tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74335549628777277982024-03-13T01:28:10.036+01:00Proctele ABProctele AB is a Swedish company founded in August 2010. Its mission is to produce applications for Apple's iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad.Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-85106702298670531702017-06-03T12:42:00.002+02:002017-06-03T12:42:50.467+02:00Skype was listening<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was using Skype on my Windows 10 PC the other day. Early on we talked about what films we might want to see soon and the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie was mentioned. Less than half a minute later an ad came up on the Skype window - an ad for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the new Pirates of the Caribbean. I thought it was spooky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We didn't text each other before or during the Skype session, so there must have been speech recognition involved, unless someone was listening and maybe joking with us. My Skype partner was using an iPad or iPhone and saw no ad. Neither of us had the Skype video enabled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading my Gmail I've seen ads that show up in the mail window, which relate to the contents of the mail. It feels less harmful. The Skype "incident" was new to me. A phone call, albeit on Skype, is more intimate than email and the ad felt consequently more intrusive. I didn't like the experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is but a small step from popping up ads to actual spying. From this I learned that I need to watch my words while Skyping. I'm convinced that this could happen on any service, but Skype is the first service that demonstrated its use to me. Thanks Skype!</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-50247526504064487622016-05-01T13:00:00.001+02:002016-05-01T13:00:22.380+02:00What if your Smartphone is a spy?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Smartphone and its offspring the Pad are the most popular electronic devices of this century. We all love these devices and there are many proofs of that. Smartphones and their accessories are hot items among traders, like stereos were in the 1970's, like PC's were in the 80's, like cell-phones were in the 90's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We love these devices; they're always with us, not just in the same room, but usually in our pocket or our hands. Eye-to-screen contact takes place several times an hour, often less during working-hours, but all the more often before or after work or in the week-end. When the Smartphone gets a longer rest it's usually because we're sleeping and the Smartphone is charging. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nice device. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what if ... if the camera ... or the microphone isn't really turned off when you expect them to be off? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if your trusted Smartphone is transmitting all it sees and hears to some person or organization? It doesn't need constant network access to spy, you know, because it can record to memory and transmit its findings whenever possible. What if it can see and hear even after it's been turned off? You see, a device isn't really off until the power supply i.e. the battery has been disconnected, and that never happens. Even if you take out the main battery, there's always some other battery in action to keep at least the clock running. What if the microphone is always on and recording what it hears?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, how interesting are we really as objects of spies? Not really interesting I think, and that hopefully goes for most of us. But then again some people are of considerable interest to a lot of people, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">governments are interested in some. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrities fall into the first group and political opponents of governments into the second.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Considering the above, I think there may be a market for some kind of shields for privacy. They may come in the form of covers that shield the camera and the microphone. Night-boxes or charging-boxes for night-time privacy, which are sound-insulated and electro-magnetically shielded. Another form of shield would be one that feeds the camera and microphone with fake data.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think Smartphone users don't have to worry quite yet. Looking further into the future though, I think privacy will become a severe issue that has to be dealt with.</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-58105298752542856382016-02-28T14:58:00.001+01:002016-02-28T14:58:44.915+01:00The Importance of Smartphone Privacy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple CEO Tim Cook recently published a letter to Apple's customers concerning the company's policy on smartphone privacy. You can read it <a href="http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The document has no news for me and I'm delighted it's mostly a comment on how Apple's privacy policy is being applied to the investigation of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The letter says Apple is doing its duty to assist the FBI investigating the case, but also that the FBI will not be provided with a key to unlock all iPhone security. There is no such key in existence and it will not be created. That means Apple WILL NOT build in a back-door to its customer's data on iPhones. Many thanks to Tim Cook for making this clear!