G to a laptop, to use it as a modem to access the internet.
- Voice Memo!
Other things:
- New improvemenet over AppStore business model, now apps can sold additional stuff inside app, like a rack full of books, not just sell each book one by one.
- Apple has sold 13.7 million iPhones through 2008, and 17 million iPhones total. This figure includes first generation hardware. 30 million included with iPod Touch which also has iPhone system.
- 2nd generation iPod Touch owners (like me) need to pay $9.95 to enable bluetooth support, which is currently locked. All iPhone owners enabled to the new iPhone 3.0 software support, except MMS for 1st gen iPhone.
- Yes, still no flash. But that’s not a big deal. Since you still able to watch embedded video on the like YouTube, or your own website, if that’s encoded correctly and using correct embed code. User need just tap that video placeholder, and they are go!
- Notes made in the Notes.app can now be synced to your computer
- Shake to shuffle is coming to the iPhone
- Safari browser is getting anti-phishing and auto-fill
- 1,000 new APIs for developers. And really too many neat developer related new features, and that’s sooo awesome.
- New SDK beta will available today.
- The new OS will be available summer.
If only Apple let these features out in first time, may be they can’t hold to anticipate the market and also to support it. Now, after the market is being established, these all new features will make a doom to the markets. All ‘normal’ phone features is now available. Hence, I truly understand that the decision behind all postponed features are either security reasons as well as to achieve the best simplicity yet powerful interaction on their phone, like only having touchscreen and just one button. How many button did it all needs to activate all that features in other phone? That’s truly smart move. This developer preview, and next launched in summer, that’s is called brilliant marketing move!
So what’s more. I definitely say, I should go for this iPhone. Since iPhone will be launched in the next few days here, I didn’t prepared to reserve it now, but let it wait after July. Just anticipating for new hardware!
Now, waiting to download new SDK. Just wait this page to be updated.
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Newspaper Logo via Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Newspaper_logos
Pretty neat.
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Redesign #1: A First Look
I have a long distraction problem when dealing with my own project. It was very difficult to keep promise to my project (or let’s called fun project), like this very own blog/website, for that project to be able to run on the right track. It is much easier to keep promise and deliver works for client’s projects, because you know you had to deal with someone and you obliged to do all of your promises.
Take a look at previous post when I shared to you about how I will redesign this blog. It has been two year, since 2007. And the progress stuck, and I launched the redesign with a good looking Textpattern theme called TXP Serene created by Vladimir Agafonkin. The theme is living with this blog for around three years. Three years with other people design and you called yourself designer? The planning is only became worth of a plan. That’s a big problem.
But I see the light as of today. The moment is coming. After taking long time for playing, experimenting, and illustrating badly, it finally came to a final eureka moment for the redesign project, again. Here is the first look.
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It is still a one page mockup. The design is only available on Adobe Illustrator document. It still waiting for more sub pages to be defined. It still need to be transformed into a xhtml/css code for a working click through prototypes. Then it still need to be implemented into Textpattern theme, my Content Management System (CMS) of choice. As you can see, there are three main categorization (main menus on the top left) of my website, they are: portfolios, stuffs, and blogs (this blog). I thinks now I had a quite amount of works I can shared with, they are some xhtml/css projects, some graphic design projects, and some interesting stuffs I might able to share to the wild world. The rounded button at bottom are links to all my social networking websites as well as my contact page. So it’s very interesting to let you know all about the progress.
I also have a plan to experiment with the new website on some interesting thing (hint: it’s the left colorful sidebar). It’s something with JavaScript and CSS, for sure. But let’s wait the detail for the next installment. I don’t know how long the progress will take. Since I had some very tight schedule at the moment of TCO’09. I hope it will not last than this June.
That’s all for now. If you had any comment or idea, please say so. I would be more than happy to answer or gather any good idea from this installment.
And, I would be sure, this is not about procrastination again. This is not going to be any delay for launch. Stay tune in few days.
