Leander Kahney's Blog, page 2247

App Analyzes Sound To Determine Ripeness Of Watermelons

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpK6PkpxZI
I haven't eaten watermelon in what must be going on a year now, but I'm sure this dollar-app app is a must-have for serious watermelon afficionados (the clip looks like it was filmed in Israel, which is notoriously watermelon-crazy).
The developer claims iWatermelon Deluxe can determine if a watermelon is ripe just by having the user [...:]

iPad Car Mount Preview Roundup

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SkltRqOF5k
In a post yesterday about CoPilot's new iPad navigation app, I remarked that I'd like to see more iPad car mounts than the custom dash fabricated by Soundman Car Audio; turns out, while it doesn't look as if anything is available yet, there are a few companies working on solutions which should be available soon. [...:]

Daily Deals: iPad Apps, App Store Price Drops, $929 MacBook Pro

We start off with a roundup of iPad apps, including "Glyder 2 for iPad." In the same vein, we have the latest batch of App Store price drops, including the "Chop Chop Ninja" action game. Finally, the Apple Store offers a number of unibody MacBook Pro laptops, starting at $929 for a 2.26GHz model with [...:]

iPad Innards Exposed on T-Shirt

Even if you don't jailbreak, step on or otherwise open up your iPad you can always wear the innards on your chest with the Exploded iPad tee.
This is the latest model in the Exploded Apple series — like the 128K and iPhone –  from artist Garry Booth and Dion Briggs.
Also available in a poster version, [...:]

Apple Likely To Be Targeted In Antitrust Probe

Federal antritrust regulators are taking a keen interest in changes Apple made to its iPhone developers agreement, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting.

WSJ:
U.S. antitrust enforcers are taking a keen interest in recent changes that Apple Inc. made to its licensing agreement with iPhone application developers and are likely to open a preliminary investigation [...:]

Apple May Be Targeted In Antitrust Probe

Federal antritrust regulators are taking a keen interest in changes Apple made to the iPhone developers agreement, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting.
WSJ:
U.S. antitrust enforcers are taking a keen interest in recent changes that Apple Inc. made to its licensing agreement with iPhone application developers and are likely to open a preliminary [...:]

Steve Jobs Emails: Notes Syncing Coming To MobileMe

Steve Jobs is at it again — emailing Apple customers with answers to their questions.
This one was sent to CultofMac.com by reader Paul Greenberg, who asked Jobs about a missing MobileMe feature that's been bugging him for three years: the inability to sync notes via MobileMe.

Jobs showed Notes syncing at Macworld 2007, when he [...:]

Chrome Browser Growing Faster Than Safari

As Microsoft's Internet Explorer falls to just under 60 percent of the browser market, Google's Chrome has jumped ahead of Apple's Safari, indicates a new survey released Tuesday. Although Mozilla's Firefox took the largest percentage of the market lost by Microsoft, Google's Chrome took 6.7 percent, versus 2.5 percent for Apple's Safari.
Internet Explorer declined to [...:]

Politico Consults iPhone App on Talk Show

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCU0RcoxKxE
Italy's Justice Minister used an iPhone to cite a wiretapping law during a prime-time talk show.
Minister Angelino Alfano, best known outside Italy for a controversial immunity law meant to save the bacon of beleaguered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, pulled out a patriotic iPhone to consult an app called Laws and Codices (Codici and Leggi).
The €19.99 [...:]

MyWi Brings Data Tethering to Jailbroken iPhones

If you took the plunge on the Spirit jailbreak over the weekend, no need to wait for AT&T to fulfill their long ignored promise to bring data tethering to the iPhone in the United States: the MyWi App will turn your iPhone into a wireless 3G modem right now.
The app costs $10 on jailbroken iPhones [...:]