OK, that was kind of cool: can unlock a car using his iPhone (I have to use a separate fob to unlock my car for CarShare)
- Anthony Ha
Line 6/Planet Waves is next. Demonstrating controlling a guitar using your iPhone
- Anthony Ha
... our fleet at Swisscom is unlocked by phones since years
- olafzanger
Tyler, and because he is, then he would be the first person to say "no" to turning up today. What do you want in the papers today/tomorrow? New Apple stuff, or "Jobs on stage!"? Jobs & Apple would say the first...
- Andy Bold
i'll care about zipcar when i get an actual car from it ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Have they done anything to nip the Pre in the bud yet?
- Ken Sheppardson
god forbid you have to read for 2 minutes
- Tyler Gillies
I have to scroll all the way back up to comment. Silly FF, not having a comment button at the bottom of threads! :)
- Ian Betteridge
Heh - a room full of iphones and laptops and there's surprise that with all that RF the demo didn't work :-D Shame though - looks like a cool app. I'd stick to peddles and stuff though
- Andy Bold
If you want a clean window, with a comment box stuck open on the bottom, you can click on the timestamp of the entry twice, or just go to http://friendfeed.com/twit-co...
- Ken Sheppardson
But It Can Only Be Made With HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT
- nanochrome
Palm should have built the app store for it sooner to make a better initial impact
- Chris Miller
So, who wants to bet that even though Calacanis pushed the Arrington issue before the show, he'll bring it up again during the show. Arrington's a prick, apology or no...
- James Britton
Mister IQ, last year they announced the new Touch in the summer, before it came out in September
- Matthew
My WinMo phone has an app to turn it into a wifi router
- Michael Benny
And A Mic In A Ipod Touch So Mic Apps All Work
- nanochrome
I have a T-Mobile MDA and haven't upgraded because EDGE data is costing me $5 but if I got a new phone, it would be $25!, thats over $200 more per year!
- Sean Flaherty
I'm sure we'll see webOS on different form factors withing 12 months... there's already a candybar in the works
- Ken Sheppardson
@Jay throw Android in at number three (maybe tied with 2) and shove blackberry down
- James Britton
Japan has HD video cell phones already!
- Scott Hubble
Google gave out free phones at I/O - think Apple will do the same at WWDC?
- Jesse Stay
Matthew: Still it may not be released until September by my guess.
- Mister IQ
"apple has a tendency to make me drool"
- Jay McCormack
how about a 3G macbook Air using a via cpu & ION platform
- Michael Mooney
Apple will never release a netbook with ATOM processor.
- Akshay Dodeja
Is there a way to keep the twit.tv popout window always on top?
- zephyrlily
zephyrlily: I use nvidia software to put any window on top
- Jay McCormack
Apple Might Make a netbook but they will redefine what netbooks are
- nanochrome
zephyrlily, you would probably have to have a separate app that does that for you
- Matthew
Jackson Pollock: I hope it would have a full version of OS X.
- Mister IQ
I think Apple might drop the price of AIR, the margins on
- Akshay Dodeja
Steve hates pens and gloves and everything like that. They would never do a tablet with a pen, and never do a tablet without a pen, but with OSX. It will be a huge iPhone
- Jackson Pollock
I tend to agree with Jeff Cannata about tablets, iPhone is a perfect size, just needs more power/storage/openness
- James Britton
Dear Jason, you know which platforms already have the turn-it-into-a-wifi-hotspot app you described? Windows Mobile and Symbian. For months.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Mister IQ. They would never do that. if an engineer gave Steve a touchscreen devise that you have to hit a tiny little red x in a corner to exit an app, he would throw it out the window. It has to have a touchscreen OS.
- Jackson Pollock
I'm so proud of them, they haven't mentioned twitter once!
- Curtis
They're not going to release a Netbook unless there is some sort of developer focus. Remember this is a dev conference.
- Jesse Stay
Jason the digg blog that announced (http://blog.digg.com/?p=808) digg ads says "Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system."