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Little Art Director
Wondering how your two, three, and then four year old daughter became your art director and commissioning you to do some artwork. Hilarious!
Tiny Art Director by Bill Zeman.
via @TCStudio
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Behind 'The Godfather' Scenes
Thanks to Jason Kottke who always gave a notable selection on his blog. This is the latest.
“A fascinating article from the March 2009 issue of Vanity Fair describes how The Godfather got made, even though the producers, the real-life Mafia, Frank Sinatra, and Paramount executives all fought against it.”
The studio executives wanted Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Carlo Ponti, or Danny Thomas to play Don Corleone. Anyone but Brando, who, at 47, was perceived as poison. His recent pictures had been flops, and he was overweight, depressed, and notorious for causing overruns and making outrageous demands. WILL NOT FINANCE BRANDO IN TITLE ROLE, the suits in New York cabled the filmmakers. DO NOT RESPOND. CASE CLOSED.But Coppola fought hard for him, and finally the executives agreed to consider Brando on three conditions: he would have to work for no money up front (Coppola later got him $50,000); put up a bond for any overruns caused by him; and-most shocking of all-submit to a screen test. Wisely, Coppola didn’t call it that when he contacted Brando. Saying that he just wanted to shoot a little footage, he arrived at the actor’s home one morning with some props and a camera.
Brando emerged from his bedroom in a kimono, with his long blond hair in a ponytail. As Coppola watched through the camera lens, Brando began a startling transformation, which he had worked out earlier in front of a mirror. In Coppola’s words, “You see him roll up his hair in a bun and blacken it with shoe polish, talking all the time about what he’s doing. You see him rolling up Kleenex and stuffing it into his mouth. He’d decided that the Godfather had been shot in the throat at one time, so he starts to speak funny. Then he takes a jacket and rolls back the collar the way these Mafia guys do.” Brando explained, “It’s the face of a bulldog: mean-looking but warm underneath.”
Coppola took the test to Bluhdorn. “When he saw it was Brando, he backed away and said, ‘No! No!’” But then he watched Brando become another person and said, “That’s amazing.” Coppola recalls, “Once he was sold on the idea, all of the other executives went along.”
Integrity. Hard work. And real wars between smart men, that’s making all the works memorable as long as you can remember it.
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Safari 4 Smash Into Browser Wars
I’ve already tried a new version of Safari 4 beta on mac. Here is several new key features:
- Top Sites – a start up of your browser, showing your recent visited website in a 9 box preview mode just like in Opera or Chrome or any other browsers out there. So this the trend.
- CoverFlow – yeah, it’s over hyped. You can use to browse your bookmarks. Nice tough.
- Full Search History – it said so
- Tabs on Top – ouch, this one is hurt, a very like IE7 or the like. Not in Apple way.
- A truly faster JavaScript engine – not yet tested it. Tough after opening several web apps, I think it is very good. It said it is faster than the fastest Chrome.
- Developer Tools – yay, this is cool. Tough it still far from inconvenient to Web Developer on Firefox or the Firefox itself, so now it seems Developer menu is default (which previously should be managed via settings).
- Full page zoom – just like Opera
- New experience on address bar.
- A friend said Safari now able to operate in secret mode, just like Chrome or Opera, so no log or history or cookie after you get dirty.
You see? The browser wars has yet just began. I am enjoying this.
Since I didn’t like much how Safari treat new tab experience and that annoying + button on top right of window (why we need that much + button?), I can get rid of them by running several hacks via Terminal (in mac):
- defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool NO – this is to get back the always show tab bar to no (previous setting on Safari 3 is no)
- defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO – this is to get rid the new Safari 4 style tab bar.
In case you missed the new style, just replace the NO value with YES and hit enter on Terminal.
This is how my Safari after being customized. Notice the old tab style, but it now has + button before address bar, and the MobileSafari like refresh button inside address bar.
