Author: jamesclay

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New Apple TV

Well Apple are holding an event on the 1st September for the press.

Generally at this time of year we see Apple announce their new iPod line up for the festive season.

With sales of traditional iPods falling I suspect (as others do) that there may be a limited refresh of the traditional iPod line, but the real focus of this event will be a new iPod touch and a new iOS4 based Apple TV (or iTV as Apple want to call it). There are also rumours of an iPad refresh, not sure how reliable that is, but we will be getting iOS 4 for the iPad about now and I do wonder if the delay was down to a refreshed iPad with Facetime camera? There are also other rumours of a 7″ iPad.

What really interests me is the new Apple TV. I have been considering buying one for some time now and keep putting it off. Using a Mac mini has solved many of my issues with pushing video and music from my computer to the front room, however this is only a temporary solution. In the long term I need to choose between getting another Mac mini or getting an Apple TV. The new rumoured $99 Apple TV actually might be a real solution and in many ways could work alongside a Mac mini!

Will be interesting to see what is in fact announced on the 1st September.

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Google Chrome Tablet

Download Squad are claiming that there will be a Google Chrome Tablet coming on the 26th of November.

Yes, our source tells us that Google is building a Chrome OS tablet. It’s real, and it’s being built by HTC.

HTC of course made the Nexus One.

Sounds interesting, might get one.

Doubt it will be as good as the iPad, but you never know!

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Airport Extreme

My 802.11n Airport Extreme base station is starting to be a little unreliable over the last few weeks.

I bought it in 2007 and it has worked pretty much flawlessly over that timeframe.

The only real difference to my network is that I have started using my iPad on the network.

Is this the cause?

Who knows!

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Axon Haptic

Now this is an interesting concept.

A 10″ tablet that underneath runs Darwin. As a result though the tablet can run both Windows and Linux, you can also run Darwin on the device too. This means that if you wanted to and were willing to breach Apple’s EULA you could install Snow Leopard on the device quite easily!

The tablet has a front facing camera, three USB ports, an SD Card slot, display port, wifi, Bluetooth and GPS.

Though the key for this device on whether it is any good is whether the touchscreen is as good as the sort of touchscreens that Apple uses.

At $750 (£480) this is quite cheap, but will be interesting to see whether the device will move from concept to production.

Find out more.

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Twitter Show

Writer and broadcast Stephen Fry is to appear in a one-man show in London scripted by submissions from his Twitter followers.

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No more wifi

An interesting article from LA about how some coffee shops are not just getting rid of free wifi, they are getting rid of wifi full stop!

Coffee shops were the retail pioneers of Wi-Fi, flipping the switch to lure customers. But now some owners are pulling the plug. They’re finding that Wi-Fi freeloaders who camp out all day nursing a single cup of coffee are a drain on the bottom line. Others want to preserve a friendly vibe and keep their establishments from turning into “Matrix”-like zombie shacks where people type and don’t talk.

I do like to go to coffee shops and have been known to use the wifi. I agree though that sometimes you go into some coffee shops and everyone is huddled behind their laptops using Facebook or similar. Coffee is about the conversation.

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O2 WiFI Authorisation Error

One of the reasons I like the iPhone (and my O2 contract) is that it gives you free wifi access when you are in the vicinity of a wifi hotspot.

From O2

You can use Wi-Fi at home or in your office if you have it, or at any of BT Openzone and The Cloud’s hotspots.

This has the potential to be really useful, especially with data limits when using 3G.

The problem is too often these days this happens.

So what’s the solution. Well you have to revert to 3G.