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Law enforcement authorities should not burden companies with these requests. It is not without risk. Back-doors can be misused and will be misused. Lots of wide-spread <a href="http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html" target="_blank">software systems contain back-doors</a>. These are not always created by the owner of the system, but by criminals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There exist back-door-like features that most users will welcome and the most famous may be the Find my iPhone, which can indeed find a lost iPhone, but can also remotely erase all data from a stolen iPhone, under its owners control. The great thing about that feature is that it will in the end make iPhones less desirable for thieves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">American companies may already be suffering from their government's poking its nose into all kinds of electronic devices and services. People are becoming more aware of the possibilities of surveillance and outright data theft. This opens possibilities to companies in other jurisdictions taking market shares. I'm talking about trust, which I've mentioned <a href="http://proctele.blogspot.se/2011/05/iphone-vs-android.html" target="_blank">earlier on this blog</a>. Once trust is lost, rebuilding it is at best a hard struggle, and I think trust is actually never rebuilt. Governments should not ask of its companies to help it combat terrorists, which they could have avoided by properly screening immigrants. Here's hoping more companies show the stamina Apple has.</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-79141731220210284672016-01-18T23:27:00.000+01:002016-01-21T22:36:25.854+01:00Grand Gadgets<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a gadget-man and I believe I share that interest with most men. This quality is closely related to a fascination for technology and new concepts. Here's a blog about gadgets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll start with this wooden keyboard:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not just wooden, it's a wireless Bluetooth wooden keyboard for $190. You can get it in Maple or Walnut if you prefer. I bet you can get it in a localized language version too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there's this speaker that listens in on the electrical signals going to the speaker in your smartphone. When I first saw it I had to think for a while to figure out how it works. Love that! You don't need any communication technology </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like BlueTooth </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the phone for it to work. Here's a picture of it from Parts Express, and don't miss their Youtube demo (see link reference at the bottom).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Selfie-toaster sounds crazy, as if somebody just joined two random words, but in fact it's a product. You buy a certain toaster and the maker will manufacture a heating insert from an image you upload to them. The image can be a picture of yourself, hence the name selfie-toaster. Fantastic idea and here's what it looks like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I left my radio home, well I left every apparatus you would normally call a radio back home. What is a radio these days anyway, or perhaps, what is the medium of radio. What is TV? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things have changed. Radio and TV used to mean something like entertainment, news, etc brought to you over radio waves. Now R&T comes over Cable or the Internet, if not over both (I mean Internet over Cable). Defining something by the way it is transmitted is not a good idea anymore. Technology turns transmission names into something fickle. R&T might have been called playlists if they were invented recently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I came to think of this again, when I realized I missed my radio. What are my options then? Obviously Internet radio on my iPhone. There's an excellent app called TuneIn Radio. I use it a lot, like when going to sleep I tune into an American country station. My iPhone provides the sleep function through its built-in timer (the one in the Clock app). I could also buy an alarm-clock radio for about 10€ in the supermarket. I could tune into radio on the TV-set and use its timer. Indeed I could buy a simple radio for just 5€, but without timer. I could use my Sony Ericsson phone with built-in radio, if I had brought the custom headphones or the custom speaker, which I didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not all the solutions are equal in functionality and the programmes available, but they would all suffice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, make sure you visit Ireland once. Don't forget Blarney and don't forget to kiss the Blarney stone, and don't forget to talk to the Irish. They're nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And ... Proctele's app HabitXplore has been updated. I use it every day. Yes I do!</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-10233073034641835042015-09-21T17:35:00.002+02:002015-09-22T09:57:05.903+02:00Proctele's Workout App: ExerLog<div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 21px;">Leave your paper and pen at home: here are your workout sheets, as many as you like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">With this app you create blueprints for workout sheets that you use on your iPhone. </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 21px;">When you start working out, you select one of the blueprints. A workout sheet is created on your iPhone, which you use to take notes during the workout.