Andres Lerma

Apple to Livestream September Media Event

Apple:

Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.

It appears Apple would like to test drive their shiny new $1 billion data center. Is this a sign of things to come or does Steve just want to keep the “bloggers” off his Wi-Fi?

UPDATE: Steve announced major new updates to the entire iPod line, sans iPod classic, including a refreshed Apple TV. Unfortunately, none of these new products make use of an iTunes streaming feature, but that won’t stop many from rushing to the nearest Apple Store next week. 

August 31, 2010, 4:45pm

Apple Demonstrates Smartphone Antenna Performance

Apple:

All antennas — including television, radio, GPS, and cellular antennas — can experience attenuation. And with most antennas, the density and composition of the human hand can cause attenuation to a greater degree than some other materials. On a mobile phone, signal loss typically occurs when your hand attenuates the most sensitive part of the antenna.

I find it somewhat bewildering that Apple has to educate not only iPhone 4 users, but seemingly the entire electronics industry and media, about the basics of antenna design and function. On a positive note, we get to enjoy some photos and video of Apple’s stunning design and test labs.

July 16, 2010, 12:34pm

brocatus:

Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the declaration

text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;

The declaration is currently supported by: Safari, The Webkit Nightlies & Chrome. Firefox already uses optimizeLegibility by default.

See/ read more

June 30, 2010, 12:38am

Khoi Vinh on Apple’s Typographical Shortcomings

Khoi Vinh:

Creating a beautiful display and patting yourself on the back for having good typography is disingenuous, I think. It’s a little like saying a high-definition television set makes for better television shows; an absurd claim at best.

June 08, 2010, 4:40pm

Swissmiss:

You have no idea how screen printing works? Then watch this pretty rough guide to screen printing by Andrew Bell, a graphic design student at the Glasgow MET.

June 02, 2010, 1:57pm

thedailywhat:

Instant Coffee Design Concept of the Day: Heo Jeong Im’s “Coffee On A Stick” is a relatively straight-forward concept: Pick your poison, dip it in boiling water, stir, sip, repeat. If there is a comestible in this world that isn’t instantly improved by the addition of a stick, I have yet to meet that comestible.

Watch it in action here.

[yanko.]

May 31, 2010, 8:36pm

wordboner:

Available in US store or EU store or you can make your own tee. Find out which store delivers to your country here.

May 24, 2010, 2:01pm

Matt Langer: I Started Out Thinking About Facebook And I Ended Up Here

There’s just something about equilibrium. About balance. About objects at rest.

It makes for a lousy ontology, and yet it’s pervasive enough to tempt us in that direction, in part because we seem to see it everywhere, and in part because its aesthetic is one we’re predisposed to see everywhere,…

May 17, 2010, 9:37am

erasing:

White paintings in gray frames | Kristján Guðmundsson

April 29, 2010, 12:12pm