At Doylestown Hospital, doctors don’t have to carry charts anymore. Instead, they carry an iPhone and enjoy secure, 24/7 access to patient records, including vital signs, medications, lab results, allergies, nurses’ notes, and therapy results. When with a patient, they can tap the iPhone screen, launch a program like Epocrates, and use it to [...]
Archive > April 2009
Mac mini big on media-center capabilities
“Mac mini–crazed,” Julio Ojeda-Zapata (twincities.com) “couldn’t be happier” with the “interesting uses” he has found for the new Mac mini. “Because it is so inexpensive,” Ojeda-Zapata found it a “compelling option” as a “mainstream Mac.” But the diminutive Mac mini “blew my mind” when he paired it with a 52-inch LCD. That’s when he realized [...]
WWDC Sold Out
Last year it took two months to sell out (March 13 to May 14). This year: one month (March 26 to April 28).
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Chase Jarvis’s iPhone Photography
Chase Jarvis:
The best camera is the one that’s with you.
Excellent photography using only the iPhone camera and software.
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On Anchored Selections in Windows, Gnome, and Mac OS X
Dmitry Chestnykh agrees that the HIG (and Cocoa’s standard text editing behavior) is the right way to handle using the keyboard to extend a selection created using the mouse.
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The Other ‘Pink’
Apple had an OS project code-named “Pink” in the 80s, which eventually turned into Taligent, which burned up a lot of money and effort and went nowhere.
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Vine
What a fabulous idea: an emergency notification system based on proprietary software and which only works with one operating system.
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Pink
Amol Sharma and Nick Wingfield, reporting for the WSJ:
Microsoft Corp. is in discussions with Verizon Wireless to launch a touch-screen multimedia cellphone on the carrier’s network early next year, in a bid to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone, people familiar with the matter said.
Microsoft’s project, which is code-named “Pink,” is aiming to produce a phone [...]
The HIG on Extending Text Selections
The text selection behavior Pierre Igot is complaining about in the aforelinked piece is exactly the behavior recommended by the HIG:
If no text is selected, the extension begins at the insertion point. If text is selected by dragging, then the extension begins at the selection boundary. For example, in the phrase stop time, if the [...]