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the way from the start, iPhones have had a multi-touch-sensitive display. It was one of the reasons for iPhone's success, because it gave iPhone the famous pinch gesture. I still remember when I tried it out for the first time. At that time the iPhone was not for sale in Europe. A colleague had been to the US and bought an iPhone, and I was allowed to try it out. I was impressed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Multi-touch is two-dimensional, 2D, i.e. when the user taps or swipes or pinches, an app receives information about it in terms of x and y, horizontal and vertical coordinates. With pressure sensitivity the app will receive a third parameter, which tells how hard the user pressed. That means we can call it 3D-touch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me the most obvious use of this feature is a scale app for weighing small and light items. But that's not what Apple has in mind. A new touch-type will probably be introduced: the force-touch, i.e. pressing harder. One good use for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">force-touch</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is to use it in a similar way the second button of a mouse is used (on Mac's one-button mouse it's done with Ctrl+click), and that is putting up a meny. Force-touch will be used for speeding up the user's interaction by reducing the number of presses he/she must do to accomplish something. Force-touch can also be used to reduce the number of user interface items on the screen, like buttons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A possible use for 3D-touch is in games. Some games will benefit by testing the user's ability to use the right amount of pressure. The touch keyboard can most certainly be improved by 3D-touch, and thereby putting yet another nail in the coffin of hardware keyboards for mobile phones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HabitXplore is of use for different things. I know because I've tried it. I'm tracking some pattens I have. How much coffee do I drink? Well, since March 19 I've had 264 cups, the breakfast cups uncounted. In the last 7 days I've had 15 (not counting breakfast). I have a short daily workout routine due to a bad knee. I can see I've done that every day since I started. Sometimes I've forgotten to mow the lawn. Not since using HabitXplore of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keeping track of habits is a good thing, but I don't overdo it. I'm going to stop tracking the coffee, because I know now I'm not overdoing it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The picture shows that it's quite small and also that it contains Windows 8.1. Isn't that amazing? The CPU is a quad-core Intel Atom. The Windows version of the device has 2GB RAM and 32 GB persistent storage. There's a Linux (Ubuntu) version and it has 1 GB RAM and 8GB persistent storage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What this means is that you can turn your large screen TV into a Windows PC by connecting a 170$ stick to it and of course a wireless keyboard and mouse. The Compute Stick comes with USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, a micro-SD slot and an on/off button. That'll give you a PC with a huge screen. I don't think it's good enough for serious gaming, but sufficiently powerful for most other things, including Youtube watching. Through the WiFi and a browser you'll have access to your Google Docs of course, so what more do you need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most PC monitors now have HDMI too, so even if you're not a TV-fan you might still have a suitable screen for the Intel Compute Stick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-86334619415088958452015-06-08T15:57:00.003+02:002015-07-07T15:19:31.521+02:00Xplore Thy Habits<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>HabitXplore</b> is a new app by Proctele and it's <b>for recording habits</b>, or just to record events in general.<br /><br />To find out more about your habits you need to register them. However the procedure of recording a habit has to be <b>simple and fast</b>. HabitXplore lets you do that.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do the following to record a habit-event:</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Start the app</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Select a habit from the habit-list (table)</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Press the OK button</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Examples of habits are: Drinking a cup of coffee, Phoning your parents, Training, Mowing the lawn, Buy food, Refuel the car.<br /><br />To find out more about your habits, you must register them. You can do that quickly with HabitXplore. The app can also show your habit in a time chart, which gives you a good overview. Of course everything you record is stored safely in your iPhone for as long as you want. <br /><br />You can also use HabitXplore to remember when you last performed some task.<br /><br />HabitXplore is one of those apps you need fast access to. You're likely to put in the Dock at the bottom, along with the mail and browser apps.<br /><br /><b>With HabitXplore you can:</b><br />-Register any number of habits so you can study them<br />-Quickly record that you performed a habit<br />-Immediately see when you last performed the habit and how often you've done it in total<br />-View a chart of how often a habit was carried out over a period of time<br />-Remove a record you registered by mistake<br /><br />Suppose you have added a few habits in the table. Then do the following to record that you did a habit:<br />-Start the app<br />-Select a habit from the habit-list (table)<br />-Press the OK button<br /><br />Ready! That's how fast it is.</span></div>
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Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-200701817208061432015-04-29T10:50:00.001+02:002015-04-29T11:18:42.485+02:00Windows 8, I'm in<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while since I bought a Windows PC, but last week it was time for a laptop. HP Envy 15" screen, AMD-A8-5550 4 core CPU, 8GB RAM, 4MB Cache, 1 TB Harddisk, 2GB dedicated Graphics RAM, 4 x USB 3.0, Card reader, no CD/DVD, Windows 8.1. It's fairly light and quite slim. Price: 475$.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of years ago, when Win8 was new, I was asked to do a backup of an All-in-One PC. It was a beautiful machine with a fantastic screen, maybe 24", but behind the outer beauty lurked a sinister or perhaps just playful ghost. I tapped or dragged here and there on the screen and random things seemed to happen. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was quite confused, even slightly humiliated.