Sign of the times: Goodnight iPad – a parody picture book for the gadget-crazy kid in all of us.

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Stefano

Thanks to friend Paolo for showing me this!

Goodnight iPad: a Parody for the next generation is just a sign of the times…

It had to happen…

Oh, you can read it on paper or… on a Kindle!

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Remembering Steve: one year later Apple’s tribute

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Stefano

Steve Jobs tribute Apple Stefano PaganiniOne year later…
This is the message from Tim Cook on Apple’s home page.

How much has gone through in this year, not only in Apple’s history?

Check Apple’s web site for the memorial video with some awesome (black and white, of course) photos of Steve, some great smiles and some superb Apple toys in the background.
I love the photos in which Steve is typing on an Assembler monitor on Apple I motherboard.

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Facebook: one billion active users milestone – from Zuck’s own words!

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Stefano

Just saw this on my Facebook timeline:

Facebook Billion Active Users Stefano Paganini

As they say: the world is shrinking…

Mark Zuckerberg just announced that there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.

🙂

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Older Airport Express is unsupported Airport Utility under Mountain Lion? No problem, get this fix!

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Stefano

Airport Express Utility Mountain Lion Stefano PaganiniI still use my old (1st-gen) Airport Express with all my Wi-Fi stuff.
I bought it back in 2004 when it was first released, and never regretted purchasing it.

Now, in 2012, it’s Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion time, but no longer is supported by Mac OS X 10.8.x operating system.
Moreover, it tells you the unsupported Airport Express needs the 5.6 Airport Utility available here, on Apple Support.

Download it, install it and…
Bad luck! It doesn’t work under Mountain Lion or Lion!

So what? Is the beloved Airport Express doomed?

Not at all!
You may not know Frank Tisellano, but if you’ve this problem you may be grateful to him: he wrote a great post about getting back to work the older Airport Utility, along with an Automator Workflow that will extract automatically the 5.6.1 AU and get you running very quickly.

Instructions:

  • Download the Airport Utility 5.6.1
  • Download the Automator Workflow (you’ll have to unzip it once you download it)
  • Drag and drop the AirPortUtility5.6.1.dmg icon over the AirPort Utility Extractor.app
  • Wait for a while and… look into the Desktop folder: you’ll find an Airport Utility.app waiting for you!

Let me add that I renamed this file as Old Airport Utility.app to keep it separated from the newer one, just in case…

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iPhone 5 candid camera video – awesome!

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Stefano

iPhone 5 craziness has taken over the world!

Here comes an awesome candid camera – don’t laugh! It could be you in front of an Apple Store!

[Via Orson Blog]

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What will the office and working environment be like in the future?

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Stefano

LinkedIn created this infographic from a global survey.

According to LinkedIn this is how the working environment will be in the near future – or already is.

Fax machines are dead – so long, I’ll never miss them!

linkedin working environment

[Via TechRepublic]

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How much data do americans consume in a day? [infographic]

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Stefano

Amazing infographic: 3.6 zettabytes per day consumed every day by US internet users 😉

Looks like that, beginning from 1980, there has been a 6% increase per year, getting to the total amount in zettabytes – that’s 10^21 bytes!

amount data online internet infographic

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Apple’s new iPhone 5? Right in my hands! Exclusive test

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Stefano

iPhone 5 Stefano Paganini AppleYes, it’s an iPhone 5 I’m holding!

I’ve been able to test the brand new iPhone 5 for some time, and want to share some first-hand impressions with you.

It’s really smaller, compared to an iPhone 4S, incredibily lighter and faster.

iOS 6 on this new Apple device is so screamingly fast you won’t believe: be it task-switching or zooming through hi-res photos or the new Map App, it’s really faster.

Stay tuned, will post more on my iPhone 5 experience!

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iPhone 5 fever? Jimmy Kimmel shows how much people get fooled by an old iPhone 4!

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Stefano

Looks like people get really crazy about iPhone 5!
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel shows in this footage on the road, how much people can be fooled by thinking they’re using a real iPhone 5!

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iPhone 5 is here, and it’s huge! [live update]

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Stefano

apple new iphone 5 stefano paganiniLive updating about iPhone 5!

Siri will be able to post on Facebook on your behalf!

iTunes Store has now integration with Facebook Likes!

iOS6 will work on all phones and tablets back to the 3GS.

The iPhone costs the same as the iPhone 4S: $199 for 16 Gb, $200 for 32 GB, $399 for 64 GB (with contract).

“the thinnest, lightest iphone we’ve ever built …”

Now a brand new app: Passbook, which collects passes in one place.
Things like movie tickets, boarding passes, coupons, store cards, you get the picture. If you’ve already attended an event like a baseball game, you can take that ticket, delete it, and it shreds and goes away.

Siri now knows sports, as Scott demonstrates by bringing up the 49ers and the Packers.

New Maps app: so long Google, welcome Tom-Tom, Yelp and Waze (real-time traffic information)

And now… iOS 6!

Phil Schiller

Bye-bye: long-lived Dock connector: welcome Lightning!

Photo: panoramic pictures (done by swiping the iPhone 5 around) will be 28 megapixels-wide – that’s huge!

Photo & camera: 8 megapixel sensor, backside illumination, f/2.4 lens!
The iPhone 5 has 3 separate Microphones: one mic on the front, one on the bottom, one on the back. Important for Siri and other apps.

The new screen on iPhone 5 is 4 inches, 1136 by 640 pixels with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio.

Huge battery life: up to 8 hours on LTE browsing! 220+ hours in stand-by.

New A6 Processor: almost twice the speed of A5!

The iPhone 5 does LTE!

Tim Cook

Apple sold its 400 millionth iOS device.

The iPad accounts for 91 percent of web traffic for all tablets. “I don’t know what these other tablets are doing!” Cook says. “They must be in warehouses or on store shelves or maybe in someone’s bottom drawer! iPads are being used everywhere by everyone.”

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