Well that’s enough. I knew every new thing needs some time to get used to it. But I absolutely believe for everyone knew well how Apple make stuff, this tabs thing seems ridiculous.
UPDATE: Here you can find some Hidden Preferences on new Safari 4. Love it. It collects all hack including those I mentioned above, and also disabling dimming on Top Site preview, and so. Jump directly to Hidden Preferences in Safari 4 Public Beta
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The Future of Newspaper: A dime, a nickel, or two dollar
Time has published a great piece by Walter Isaacson, How to Save Your Newspaper, a former TIME managing editor offers a way to return journalism to prosperity. Regarding to the crisis of papar-based press, we saw recent awakening of giant publishers on their problems.
There is, However, a striking and somewhat odd fact about this crisis. Newspapers have more readers than ever. Their content, as well as that of newsmagazines and other producers of traditional journalism, is more popular than ever — even (in fact, especially) among young people.
True. I’d love to read true journalism report than blog post, if there is such alternative.
Henry Luce, a co-founder of TIME, disdained the notion of giveaway publications that relied solely on ad revenue. He called that formula “morally abhorrent” and also “economically self-defeating.” That was because he believed that good journalism required that a publication’s primary duty be to its readers, not to its advertisers. In an advertising-only revenue model, the incentive is perverse. It is also self-defeating, because eventually you will weaken your bond with your readers if you do not feel directly dependent on them for your revenue.
Really good exaplained argument. I believe the press should be that too. Tough the practise of free content seems normal, but that doesn’t make sense for journalism industries.
So are there any good solutions? How journalism could sustain as a business, as we need them for our information needs.
Currently a few newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, charge for their online editions by requiring a monthly subscription. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Journal, he ruminated publicly about dropping the fee. But Murdoch is, above all, a smart businessman. He took a look at the economics and decided it was lunacy to forgo the revenue — and that was even before the online ad market began contracting. Now his move looks really smart. Paid subscriptions for the Journal’s website were up more than 7% in a very gloomy 2008.
It is indeed good solution. But that’s likely good for those specialized publishers (like WSJ) whose readers base are very bonded to the content, not so like to general newspaper.
The key to attracting online revenue, I think, is to come up with an iTunes-easy method of micropayment. We need something like digital coins or an E-ZPass digital wallet — a one-click system with a really simple interface that will permit impulse purchases of a newspaper, magazine, article, blog or video for a penny, nickel, dime or whatever the creator chooses to charge.
That was what I thought before.
Steve Jobs got music consumers (of all people) comfortable with the concept of paying 99 cents for a tune instead of Napsterizing an entire industry, and Jeff Bezos with his Kindle showed that consumers would buy electronic versions of books, magazines and newspapers if purchases could be done simply.
We all got inspired to Apple’s success. Exactly.
Under a micropayment system, a newspaper might decide to charge a nickel ($0.05) for an article or a dime ($0.01) for that day’s full edition or $2 for a month’s worth of Web access. Some surfers would balk, but I suspect most would merrily click through if it were cheap and easy enough.
This is seems a good and fair solutions. Tough it has their cons, as I the reader feels following it. We are enjoying a really freedom of press, and emphasizes the free word. And this situation are creating a wealth of massive information source to every side of the world. If this situation is reserved, following the condition such publishers have, it would be a giant shock.
So here are my ideas:
- As a reader from developing countries, I suggest those giant publishers create a different pricing schemes for developing countries. This will reduced the possibility of pirated version as if everyone sees it affordable, they might go buy it legally.
- Create another some alternative ways of payment system. Most people in developing countries didn’t have credit card. May be they want to spend buying for good content. Since the publishers didn’t give an easy way for them, they might ended up for pirated version. It’s true. It’s happen to music industries, or movies industries.