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After a while I accepted that I would need help, if only to make sure I didn't erase any data by mistake. I read an instructions booklet, which was enclosed in the package. It helped me understand the basics and I went on to do a successful backup. Win8 really was different from Win7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Win8.1 is much better. My trusted friend when dealing with Win8.1 is the Windows-button. It's marked with the Windows flag and it's beside the left Alt-button. I use it to go from anywhere to the beautiful Start-screen, you know the one with all the rectangular app-icons</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and back again. I like the Start-screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The key combination Alt-Tab is another old chum I can't be without when using Win8.1. As you may remember it switches between currently running apps, and it can take you to the desktop. Once at the desktop, a Win7 user should feel comfortable, because it works the same as in older Win versions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PC performs very well. It's lightning fast! Great screen too. Only one thing sometimes irritates me and that's the multi-touch pad. It does work well, except when scrolling a browser page, using two fingers, the browser often thinks I want to zoom the page and I have to ask it to go back to standard zoom-level. It could be a bug in the touch-pad driver and will go away after some software update. Still I think this is a minor error and really I'm a satisfied HP and Windows customer. I surely recommend this PC and Win8.1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now comes the Wow: when in a dark room, the beauty of the backlit keyboard is astounding! Thank you and well done HP!</span><br />
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Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-55705434822343590372015-04-12T10:14:00.002+02:002015-04-12T10:14:12.545+02:00Get Yosemite<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've moved on from OSX Mavericks to OSX Yosemite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started off with Snow Leopard in 2010 and been through both Lion and Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. With Lion I had to put another 2GB RAM into my white MacBook to speed it up, but Yosemite is so quick I might as well go back to 2 GB RAM and give the rest to the poor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems Apple has worked on speed this time and I like that. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dashboard first load happens so fast you hardly notice it. Returning from power-saving mode with WiFi turned off takes only a few seconds, a huge improvement. With </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mavericks, I s</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ometimes had to turn off WiFi and then turn it back on to get it working. The Dock, with all the app-icons, looks like the one on iPhone. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All my favorite programs start up, except Gimp the graphics program. After downloading a new version (2.8) it worked too. Some programs I've tried that are clearly better are Gimp, Mail, iPhoto and Maps and probably a whole lot more I haven't tried yet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put shortly: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yosemite is great! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're running OSX Mavericks, it's time to switch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway I need to keep up with Apple's relentless improvements or else I'll soon be stuck with a programming environment, which can't make apps for Apple's new devices. I studied their new programming language this winter, called Swift. I like it. It's going to improve the life expectancy of keyboards: it's laconic, hence great for northern, ehum ..., viking types like me. The encounter resulted in the birth of an app, which I hope to see in the App Store next week. I'll send out a ping when it happens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Took the lawnmower for a spin yesterday. Looked at it for several seconds before I could find the starter cord - must have been a long winter. It started on second crank, which is not bad. It's going to be a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7JPYFN-8vU" target="_blank">long hot summer</a> I hope. We got them sparely in the last couple decades, but there must be a blip on the curve coming.</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-65964352370959977762015-02-28T12:06:00.003+01:002015-02-28T12:24:37.202+01:001958 Volkswagen and Battery Time<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battery time for smartphones needs improvement. It's been said before, even on this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a few reasons for this continuing problem:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latest iPhone is always thinner than the previous version. Users like it that way. It's elegant and it's a proof that the device does indeed contain the best technology possible. It's prestige. It would be a bold step for Apple to decide it's not going to continue the race to razor blade thin devices. Someone will continue the race though, so Apple wants to keep up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iPhone6 Plus has much better battery time than iPhone6. The reason is size. iPhone6 Plus is slightly thicker, but also higher and wider. That increases the volume considerably and that's one thing needed for improved battery time: more volume for the battery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came to think of my father's old Volkswagen from 1958. It had no fuel indicator. That meant you never knew for sure if you had enough fuel. It didn't even have a trip-meter, but it did have a mileage indicator, so if you knew the fuel consumption and you took note of the mileage indicator, you had a rough estimate of the fuel level. You could also shake the car and listen. And now comes the reason for this paragraph: the extra-tank-switch. </span>You won't find it in modern cars. Say you run out of fuel. No problem: throw the switch and suddenly you had an extra couple of liters in the tank. It's almost like magic isn't it. I suppose there were really two fuel tanks in the car separated by a valve and at every fill-up both tanks got filled. The magical switch simply opened the valve so that what was in the small bi-tank quickly flowed into the main-tank.</div>
