• Steve Jobs to Nike CEO: ‘Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff’

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Featured, iPad, iPhone, Rants & Raves, Steve Jobs, Tech. No Responses

    Carmine Gallo shares this interesting story on Forbes, shortly after becoming CEO, Mark Parker talked to Steve Jobs on the phone asking for some tips:

    “Do you have any advice?” Parker asked Jobs. “Well, just one thing,” said Jobs. “Nike makes some of the best products in the world.  Products that you lust after.  But you also make a lot of crap.  Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.”

    Jobs was “absolutely right,” Parker admitted, adding that Nike “had to edit” when making business decisions:

    Parker said Jobs paused and Parker filled the quiet with a chuckle.  But Jobs didn’t laugh.  He was serious. “He was absolutely right,” said Parker.  “We had to edit.”

    Parker used the word ‘edit’ not in a design sense but in the context of making business decisions.  Editing also leads to great product designs and effective communications. According to Steve Jobs, “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on.  But that’s not what it means at all.  It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.  I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done.  Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.”

    But “Can anyone innovate like Apple?”

    The simple answer: While anyone can learn the principles that drive Apple’s innovation, few businesses have the courage to do so.  It takes courage to reduce the number of products a company offers from 350 to 10, as Jobs did in 1998.  It takes courage to remove a keyboard from the face of a smartphone and replace those buttons with a giant screen, as Jobs did with the iPhone.  It takes courage to eliminate code from an operating system to make it more stable and reliable, as Apple did with Snow Leopard.  It takes courage to feature just one product on the home page of a Web site as Apple does with each new major product launch.  It takes courage to make a product like the iPad that is so simple a child can use it.  And it takes courage to eliminate all of the words on a PowerPoint slide except one, as Steve Jobs often does in a presentation.

  • Samsung Announces 2560 x 1600 Pixel at 300 dpi Display for Tablets

    // Gradly // blog, Gadgets, iPad, News, Rants & Raves, Tech. No Responses

    At the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium, Samsung will demonstrate the first 10.1-inch display with 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution made for tablets. It offers an “ultra-high resolution”, LCD at 300dpi. According to Samsung’s press release, The prototype demonstration marks the first time this resolution has been available for the tablet market in the popular – 10.1-inch – format, rivaling the highest resolution smartphone displays now on the market.

    The display also relies on the PenTile technology, developed by Nouvoyance, which allows for 40% less power consumption and two-thirds number of subpixels.

    Because tablets are regularly used for viewing rich-colored images, the 10.1-inch 300 dpi display is ideal for applications that require extraordinary image and text clarity such as browsing the web and viewing high-definition movies, or reading books and spreadsheets.

    In order to develop tablets with the form and function that consumers demand, a design engineer ultimately has to determine how to get the highest resolution display possible, while still fitting within the overall power budget for their design”

    “Samsung’s PenTile display technology is the only display technology that operates at 40 percent less power yet provides twice that of Full HD-viewing performance for consumers compared to legacy RGB stripe LCDs. There is no other commercial display technology on the market today that offers this high of a resolution and pixel density in a 10.1-inch size display,” said Dr. Sungtae Shin, Senior VP of Samsung Electronics.

    Definitely this announcement opens the door to the possibility of having a “Retina Display” on Apple’s iPad which sports a 9.7-inch Samsung panel at 1024 x 768 pixel. Is this technology able to fit a double resolution 2048 x 1536 pixel for next iPads?

    Samsung expects to have commercial availability of this technology for tablet applications later this year.

  • iOS 4.3.3 Untethered Jailbreak Using Sn0wbreeze 2.7.1 Guide

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Download, Featured, How To, iPad, iPhone, Jailbreak 4 Responses

    Sn0wbreeze 2.7.1 (a.k.a PwnageTool for Windows) brings untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, & iPad 1. It allows who rely on unlock to keep their old baseband on iOS 4.3.3 so that they can use ultrasn0w to unlock their devices later.

