2011年7月31日星期日

iPhone 5 Design

iPhone 5 Design Mockups: Thinner, Longer And Wider With Edge-To-Edge Screen

iPhone 5 design mockups

The purported iPhone 5 cases suggest that Apple's next generation iPhone will be thinner, longer and wider compared to iPhone 4.

MacRumors points us to two iPhone 5 design mockups based on the recentrumors that give us an idea what the next iPhone may look like.

The first one (which you've probably seen before) is thinner, wider, and longer with a sloped/curved back and a larger home button.

As mentioned earlier, it is based on thepurported iPhone 5 cases, which we're hearing areeverywhere in China.

The second iPhone 5 design mockup was created by folks atCiccareseDesign, which is also thinner, wider, and longer. But they've taken some of the design cues from iPhone 4 such as squared off design, retained the size of the home button etc. They're calling it the iPhone Air.

Let us know what you think about these iPhone 5 mockups. Which one would you buy?

[via MacRumorsCiccareseDesign]

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Audi's Johan De Nysschen talks future product at Fourtitude

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Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen recently went on the record about future product plans via the forums at enthusiast site Fourtitude. In addition to clarifying the big news regarding Audi's diesel initiative in the United States, de Nysschen let some other product plans slip out.

First, he confirmed that the next-generation A3 will be sold as a sedan in the United States. The sportback will be discontinued, but the A3 Cabriolet may join the U.S. lineup. The new A3 will be a 2013 model, but might not be available right at the beginning of the model year. All we can say is, we hope it looks exactly like the stunning concept car that bowed in Geneva.

As for performance models, de Nysschen says that an S variant of every car in the automaker's lineup is likely, and hinted at the S7 being offered here. The RS5 is still slated to arrive next year, though it will benefit from the A5/S5 facelift that'll introduced in the U.S. over the winter.

Fourtitude's interview re-confirmed that clean diesel versions of the Q5, A6 and A8 are in the cards, presumably with the 3.0-liter TDI V6. The A4 is also expected to gain a TDI variant, though it will likely be powered by a 2.0-liter four. The Q5 crossover will also spawn a hybrid variant, which will be on sale sometime in 2012.

Head over to Fourtitude's forums to read the whole interview.

Audi's Johan De Nysschen talks future product at Fourtitude originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blue Angels Mustang raises $400,000 for charity

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Earlier this month we showed you the one-off Blue Angels Mustang built by Ford for this year's EAA AirVenture. The car features a unique blue chrome paint scheme and hand-painted graphics done by Creations n' Chrome, along with plenty of Ford Racing Performance Parts goodies, an interior styled after the Blue Angels pilot suit, and beautiful HRE 590RS wheels.

The Blue Angels Mustang was not only built to celebrate 100 years of U.S. Naval aviation, but to raise money for the EAA Young Eagles program as well. It did just that at the EAA charity auction Thursday evening, commanding a high bid of $400,000. In addition to the car, the winning bidder also received a Blue Angels flight helmet signed by all of the current pilots.

You can read more about the car and the auction in Ford's PR after the jump, or browse through our photos of the car in the gallery below.

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Blue Angels Mustang raises $400,000 for charity originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BMW i Series: BMW Pushed the Envelope

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Earlier this year I took part in a documentary series in which BMW asked questions about the Future of Mobility. We talked about existing car technology, profiled electric car technology and discussed why our driving habits as a society needed to change if we wanted to move forward. That series was a small introduction to what BMW is doing now with their new i3 & i8 concept electric vehicles. The concept vehicles and the surrounding infrastructure that BMW has planned is nothing short of visionary, which is good, because right now there is a lot of trepidation in the electric car marketplace. By addressing the issues of range anxiety and conveying that electric cars can in fact be fun to drive as well as environmentally conscious, BMW has seemingly moved how we the looked at the electric car into a different, much brighter light.






5 quick OS X Lion tips and work-arounds

Overall, I'm thrilled with OS X Lion. However, like any new OS, there are some things that either don't work quite right or, while working as intended, don't act the way some may like. So here are five tips and work-arounds I've found that might help address some growing pains.

