A new Apple patent application shows iPhones giving the user the opportunity to share Music, Photos, Videos, Voicemail etc by different communication modes- phone, email, text message, fax, chat etc A communications device may transmit a media item chosen by a user over a communication path also being used to transmit an established communications operation. [...]

Despite Apple’s claims that Snow Leopard will be “Taking a break from adding new features” are they considering updating the Finder? rumours suggest the Finder has been completly rewritten in Cocoa, could it be that more than under-the-hood changes will take place. There has been many discussions about how you sell the concept of an [...]

A new patent application released today shows Apple’s potential plans for user interface tweaking in Snow Leopard, the next version of OS X. The new patent shows cursors providing much more information than a spinning beach ball of death. The cursor will show lots of information about the file or link (previews, file permissions, virus [...]

Apple is constantly refining the UI for Safari and they have too with more competition coming from Chrome and the constantly evolving Firefox. The linear history associated with Web Browsers has always been an annoyance for me — I don’t browse in a straight line, I graze in a haphazard manner and then always pine [...]

A mega Apple iPhone patent application has just released by the USPTO (Jobs et al. 20080174570: 361 pages!). It contains a detailed description of most of the iPhone’s user interface. There are two interesting features which haven’t been seen before in the extant iPhone — support for Flash and Window Media and a useful iPhone [...]

Apple Finder of Lost Objects Are you like me — do you have more electronic gadgets than you can keep track of? where is that wireless mouse? where is the BlueTooth headpiece for the phone? Where is the damn phone? where is my GPS etc etc etc. Apple engineers have been staying up nights worrying [...]

Apple’s original patent applications for the iPhone showed a product that resembled an iPod Nano more than the iPhone we know today (I’ll call it the iPhone Nano but apparently the project was called the P1). Conversely, the iPhone seems to have been born out of an Apple touch screen tablet concept which, at least [...]

A patent application has recently surfaced submitted by Apple to the USPTO dealing with how best to implement a head mounted display- is the future of the iPhone/Mac OS wearable computing or is it just blue-sky thinking. The listed inventor, John Tang, is part of the Apple Industrial Design Group and worked on the eMate as well as other projects. Here are some of the details of the patent application and you decide:

MacBookAir (c)AppleInsider.com The banners are up at MacWorld — and they’re saying “2008 There’s something in the air” Hrmpf! These banners will obviously make sense come Tuesday but until then we will have to speculate wildly about their meaning. One thing I think is that it doesn’t seem to point to a new Apple SubNoteBook [...]

An interesting story on Wired describes some of the process that Apple went through to create the iPhone. It’s hard to know exactly how reliable all the information is, but one paragraph struck a chord– the description of the pre-iPhone iPhone. From Wired: Jobs refused to use someone else’s software. They built a prototype of [...]