    A step by step guide on how to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered using Sn0wbreeze 2.7.1 (Windows)

    Note: For Redsn0w you can follow our guide posted here (Redsn0w 0.9.6rc16) to get untethered jailbreak iOS 4.3.3. For PwnageTool you can check the post here (PwnageTool 4.3.3.1).

    Step 1: Start Sn0wbreeze, click the next “blue” arrow to proceed.

    Step 2: Select the required firmware .ipsw file for your iOS device by clicking on the “Browse” button.

    Step 3: Sn0wbreeze will now identify the selected IPSW file. Once done, click the next “blue” colored arrow to proceed.

    Step 4: Now select the “Expert Mode”, followed by “Build IPSW” option to start creating your custom firmware.

    Step 5: Sn0wbreeze will greet you with the following “Done!” message when the custom firmware has been successfully created.

    Step 6: Now follow the onscreen steps to enter DFU mode using Sn0wbreeze:

    • Hold Power and Home buttons for 10 seconds
    • Now release the Power button but continue holding the Home button for 10 more seconds
    • You device should now be in DFU mode

    Step 7: Start iTunes, click on your iOS device icon from the sidebar in iTunes. Now press and hold Left “Shift” button on the keyboard and then click on “Restore” (Not “Update” or “Check for Update”) button in iTunes and then release this button. This will make iTunes prompt you to select the location for your custom firmware 4.3.3 file. Select the required custom .ipsw file that you created above, and click on “Open”.

    Step 8: Now sit back and let iTunes do the rest for you. This will involve a series of automated steps. Just wait while iTunes installs the new firmware 4.3.3 on your iOS device. Your iOS device screen at this point will be showing a progress bar indicating installation progress. After the installation is done, your iOS device will be jailbroken on iOS 4.3.3.

    Required Downloads:

    Update:

    Sn0wbreeze 2.7.1 updated to fix Silent and Mute Button issues

  • iOS 4.3.3 Untethered Jailbreak Using PwnageTool 4.3.3.1 Guide

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Download, Featured, How To, iPad, iPhone, Jailbreak 1 Response

    PwnageTool 4.3.3.1 brings untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, iPad 1 and AppleTV. Its the same like Redsn0w 0.9.6rc16 but allows who rely on unlock to keep their old baseband on iOS 4.3.3 so that they can use ultrasn0w to unlock their devices later.

    A step by step guide on how to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered using PwnageTool 4.3.3.1 (Mac)

    Note: For Windows users you can follow our guide posted here (Redsn0w 0.9.6rc16) to get untethered jailbreak iOS 4.3.3

    Step 1: Run PwnageTool in “Expert mode” and then select the device you want to jailbreak.

    Step 2: Browse for iOS 4.3.3 IPSW firmware for your device.

    Step 3: Click on“Build” -as shown in the below screenshot- to start creating custom 4.3.3 firmware file

    Step 4: PwnageTool will now start building your custom 4.3.3 .ipsw file for your device

    Step 5: Now follow the following steps to enter DFU mode using PwnageTool:

    • Hold Power and Home buttons for 10 seconds
    • Now release the Power button but continue holding the Home button for 10 more seconds
    • You device should now be in DFU mode

    Step 5: Now restore your device to your pre-jailbroken custom 4.3.3 .ipsw files by doing this:

    Step 6: Start iTunes.

    Step 7: Click on your device icon from the sidebar in iTunes.

    Step 8: Press and hold left “alt” (option) button on Mac, or Left “Shift” button if you are on Windows on the keyboard and then click on “Restore” button in the iTunes and then release this button.
    Now iTunes asking you to select the location for your custom firmware 4.3.3 file. Select the pre-jailbroken custom 4.3.3 firmware .ipsw file, then click on “Open”.

    Step 9: iTunes will now restore the firmware on your iOS device. (this will take 10 minutes) then enjoy your untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.3

    Supported devices:

    • iPhone 4, 3GS
    • iPod Touch 4G, 3G
    • iPad 1 (Unfortunately iPad 2 still not supported)
    • Apple TV 2G.

    Required Downloads:

    Update:

    PwnageTool 4.3.3.1 updated to Fix Side Switch and Vibration Issues