It’s only been one day with the case, however, I really like it! Sure it adds extra weight (not much since the materials themselves are lightweight) and bulk to the iPad, but it’s so incredibly slick looking!

I really have enjoyed the angled of interacting with the iPad when the lid is flipped backwards – makes for easier typing too! It’s easy to remove the iPad, yet not too easy for it to just fall out. I’ll be interested to see how this holds up over time, but from first use, this thing is well made and well worth the 6 week wait time.

The deal goes into effect on September 1st, and as always, there are some major caveats.

So, “Great Movie Starring Some Person” is released to theaters, a few months later it appears on Epix, then three months later it can be streamed on your Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, or whatever other device you have that streams Netflix.

Introducing Times. Your personalized newspaper for iPad.

Lex Friedman:

I’m a big fan of Safari Extensions. I’ve written several of my own, some of which I share with the Internet public. But because I’ve built those extensions, I’ve realized how easily a malicious developer could harvest all sorts of information about you, using a method that could sneak in and evade immediate detection.

Installed extensions can add any HTML to any page you surf to. And that’s where the danger comes in — and that danger is actually even worse than it first seems, which is already pretty bad.

Friedman’s extension is a little fugly – if he is using the extension himself, I am sure he will work on the aesthetics.

Even Okuda was impressed with how natural and fluid the interface of the iPad feels in use. Actions that involved complex post-production effects on a PADD actually seem easy on an iPad, he said. “There are a lot of things that are very easy to do in a prop, but actually very difficult to do in reality,” he told Ars. “For example, pinch to zoom—that was relatively difficult to do even as a visual effect. It’s implemented brilliantly on the iPad and the iPhone.”

I’m surprised it took this long.

iOS 4.1 Beta 3, the latest beta version of Apple’s upcoming software update, has a new feature that allows for FaceTime calls to be associated with an email address instead of a phone number.

I might not want to give you my phone number – who knows?

I never realized how big a deal this was, until I tried to download “Hey Jude” from iTunes and was presented with this ghastly version instead.

“(Apple CEO) Steve Jobs has his own idea and he’s a brilliant guy,” Ono, the 77-year-old widow of John Lennon, told Reuters. “There’s just an element that we’re not very happy about, as people. We are holding out.

“Don’t hold your breath … for anything,” she said with a laugh.

This would have need good to know three years ago; R.I.P. 1st Gen iPhone – I will miss you so…

Short version: Power it off immediately and put it in a bag of uncooked rice.

Here is a neat idea.

Instead of having lite flavors of paid apps to try, Apple should implement an App Store-wide 24-hour trial mode. Right now, not all apps have free lite versions and, some of those lite versions, are feature limited. This is a problem, because it limits the user when they want to explore what’s in the marketplace.

I rather have a closed system that works with applications that are checked before they reach the app store and that I know will have the same behavior as other apps and that will not crash under normal circumstances and that will not take me (a geek that can handle any fucking thing you throw at me) a full hour to figure out how to add more information to a contact.

Oh, and did I mention the crapware that cellphone carriers are installing in the Android phones? Speaking of phones mimicking PCs…

Agreed. There is something about the Android OS that does not sit well with me. Granted, I have not given it much of a chance. I do like the fact that when I turn on my iPhone, everything – or almost everything – works as advertised.

Take a look at the Operating Systems Comparison Graph. Without going into the figures, it is obvious the Mac Adoption Rate is increasing exponentially, while the PC Adoption Rate is decreasing. The graph only includes first-year students, and it is unknown what the older students are using as their main computing platform.

Not exactly “Try Before You Buy”, but “Here is a Collection of Free and/or Lite Apps that have Paid Versions As Well.” Nothing special, just another section in the App Store.

It was bound to happen one day, too bad it had to be today.

Schmidt had some interesting things to say at the Techonomy Conference, specifically:

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don’t have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You’ve got Facebook photos! People will find it’s very useful to have devices that remember what you want to do, because you forgot… But society isn’t ready for questions that will be raised as result of user-generated content.

I’m not sure I agree with Schmidt. I may not be ready for the ‘Technology Revolution’, but who says my children won’t be; in fact, I bet that they will be.
Case in point, when Facebook started tying into other services, many users found it was too eerie; I am not on Facebook, why am I seeing my profile in another application? Younger generations are seeing this as “the internet” – I am signed into Facebook, and it is only natural for Pandora to link to my profile. There is a natural evolution happening across generations. For me it is scary, but for my children, it is exciting.

John Carey:

I did my best to include a little bit of everything in here. There are 33 images in all and I have decided to make them available as one zip file download or you can access them individually here so you are able to tap one with your iphone and save it to your phone for instant use. All wallpapers in the future will also contain images at this resolution.

Brilliant.

When your app plays audio in the background, it does not transition into the background suspended state. That means whatever code is running keeps running. This is, unless you’re a VoIP application, the only way your app can keep a persistent connection or otherwise run code indefinitely in the background. This will be taken advantage of in an upcoming Pastebot update to allow syncing to take place without the app running in the foreground.

So, this is what innovation feels like.

Using Camera+ now feels just like a real camera. Your photos can be sharper because you can now hold your iPhone steadier with two hands instead of fumbling around for the shutter button on screen.

In addition, you can plug your iPhone earphones in and use the volume buttons on them as a remote shutter control.

Wave’s biggest problem was indeed the adoption rate, and of course:

• No one that needed to know about it, knew about it.

• Some were excited to use Google Wave as a replacement for Gmail, alas you could only ‘wave’ with other ‘wavers’.

The Official Google Blog:

Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.