Official: Apple iPad 3 event slated for March 7th in San Francisco
Source: theverge.com
Nightline 2/21: Apple’s Chinese Factories
San Francisco or Palo Alto?
Former TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington talks about the shift of startup companies from Palo Alto to San Francisco.
A Trip to The iFactory: ‘Nightline’ Gets an Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Apple’s Chinese Core
A worker at a Foxconn factory in Shenzen, China, puts the finishing touches on an Apple iPad. ABC News Nightline’s Bill Weir was the first journalist allowed onto the Apple production line in China, as the company faces a firestorm of criticism over their labor practices there.
Source: abcnews.go.com
VLC 2.0 is Ready to Download
After 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 2.0.0 “Twoflower”, a major new release. With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).
It features a completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use. Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.
Source: videolan.org
A few ways to get more life time free Dropbox storage space
Just in case if you haven’t heard about this already. Here’s a few ways to get more free life time storage on top of the 2GB of free storage from Dropbox.
Get up to 5GB of space by testing out the beta.
For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you’ll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 5GB total. The Dropbox space you earn is permanent. You can use it for the life of your account.
Get up to 640MB of space by visiting this page.
Complete the get started guide and get 250MB of space.
Students get 500MB of space for each friend they invite. Click here.
Dropbox is making the transition back to school easy by giving everyone with an .edu email address double the credit for referrals. That’s 500 MB per friend you invite! That goes for everyone you’ve already referred too.
If you don’t have Dropbox already, it’s awesome! New users: sign up with my link and you will get 250MB of extra space.
Source: db.tt
Apple posts a new “Start Developing iOS Apps Today” guide for iOS Developers
Creating iOS apps is fun and rewarding, and if you’re a new developer you might be wondering where to begin. This road map provides the perfect starting point for iOS app development. On your Mac computer, you can create iOS apps that run on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Follow this road map to learn where to get the tools you need, understand the major concepts and best practices, and see where to find more information.
Source: developer.apple.com
My favorite feature of Safari 5.2 in OS X Mountain Lion
Combined URL field and Search field, like in Google Chrome.
30 new OS X Mountain Lion features in 2 minutes. If you want a super fast recap of what’s new.
