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.
CNEThas what it says are confirmed details on the new MacBook Air to be released next week:
The exact final price isn’t known right now, but it will be “significantly lower” than the current $1,499 starting price, said a source familiar with the event’s agenda.
They are also saying the processor/chipset will be the same as the current MacBook Pro’s Core 2 Duo/Nvidia MCP89. The new Air will undoubtedly use Solid State storage.
Update: AppleInsider is touting “new model could weigh as little as 2.7lbs, sport a unibody enclosure that makes some use of carbon fiber, and possibly include the first CPU microprocessors from AMD to find their way inside a Mac” Expand Expanding Close
As the drug dealers say, your first hit is free. The New York Times is offering up a much grander version of the iPad app today (version 2.0), offering much more content than the previous ‘Editor’s Choice” version did. However, that great news comes with an even greater caveat:
Introducing the enhanced New York Times app for the iPad –– free until early 2011. Now with all of the sections, articles, videos and photos you expect from The Times.
Other stuff:
Access to all sections plus a selection of blogs.
Photo slideshows are now accessible within articles and in their own section.
Breaking News Alerts help you stay informed even when the app is closed.
I had a chance to speak with someone at Google at length about their vision of the TV and I think I’ve finally figured out the fundamental difference in philosophy between AppleTV and GoogleTV, at least at the moment.
Google wants to put the computer experience on the television. That includes multiple streams of audio and video, windows, web browsing, etc. The classic demonstration I’ve seen is watching a video on GoogleTV, seeing something you wanted to share and then doing a picture-in-picture with a Web browser and logging into Facebook or Twitter while the video fits in the bottom corner. Then the user starts using the GoogleTV like a computer while the video keeps playing in a PIP window.
Apple’s ideal experience is isolating video on the big screen. The menu use on AppleTV is minimal and everything else just gets videos playing as fast as possible. That may transform into game play as well in the future, but it is still one ‘channel’ on the big screen at a time. All of the Facebook, Twittering, Web browsing and eventually, I believe, finding content is meant to be done on an iOS device in your hand or lap.
While a video is playing on the device, would you rather be doing other stuff on the TV as well (Google), or would you rather do the other stuff on a dedicated screen on your lap or in your hand (Apple)? If you think about the other people in the room who have to watch you update your Twitter feed rather than doing it on your lap, the point becomes even more significant.
That’s the difference.
I think the success of the iPad relative to PCs shows that Apple’s model is a good one here. I also think we aren’t trained to use a screen 8-15 feet away as a computer (I’ve tried this many times) no matter how big it is.
If you want to do unspeakable things to your iOS device without getting a PC involved, LimeRa1n is now available for the Mac. Favorites for us include: FaceTime over 3G andHotspot. What’s yours? Expand Expanding Close
Jealous that your PC friends just got a new version of Skype, 5.0 today with Facebook integration? (Us neither but stick with us) Fear not Mac faithful, Skype has a new version en route for Mac as well.
Wow. Verizon is carrying the iPad with a Mifi month to month plan without obligation for $20 for 1 GB $50/month for 5GB). Those prices below ($629/$729/$829) match the 3G iPad version that works with AT&T but instead you get the Mifi unit for $129 with a Wifi iPad. Verizon will also sell them standalone.
The upside? You can use four other devices at the same time. The big bummer on this? No GPS in Wifi iPads and Mifi units only hold a charge for 4 hours of data.
The man starts out slow but eventually gets around to calling it the best version of Microsoft Office ever for the Mac. (kinda goes without saying, no?)
Interesting that he doesn’t call it the best Office suite for the Mac. (iWork ’11? Maybe it is already in his hands)
While it still isn’t a big global player (less than 5%), Apple is closing in on the Acer/Gateway merged company to become the number three PC vendor in these here United States, according to a Gartner release today. The report says Apple sold 1.83 million PCs for the quarter (Acer is at 1.84 million) which brings Apple to 10.4% of the market. Yes, it has been a long time coming.
They had 9.3% of the market with 1.6 million PCs in the year ago quarter.
“The weak back-to-school sales were not because students held off on PC purchases, but because nonstudent buyers, who normally are lured by massive back-to-school promotions, stayed away from PC purchases,” Ms. Kitagawa said. “These buyers were influenced by media tablet introductions, as well as the still-gloomy economy, since these buyers do not have an immediate need to purchase a PC.”
Imagine if Gartner counted the 5 million iPads as computers?
Well, that was quite a Wednesday morning shocker. An Apple Mac event with a Lion hiding behind a touchpad. What does it mean?
Well, we’ve been seeing 10.7 in our server logs for a year, so the build is properly along. Apple is also full throttle in multi-touch as a part of its UI strategy.
I’m reminded of something Steve Jobs told the New York Times’ Jon Markoff about his affinity for the Touch interface way back in 2007.
Indeed, many of the new features in the Leopard operating system version are incremental improvements. But Mr. Jobs said he was struck by the success of the multitouch interface that is at the heart of the iPhone version of the OS X. This allows a user to touch the screen at more than one point to zoom in on a portion of a photo, for example.
“People don’t understand that we’ve invented a new class of interface,” he said.
He contrasted it with stylus interfaces, like the approach Microsoft took with its tablet computer. That interface is not so different from what most computers have been using since the mid-1980s. In contrast, Mr. Jobs said that multitouch drastically simplified the process of controlling a computer.
There are no “verbs” in the iPhone interface, he said, alluding to the way a standard mouse or stylus system works. In those systems, users select an object, like a photo, and then separately select an action, or “verb,” to do something to it.
