Leander Kahney's Blog, page 2309

Police Offer DNA Kits to Curb iCrimes

Police in rural England are offering kits that capture DNA traces so locals can mark high-tech valuables such as iPods in the hopes of preventing thefts.
The CSI-worthy plan comes from cops in Fleggburg, an idyllic-looking village of 909 people in Norfolk, England.
Similar to the home kit pictured above, the product made by Selecta consists of [...:]

Apple Signs $240M Samsung Deal for 3M Additional iPad Displays

Apple reportedly has inked a deal worth $240 million for Samsung to supply 3 million additional 9.7-inch iPad displays. Although no time period was provided, the deal was confirmed by an industry executive who talked with a Korean publication.
"The most expensive component in the iPad is the display and touch-screen interface that costs $80 for [...:]

Digital Takes You Back To 1988's Future

Digital is… well, what is it exactly?
Officially, it's "a computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988″. It's available for Windows, Linux and Mac, and it's a joy for old-timers like me to behold.
What you see when you start Digital is how computers used to be. Back in the days when Cult of [...:]

Analyst: iPhone Market Can Grow 7-Fold

Although much of the buzz about Apple surrounds the iPad, the venerable three-year-old iPhone has a great deal of life, one analyst argues. Indeed, if Apple takes this analyst's suggestions, the handset's market could increase seven-fold. Key factors are expanding carriers selling the iPhone and offering a phone that doesn't require a data plan.
Bernstein Research [...:]

StyleTap Emulator Brings Palm OS to Jailbroken iPhones

Early last year, Palm bet the farm. They hired a bunch of ex-Apple engineers, killed off all of their old Palm OS devices and announced a new smartphone operating system, webOS, the first truly exciting alternative to the iPhone OS since its unveiling in 2007. They went all in, with their only conciliatory gesture to [...:]

Wall Street Journal to Charge $17.99 Monthly Subscription on iPad

Maintaining the pretense of objective journalist integrity by reporting in third-person upon itself, the Wall Street Journal claims that "according to a person familiar with the matter," they'll be charging you $17.99 a month to read on your iPad.
That's ten bucks less than a monthly subscription costs… but that's still a hefty price tag for [...:]

100 Tips #5: Understanding The Dock's Split Personality

The Dock is a weird beast. Even long-term Mac users will tell you that. Quite a lot of them don't even like it, because it's a bit of a mish-mash. It's a launcher, but it's also a switcher. It can be used for storing shortcuts to files and folders, and it can be used to [...:]

iPhone Security Flaw Allows Websites to Steal Your SMS and Mail Databases Within 20 Seconds

With every CanSecWest comes new proof that our Macs and iPhones are nowhere near as secure as we optimistically believed, but the latest hack to come out of the famed security conference's Pwn2Own hacking contest should be enough to alarm everyone: a pair of European researchers have shown how just visiting a website can compromise [...:]

Insanely Mac Launches MyMacNetbook.com, a Resource for Hackintoshing Netbooks

My guilty little secret is that my ugly Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook is my favorite Mac laptop.
It's certainly not the prettiest (a Frankenstein) or the most powerful (a sloth) but it's the one with the twenty hours of battery life spread between two interchangeable batteries always swinging from a satchel (read: man purse) [...:]

Adobe Teases April 12th CS5 Launch with Content-Aware Photoshop Demo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI
On Monday, April 12th, Adobe's going to unveil their Creative Suite 5. We don't know much what's going to be different, except that Flash CS5 is finally supposed to allow developers to export Flash-based applications as App Store .ipa files.
That said, the video above gives a tantalizing look at one of the new features [...:]