Leander Kahney's Blog, page 2241

Report: HP Cancels Windows 7 Slate, Readies webOS Tablet To Counter iPad

Before the iPad was officially announced, Steve Ballmer took the stage at CES and unveiled the HP Slate, a Windows 7 running tablet PC to be released later this year. According to Ballmer, the device was proof that Microsoft could do a multitouch operating system just as well as Apple.
On their part, though, HP seems [...:]

Classic MacOS Software Synthesizer ReBirth Comes To iPhone OS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HQ2GVMi2tQ
First released in December 1996 for MacOS 8, ReBirth RB-338 was a revolutionary synthesizer by Propellerhead Software that emulated two Roland TB-303 synthesizers, a Roland TR-808 and a Roland TR-909 drum machine. In the late 90s, it wasn't an easy task even getting a computer to run ReBirth… but almost fifteen years later, it works [...:]

New Apple SKU On Its Way To Australia, Possibly New MacBook Air

According to Macworld.com.au's sources, several thousand items of new Apple stock with the product number MC516LL/A K87 BETTER BTR-USA are now on their way to Australia… and while they aren't quite sure what it is, they're positing it might be an updated MacBook Air.

That would make some sense: the MacBook Air hasn't been updated since [...:]

Jailbroken iPads Can Use The Magic Mouse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wklrVOFMKA
The guys over at Redmond Pie have gotten their jailbroken iPad working with the Magic Mouse, thanks to the BTStack Mouse Driver application, which can easily be found on Cydia.
I'm struggling to see the point of this, other than "because we can." You simply can't do anything with a mouse under iPhone OS, short of [...:]

gfxCardStatus Allows You To Manually Switch Your 2010 MacBook Pro's GPUs

The latest MacBook Pros' ability to seamlessly switch between integrated Intel graphics and their discrete NVIDIA GPUs is a wonderful feature, capable of saving hours of battery by only employing the more powerful and power-hungry card when an application really needs it.
The problem is, there's a lot of poorly programmed applications out there that [...:]

iPads Now Available For Pre-Order In Some International Countries

If you live in Canada, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain or Switzerland, you can now pre-order your very own iPad, just like those cowboys in America have been yodeling about! Just hit up your local online Apple store and register your pre-order for delivery on May 28th.

Here in Germany, the 3G [...:]

Exchange Your Cracked MacBook For A Brand New MacBook [How To]

The previous lines of plastic MacBooks are notorious for developing a wide variety of defects. One defect in particular, cracking plastic, has caused many to aptly refer to these MacBooks as "CrackBooks."
This article will tell you how to turn that outdated CrackBook into a brand new MacBook. It worked for us. I hope it works for you.

The [...:]

iPhone and iPad Apps Weekly Digest: Pinball wizards, Crazy Taxi meets the postal service, and more

It's time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review AlphaBattle, Chop Chop Runner, Compression, ESPN Pinball on iPad, Mini Golf Wacky Worlds Free, Opera Mini, Parcel Panic, and Pinball HD.

APP OF THE WEEK
Pinball HD: Superb iPad pinball. Three great-looking, [...:]

Ultimate Ears 700 Earphones: More Proof That Dynamite Comes In Small Packages [Review]

Things sure have changed for music-lovers in a big way over the last decade. I still remember balking at paying $50 for a pair of Sony earbuds not so long ago. Then the iPod ushered in the age of the portable MP3-player revolution, and things would never be the same. The earbud market exploded, and [...:]

Dollar-App Mountain-Bike Simulator Rides Onto The iPhone

Two of my favorite gadgets to hit up when rec time rolls around are my iPhone and my mountain bike. Combining the two together might result in a sort of Shangri-la-like experience, but until now the only option available to me would have been something like the almost surely life-threatening activity of negotiating twisty singletrack [...:]