- russtbarnacle
@Jesse, popout the twit.tv and put it next to your FF window
- zephyrlily
zephyrlily I know how to do that - that's not what I was referring to. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jason is full of it, people will watch good ads... Superbowl anyone?
- Roy Pledge
@jesse I'm sure when (if?) Wave comes out, Leo will do that.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Bing takes over Yahoo, wihtout much effort. all advertising
- Chris Miller
I don't think Bing is doing well regionally beyond the US. i can't get the map stuff to work in Australia.
- Jay McCormack
But Google Is Better And I Don't Like Going To Any Microsoft Site
- nanochrome
Bing 's reign as Number 2 search engine ends after one day - @TechCrunch - http://bit.ly/sEHTW
- Todd
bing = because it's not google or bing is not google
- Holger Eilhard
Even if BING is great, what is the compelling reason to use anything other than Google which IS great and I am really comfortable with already?
- Joel Asaro
I'm very impressed with Bing. I haven't used Google since Bing come out.
- Joseph Ferris
Joel: Agreed... there's just not enough to move accross to it
- Jay McCormack
That's the problem it good but there is nothing about Bing that makes people want to use it over Google
- Kim Landwehr
The video preview is a thumbnail, how can Denise expect you to watch a video in a search result in total
- Jay McCormack
Bing; how about not showing previews of short videos. problem solved
- Roberto Bonini
This is the same issue over and over again. It's not the technology's responsibility to not watch inappropriate content (porn or violence or whatever). It's the parent's responsibility to instill the right values in the child.
- Jay McCormack
See! Leo has done a good job educating his kids to look at the right stuff
- Jay McCormack
Where is everyone going for WWDC coverage?
- Mister IQ
@Chris That's true, but I would personally rather just see user-generated content without the advertising. At least Digg is doing it much better, as long as they clearly disclose what is advertisement, than banner ads and popups.
- 321
is WWDC going to be streamed, or will it only be for download after the fact
- Matthew
Bing video search does show youtube videos
- Kim Landwehr
Hard work... it's taken PayPal years to get it right
- Jay McCormack
Exactly when did PayPal get it right?
- Roy Pledge
LOL @ clinton and cigar. Did anyone get that?
- Lise
Would be nice if they bring back their old features they took away because their infrastructure couldn't handle them before they try to add new ones.
- Ken Sheppardson
Of the many payment options, it's easy, it works, it's international, it might be expensive, but it does work.
- Jay McCormack
he didnt make any intention to even use or expand no the account, he just wanted it down
- Chris Miller
yeah ken, but you and i know that's not a technical problem
- Chris Heath
@Lise: I laughed, but then felt guilty because no one seemed to find it funny :P
- Cory Roush
Have you ever tried to contact Twitter support?
- Jesse Stay
@Ken I agree. I'm still upset about this whole @ reply feature
- Lise
You have to have TechCrunch to write about it for them to listen that you are being impersonated.
- Jesse Stay
Tony La Russo's 501c3: It's NOT about adoptions; it's about DONATIONS. Donations might be affected by something like a Twitter account, especially in the future.
- shelter watch
I guess this means Tony's not getting on the Featured users list
- Jesse Stay
@JasonC you look cute as Maverick! I say keep the look. You don't need the cigar, though.
- Lise
Lise: he needs a cap or something to finish the look
- Jay McCormack
Bill Gates did talk about this at D5 tho, people forget
- Jackson Pollock
Natal can recognize 48 points of motion compared to the PS3's 2, plus you know Natal will work with Windows 7
- Matthew
Natal combined with the new controller Sony showed would be pretty slick.
- Ken Sheppardson
Felicia Day looks good with anything! :-P
- Hipp
from IM
watch the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs interview from D5. Bill talked about it and was laughed out because people thought he meant the Wii interface
- Jackson Pollock
Shane Kim said that releasing Natal in the spring would be "aggressive". So they still have a year or more to work on it.
- Matthew
The press has completely missed the navigation piece of Natal...did you see the minority report style menu conteol and the voice control of teh video playback?
