Apple

jgilbert on May 5th, 2009

The blogosphere has long lamented the lack of background notifications on Apple’s iPhone, but will Apple’s iPhone 3.0 software really be a panacea its been cracked up to be? Sadly current reports suggest the next release will do nothing to fix an inherent limitation that many of us suffer: on the iPhone only one thing [...]

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OK Adobe Lightroom Team, Apple Aperture team, are you listening? I’ve just spent the last 10+ hours doing something manually that belongs in your products (Lightroom & Aperture): Correcting the perspective and lens distortion of photos non-destructively.
Here’s the problem: I have about 30-40 photos that need to undergo this process:
Please, will someone out there do [...]

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jgilbert on October 22nd, 2008

As noted by several observers, including Gizmodo, Steve Jobs was very conspicuous about sharing the stage with other product thought leaders at Apple’s latest notebook event. This seems to support my previous post, which suggested Apple would achieve enormous signaling benefit from revealing more about Apple’s strong organizational competencies. 
Part of my team’s original research suggested that the Apple’s internal [...]

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jgilbert on August 4th, 2008

Frustrated by the bizzare rules that seem to govorn your iPhone data use? Maybe you turned off push synchronization to save on battery life, but your left wondering if and when your data will sync. This article may help.
I am planning a trip to Africa where data access is expensive, so I needed better understanding [...]

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jgilbert on August 2nd, 2008

Hey iPhone lovers, contribute your ideas here! If we can demonstrate enough users want this feature, I can try to get this in front of an Apple product manager.
http://www.springamp.com/ipodapp-enhancement-wishlist/

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