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Perhaps the extra-tank-switch idea could help getting better (perceived) battery time. It could work like in that old Volkswagen: "you completely run out of battery, no problem, throw a switch". It could also be a switch for quickly turning off/on a number of functions in a user configurable way.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ref: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/27/boostcase-for-iphone-6-review/">http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/27/boostcase-for-iphone-6-review/</a></span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-47594517075986201762015-01-19T16:35:00.000+01:002015-01-19T21:40:21.127+01:00Windows 7 Support & Selfie-sticks<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 mainstream support ends this month, and that support finally ends on January 14th 2020. Windows 7 was born on July 22 2009 and it has done good service. Windows 7 became popular in the working place as well as at home. I suppose some would call it the last proper version of Windows, second only to Windows XP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Selfie-stick is a popular product. I would never have guessed. With most people born with two selfie-sticks, there's still need for a man-made one? I've been taking selfies with me and my wife for years and never felt the need for a selfie-stick. I see selfies as pictures taken spontaneously or when there's no one around to take it for you. Carrying around a stick for the purpose defeats the whole idea of a selfie, I think. Please let me know if I missed something about selfie-sticks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've mentioned protective cases a few times on this blog. My stance is that they're necessary. After I bought an iPhone6, but before I bought a protective case, I managed to let it slip out of my breast-pocket three times. The period of time was 1-2 weeks. I was lucky that it wasn't damaged, because I skipped insurance. Here's what can happen if you don't buy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNE9Ct4dOYE" target="_blank">insurance</a>. I bought a book cover type of case in leather. I told my youngest kid, a boy of 9, that it's an Indiana Jones type of cover, because of how it mixes masculinity and old fashion. Well here it is and I recommend it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is one protective case, which seems to beat them all. It's made by Urban Armor Gear and it successfully protected its iPhone6 all the way from Earth up to 101,000 ft height and back. Read about it <a href="http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20150119/iphone-6-space-dropped-earth-survives/#more-194139" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Net neutrality sounds pretty good doesn't it? You know, the Internet treating all data the same, regardless of what it is. Well, having read <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/11/13/here-s-what-net-neutrality-is-and-what-to-think-about-it/" target="_blank">this</a> I'm not at all sure it's a good principle anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To round this off I'd like to say that I'm very, very happy about my iPhone6. It takes excellent pictures and apart from all the other functionality it has, it even does voice calls :-) I think it's the best smartphone ever. Only the next iPhone will be able to beat it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://readwrite.com/2015/01/13/selfie-stick-inventor-wayne-fromm-shafted-lost-out">http://readwrite.com/2015/01/13/selfie-stick-inventor-wayne-fromm-shafted-lost-out</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mytrendyphone.se/shop/iphone-6-zenus-142153p.html">http://www.mytrendyphone.se/shop/iphone-6-zenus-142153p.html</a></span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-31539588206759602014-12-02T12:39:00.001+01:002014-12-03T10:13:27.413+01:00Cookies and Privacy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wherever I go on the Internet, it seems every site is eager to inform me that they use cookies. The info comes as a (often) large banner with an Ok-button. If I click the Ok-button, the banner goes away and I get a lot more space on the screen. The next time I visit the site, it remembers it has shown me the cookie info. I can thank a cookie for that, the cookie that the site created on my device with the help of the browser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cookie is a text-file. That means it cannot be executed. It can only be created, read and modified by a site and that's all done by the browser on the site's request. A site can only interact with (create, read or modify) its own cookies. So cookies are quite innocent then and won't breach my privacy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, they are not innocent! There is a company called DoubleClick (a subsidiary of Google), and probably some others, that use cookies in a way that fundamentally changes their nature. It makes certain cookies global. Through mediation of DoubleClick a cookie can turn up on any site that allows it to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's an example. I have a Facebook account and I usually don't click on advertizements. However a few weeks ago I did click on an advertizement in Facebook that I hadn't seen before. The click took me to the site of a well-established online-shop. Nothing sinister about that. However, since that click I've been seeing that same advertizement on Facebook, but also on some other favorite sites. That could only have happened by means of a global cookie. I don't quite like that, because it means someone can follow my web-surfing habits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what if you, as user, don't accept cookies at all? Sorry, doesn't work. A lot of sites wouldn't function without them and consequently you couldn't use them, so you need cookies. Removing them after every browsing session is a hassle, but it should help. Removing cookies when you switch from one site to another would probably make it difficult to follow you. However removing all cookies means you would have to give up convenience. E.g. you would become an unknown user for every site and would have to enter your login credentials at every visit to the sites where you have a login and need to login.