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Final proof on responsiveness. This doesn't event include Apple newest iPhone 5s loaded with the new A7 processor.
In its first TouchMarks benchmark test, the iPhone 5 responded to touches at an average time of 55 milliseconds, compared to 85 milliseconds for the iPhone 4. The closest Android device was the Samsung Galaxy S4 at 114 milliseconds.
via VentureBeat via Agawi Touchmarks
Today mark's the public release of Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform. After months of hard work, you can sign up and try it out for yourself. I'm excited to migrate and go full-time for this website.
Ghost 0.3 comes with the full, gorgeous Markdown editor which so many of you have been excited about using. It has a stunning post management interface, it has a simple set of settings which allow you to configure your blog, and it comes with a clean and simple personal blogging theme called Casper.
and from their Kickstarter:
Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customizable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.
Impressive.
Its hardware and software make it the best smartphone on the market.
The iPhone 5S is, in some measures, computationally superior to the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro from just five years ago. In your fucking pocket.
via John Gruber's Daring Fireball
Just my two cents, don't buy the iPhone 5c.
As much as it pains me to use the word futureproof, if you are one of those people who likes to hold onto their device for a while - the 5s is as good a starting point as any.
via Anandtech
And then via Twitter:
I just spent the past week doing the best I can to understand Apple's A7 SoC. In short? It's insanely fast. http://t.co/AgWzGv1ljr
A fantastic overview on the both new iPhones. Andy Ihnatko also details the security concerns that some might have with the new biometric scanner.
Biometric authentication is a great idea. But it has to Just Plain Work, every damn time, or else it’ll be relegated to the Scrapheap of Good Intentions where most of the new software features on a Samsung phone wind up.
It was so easy that I was able to train it within just three minutes. And while I didn’t have all that much time to try to trick the sensor there in the demo room, it worked flawlessly on the finger that I’d trained and not at all on any of my other fingers. You can train it to recognize up to five digits.
Did I worry about handing over detailed scans of my finger to a phone that I didn’t own? Nope. The phone destroys all copies of the data it collects as soon as it’s read your finger … and your fingerprint data isn’t backed up to the cloud.
When it comes down to having the best of the best, some people have asked me why it's worth it. Bottom line... over the course of a year or two, I'm shelling out $1.5 a day or $0.07 an hour for something that I'm on ALL THE TIME! Does that make it worth it... yes! The fact of the matter is that I might end up paying another $400 once I sell my iPhone 5 64GB in White for AT&T, but as the number one tool in your pocket? It's dumb to have a "free" iPhone 4S which is two years old and keep it for another two years. Also, if the iPhone 5c is nothing more that a .1 update to the iPhone 5, it's not worth it. The camera, and Touch ID alone along with the A7 64-bit processor, I'm expecting nothing but awesome with the new iPhone 5s. This also puts me in line with Brian Lam of The Wirecutter on the new iPhone 5s. I asked him a while back on the iPhone 5 and he responded to me via twitter with good points. He also recently wrote this on his website too.
I’m just saying you should upgrade because a few hundred bucks is not really a lot of money for something if you use it all the time, every day, and are already paying a hundred bucks and change a month in service fees over several years.
I'm going to find out what I can fetch for my iPhone 5. Any offers? Gazelle is up to $360 $340 buy I wonder if I could get $450 on Craigslist? It's still jailbroken too by the way running iOS 6.0.2.
update: Lifehacker also talks about future proofing for only $100.
Considering the price difference between the two models is only $100, your best bet if you have the cash is the iPhone 5s for future proofing, which is worth it considering since you'll have to sign a new two year contract to get the discounted pricing.
