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Microsoft makes public beta 1 of IE 9 available for download All about Microsoft On September 15, Microsoft made the first public beta of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 available for download. Microsoft has fielded four developer test builds of IE 9 since March. From my sources, I hear there are likely a couple more betas of IE 9 in the pipeline before the final version launches, possibly in April 2011 […]
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@CarltonCuse, 13/09/10 20:25
Carlton Cuse (@CarltonCuse) 13/09/10 20:25 280 LOST fans are currently in a theatre in London watching all 121 eps of LOST back-to-back, finishing Thurs.
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LEFT: Normal photo RIGHT: HDR-enhanced with iOS 4.1
Yesterday Apple introduced iPod Nanos that look like Shuffles, iPod Shuffles that look like pocket change, iTunes that looks like Facebook, and best of all…
HDR in the iPhone camera app.
Basically, when you’ve got bright light in part of your shot that would results in blown our highlights, you turn on HDR. The camera takes 3 shots instead of one, and combines them to preserve details in dark ares and bright areas.
From these early demo shots, Apple’s implementation looks to be subtle and well-done.
First look: HDR photos with Apple’s iOS 4.1 (AppleInsider)
How I want my own iPhone 4!!!
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Mathboard for iPad
I recently purchased Mathboard, to help my kids practice their arithmetics. It’s a really nice app, has lots of features, and you can read plenty of reviews on it elsewhere, so I will only focus on the things I found, that were not written anywhere else (not that I could find it in my pre-purchase research).
- I thought there were only multiple choice answers, which I didn’t like. However, there is also an open answer option, which is far best in my opinion.
- You can limit the numbers used. However, you cannot limit the number of the answer, so if my son was used to addition questions up to 100, if I chose 100 as the top number, I can get answers which are over 100. (Don’t worry, he got over this “obstacle” real quick…)
- You cannot save settings. For example, it would be really nice if you could save settings for addition + subtraction questions (e.g. numbers up to 100), and different settings for multiplication questions (e.g. numbers up to 10).
What you can do is save a specific quiz, and later upload it and use only the settings that were saved, which I thought was a good answer to my problem. Only that I noticed that it did not save the settings correctly. If I had an addition quiz, and I switched to multiplication, later on the settings for the saved addition quiz would switch to multiplication. - It would have been nice if you could keep statistics to see an improvement over time (including type of quiz, and top number, all this across several user).
Despite the few shortcomings, this app is highly recommended and will surely help my kids improve their arithmetics skills.
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iOS Scrolling Trick
Just discovered a great UI trick on my iPad: Need to scroll a Safari browser window that doesn’t have a scroll bar? Use two fingers!
This should work across all iOS devices. Very handy… can’t believe I didn’t realize this sooner. This solves one of my biggest complaints with web browsing in iOS!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was driving me crazy!
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With or without IT approval, iPads saunter in to the enterprise
There’s a lively thread on Hacker News in response to the The iPad is about to steamroll into the Enterprise story.
While the story is perfectly reasonable, it’s mostly punditry. The resulting Hacker News thread is far more empirical.
Some selections:
iPads and iPhones are easier to support than Blackberry. “It’s more of a pain to support Blackberry. You need a dedicated server. With iOS you just turn on Activesync on your Exchange server, and give your users the DNS name and let them go to town.”
“Enterprise now accounts for 40% of iPhones sales: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/atandt-40-percent-of-iphones-are-enterprise-android-built-with/”
“The senior mgmt at my enterprise workplace are twisting arms in the IT department to get iPads OK’d.”
“The iPad’s introduction into the enterprise is a start that signifies different kinds of devices can be helpful. Desktop virtualization and the cloud probably have a role to play in all this too.”
“The native iPad Cisco IPSec VPN has a much quicker sign-on time than OS X version of the client from Cisco.”
“The iPad has support for enterprise wifi networks and works very well with Exchange. It is about as enterprise-friendly (without being MS) as you can get.”
Waiting to see how our new work setup will support the iPad VPN connection. Previously it wasn’t possible, but the new setup may enable me to use the iPad for remote connection, instead of a laptop, when I’m not at home.
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Flight Control HD - Multiplayer
I bought FC HD for the iPad so that I can have a multiplayer game with my son on the iPod Touch. Very dissapointed to see that although the app page says it’s possible, there is actually a bug that prevents this from happening. I’m getting this error message:
The device trying to join has a newer version of Flight Control…
I found that this is a known bug for at least 3 months!!!
Check out this: http://getsatisfaction.com/firemint/topics/cannot_play_multiplayer_with_different_idevices
Very bad work on their part, advertising something that doesn’t work.