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's no viable or user friendly cure other than changed rules. Global cookies would have to be outlawed or somehow made impossible.</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-20218499626976802102014-11-25T17:23:00.000+01:002014-11-25T17:23:00.226+01:00NumberWiz Solution: 265 with large numbers<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last blogpost I challenged all you number-heads with this sum:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add, subtract, multiply or divide the following six numbers 2 7 25 50 75 100 to get 265.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You notice that it contains all the big numbers and two small.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an update I hinted that 5 was a key number in the solution. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's also worth noting that 265 = 250 + 15. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now watch the s</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">olution:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">265 = (50 x 25 + 75) / (7 - 2) = ((50 x 25) / 5) + (75 / 5) = 250 + 15</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Update</b>: A key number in this sum is 5.</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-55026323897361235002014-11-11T12:29:00.003+01:002014-11-11T12:29:58.798+01:00NumberWiz Sum 474: Solution<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem was:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add, subtract, multiply or divide the following six numbers 2 4 6 9 75 100 to get 474.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an update I hinted that 474 is divisible by 6, hence a solution is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">474 = 6 x 79 = 6 x (75 + 4)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another solution: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">474 = 4 x 100 + (75 + 2 + 6 - 9)</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-42418078196551050852014-11-08T19:53:00.001+01:002014-11-09T09:15:31.738+01:00NumberWiz Sum 474<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a nice sum:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add, subtract, multiply or divide the following six numbers 2 4 6 9 75 100 to get 474.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Send an email or answer in a comment if you like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">474 is divisible by 2, of course, and what's more, 474 / 2 = 237 is divisible by 3. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's a good help.</span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-38607897161061661862014-10-29T17:15:00.000+01:002014-10-29T22:52:39.987+01:00Apple Device's Positioning<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know that GPS is a positioning system based on satellites and that it's American. But not everyone knows about GLONASS. It's a Russian satellite based </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">positioning system. From iPhone 4S onwards, all Apple's mobile devices with GPS, also have GLONASS. The devices use both in parallel; they're on the same micro-chip. Having two systems gives better positioning than having one. Being Russian GLONASS works best in Russia, but since 2011 it's truly global, like GPS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another positioning method is iBeacon, which works over short distances. It can help smartphones determine their precise position or context. It uses low-power Bluetooth 4.0 and reaches anywhere between a few centimeters and 450 m / 1500 ft. All Apple Stores in the US have iBeacon devices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there's WiFi, which we all think of simply as wireless Internet, and that's what it is. However WiFi routers have the potential to be used for positioning, if someone like Google cares to build a database of WiFi routers. Google has done that using its mapping cars who have passed many many routers on their endless journeys and taken notes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally there's the compass, which all iOS products now contain. It's actually a very small magnetometer and it's coupled with an accelerometer. That coupling enables the device to know what direction it's pointing. Proctele's app TCompanion makes use of that to help <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gtfyrir/tcompanion" target="_blank">map-challenged people like myself</a> to find our way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The inspiration for this blog entry is the wonderful device in the picture - iPad Air 2 - and the WiFi + 3G version has all the above positioning technologies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I remember seeing radio receivers similar to these when I was younger. The one on the right is very similar to a radio my parents had. The one on the left resembles a radio my grandparents had. It had a mighty sound and took some time to warm up before there was any sound coming out of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A radio nowadays looks either similar or very different from those above. There seems to be a keen interest in old-style radios as well as new shapes like this one:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there are products that aren't radios, but speakers