Blogger Nick Bilton at the New York Times Bit Blog noticed something fascinating about the new Amazon Kindle devices the other day, so he talked to a hardware designer who had worked on the original Kindle e-reader in 2007. Sure enough, the designer told him that the original device design was largely inspired by the BlackBerry. Bilton noticed that the new designs are all mimicking a device that is near and dear to the hearts of TUAW readers -- the iPad.

The 2007 Kindle looked a lot like a BlackBerry and worked in a similar manner. It had a clunky keyboard at the bottom of the e-Ink screen, a scroll wheel to move around the text and menus, and a very boxy look. BlackBerry smartphones from that era look remarkably similar, and the anonymous designer told Bilton that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' BlackBerry was the inspiration for the first Kindle.

The devices that were introduced this week owe much of their design to the iPad. There are no scroll wheels, no physical keyboards. Instead, the devices have moved to a design meme that features a screen surrounded by a bezel -- exactly the design of the iPad. Bilton quoted Tumblr UI designer Justin Ouellette as saying that the Kindle Fire even uses the same Gorilla Glass as the iPad, but that companies hoping to truly compete with the iPad need to mimic Apple in one more way: pay attention to details. As Ouellete notes, "The weight, the thinness, the feel, the texture of the glass, are all really important to the overall experience."

How the Kindle lost the keys to mimic the iPad originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/30/how-the-kindle-lost-the-keys-to-mimic-the-ipad/

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When Lion was released, it was found that you could install Front Row on Lion and it worked fine. That is, until Apple released iTunes 10.4, which changed the iTunes library format, so even if you installed Front Row, it couldn't see your iTunes content.

Here is how you can get Front Row working on Lion with the latest iTunes:

• Install Front Row Enabler for Lion -- you can find a package installation at the very bottom of this link, under Attachments. You'll need to reboot after installing.
• Make sure 'Share my library on my local network' is turned on in iTunes preferences.
• To try this out once, run dns-sd as described in this post, using the command: ...

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In other words, whenever you open a Terminal window or tab, if there is an open Finder window, the Terminal will start in the directory shown in the Finder window.

To make this happen, all you need to do is add the following line somewhere in your .bash_profile file in your home directory:

cd `osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to if window 1 exists then if target of window 1 as string is not ":" then get POSIX path of (t ...

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It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world.

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Daily Update for September 29, 2011 originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While the relationship has apparently been mended and the two companies are planning a Tuesday launch of Facebook's iPad app, a revamped iPhone app, and new HTML5-based web services, Apple and Facebook have a long history of being at odds.

The report notes that issues date back to the release of iOS 4 last year, when Apple was planning to integrate Facebook across the operating system. But negotiations between Apple and Facebook over the APIs to be used for the integration apparently broke down and Apple pulled the feature from iOS 4. That incident led to growing mistrust between the two companies that further manifested itself in issues over Facebook apps for iOS and Facebook integration being pulled from Apple's Ping social networking service for iTunes.

Nearly a year later, those hard feelings still framed discussions between the two companies, and a personal visit by Steve Jobs to Facebook's headquarters led to an additional blowup when Jobs learned that HP was planning a native webOS Facebook application for its TouchPad tablet.

Roughly three months ago, Steve Jobs ? then the Apple CEO ? paid a visit to Facebook to discuss a Facebook for iPad application with CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg promised Jobs that the social network would release its first ever tablet application for iPad. Jobs, however, learned during his visit that HP was about to release a native webOS Facebook application for the TouchPad.

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When Jobs learned of the webOS Facebook app during his summer visit to Facebook, he was livid. Zuckerberg vowed to get the app pulled. But Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and then the GM of HP?s webOS division, refused to halt the release of the app.

With HP and TouchPad now out of the picture, Apple and Facebook have reportedly patched up their differences in the face of a common threat from Google, and sources indicate that "this is the closest Apple and Facebook have been to creating something meaningful together". The two companies are said to be "scrambling" to pull together their announcement for Tuesday's iPhone media event.

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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/30/hps-touchpad-behind-delays-in-facebook-ipad-app-launch/

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When I clicked to login, Safari popped up a little dialog asking if I'd like to 'use Mail, iCal, and iChat' with my Gmail account. You can choose to add or not add. Choosing to add sends you to System Preferences where you can set this up for the system.

I haven't been able to test it with other email systems (i.e. Yahoo), but the implementation is pretty cool. Quick and easy way to setup Gmail in Lion.

[crarko adds: Thank you, iOS. Seriously, it is good to have all this stuff in one place, and that Safari is aware of it. Please note in the comments if you find any 3rd-party software taking advantage of this feature. I think that's my main reason for publishing this.]

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