It turns out that his hobby 9to5Mac blog was always his favorite and in 2011 he went full time adding his Fortune Google followers to 9to5Google and adding the style and commerce component 9to5Toys gear and deals site. In 2013, Weintraub bought one of the Tesla’s first Model S EVs off the assembly line and so began his love affair with the Electric Vehicle and green energy which in 2014 turned into electrek.
In 2018, DroneDJ was born to cover the burgeoning world of drones and UAV’s led by China’s DJI.
From 1997-2007, Weintraub was a Global IT director and Web Developer for a number of companies with stints at multimedia and branding agencies in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Madrid and London before becoming a publisher/blogger.
Seth received a bachelors degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Multimedia and Creative Technology in 1997. In 2004, he received a Masters from NYU’s Tisch School of the Art’s ITP program.
Hobbies: Weintraub is a licensed single engine private pilot, certified open water scuba diver and spent over a year traveling to 60 cities in 23 countries. Whatever free time exists is now guaranteed to his lovely wife and two amazing sons.
Table Connect is an interface that slips onto your jailbroken iPhone and connects a 58″ LCD (or is that guy simply turning off the phone in the video?). It seems to work remarkabley well for an alpha product in the video above. In fact, the iPhone interface seems to do a lot better than Microsoft’s Surface at being a table GUI, don’t you think?
If anyone over at Table.Connect is listening, we’re open for a demo unit over here, OK? What? It is a fake?
Fortunetoday details the Skyfire browser that Apple has apparently already approved which will alllow iOS users to watch Flash videos like the one below on their iOS devices. We’ve profiled Skyfire before giving it negligible odds of making it through the App Store gauntlet.
Skyfire submitted their app in August so it hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for the startup. The technology turns most Flash video into H.264 video streams which “are Kosher” for iOS devices to gobble up.
Our BFFs over at Gumball Tech are posting download links to all of the iOS 4.2GM builds and iTunes 10.1B which you will need to upgrade to if you want to install them.
We make no guarantees obviously but it is sure tempting to get on the 4.2 bandwagon a week early isn’t it? Expand Expanding Close
Apple just released iOS 4.2GM to developers and along with it has invited them to test their applications against the GM. Who has a download link for the GM btw?
Not a huge surprise because they carry the iPod touch and as of last month, the iPad. Now Target is going to carry the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS in their 850 stores starting next week.
If you are in Europe and your iPhone alarm didn’t go off on time this morning, you aren’t alone. A bug in the way Apple’s alarm code works in iOS 4.1 means that your alarm will be ringing an hour later than it should. The bug was first reported by many Australians and New Zealanders over a month ago.
The fix is fairly straightforward. Delete and re-add your alarms. Apple is aware of the bug and it will be addressed in an upcoming release of iOS. Thanks Roman! Expand Expanding Close
Apple’s over $20B in revenues announced earlier this month easily blew away Microsoft’s $16.20 billion in revenues reported today. However, Microsoft still retains the profit crown with a whopping $5.4 billion in earnings while Apple “only” reported $4.3 billion this quarter.
I wonder how the holiday quarter is shaping up for the two? Microsoft is going to have to sell a lot of Xboxes to beat the iOS brigade. Expand Expanding Close
Just like the iPad and those tiny underpowered netbooks out there, the 11″ MacBook Air has been cleared to go through Airport security in the US without being taken out of its bag.
Apple may wish to avoid comparisons of the MacBook Air to similarly compact but underpowered netbooks. However, like netbooks, Apple’s new laptop is “smaller than a standard-size laptop,” meaning it can stay in a bag, said TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball.
The rules on whether the larger, 13-inch MacBook Air — thinner than most laptops because it doesn’t have a DVD or hard drive — would need to be placed on the conveyor belt separately have not been established, Kimball said.
Mossberg got his hands on the new MacBook Air this week and seems to have liked them (see the enthusiasm?!):
So, if you’re a light-duty user, you might be able to adopt one of the new Airs as your main laptop. If you’re a heavy-duty user, who needs lots of power and file storage, they’re likely to be secondary machines.
Overall, Apple has done a nice job in making these new MacBook Airs feel more like iPads and iPhones without sacrificing their ability to work like regular computers. But, as always with Apple, you’ll pay more than you will with Windows PCs.