that you connect your iPhone to via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Here's a comfy one with built-in sub-woofer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But what's a radio compared to a Smartphone. It's just one of a Smartphone's functions. Smartphone is what you use now to listen to music. They do have a problem though that doesn't seem to be going away. Gadget makers know that and are happy to oblige. A power pack or two, or three, is what we need:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those are available in many shapes and colors. The red one is an Ironman suitcase power pack. Things aren't like they used to and when it comes to gadgets, I think 2014 easily beats, say 1964. Anyway there is a lot more to choose from nowadays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime mobile computers in the form of mobile phones came to everyone's pocket. Many of us understood that it was actually a computer and started wondering why the screen was so small. In 2007 came the iPhone, but even before that the Blackberry, and a real computer came into our hand. We couldn't let it go. We would sometimes put it into our pocket, but within just a few minutes it would be back in our hand again. Very often social apps would be the agent, which made the computer bounce back from our pocket. We couldn't let go of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next year computers will come even closer to us. Apple Watch is coming onto our wrists. A computer watch - a smart watch. Being first isn't always best, but being best is what it's all about. When </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Watch arrives it's going to be the best smart watch in the world. We know Apple by now. They've done their homework. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A computer on our wrist is a step closer to us than a computer in our hand is. We're going to be looking at our wrist for about as long, but even more often than we now look at the iPhone in the palm our hand. We're going to talk even less on the phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What they will have on offer is something we're already </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">expecting, but can't quite formulate. Apple knows not only how to formulate our wishes, but how to turn them into products. When I'd seen the first 10 or 15 functions </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Watch will have, I turned to my wife and told her Apple is about to revolutionize computing again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One key thing about </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Watch is zooming by touch. The screen is small, the icons are small, so you need to enlarge the touch area. That's one </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reason the iPhone had to precede the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Watch. The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">touch screen had to become really good and, not least, well known to all users, before using it in a smart watch. Everyone who has ever used an iPhone will know how to use the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Watch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm really looking forward to my first </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Watch. It's going to change a lot in my world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reference: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.apple.com/watch/films/">https://www.apple.com/watch/films/</a></span></span>Proctele ABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497024524189547290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433554962877727798.post-30795433416236015142014-09-27T17:11:00.001+02:002014-09-27T17:11:58.749+02:00iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus ?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took the pleasure of visiting the nearest Apple Store this afternoon to check out the new iPhones. Before the visit I had of course looked at the pictures and read the data, but hadn't quite made my mind up about which one I would buy. I was leaning towards the Plus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the store I quickly came to realize that the Plus is rather big. It doesn't fit in the breast-pocket on any of my shirts, and that's the litmus test for me. I couldn't use the Plus as a phone because of its size, but I might buy it for another reason, which is app-development. iPhone 6 Plus is a mix between an iPad and an iPhone when it comes to screen layout of some key apps. One of those is the Mail-app, another is the Settings-app. On the Plus - held in landscape mode - those apps look like compact versions of their iPad counterparts, which means the table part is on the left and the content part is on the right. In fact for this kind of app the Plus behaves like an iPhone in portrait mode, but like an iPad in landscape mode. Clever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The colors are the same as the iPhone 5s, except the color, say gold, covers nearly all of the back-side of the device. To me that looks better than on the iPhone 5s. See the pictures below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are really thin devices. I came to think of the iPod touch when holding them. The iPod touch is still thinner at 6.1 millimeters, iPhone 6 is 6.9 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">millimeters. Both the new iPhones feel very light, 172 grams and 129 grams. BTW while I'm mentioning iPod touch, I note that it's come down in price, putting it far below iPad mini. I should be put in charge of Apple's pricing, because I blogged earlier about pricing the iPod touch so close to the iPad mini (non-retina version). Now Apple has corrected that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't buy a phone today after all, but having held both options in my hand, I'm going to be able to make a more informed choice. I'll wait a couple of days.</span><br />
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