If you haven't been following the news of my twitter stream today, around 10AM Apple started its annual iPhone event. You can read all about it on Apple's website but here are a few details. The iPhone 5c is a colorful addition to the lineup with white, pink, yellow, blue and green while the 5s will be offered in silver, space gray and the new gold. The biggest highlights come from the iPhone 5s debuting a new camera, dual LED flash, slow motion video at 120fps, and the new biometric Touch ID home button that can be used to purchase apps on the App Store and primarily unlock your phone. For the techies out there, it's also the first smartphone in the industry to have a 64-bit A7 processor making it 2x faster than the now defunct iPhone 5. The 5c starts at $99 available for pre-order this Friday while the 5s can be ordered starting on the 20th. At $199, you'll have to chose between a 16GB iPhone 5s with all those new features of the 32GB iPhone 5c. Which one will you go with?
If you want a thorough update on what's new on the iPhones, check out 9to5mac. You can also find both iPhone 5s videos on Apple's website here.
I love the Micro 4/3 platform but more importantly, the fact that my wife can easily handle the camera makes for a HUGE plus. I've also thoroughly enjoyed using my Olympus OM-D E-M5 for the past year. With that in mind, Olympus just unleashed their second OM-D body raising the bar yet again.
Continuing with the confusing naming scheme, the OM-D E-M1 is debuting along two amazing M.ZUIKO Digital ED "Pro" lenses both with constant f2.8 maximum aperture. Upgrades include the newly redesigned 16.3-megapixel micro four thirds sensor utilizing the latest TruPic VII image processing engine which allows for FAST (Frequency Acceleration Sensor Technology) Autofocusing. (sorry for that long sentence)
The technology is getting good enough that inexpensive DSLRs no longer really make sense. Once upon a time, "real" photographers would have cringed at the thought of using an electronic viewfinder, but that's just not the case any more.
via Gizmodo
update: Steve Huff just posted his first impressions. Definitely a great read!
The fact that this box alone will do remote play for PS4, that's pretty awesome! Never mind that it can play Playstation Vita games (I don't own any) but I can see it spawning more sales! It's going to give Apple TV a run for its money if it allows streaming from iOS too. Hopefully we'll know more soon. http://youtu.be/rG5l78gbvpU
Oh hey, and if you've been thinking about buying a Playstation Vita, they're getting rid of the OLED screen in favor of LCD. Its also 20% thinner, 15% lighter plus they squeezed out an additional hour of battery life! Among other requests, you can also built in 1 GB memory and a micro USB charger. Maybe I'll be Vita-ing soon.
If you thought the more durable, reversible, minimal size but extra cost Apple Lightning Connector was to swallow or adapt to, check out the new definition of ugly and awkward. Yea it's backwards compatible and can draw up to 900 milliamps, but this micro USB isn't pretty. Mind that you also don't plug it in wrong or you might damage the entire port. You can take one home soon when purchasing Samsung's latest Galaxy Note 3. /s
via Android Beat
Looks like Amazon's own leak led to the early unveiling of the next generation Paperwhite. Being dubbed as version 2, Amazon's best e-reader & in my opinion, the best way to consume ebooks is out for preorder today! Click on the picture or use my link below to get yours shipped on or by September 30th! Here's the quick run down:
Is it worth the upgrade? I'll be honest that these features alone won't cause me to sell my version 1 on craigslist just yet but if the light is indeed that much better, you can count on it!
Now this is an amazing jacket. I've been seriously considering a Scottevest for quite sometime and this might be the winner. Watch the video below. http://youtu.be/oY7elyTHWMk
You can hide both an iPad and a MacBook Air 13" and not have to bring cases makes this the ultimate coffee shop tech vest. Co-designed with #1 New York Times Best Selling author Brad Thor, it's set to debut next month in September. I was on a Mitch Rapp kick for a while but I'll have to start-up his series too when I'm finally done with Game of Thrones!
13 hours and 29 minutes. That’s all you really need to know
If you are looking for a back-to-school laptop, there's a clear winner throughout the ENTIRE industry. From The Wirecutter and other reviews, particularly Nilay Patel's on The Verge, it's a no brainer unless you're naturally stubborn. For all the Wintel lovers out there, this might not be easy to swallow, but we all know which laptop runs Windows better. If you still can't tell which laptop it is, it's the Apple's new Macbook Air.