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Siri vs. Scotland

Many in Scotland find that their voice-activated virtual assistant can’t understand them … The iPhone’s Siri doesn’t seem so smart in Scotland →

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iBooks Author

Create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad. Just announced at Apple’s January 19 Education Event. UPDATE 2012.01.20: Be sure to read teusje’s comment in the comments below. Not everything is love, peace and happiness.

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MacBook Air

From an intriguing but impractical high-end niche to the industry standard in just four years. — John Gruber (★)

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Siri Proxy: Using Siri to control your thermostat

Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple’s Siri “assistant.” The idea is to allow for the creation of custom handlers for different actions. This can allow developers to easily add functionality to Siri. Here’s a demonstration that I wrote: … Continue reading

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Siri, in a year

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Apple’s iPhone 4S CSS3 animation explained

If you go to the iPhone4S product page on the Apple site, you’ll see some sweet CSS3 animations at work. John B. Hall took the birds’ eye view and analyzed what happens. The “phone stage” (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 … Continue reading

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AirPlay TV

Joe Hewitt, on the future of the Apple TV: I’ve been reading a lot of speculation recently about what a future Apple TV might look like. Not nearly enough of these analyses have talked about AirPlay. It’s clear to me … Continue reading

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Siri, Open the pod bay doors

A conversation with Siri. Reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey at 5:30 (original here): Also see Gruber’s time with the iPhone4 and Siri. By the looks of it your speech is sent to a translation/recognition service and the result then … Continue reading

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Here’s to the crazy one.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can … Continue reading

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Google Patents

The difference is that Apple actually invented the technology it accused HTC — and by proxy, Google — of “stealing”. HTC and Google, by contrast, are accusing Apple of violating patents they bought fourth or fifth hand. Google gets its … Continue reading

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