1. Remove icons from Launchpad. Right now, the only icons you can remove from Launchpad are apps installed via the Mac App Store. If you remove the icon, the whole app is removed. In a way, this makes sense: they want to transfer the same ease-of-deletion from iOS to OS X. The problem is, if you have a ton of what Lion sees as apps — in my case, all the old World of Warcraft patches showed up in Launchpad — you're going to have a mess. I can't hide the apps completely, so instead I performed the digital equivalent of stuffing them in the closet. I created a single folder, moved any non-app programs into that, and stuck it on the last page in Launchpad.

2. Reveal your Home Library folder. I'm not sure why Apple hid this, but there are two ways you can get to it. The first is to go to the Finder, open the Go menu, and choose "Go to Folder." Type in ~/Library/ and hit Enter. This will bring you to the folder. If you need to get there more than occasionally, or have an app where the hidden flag is causing problems, you can make it visible by typing in "chflags nohidden ~/Library" in the Terminal.

3. Make an app open in all spaces. This tip only works if you have multiple Desktop spaces. To add a space in Mission Control move your pointer to the upper-right hand corner and click on the large Plus icon. Then, right-click on the apps's icon in the Dock, choose Options, and "Assign to: All spaces." As a bonus tip, you can also create an empty space to quickly flip to an empty display if you need to.

4. Remove icons from the Sidebar. I've run into a few instances where dragging an icon off the Sidebar doesn't actually remove it. If this happens, right-click the wayward icon and choose "Remove from Sidebar." If, like me, you ended up with some Sidebar folders pointing to now nonexistent folders and can't remove them at all, renaming the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file in ~\Library\Preferences folder (it doesn't matter what you rename it to) and rebooting will restore your Sidebar to default icons.

5. MobileMe Calendar syncing is now set in iCal. This one threw me at first. In Snow Leopard, you set MobileMe Calendar syncing within the MobileMe System Preferences pane. Now, it's under iCal's preferences under Accounts. I imagine this is because iCloud will render the MobileMe preferences pane obsolete.

These are five quick tips I've found to help me ease into Lion. What tips do you folks have?

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BookBook case for iPhone 4 puts your money where your phone is

Remember the BookBook, Twelve South's eautiful vintage book-style case for the MacBook Air we told you about two months ago? Well, it has come to iPhone 4, not unexpectedly. By the looks of it, book lovers, retro fans and just about anyone in a market for a stylish, premium case for their glass-and-metal Apple handset should be taken care of. The BookBook for iPhone 4, like its bigger brother, flips open like a book, revealing interior pockets for cash, credit cards, ID and other wallet-sized items.

Talk about convenience – now you can ditch your wallet and replace it with this case and carry one less thing in your pocket. The case also has holes in the right places for easy access to your handset's hardware buttons, ports and cameras. From the outside, the handmade leather case with its hard-back covers and vintage finish lends itself perfectly to the fans of Indiana Jones memorabilia. Interested? Head over to the Twelve South online store where BookBook for iPhone 4 retails for sixty bucks.

Check out the below commercial, it's really cool. Notice the non-discrimination creative concept: He is an AT&T user and she's on Verizon.









Purported iPhone 5 case schematics point to larger display, curved back, larger home button

MobileFun claims that the above image is an iPhone 5 case schematic. If real, it looks like the next-generation iPhone will have a slightly curved back – akin to the iPad 2′s back – in addition to a larger, edge-to-edge display, and a larger home button. Larger screen rumors for the iPhone have been rampant with some claiming 4 inches and other claiming 3.7 inches. The larger home button is reminiscent of a report that claimed the next iPhone would feature a gesture-based home button.







Apple’s ultra-thin 15 inch notebook in late testing stage?

MacRumors reports that Apple has a new 15 inch notebook with an ultra-thin design in its final testing stage. It's difficult to tell if Apple will be marketing this 15 inch notebook as an extension of the popular MacBook Air line, or if it is a piece of Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro line. Although the machine is reportedly in final testing, there is no word on a release date. The last MacBook Pro update came in late February, so we would expect the new models to ship later this year or very early next year. Apple has held a Mac-focused event in October – in recent years – so perhaps Apple will continue that tradition this year.







Face Recognition May Be Coming To iOS 5

It looks like Apple is planning to include face recognition capabilities in iOS 5. 9 to 5 Mac has discovered several face recognition APIs in iOS 5 beta 4 that was seeded to developers late last week. 9 to 5 Mac reports: We have taken a look at these iOS 5-exclusive APIs and they are [...]