Apple patents are the key to understanding the next generation of products. The latest submitted, by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks), is no different. This patent application shows diagrams directly relating to multi-touch on Mac OS X, illustrating a drop down control panel with advanced multi-touch settings. There are a series of 'chords', or combinations of different fingers, which to different operations. There are already basic multi-touch gestures instated in the Macbook/Pro's, but we can assume that those laptops are not equipped for the advanced gestures. The Macbook Air, however, may be able to adopt these through a software update.
This patent application effectively claims that the new multi-touch trackpads are sensitive enough to detect the various combinations of fingers which are being used. This opens up another world of functionality for Apple, and if the patents keep rolling in, it might be Apple-specific, which will really help to increase their market share. Mac-1 PC-0
Written by Will on February 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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Apple patents are the key to understanding the next generation of products. The latest submitted, by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks), is no different. This patent application shows diagrams directly relating to multi-touch on Mac OS X, illustrating a drop down control panel with advanced multi-touch settings. There are a series of 'chords', or combinations of different fingers, which to different operations. There are already basic multi-touch gestures instated in the Macbook/Pro's, but we can assume that those laptops are not equipped for the advanced gestures. The Macbook Air, however, may be able to adopt these through a software update.
This patent application effectively claims that the new multi-touch trackpads are sensitive enough to detect the various combinations of fingers which are being used. This opens up another world of functionality for Apple, and if the patents keep rolling in, it might be Apple-specific, which will really help to increase their market share. Mac-1 PC-0
Written by Will on February 20th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Apple and Chords and Gestures and Mac OSX and Macbook Air and Multi Touch.
The iPhone Blog at RedEye writes that several of those using GO accounts with their iPhones have written in that they are still having problems with the EDGE network cutting out, in some cases for five days. AT&T has commented on the outages, claiming that the problems have now been resolved, but it may not be the case.
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Written by Edward Kirk on February 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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Innovation in the iPhone development community is progressing at an aggressive pace despite the continued lack of an official software development kit (SDK) from Apple (which, by all accounts, is still due this month). The latest breakthrough comes from Kevin Brosius, who has figured out how to use Apple’s slick CoverFlow technology (used to browse albums in the iPhone’s iPod function) in other applications.
Kevin writes:
“You can display a number of images (look at the setImage: calls.) At the moment this just displays four fixed images supplied with the demo.â€
Immediately after Kevin’s discovery, another developer, Layton Duncan, posted an example application that scans the applications directory and loads the icons into CoverFlow. In order to make use of the examples linked above, you need a jailbroken iPhone with SSH capabilities. Underground developers have created an unofficial SDK, including a complete guide to iPhone development that integrates Apple’s XCode, an integrated development environment for Mac OS X. Instructions for setting up a staging area, creating a mountable iPhone filesystem, installing the iPhone toolchain, and finally setting up XCode with a custom iPhone application template are all included. And Jonathan Zdziarski, one of the most noted underground iPhone developers who has been instrumental in developing numerous jailbreak methods, recently released a book through O’Reilly Publishing dubbed “iPhone Open Application Development†that explains in how to create iPhone applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API.
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iPhone hacking has continued in the absence of the Apple SDK, and a new innovation on that front seems to occur every day. This time it’s from Kevin Brosius, who has figured out how to use port Apple’s coverflow interface in other applications, giving even more control to unofficial iPhone developers.
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This patent application effectively claims that the new multi-touch trackpads are sensitive enough to detect the various combinations of fingers which are being used. This opens up another world of functionality for Apple, and if the patents keep rolling in, it might be Apple-specific, which will really help to increase their market share. Mac-1 PC-0
