Mac OS X Lion beta reveals Restart to Safari

MacRumors was digging through the latest developer beta of Mac OS X Lion when it found a rather intriguing new option -- if you choose "Restart to Safari" on the user lock screen, the computer will reboot into a mode which consists entirely of the web browser. If that sounds familiar, perhaps you've heard of Google's Chrome OS, a partially-fledged operating system that runs within the browser itself... but we haven't heard Apple express a desire for any such thing. Now, certainly we've seen a number of Windows desktops and laptops ship with a secondary, browser-centric OS like Splashtop in order to have an instant-on mode, but if you have to boot and reboot the computer to get to Safari, that doesn't sound like much of an improvement. Perhaps it's a way to let guests (or children) entertain themselves without giving them access to your files? All we know for certain is that it's a most mysterious option.

Update: But perhaps not as mysterious as we thought -- 9to5 Mac spotted its genesis earlier this week, and it's a bona fide honeypot. If your Mac gets stolen, the idea goes, it'll need to be connected to the internet for you to be able to track it with Find My Mac or perform a remote wipe, so you'll let the thieves browse this guest account to keep them busy without letting them peruse your personal files. Cue the Admiral Ackbar, we suppose.

The European commission made Microsoft "remove" IE from Windows, now Google and Apple are making Web based OS... weird.

I didn't know they could get any more wrong with their articles! This Safari only mode is a recovery mood for Mas OS X Lion, in case you have any problems with the OS you can boot only into Safari without booting in to the OS and search for solutions online or contact for help!

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Its all given on the Apple's website! do they even bother to verify on their own?

I don't think this is a splashtop type of thing. I wonder if Apple sees the writing too and is making their cloudOS steps already. If thats the case then the next gen computer is a done deal. Its all about web delivered (that doesn't mean everything RUNS in the cloud) applications.

I think this sounds handy for those that manage to get a virus or have some other problem. If you can get to the log in screen then you could switch it to browser only mode to try and figure out what's wrong. Most people have smartphones or a second computer though nowadays so it may not be very useful for this application.

This is great news for MacOSX users.  I'd like to see some Lion user polling few months after this is released: Which boot method do you use more often  Choice 1: MacOSX, Choice 2: Safari.  I have the feeling that OS X will be the last major consumer "x86 PC OS"  that Mac will release (I suspect Windows 8 will be the last from MS).  Most tech giants seem to settled on the idea that vast majority of people will be doing their things on mobile devices running on arm/low-power chips with file sync done by the server.  This will ensure all the next generation kids will know nothing about things that are considered basic in PC world today - file systems, disc drives.  Not a big deal I guess.  The previous generation of computer users (pre 80s) needed to know things like compilers - not today.

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Could HP TouchPad be very competitive on the market

Hewlett-Packard on Friday said that it would start selling its highly-anticipated TouchPad media tablet starting July 1, 2011. Depending on the version, the TouchPad with Wi-Fi will cost $499 or $599. HP hopes that the TouchPad will be very competitive on the market because of its feature-set and flexibility.
It is joining a batch of other tablets, including the iPad2, Motorola Xoom, more Galaxy Tabs and the BlackBerry Playbook.


Since there's still a few days before HP will be taking orders, let's take a look under the hood.



Platform


HP started dabbling in smartphones with the IPAQ Voice Messenger in 2007 before getting serious and buying Palm in 2010. Palm had built a following around the early Palm Pilot organizer and the Treo line of smartphones.


This deal gave HP control of Palm's slick operating system known as webOS, which was being used on the Palm Pre smartphones.


The webOS platform is completely different from Android and the iOS devices.


If you ask any Palm Pre fans, they would say it's all about synergy, as the webOS goes about gathering all your information, such as contacts, calendar items and social networks, and putting it in one place.


Armed with Palm's technology, I knew it would just be a matter of time before an HP tablet was born and shazam!, we now have the TouchPad.


HP simply says "there is nothing like it" when touting the webOS platform, adding that it'll take multitasking to another level.