It still seems a little weird mentioning Apple products and Verizon in the same sentence but they are now for sale with Mifis in Verizon Stores. AT&T too. Verizon’s are Wifi versions bundled with Mifis while AT&T have the 3G iPads that are tied to their network with the same price points for each.
Dan Frommer at SAI reports that Apple is having a developer summit at its Cupertino campus. The event begins next Tuesday, and runs for three days.
We are short on details, and we have not seen any public information about it, but it sounds like this will be a more intimate version of the iPhone Tech Talks that Apple hosted around the world last year.
This year, app publishers may get some extra face time with Apple engineers, and perhaps some hands-on development help. The big idea, it seems, is an effort to improve the quality of iOS apps available in Apple’s App Store. This comes as Google’s rival Android platform continues to look better to developers, and receives more of their attention and investment.
It might also get developers interested in the Mac App Store which is starting soon. The timing would certainly indicate as much. Expand Expanding Close
You know that cool iDOS app from this morning? The one on the App Store for about four hours? Well if you’re not familiar it is an emulator for all iOS devices (retina support too!) that allows you to run DOS files as well as Windows 3.0. Now that users have gotten the chance to play around, some are reporting that the application allows you to access the entire iOS filesystem- without a jailbreak. Interesting feature, perhaps that’s why Apple got rid of it.
According to TechCrunch, Apple is in early discussions to buy music streaming service Spotify. Spotify is an incredibly hot music service in Europe but hasn’t been able to get a footing in the US. (They haven’t been able to sign one label).
Some put the blame on Apple for that and accuse Cupertino of threatening lost wages from iTunes if the labels sign up for the streaming service. Apple approved Spotify for use on the iPhone in Europe in April of last year so Apple probably has some definitive proof of lost revenue, if that is the case.
A $1 billion Spotify deal with Google was apparently close to completion last year but the deal fell through because Google was “demanding that all label deals be grandfathered in. And Spotify wanted a $800 million+ walk away fee if the deal faltered (Google had a similar provision in their Admob acquisition)”.
Apple bought streaming music service Lala at the same time as Google flirt with Spotify but all of Lala’s label deals disintegrated when they got purchased (as per their contracts) and Apple was left with the engineering talent and technology. Spotify’s label deals are likely of the same nature so, to me, it is surprising that Apple would be after another set of streaming engineers, another set of technology and some more people with music industry experience. They clearly have some plans for all of that space in North Carolina.
Update: Spotify contactedCNET to let them know they have no intention to sell the company.
The company has had a difficult time making the white model of the iPhone 4. It released the black version of the smartphone in June.
Apple said last summer that the white model would be available later this year.
“We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone again,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said. When asked why the white phone would again be delayed, Muller declined to comment.
Damn. For all of Apple’s ability to make amazing products, the White iPhone 4 is proving elusive. Expand Expanding Close
A little tidbit from the Microsoft gathering this evening. While demonstrating Outlook for Mac and the HTML rendering engine, Microsoft employees revealed that instead of using the Word HTML rendering that previous versions of Mac Office used (and the PC version as well), Microsoft has moved over to Apple’s Webkit rendering engine to render HTML mails. Outlook 2011 also uses WebKit to create HTML mail.
For those of you who didn’t like Entourage’s HTML mail, Outlook’s WebKit mail, you are in for a pleasant surprise.
Why is this a big deal? This is the first time that Microsoft has used Apple’s Open Source Webkit framework in their products. It will be interesting to see if Webkit spreads to other areas.
Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone and Macintosh computer, has enlisted Unisys Corp. to help it sell more to businesses and U.S. government agencies, expanding beyond a customer base made mostly of consumers. Unisys will provide maintenance and other services to companies and government agencies that purchase Apple devices, Gene Zapfel, a managing partner at Unisys, said in an interview. One of the first of its kind for Apple, the contract was signed this month, Zapfel said. He didn’t discuss terms of the deal.
The deal is one of the first of its kind for Apple according to Businessweek. Expand Expanding Close
A security hole in iPhone 4 software allows you to make a call after dialing a few pound signs and timing a few others as found by a MacForums member.
When you iPhone is locked with a passcode tap Emergency Call, then enter a non-emergency number such as ###. Next tap the call button and immediately hit the lock button. It should open up the Phone app where you can see all your contacts, call any number, etc.
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