Reeling with excitement, I have no desire of falling asleep now. In 6 hours, Apple will release their new Apple tablet. I cant wait to hear about how Steve Jobs introduces this one. Supposedly a 10″ touch-screen tablet closely resembling a flattened first generation iPhone. It should have 3G connectivity, a front facing camera, and two dock connectors (for portrait or landscape positions). Hopefully it will have an OLED display.

It is said to be Steve Jobs’ most important product release yet. I can’t even imagine how it will surpass the iPhone. It will allow for downloads of book and most likely magazines and newspapers. You are said to interact with the tablet in a completely new way. I’m hoping it will be around $600. We shall see pretty soon.

Check out something ridiculously cool from the WWDC 2009 conference. There Apple had a semi-live updating board that would pulsate each time someone purchased an app. Developers called it the pulsating app store hyperwall, and pulsate it did. The idea that you can see all of these purchases happening in semi-real time in a graphical way is pretty neat. Plus I’m sure if you did some calculations based on the board you could tell the number of downloads (purchases) a day and the popularity of the different apps.
AppleInsider | Apple stuns WWDC crowd with pulsating App Store hyperwall.

To get a better look at the different applications on the wall, someone has made a photosynthesis. It’s a collection of over 200 close-up pictures stitched together to make one high quality portrait.

What you’re looking at:
Over 3,000 apps – and growing – are downloaded every minute from the App Store. This is a live feed showing the activity of 20,000 popular apps currently on the store. Every time a customer downloads an app, its icon lights up (5-min. delay).

How we made it:
This hyperwall was built using the latest in Apple technology. It’s powered by 20 Mac Pro towers running Mac OSX Snow Leopard. It was programmed in Quartz Composer using Open L APIs. And it’s shown on 20 synchronized 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays.

There is a lot of gathering excitement and anticipation as Apple’s WWDC convention is coming up in a couple weeks. This event is traditionally where Apple steps to the podium and presents their new products (new iPhone 3G). I will admit that I can’t wait to see the details of the exciting new product as having access to the beta of the 3.0 software has already increased my excitement.
However with all of the rumors that are going around, there is a wide area for disappointment. Some of the specs seem too good to be true but we can always cross our fingers and hope. I hope for an enhanced 3G iPhone with 256MB of RAM, 600 MHz processor, 3.2 MP auto focus camera, with 32 GB of storage. We will just have to wait til the 8th @ 10:00AM. I’ll be up to watch the keynote live. Sleep or no sleep.

This article just makes me sick when I read it. The thought that in South Korea, the government is creating jobs to increase the internet bandwidth 10 times when here in America, their current speed is already 67 times what I get on a high speed internet connection. It’s true I don’t have the fastest internet connection but they are still about 10 times faster than any residential service we have in America. That means with their upgrade their internet will be 100 times faster than ours. It also means that individuals in South Korea will get faster connections than corporations do in America. A house in South Korea right now gets as much bandwidth as the school of 4,000 students that I attend. This is after our school just doubled their bandwidth because of complaints. UGH! It hurts really bad to think that our bandwidth could be significantly higher. This is one area in which America is significantly behind and really needs to speed up. I really hope that Obama stimulates this section of our economy. It’s tough being a web designer in which transferring files can take hours upon hours whereas in other countries it could take less than one. What a waste of productivity. This also means that communications companies in South Korea can provide much better services to their customers. I vote for more bandwidth!

South Koreans could see 1Gbps web connections by 2012 – Engadget.

If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch with 2.0 Software or later than you can enjoy the benefits of Biola University’s first configuration profile. This profile, when opened by your unit, will automatically install giving you seamless access to the BiolaSecure.AC network. This means that you will not still will have to log-in to Clean Access or but don’t have to use BiolaGUEST every time you want to use wifi. In order to install this profile go to the iPhone / Manual Setup page using you iPhone or iPod Touch. Then look on the righthand side where you will see a “Dowloads” box. Click on “login using your NetID“. Log-in using your netid and password and then follow the on screen instructions. It really couldn’t be easier. Way to go Biola! Hopefully they will add more features to the configuration profile like Bubbs e-mail or even create a cool app to access portal.