Over a week has passed since the Midsummer eve. This is the difference between mid-winter and mid-summer:
I hope to post some longer stories during July and after that no one knows as I have to start and finish my Master’s Thesis.
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
Those of you who are in search for a new handset, there might be a new model to be considered. Cool and feature rich devices exist, but a base model with all the necessary features with a price around 300€ are best value for money. My personal recommendation has been Nokia E50, but today as I played a little with the latest models this changed. Nokia 6120 Classic is one of the newest 3G handsets; really small and light (89g), full featured S60 device with HSDPA, 2 megapixel camera, flash and priced at 260€ (in Finland; including taxes). Check this out.
This is the one to go while waiting for iPhone.
Update: I found a blog entry with instructions to use Nokia 6120 Classic with Mac.
Half year ago I was valuating different possibilities to share my photos. Few months have passed and I have tried different possibilities like Flickr and Gallery, but was not satisfied. My collection of 6 000 photos is waiting for tagging, therefore I’m eagerly waiting for a new release of iPhoto – software I use for my photo management – that is speculated to have support for Google Maps and Geotagging. This would enable totally new ways to share and search for photos; not only by time or keywords, but location. Hence, while waiting for the future, I decided to continue with the old way: publishing some galleries if there is a reason and need.
Three days gardening reveals many nice creatures like this snail.
Nothing special on today’s WWDC Keynote. New Finder and Desktop with Stacks in Leopard are nice, but nothing groundbreaking was revealed. What about ZFS and resolution independence, for instance? And iLife? I guess the latter will be released in October, simultaneously with Leopard. Maybe the biggest news of today was the updated apple.com. The site, including Apple Store, is wider and black, clearly sporting the same design as Leopard. The site embodies AJAX with nice features for selecting software and checking out galleries, while for example the download area has gone through an extensive information restructuring.
New, wider apple.com
Back to the Keynote. Jobs announced that Safari has been ported to Windows. The Safari 3 Public Beta is available for download for both Mac and Windows.
Organizing objects into Stacks can help with crowded Dock, but for me the overall look may be too candy with the reflections.
Finder is like iTunes sharing the same user interface including Cover Flow.
During the last 20 minutes of the Keynote Jobs announced that the forthcoming iPhone will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards. Jobs stated that the innovative approach lets developers create amazing new applications while keeping the iPhone secure and reliable. This is nice as Apple can keep their code secret while providing a ready platform for developers to build their apps and test with Safari. Naturally writing native apps with a decent SDK would be better than this AJAX base solution. My concerns as a consumer are the phone performance with heavy apps and the offline accessibility of these widgets. But we will see as first iPhone (begins shipping on June 29) reviews are in shortly. Oh, and have you heard about brushed aluminum iMacs…
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