If the TouchPad can put all my calendars in one place, like HP claims, that could be a winner, as I have calendars scattered all the over the Web in Google, Yahoo!, Apple's MobileMe and of course, Microsoft Exchange. That's just too many, but I don't know what to do about it.


According to HP, you can expect a lot of synergy between the TouchPad and two HP smartphones - the Veer and the Pre 3 - for sharing Web addresses with the TouchPad.

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In the last two parts of this series, I covered the factors of temperature and charging. While the high temperatures inside modern laptops are probably the worst enemy of a Li-ion Dell Xps M1330 battery, frequent discharge/charge cycles will negatively influence a battery’s life. If your laptop is a desktop replacement, then you probably only need the battery every now and then. It can be quite frustrating if you want to use your laptop for the first time after a year without AC, only to realize that your batteries are already dead even though you never really used them. However, if you remove the battery from the laptop and store it accurately, there is a good chance that it will be in good condition when you need it next time.

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Dell 7 inch tablets are much easier to handle

While tablets may be all the rage this year, these devices still aren’t as functional as your everyday laptop. While some operating systems are optimized for touch from the ground up, it’s just easier to have a physical keyboard to get your work done. Sure, there are mounds of accessories you can buy for your new purchase, including keyboard docks, but what if the device had a keyboard built right into it? That’s exactly what Dell is doing with the tablet you see above and it actually doesn’t look terrible.

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There’s very little known about this prototype above since all specs, including operating system, are unknown. While having a sliding physical keyboard on a 10 inch tablet may be too much, finding one on a 7 inch tablet may be just what the doctor ordered. 7 inch tablets are much easier to handle and are lighter than any 10 incher out there, so the extra weight for a keyboard may be more than tolerable. The split keyboard found on the device looks spacious and very usable, and to be honest we’re surprised to see this coming from Dell.

Dell’s tablet offerings have been a bit sub par to say the least, but after seeing its leaked roadmap, one can tell that the company is betting heavily on this emerging market. We can expect to see more Android tablets from the company as well as some Windows 8 devices down the line. As far as this particular tablet is concerned, either OS would likely benefit from this form factor.

The well designed tablet may pack a serious punch when we see some specs revealed, but until then we’ll have to keep dreaming. If it’s an Android tablet then we’ll no doubt find Dell’s Stage UI running on top, which is nice but offers very little functionality outside of some interesting widgets. If it’s a Windows 8 tablet then we’ll take what we can get, and since its release is still some time away we wouldn’t be surprised if this prototype saw some design changes before it debuts. May we suggest doing something with the center of the keyboard, like some awkward gaming controls?

if the screen can Tilt that'd make it perfect.. well assuming it's dual-core, and running Honey-comb.. at least perfect for me, we'll see about Windows 8.

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Apple Design Award (ADA) winners for 2011 have been announced

Each year during WWDC Apple gives away gray, cubic statues for “excellence in iOS and Mac OS X app design and development.” Its Apple Design Award (ADA) winners for 2011 have been announced in the categories of iPhone, iPad, Mac and student. In addition to the trophy (pictured) each ADA winner also receives a MacBook Air, iPad 2, and iPod touch, you know, to develop on.

Apple used three criteria for selecting this year’s winner:

• Design. Well-designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable.
• Innovation. Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting ways.
• Technical excellence. Technically advanced apps have excellent performance and make extensive use of the latest Apple technologies to deliver innovative, platform differentiating, and advanced features.

And the winners are…
iPhone

• Infinity Blade ($5.99, iTunes, pictured above) - Beautiful, first-person sword-fighting epic.
• Golfscape GPS Rangefinder ($9.99, iTunes) - Augmented reality golf rangefinder.
• Cut the Rope ($0.99, iTunes) - Addictive, physics-based puzzle game.

iPad

• djay for iPad ($0.99, iTunes, pictured above) - Industry-changing DJ software, normally $20.
• Osmos for iPad ($4.99, iTunes) - Gorgeous, ambient physics-based survival game.
• Our Choice ($4.99, iTunes) - Gesture driven, interactive book by Al Gore.