- Rob
Wii's just integrating acceleration to get position. The Sony controller actually measures the position of the controller, doesn't it?
- Ken Sheppardson
I want 3D games with those controllers
- Jesse Stay
MS will put Natal on Windows as well, so Minority Report type interface is possible when this comes out
- Matthew
Lindsay: All chats on FriendFeed are real time.
- Nicholas James
what if they added skype to xbox using natal
- Michael Mooney
You know what drives me mad! "Fall 09" as a release date. Just watched the scribblenauts video, says available Fall 09. 1: Fall = Autumn for me, 2: When is Autumn? Each hemisphere has autumn at different times of the year! Argghhhhh!
- Jay McCormack
Leo, the newest dashboard for the Xbox (NXE) lets you install your games to the hard drive, and it barely makes a sound. The fans don't make that much noise, it's the DVD drive that makes all the sound due to wanting short load times
- Matthew
The streaming HD on the TiVo Netflix interface is beautiful!
- Aaron T. Harvey
I think that ringtone should have Keyboard Cat as a backing track instead.
- Ken Sheppardson
I don't think Michael was the only person who was supposed to get a review unit Friday and didn't. I suspect there were logistical issues.
- Ken Sheppardson
It works great within iChat or Google Talk
- Hipp
from IM
It's stuck between real time chat and blog-type comments
- Aaron T. Harvey
"The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 will kick off with a keynote address on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. A team of Apple executives, led by Phillip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, will deliver the keynote address" -- http://developer.apple.com/wwdc...
- Ken Sheppardson
anyone watching twit live? is this a green screen shot or are they at WWDC?
- David Lloyd
That pretty much means tablet as far as I'm concerned. In terms of touch, the trackpad on a macbook is the same hardware as the iphone/possible mac tablet
- Jackson Pollock
Well, Quicktime has been the same for the last 3-4 versions more or less
- Jackson Pollock
You know, you guys were nagging Apple like this last year. You wanted 3G, you wanted GPS bla bla. Now you're poo-pooing GPS and saying that there is zero coverage of 3G in the US. The beauty of the iPhone is the lack of a continual need for hardware updates. The functionality is not tied to the phone. Every version of the phone has the same functionality, only with different specs
- Jackson Pollock
I never did the IRC chat, just the Stickam chat - I guess I'm asking if the comment stream here is roughly equiv to the old Stickam chat.
- Robert DeLaurentis
Can we have a Macbreak Weakly Karaoke contest? with Andy as the MC?
- americanm
Haha ditto! New segment of MBW should be karaoke
- iGerard
It's when they talk about a link on Twit.tv!! ;) That's the secret!!
- Paul
from twhirl
Ah, click on the "Seconds Ago" link in the single window opens an even more svelte single window. Very minimal, very quick.
- Robert DeLaurentis
that's a *really* good point about the camera being hosed by a seemingly simple drop of the device.
- Brett Kelly
I've dropped my htc touch a dozen times and still going strong.
- Chris Gardner
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- NidoApps
I sure would like a Google Voice invite (:
- earl wallace
Shameless advertising on a friendfeed comment thread? Say it ain't so!
- Lucavex Ayanami
Is there going to be a quad core put in the Macbook pro?
- Elliott Kieff
Hey Leo, dont forget it looks like the much anticipated Slingplayer is coming out tonight for the iPhone, WIFI only!
- Ricky Steven Isbell
My wife tried to rent the Apple store in Pasadena for my 40th birthday party.. the Manager was so surprised that she was stumped for a reply..
- Gautam Godse
Gunny can one block just one member in chat. Let me know where you find it
- earl wallace
Hey guys, there's a rumor too with the MBP going quad-core. Leo, buy a MBP! link - http://bit.ly/HnLVF
- iGerard
think about it, the Apple Store is great for a party - it has a Genius bar to serve drinks and a screen to play slideshows, piped music and tables for food.. nice.. too bad they said no..
- Gautam Godse
I think the Mac mediapad/tablet or whatever is vaporware. Alex has been touting it for the last two years. I don't think it'll happen. At least not yet. I could be wrong.