- May be you could joining with local publishers to get a scheme of buy one for two. Average local paper subscription are $6 per month. And newspaper local industries seems having a same problem. So imagine I can subscribe to Kompas, local Jakarta-based national newspaper (and the most circulated in country), and I got free NYTimes online subscription.
- Create a wealth of good system of ownership. I wonder when you bought a piece of article, that’s become yours forever. Even in such reality, your paper will be useless after a month, and you might ended up trash it. But, good ownership of digital contents will create a reward to those who bought it. It’s a different world than paper edition.
- Create a good ecosystem with the same publishers who takes this way, so readers enjoy the benefit. Imagine if NYTimes, Wall Street and other publishers has same platform for their paid contents. We could ended up with a great virtual library of our own purchased digital content, so we can retrieve it easily, cataloging it, tagging, search, clippings, or arrange as far as we want.
- I suggest an idea of reduced pricing scheme as the time of published materials getting older. Imagine if we could buy up-to-1 months ago edition for let’s say 50% of normal subscription fee. Or, we could buy up-to-3 months ago editions for 20%, More than 3 months will end up to 10%, and a year more for free. It would go really cheap, but for everyone who sees fit to read such materials, they will end up to buy it.
- So, if press going to be paid-based, how’s the future of free press? How’s the future of blogging and citizen commentary, as we can easily linking to original sources we are debating over since not everyone possibly can read it anymore? Well, it depends on the planning of above ecosystem. Maybe there will be another outlet so everyone can read it free, but they have ads, and the content is can’t be copied. If blogger like me want to quote it, we should do it manually by typing it or we could copy-paste after we bought it (for a really, really cheap), we can pay it for a dime or reduced pricing (see idea below) if it was an older piece or getting it really free if it a year later.
Sure I like to read free content, as well as a very personal blogosphere contents. But for me, I still like to read good reportage. Even some readers comments of Time article opposed the idea, everyone would be as they would ended up pay for something they usually got it free.
I love to read good journalism. I usually got it from good reputable publishers, that’s why I subscribed to paper-edition of Wired, Time, and one local paper. Sure I can read it online, as always. As to Wired, I like more to read Wired paper edition, as I can saw their great and unique design. Or, when the Time arriving at my door, it always such be an enjoy moment to have it (and read it by the next hours).
I want press to be sustainable. What’s your idea?
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How Dubai Look in Downturn
NY Times: Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down
With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers have reported that more than 3,000 cars sit abandoned in the parking lot at the Dubai Airport, left by fleeing, debt-ridden foreigners (who could in fact be imprisoned if they failed to pay their bills). Some are said to have maxed-out credit cards inside and notes of apology taped to the windshield.
Source: Gulfnew, circa 2006
Other sources:
- Times Online: Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park
- Arabian Business: Qatar sees huge hike in abandoned cars
- Financial Times: Two tales of a city — and Dubai’s luxury car giveaway
- Daiji World: Indians flee Dubai as dreams crash
So what’s the future dream of the highest tower in the world which unknown of its tall, the Burj Dubai, the rotating tower, and other monstrous palm resort?
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Hack Twitter, Hacks!
So now, everyone seems watching Twitter curiously!
Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots
Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music and videos, to help you quit smoking and lose weight — spontaneously extending the text-based service into one of the web’s most fertile (and least likely) application platforms.Hardware hackers have set up household appliances to send status alerts over Twitter, like a washing machine that tweets when the spin cycle is through, or a home security system that tweets whenever it senses movement inside the house. Others have incorporated Twitter into their DIY home automation systems. Forgot to turn off the lights? Send a tweet to flip the switch by remote control.
After received funding for about $20 million and refused the $500 million Facebook acquisition offer, what the heck, they must be keeping a big secret of their recipe of business model.
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List of Open Innovation & Crowdsource
The website listed some example of available website and services that host innovative collaboration project as well as crowdsource or freelance service available on the market.
Nice thing to bookmark in case you need it in the future.
via dhjr
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