Mac

• Capo ($49.99, Mac App Store, pictured above) - Usessophisticated chord detection to reverse-engineer your iTunes library.
• Pixelmator ($29.99 Mac App Store) - Photoshop killer, for the rest of us.
• Anomaly Warzone Earth ($6.99 Mac App Store) - Tower offense game for Mac loaded with OpenGL effects.

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Student

• Grades 2 (Free, iTunes, pictured above) - Slick GPA calculator app for iOS designed for students.
• Pennant ($4.99, iTunes) - Excellent baseball history app with data visualization of 115,000 games.
• Pulse News (Free, iTunes) - Beautiful, thumbnail news and social network browser.

What are you waiting for? Take some time this weekend to try some of these best-of-best iOS and Mac OS apps.


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“Can you sign my Kindle?” I guess authors on publicity tours are assuming this line is a joke, but it soon won’t be. Clever entrepreneurs are developing ways that authors can electronically sign a fan’s Kindle, Nook, iPad, or any such device, sometimes together with a photograph of the author and reader, ready for posting on Facebook and Twitter. One version of this new idea is called Autography.

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Oracle named former HP CEO Mark Hurd as an Oracle co-president

HP declined to make the letter public, saying it contained confidential information, but it said it intends to hold Oracle to its commitments to HP and its customers. HP said in a statement that Oracle's decision "violates legally binding commitments Oracle has made to HP and the more than 140,000 shared HP-Oracle customers," according to chief HP spokesman Bill Wohl.

Asked if the letter has a deadline for an Oracle response, an HP spokeswoman, said it didn't. It was intended to put Oracle on notice that HP has legal rights that it expects to be honored. Oracle will be given a chance to respond, she said.

Oracle's move March 22 was a blow to both the HPUX and former Digital Equipment Corp. VMS segments of HP's customer base. Its largest user group, Connect, issued statements in April urging Oracle not to drop Itanium from its list of targeted platforms to be included in its development of future database and application products. HP builds Integrity servers with the Itanium chip, and in the 1990s co-developed successive iterations of the chip with Intel. Intel assumed all Itanium development in 2004.

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"A large contingency of our community is made up of users running HP-UX and OpenVMS on Integrity servers. They are clearly disturbed by Oracle's decision to stop developing applications for Intel Itanium processors," said Connect CMO Nina Buik in a statement April 13.

The most damaging part of Oracle's move may have been its claim that it was based on background conversations with Intel engineers. "Intel management made it clear that their strategic focus is on their x86 microprocessor and that Itanium was nearing the end of its life," Oracle said in a statement at the time.

The statement drew a sharp response from HP, pointing out that Oracle is now a competitor of the Itanium platform with its Sparc chip set, which was acquired when it closed its deal to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in early 2010.

It also drew a sharp reaction from Intel. CEO Paul Otellini soon issued a statement that Intel continued to have an ambitious roadmap for Itanium that included a next-generation chip, "Poulson," with a new microarchitecture that would keep Itanium competitive in the marketplace for several years.

HP summarized the events in its letter as "an unlawful attempt to force customers from HP Itanium platforms to Oracle's own platforms," a statement from Wohl's office said. As a result, HP "made a formal legal demand on Oracle to reverse its decision" in its June 8 letter. "HP believes that Oracle is legally obligated to continue to offer its software product suite on the Itanium platform and we will take whatever legal actions are available to us necessary to protect our customers' best interests."

Wohl reaffirmed HP's commitment to its "long-term, mission-critical server roadmap, including Intel's Itanium processor." Intel has likewise "reinforced" it ongoing commitment, he said.

Oracle named former HP CEO Mark Hurd as an Oracle co-president after he resigned from HP amid accusations of misconduct in composing expense accounts and violations of the company's business policies. He was allegedly covering up a relationship with an HP contractor, the HP board said in explaining its decision. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison criticized the way the HP board of directors had conducted its investigation and hired Hurd soon afterward.

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