- Mikael Johansson
It just feels like throwing the money away to me.
- blacklight
Rhapsody to go is $15/month. Can't keep any songs though
- pbombach
It is for me, Earl. I never use my ipod now, lol
- Scott Johnson
I had one of the original Zune's. I loved it for a long, long time. Could play any video, could do any MP3s, and held a charge for several hours. Days with limited use. The Zune is a great product.
- Lucavex Ayanami
If Microsoft made a Zune phone they would all brick every time a new phone is activated
- Elliott Kieff
Alex won't give up on subscriptions and tablet.
- Mike Getz
I would have bought an Iphone instaed of a BB Bold if AT&t would get off its behind and bring 3g here
- earl wallace
I just see it as, anything that is worth doing on an iphone that would normally require flash there is an app for, or a way of doing it. And if there is that "one thing," you have to have it for, take a 30 second trip to your computer
- Scott Johnson
I just wish I could get the Pre on my SERO everything I've seen says no go
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Blackberries are great! Then a week later you get rid of it and get an iphone!
- Scott Johnson
Biggest reason not to add flash...battery life. Otherwise, why not add flash?
- Paul Puri
Any Flash movie on my MacBook is the only item that turns on the cooling fans. Its got to be a an unoptimized mess under the hood.
- Robert DeLaurentis
Well if they glance down they should check out yappler.com/api, this guys offering a rich api for applications in the itunes app store, makes it easy to build custom apps/websites to search the app store
- Doug
YOu guys are talking about the iClicker thing. We use those in Nursing School. They would be cool if our instructors could get them to work :P
- Scott Johnson
Well, earl. I'd have to disagree. I can't take notes and rea them later, because it's too boring. Interractivity is the way I learn. I'm very tactile.
- Scott Johnson
Just giving us some kind of feature demo at WWDC and then an approximate ship date would be nice...
- Barry Wiseman
Using the app to record eveyones answers and let us do questions as a class is awesome
- Scott Johnson
well I see your point ..I guess the difference in perception is the generational teaching techniques of the past and now...lecture notes then, keyboarding notes in classroom now
- earl wallace
Right. And how one learns is also a huge factor. I learn best by doing things, while another learns best by reading, and another can only learn by hearing something
- Scott Johnson
I have a problem with the instructors. I work in a school. Each teacher has a iMac on their desktop. What is it used for? Web surfing, email, and word processing. How do they teach? the same way they've been teaching for 20 years!
- Chuck Adams
HI FROM GEORGIA EVERY THINGS UP AND WORKING 2 DAY
- daveccorey
That "definitely" has generational factors, Chuck. If I learn how to do something now, I'm going to be doing it 50 years from now. As long as it still works and then info gets conveyed, I'm still going to do it. It just so happens that they learned to do these things prior to knowing the usefulness of macs
- Scott Johnson
Apple tells developers to make apps compatable with firmware 3.0 for AppStore. New apps must be compatible if submitted now. Old apps must be made compatible or they will be removed. See www.theloopblog.com/archives/290
- judy Engelsberg
ANOTHER SUBJECT I WAS WONDERING IF ITUNES WAS GOING TO GET ANY SHAREING APLACATIONS 4 TWTTER LIKE GROVE SHARK AND YOUTUBE HAS
- daveccorey
That makes it difficult for a brand new developer like me. Now I have to wait for the 3.0 sdk to drop for free so I can re-work what I've already done. What the heck?
- Scott Johnson
I'm suprised that is actual intelligence in this comment thread, and not people who think the proper way to start and end every sentence is with the word "lol"
- Lucavex Ayanami
The fact is, whether it's Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, until the mindset of the teacher changes education in this country will continue to lag behind the rest of the world. I don't care how much tech you throw at education.
- Chuck Adams
That's the very reason I stopped chatting on Stickam
- Scott Johnson
I actually prefer Virtualbox over Parallels and VM Fusion. I'm setting it up for a lab of OS X machines now!
