An Apple patent has recently surfaced for a dynamically changeable OLED keyboard similar to the Optimus. The keyboard would rely on OLEDs to provide the graphics on the key surfaces. The patent application also details how such a keyboard would be manufactured. The current cost for the optimus keyboard is USD$462 so Apple would have [...]

Apple has designed an implementation for a docking station for a MacBook- this invention would seem best suited to use with an Apple Sub NoteBook as is rumored to be announced at MacWorld on January 15. Is this just another Apple patent application or evidence of the Apple SubNoteBook?

Basically, the docking station is like the [...]

There has been much discussion about whether the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware images and video from Gearlive.com is fake. It seems to be coming to a consensus that the images aren’t fake. I remember finding some Apple patents a while ago which seemed strikingly similar to what was being shown… and sure enough after some [...]

Quick Look is great feature of OS X Leopard — it provides the previews for Quick Look (just select a file and press the space bar) and also the thumbnails for icon generation and CoverFlow. Apple provided support for a number of file types and now developers are starting to create plugins for different file [...]

Three new touch surface patent applications have surfaced from Apple. These patents seem less focussed on the iPhone and iPod touch but hint at larger devices. The applications focus on recognising the touch of a hand and identifying the various parts and they using this data to filter the incoming data. For example, the patent [...]

You know those small annoying CDs that don’t work in slot loading machines, that marketing firms seem so keen on? Well, I suspect they have been a small annoyance to Apple too — their customer support people must be forever fishing the little blighters out of people’s MacBooks. So, the senior vice president of hardware [...]

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Today, nine Apple patent applications concerning Flash memory became available. Instead of Apple being a passive buyer of NAND memory as is generally supposed this shows Apple actively researching Flash memory, memory controllers and circuit boards and their applications. Obviously, the development of Flash memory technology has implications beyond the iPod sphere and [...]

I love Quick Look but when it doesn’t work for a certain file type it makes me sad– especially Illustrator files which by default are PDF compatible and should be quick-lookable.
I’m compiling a list of useful Quick Look plugins here. So far, including plugins for eps, zip, flash, XML, various image formats and folders
UPDATE
I’ve found [...]

So, the rumor mill is churning out rumors on the possibility of a new sub-notebook from Apple in the near future. One of the interesting details of the rumor as reported by 9to5mac.com is that:
There is something strange about the touchpad

This isn’t very useful as far as rumors go. However, Apple has made some interesting [...]

Leopard Spotlight is infintely better than Tiger Spotlight; it’s faster and is much more flexible. Apple has made the searching easy by adding simple nature language Attributes which make searching for particular metadata easy. I’ve been exploring what tags can used in the spotlight menu.
Attributes are the tags like date: or kind: etc. These are [...]