We’ve also heard reports of iLife being sold out at Apple Stores so that’s a likely update. iWork too. MacBook Air is likely to see a replacement. MacBooks? Sure. A Keyboard-Touchpad combo? Yesh!
Wow, there is a Lion up there. Is that 10.7? Oh, damn.
“Come see what’s new for the Mac on October 20, including a sneak peek of the next major version of Mac OS X.”
Apple sent out a press invite for an October 20th Mac-related Apple event. We’re expecting MacBooks of all varieties, and it would seem some new 10.7 news. This is exciting.
Wow, the latest Chromium builds do Google Instant straight from the URL Search bar. What’s even more awesome is that the browser will load the search result if the result is high enough (or if you hit that page enough). For instance, in my browser, 9to5mac.com comes up after typing in 9to5. Other frequently visited sites come up before I’ve even searched for them. For my money, this is what a browsing experience should be like. Welcome to the future!
Uh oh. It looks like Apple has pulled Airplay from the YouTube application according to MacStories. That means it is available App by App and not universally by MP4 files (unless you keep older betas working on your iPad obviously).
Interestingly, Airplay works on YouTube via Safari but not on the YouTube App itself.
That means that app vendors can probably decide if their apps can be shot around the room to AppleTVs and other AirPlay devices.
The Amazon iPhone App (doesn’t work on anything but iPhone 3GS or 4) got a little update today that will let users scan barcodes and instantly compare prices at Amazon. For instance, you are at a store buying a lamp and want to see if Amazon has a better price, you’d point your iPhone at the barcode and a few seconds later (literally takes 2 seconds) you’d see the Amazon price with the option to buy. Bam!
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for enabling a user to control the content of text-based messages sent to or received from an administered device. In some embodiments, a message will be blocked (incoming or outgoing) if the message includes forbidden content. In other embodiments, the objectionable content is removed from the message prior to transmission or as part of the receiving process. The content of such a message is controlled by filtering the message based on defined criteria.
The patent also talks about parental controls not only for preventing words but also requiring some.
The criteria may be defined according to a parental control application. These techniques also may be used, in accordance with instructional embodiments, to require the administered devices to include certain text in messages. These embodiments might, for example, require that a certain number of Spanish words per day be included in e-mails for a child learning Spanish.
Android may be catching up to iOS in terms of overall users, but according to Good, a maker of mobile enterprise messaging software, it is nowhere close to Apple in the enterprise. Key findings of the report:
Among its many insights, the report shows that in less than two months from its late June launch, the Apple iPhone 4 became the most frequently activated device among Good’s enterprise customers. The Apple iPad leaped into the top five very quickly as well, showing that enterprise customers want to use these new tablet devices for business. Android continued to grow rapidly as more new devices come to market, with the Droid X by Motorola ranked as the most frequently activated Android device in September.
With two sides of glass rather than one, it seems that you are going to have about double the incidents of breaking glass on the iPhone 4 as you would on previous generations of iPhone which had plastic backs.
Also, the plastic around the sides of the iPhone 3GS cushions the impact significantly more than the iPhone 4’s metal antenna-frame.
Highlights of the study include:
-- iPhone 4 owners reported 82 percent more damaged screens in the first
four months compared to iPhone 3GS owners
-- More than 25 percent of damage reported was to the glass on the back
of the unit
-- The reported accident rate for the iPhone 4 was 68 percent higher than
for the iPhone 3GS
-- An estimated 15.5 percent of iPhone 4 owners will have an accident
within a year of buying their phone
-- iPhone 4 screen damage is responsible for more than four-fifths of reported
accidents during thelast four months, slightly higher than the iPhone 3GS during
the same time period.
SquareTrade is the largest independent warranty provider in the world. They analyzed iPhone accidents for over 20,000 iPhone 4s and the results largely lined up with their earlier predictions. Expand Expanding Close
Our tipster claims that the Verizon iPhone has a “brushed aluminum back and a standard black front.” He says that they will come packaged with a bumper. He also points out that there will be a product(RED) version of this phone.
They note that their source is completely unverified so…
All a moderately-skilled iPad user has to do is connect the iPad to his laptop, search inside the iPad files with a common managing software (we used iPhone Explorer), copy the .plist file that manage the download information and correct a single field. This boils down to changing a single word: Where it says “purchasable” you write “viewable” instead, and copy back the file on the iPad. Now all you need to do is click on “delete” the magazine issue on the iPad app and a “download” button will appear instead of the “buy” button. It means you can download the magazine for free.
If true, someone needs to work on their security. Who?
Adobe manages Condé Nast iPad apps — wrote us they are “very concerned by piracy issues”. “”We have confirmed that it is possible for experienced users with detailed instructions to access some digital publications on the iPad that have not been purchased. We are working on a fix and expect to deliver a new version of our Digital Content Viewer to publishers on Friday, October 8”, an Adobe sposkesperson said.
Business Insider talked with Piper Jaffey’s Gene Munster who had this to say:
“Ultimately, we think that Apple won’t have the majority of the (tablet) market share. It’ll probably be with Android-based tablets.”
He also said component reports out of China and Taiwan that Apple is gearing up to sell 45 million iPads for the next year are “a little bit aggressive.” He sees a more realistic figure falling in the 20-25 million range.
Interesting words from the guy who usually has AAPL about $100 higher than the rest of Wall St. Is Mr. Munster trying to “temper” enthusiasm for this week’s earnings call?
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