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Apple uses a jailbroken iPhone in patent application {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 2nd 2009 2:42PM On Modmyi.com's forum's, a user known as CompC posted in response to this, showing off a screenshot that looks a lot like the patent illustration.
Modmyi.com post:
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/556791-jailbroken-apps-drawn-apple-patent.html#post3747181
Original post on Macthemes2.com:
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=198289#p198289
iPhone Safe Mode: Who knew? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 19th 2008 6:58PM I see some people in the comments here has run into the never-ending Apple logo on boot problem. I've had the same problem a lot of times, but I've thankfully figured out how to fix it in 2-5 minutes without restoring or any data loss.
I posted about it here: http://blog.zydev.info/2008/08/30/fix-for-the-never-ending-apple-logo-during-iphone-boot-problem/
P.S. This is obviously only or jailbroken iPhones... lol
Adobe Reader 9 released {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 4th 2008 5:32PM Actually, Preview already supports GPU acceleration. In fact, most apps on Mac OS X does, and has done ever since October 2003 with the release of 10.3 Panther, which featured QuartzExtreme, a hardware accelerated version Mac OS X's previously Quartz rendering engine.
Preview (and QuickLook on Leopard) makes extremely good use of QuartzExtreme, as its based on the PDF format, and its hardware accelerated. That was the reason Apple was advertising Preview as the fastest PDF viewer on the planet back in 2003, cause it was, it was the first PDF viewer to have hardware acceleration, and it was the first major OS to have it too.
As for what Adobe are doing with Reader, well, it doesn't seem to help them much, even the OSX version (which you figure should benefit from running under QuartzExtreme) is quite a bit slower on OSX, with or without the GPU acceleration options turned on.
In fact, I just compared Preview and Acrobat Pro 8 to each other with Apple's latest Apple Human Interface Guidelines PDF, which is a nice 28MB of 402 pages filled with text, screenshots, graphics, and whatnot. While Preview was impressively snappy even when scrolling from first to last page in 1-2 seconds with pages display continuously (as in the scroll area is a long which has the pages after each other, rather than you can only see one page at a time). Acrobat Pro 8 on the other hand, was quite so laggy, sometimes only managing to update the PDF view about 10 times between start a finish, while Preview had it going at what looked like a smooth 25fps movie :)
Anyway, bottom line is, that Adobe's Reader, or Acrobat are only useful to you, when you really must have one of those latest fancy (and stupid a lot of the time) features. But I'd guess, 99.9% of people, would hardly ever need it. In fact, I'm not sure why I had Acrobat Pro installed here in the first place. I guess I felt uncomfortable with unchecking it when I installed CS3 :P
Steve Jobs has a 'common bug' {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 10th 2008 7:04PM "Steve Jobs didn't fight cancer, he taunted it and played with it like a cat before killing it out of boredom."
http://stevejobsfacts.com/fact/63
