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OC Fair app walkthrough

July 16th, 2010, 8:48 am by

The OC Fair app puts some important fair information right in your hands.

The app was tested on the new iPhone 4 and it crashed a couple times in a span of around five minutes, but it does make available some important information.

The main screen of the app gives you some useful at-a-glance information: There’s a more detailed calendar that lets you look up shows at the fair: With how hot it has been, it’s nice to see they thought to include the weather in the app: The Twitter and Facebook pages for the OC Fair are included as well. Use #OCFair on Twitter to see what people are talking about at the fair live in real time. A map is also included in the app. It is supposed to also let you mark where you parked your car so you can get back to it, but that functionality hasn’t been tested yet. Mention @hmltn on Twitter and let me know if you have any fair tips for those with a smart phone or if you’ve tried out the app. Let us know how it works for you actually navigating the fair.

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Trailer for the “Facbook Movie” out

July 15th, 2010, 11:03 am by

Mashable just linked the first real trailer for “The Social Network.” There’s a great poster for the movie as well. Anyone interested in seeing this now?

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Engineer warned Apple of antenna problem

July 15th, 2010, 9:58 am by

Add this as the 11th question Apple needs to answer tomorrow.

Bloomberg reporting:

Apple Inc.’s senior antenna expert voiced concern to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs in the early design phase of the iPhone 4 that the antenna design could lead to dropped calls, a person familiar with the matter said.

Last year, Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple’s management the device’s design may hurt reception.

Is this report true? What happened?

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Droid X now available

July 15th, 2010, 9:49 am by

If you wanted an Android phone with the size and capabilities of the Evo 4G but on Verizon’s network, Droid X has arrived.

Anybody getting one? Have one? How is it?

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Apple to hold press conference Friday on iPhone 4

July 15th, 2010, 8:42 am by

Hopefully we’ll get answers to these questions.

NY Times

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Irvine’s Microsemi gets $22 million order

July 14th, 2010, 1:49 pm by
Irvine-based Microsemi announced on Thursday a production order for $22 million in GPS modules for use in defense systems.

The modules will be used on military platforms including missile guidance, secure radio communications and precision guided munitions designed with global positioning (GPS) capability. Weapon systems with GPS have the ability to strike fixed targets in all weather, day or night, while reducing the number of rounds expended and minimizing collateral damage. The anti-tamper features on these defense platforms prevent reverse engineering and other covert methods that could be used to gain access to sensitive data. 

Press release: http://investor.microsemi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=487967

 

 

 

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What is the proper bathroom etiquette for tablets?

April 5th, 2010, 7:11 pm by

The iPad is now firmly in the hands of 300,000 people, and millions are likely to follow. We could see a deluge of new tablet devices in the coming months and years as Google and Microsoft, among others, move heavily into the tablet game.

Pretty soon, tablets could be everywhere.

But now, as you read this, people are just figuring out how they’re going to handle what is arguably the first mainstream tablet – the iPad. There are the guys and gals who see themselves sipping coffee at Starbucks while they read the New York Times. Others who envision long plane rides watching movies and playing games.

There are also the people who are going to do the exact same things while sitting on the porcelain throne.

The question is, what’s the proper etiquette involved? Can you take it into the bathroom at home? At work? Do you wash the tablet afterward? Do you wash your hands first? Do you warn other people before they handle your tablet? Do you even let others touch the device at all? How is it different from taking your smart phone or e-reader to the bathroom with you? Are there different etiquette policies?

I’ll be the first to admit this isn’t the most comfortable of topics, but hey, somebody had to ask the question.

Kudos to the person who uses the most creative euphemism for going to the restroom in the comments.

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Why stand in line for the iPad?

April 3rd, 2010, 1:32 pm by

Selected quotes from people I met in line for the iPad at the Irvine Spectrum this morning:

Aaron Cirilo, from Foothill Ranch, was a relative latecomer to the release of the iPad, only getting there around 45 minutes before the store opened at 9 a.m. He didn’t reserve his device. “I don’t know if I’m going to get one – that’s the life of someone without a reservation. But I’m here as long as it takes because Steve Jobs told me to. “He waited 3 and a half hours, but he got his iPad.

Joby Doffek, Irvine resident, was there with her husband. She has a Kindle with around 65 books on it. “I’ve abandoned all hardcover books if I can get them on Kindle.” Both she and her husband Scott were in line for iPads – a device few had even touched. “I love the Kindle,” she said, “but the backlight and the touch sensors [on the iPad] appear to be better. But who has touched it so far?”

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Thomas Lai, 10, an Irvine resident, spent the night outside the Apple Store with his dad and brother. What’s the first thing he planned to do with his iPad? “Just use it.” he said. “For everything.”

Russ Taylor, owner of Fusion of Ideas, a place directly across from the Irvine Spectrum Apple Store that sells protective films, coatings and custom etchings for electronics, got in line at 3 p.m. the day before. He and a coworker had two swanky red chairs they slept in. “If we’re going to wait in line, we’re going to wait in line in style,” he said. He was the first to get the iPad, emerging from the Apple Store to applause with one clutched in each hand like Moses descending from the mountain.

Stephanie Saunders and her husband Tedd had the following conversation while waiting in the reservation line.

Tedd: “The only problem is I’m not going to be able to use it for a month.”

Stephanie: “Why?” Read the rest of this entry »

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