Safari 4 has been out for a week or more now and you eigther love it or you have gone back to Firefox at this point. The one thing not mentioned much is that Safari 4 supports HTML5 and CSS3. HTML 5 now allows support for audio and video tags, which in turn allows much easier video and audio integration into ones website. CSS 3 is also being supported by the browser which allows dynamic shadows and reflections within the browser itself. Lets hope Apple touches more on this during the March 24th event.
For an example of HTML5 and CSS3, see Apple’s very quick demo [here]
Quake has long been available for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches, and now it is making it ways to un-jailbroken devices via the App Store. The game was submitted and the process takes a few days to clear through Apple. There is a catch to this though, if Apple decides not to allow the game it could prevent it from becoming available to all of us. There is however, no reason it should not be allowed as id software has previously made Quake 3 available under General Public License.
The game is played via touch screen and was originally slated to use the accelerometer, but was changed as it did not work as well as the developer had hoped. The game runs as well as expected and allows players to make their way through the entire game. There is no word on wireless or internet play over 3g, but we are guessing this will not be supported. If it is supported, it could make this a killer app. Lets hope Apple lets this through for us all to enjoy as it will be offered free.
Darrenchartier, a wordpress blog, has posted a picture of his new iPod nano which has a broken glass cover. The glass cover on the iPod was broken from dropping it only 2 feet per what the blog post says. Fortunately after a few attempts, he convinced Apple to repair it for him.
If the new nano is this fragile, Apple will be getting more than just 1 complaint due to just the sheer volume of Nano’s they sell. Hopefully it never happens to the Nano owner, but if it does lets hope Apple makes the painful breakage less painful by easily replacing it.
The new chipset on the 2nd Gen iPod touch has been found to include a Bluetooth Chip. The Chipset is capable of BT2.1+EDR which generally means that it can use A2DP for wireless streaming of songs to your bluetooth headset. FM is also supported, but Apple generally has not included FM in any of its iPods. It would be great if this was part of a later announcement, perhaps October? Anyway, lets cross our fingers and hope Apple enables the chipset to allows A2DP and FM or at least A2DP. Also, The Nike transmitter uses the same frequency, however the software is supposedly going to work with iPhone and that has BT so it could be either or.
