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Free Bumpers

Thursday, 22 July 2010

Free iPhone 4 cases to cost Apple about US$175M: Off the back of the latest record-breaking earnings call, this isn't much for Apple, but it's costing Apple nearly NZ$244 million to give away bumper cases to stop the iPhone reception issue.

iPad not conforming to the usual Early Adopter curve: The iPad is a runaway hit and it’s going mainstream faster than anything they’ve seen, Apple execs are saying.
“It is not following a typical early adopter curve and taking a while to cross over into the mainstream,” said Apple COO Tim Cook during an analyst conference call.
“Our guts tell us this market is very big, and iPad is defining the market,” he said. “We want to take full advantage of it, and so we are investing enormous time and resources in increasing our capability in getting iPad out to as many people as we can,” Cook added (via Cult of Mac).

Cult of Mac loves free Simplenote: The site says it's the fastest, most direct way to write down what’s in your head (or make shopping lists, or cut and paste from a website, or write a novel…) and Simplenote will sync with free, easily available note-taking desktops apps like Nottingham and Notational Velocity.

DIY iPhone 4 steadycam: With its excellent 720p video recording capabilities, the iPhone 4 is sure to gain a real third-party steadicam some time, but if you’re as impatient as Spencer Watson, you can build yourself a perfectly functional rig out of spare parts you’ve got lying around at home… or buy them straight from his online store. 
Cult of Mac has a video of it in action.

GE room mood app simulates lighting effects: An application called the GE Mood Cam app has you take a picture of a room and then you slide the Moodometer to apply different filters to the image you took to simulate lighting effects in the room. Once you find the light effect you want, you can put together a shopping list of the GE bulbs you need to achieve the effect.
There are six different moods to choose from and you can even tell the app what sockets your light fixtures use so you get the exact bulb part numbers you need. The app is free and on the App Store right now.