- Chuck Adams
Is virtualization as fast as running windows through boot camp?
- Michael K
Right, Chuck. And little by little the old teachers are giving in to teaching about the use of these systems and technique
- Scott Johnson
virtual box is spiffy, but VM Ware and Parallels have better 3d support for example the aero effects in Win 7 don't work in VB
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
There was an article in the LA time last week explaining how difficult it is to dismiss bad teachers. Bottom line, its almost impossible.
- Robert DeLaurentis
I just used bootcamp for Vista partition. Which one are you able to run 4 OS's at once? It's 79.99
- Scott Johnson
Lucavex and Scott ypu both hit the nail on the head. It also more peaceful and easier to understand ideas in here without trying to comprehend traffic going by at 100 mph
- earl wallace
I have to agree with Leo here. Windows 7 (Which is what I currently use at home) is so stable and solid even under the release candidate. Microsoft really did themselves justice on this new OS. I've never purchased a legitimate copy of an operating system since I was 14. I am now 25. But I can say with 100% truth that I will be purchasing Windows 7.
- Lucavex Ayanami
Dang, I wanted to listen to today's show to get the skinny on iPhone rumors that may come out at WWDC. Dunno whether to wait or pounce on the Palm Pre.
- jcunwired
Thanks Chuck Looking to add you now
- earl wallace
Aye, I'm following you and chuck. Lemme see about adding you as a friend. I'm a N00b to Twitter
- Scott Johnson
me too... had to replace my HD and the performance was noticeable
- Chuck Adams
Mike you'll notice a definite "lag" time time when you compare a 5400 to a 7800. It's not enough to make or break a hard drive buy decision unless you do video editing.
- Lucavex Ayanami
cwob is the coolest name for a web site. I used hamachi in the past and had to make a Logmein ID. I think thats where I got mixed up, Chuck
- Scott Johnson
Hamachi is still kind of flaky to me on OS X
- Chuck Adams
I used it on my windows machine. Not too keen on trying it for Mac
- Scott Johnson
It works most of the time, but the open source gui, HamachiX still has some issues IMHO
- Chuck Adams
Sad there was no Mini update. iWork and iLife updates look good.
- Will King
Apple Store is down? hope they aren't hosted the same place as MacRumors ;-)
- Karim
MG (& everybody else) - whadda ya think? Another special event in March?
- Christian Messer
Aside from the 17" MBP which we knew was coming, and the extended battery life, it was all software. Disappointing 'cause everyone's always eager to buy the latest new shiny Apple hardware. :)
- Dan Hsiao
disappointed, who cares about iLife. Picasa does it in their beta.
- Ryan
great news in the form iphoto updates, imovie updates and itunes drm-free but disappointed with no new macmini
- Kiran Patchigolla
boring, disappointing - tony bennett - really?
- Colin
Actually pleased with the lack of hardware updates. Less $, less waste.
- Dave Ferrick
better processor to handle 1080p video, ability to add internet video sources like Hulu, Fox, Veemeoh, Qik etc....if you see video available for purchase on iTunes, be able to click to buy ad free, Dashboard overlay to be able to use widgets OR the ability to use iPhone/iPod Touch apps on the big screen and control with the iPhone/iPod Touch. And sell the older model at an entry point of $99.
- Paul Schreiber
pleased for apple or pleased for consumers? I always end up disappointed because I anticipate too much, nothing compares to when the iphone was launched
- Franz Sittampalam
seriously disappointed. Very little new for *macs*.
- adin
Basically some software upgrades and DRM free (the 17" macbook was a given)
- Mark Philpot
Nice software upgrades, and, erm, that's about it.
- Ian Betteridge
"Wow, this is a big loss. In my opinion, he was the most fair journalist -- tough on both sides. He would always study his interviewees and take the opposite stand and grill them. Peace to his family. NBC cannot replace him."
- Shannon Burns
"perhaps I'm a snob, but when i see someone pull out a phone that isn't an IPHONE, I can't imagine why anyone settles for less than amazing."
- Shannon Burns