Friday, April 30, 2010

Jon Stewart Slams Apple--FUNNY

It's been a long time coming, but with all of the Apple drama going on lately, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart rips Apple. Pretty hilarious and so true!

Apple Shutting Down Music Streaming Service Lala

Apple acquired the online streaming music service, Lala five months ago.  I signed up for Lala years ago when it was a CD swapping service.  Lala's business model has changed to become an online streaming music service as well as an online music store.  Since Apple's acquisition of Lala, it has been anticipated that Apple will transform Lala into its own streaming music service that will allow users to upload their music libraries and make them available to stream online from any location.  Lala announced that May 31, 2010, it will shut down Lala.  While I am sad to see Lala go, I'm very excited to see where Apple takes it from here. (Source: Electronista)

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Hands-On With the iPad

Today I had the opportunity to play with the iPad up at the BYU Bookstore.  I ended up staying way longer than I thought I was going to, and I had lots of fun.  The iPad is very nice to hold and isn't too heavy.  The screen looks great, and interacting with it is very slick.  When running iPhone/iPod touch apps, there is a "1X" button for viewing the app at its native smaller size, and a "2X" button to zoom the app to the size of the iPad.  When viewed in this 2X mode, the iPhone apps look pixelated and not very good.  But at 1X, the shrunk-down size looks better.  I imagine that as developers create their apps for both iPhone and iPad, that this won't be an issue.