In a series of dispatches on Twitter, the founder of Mahalo and co-founder of Weblogs talks in some detail about a beta version of the tablet he claims to have had in hand — after signing one of Apple’s (AAPL) famous non disclosure agreement (nda) — for a week and a half.
Putting together his brief notes, here’s what he has to say:
Ok, I will take two questions about the new apple tablet which I have right here. Go ahead… My nda is basically over.
Yes, there are 2cameras: one in front and one in back (or it may be one with some double lens) so you record yourself and in front of u.
Apple Tablet has thumbpads on each side for mouse guestures, reads fingerprint for security. Up to 5 profiles by finerprint for family.
Yes, apple tablet is oled + back has solar pad for recharging, but it really doesn’t work quickly. More a gimmic. Verizon+att,wifi yes!
Apple tablet’s 2 cameras is sick feature for video conferencing: u shoot what’s in front of you + yourself. Augmented video conferncing!
Ok, I’m going to bed (with apple tablet after reading nytimes+Vanity Fair on it!), steve jobs outdid himself, its greatest device ever!!!
Apple tablet games are sick. Basically nintendo wii-level innovation. Custom farmville app is insane. Mark pincus is demoing with steve tmmr
For background: apple asked me to do press tomorrow on cnbc, cnn, etc. As a pundit they gave me tablet 10 days ago. 3people dropped it off!
apple tablet connects to other tablets over wifi for gaming. There will be LAN parties with these things, people playingFirst personshooters
The price will be 599, 699 and 799 depending on size and memory in apple tablet. Also, wireless keyboard + monitor connection for tv
Also, the apple tablet is really amazing for newspapers. Video conferencing is super stable, but nothing new.
The best part ofthe apple tablet as beta user has been the built in HDTV tuner and pvr, and the chess game.
also, Farmville for Apple tablet is a huge game changer. I know for a FACT Mark Pincus is onstage tomorrow with Jobs.
Off to bed, but I assure you I’m not joking and the specs are real….
Most of all that this is best gadget ever made and NOT overhyped. …
I am just having a revolutionary revelationy kind of morning…
Guys & Gals,
Some things are happening within our group that excite me so much. I am hearing how Poppa is stirring you with love for Jesus and how things are changing inside so many of us as we long for more of HIM. As I have been pressured by so many to give papers, reports, conference calls, agendas, plans, schedules, flight information, clearances, meetings and such, I am realizing that the more man wants from me, the more I long for hidden time with my precious friend; Holy Spirit. I cannot tell you what I mean, it is something you have to feel. The more stressed and overwhelmed (in a good way) with the things that are around me, seeing things come into place that I could never have planned and knowing that GOD is giving opportunities to do more than I could have ever imagined, recognizing that we could truly affect nations, instead of being overly confident and excited, like a little child, I want to hide with my Poppa. I have never felt so small and reliant on HIM in my entire life. I cannot go one more step without EVEN MORE OF THE PRESENCE OF JESUS! Does that make sense?
I have seen so many men of GOD get busy with the workings of this life, planning with men and working with the machine that they walk away from their intimacy with the Holy Spirit and yet at this point in time, I can see why they so quickly walk away and begin to work in their own minds and abilities. I have struggled with the fact that people are asking so much from me and I found myself digging deep into MYSELF for the strength and knowledge!!!! I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS DOING THIS WEEK! So, instead of making meetings and meeting deadlines for Kenya and the US, I HAVE STOPPED DEAD IN MY TRACKS AND REALIZED THE ONLY WAY I CAN GO ON! I must run to Poppa again. It’s only in HIS Spirit and HIS strength that we can move from here, not our own!!!! Some of your words have literally retrained my mind today, (Thanks Devin, Jeanne and others). We MUST STOP! WE MUST PRAY! And not just pray. Prayer is DOING. We need time and space in our lives. We need to stop and allow the SPACE for GOD that is necessary for us to expand. There needs to be space in our home for GOD. There needs to be space in our schedules and calendars for GOD. There needs to be space in our worship services for GOD. There needs to be space at our work for GOD. There needs to be space in our car for GOD. There needs to be space in our worship services for GOD. There needs to be space in our MINDS AND HEARTS AND… You fill in the blank (for GOD)!!!!!
HE MUST HAVE ACCESS! WE MUST PREPARE SPACE AND THEN WAIT!
I have almost finished my prayer closet and it is the prayer closet of prayer closets. I felt like I had to prepare a space for GOD’s Presence to come literally on 4100 Delancy Dr. I can just imagine a big ball of light around the land when HE comes.
And the big thing that is going on inside me is that the more I have coming at me and the more the world’s leaders and such want to hear, the more I need to escape and run away to Jesus. It’s the whole first love thing. (Revelation 2 – “Thank you Kofi and Fidelis circa 2007) So, I have been making myself ready to even spend more time than ever in quiet meditation and even more than that, just listening.
I pray a lot. I don’t listen enough. Listening is HARD. I am reminded of back in the day when I would go deer hunting. I would slip out before light and get in a deer stand and sit in the often bitter cold before day break. As I sat there high aloft, I would rest my mind and allow my ears to become super sensitive. I Could literally imagine in my mind the whole of the forest floor below and I could see in my head all around me even behind me. I could close my eyes, (making sure not to fall asleep because you could fall out of the tree. I don’t know why we never came up with the idea of seatbelts until the late 90’s???) and in my mind’s eye, I could see. I would listen. Deeply listen and could hear even the quietest sound of a twig breaking or a squirrel rustling or even a leaf dropping nearby! And then, there it would be. Just after the sun broke over the top of the hill, I would hear the scuffle and crack of a deer walking toward the eating spot.
You know, I hardly ever took a shot at a deer. I was always pretty slow to shoot because I just thought that it didn’t make sense to shoot anything small that we wouldn’t get much to eat from. So, I would often just sit and listen and watch.
What happened to me?
Why is it so hard to sit and listen and watch? (Matthew 25 – The prepared virgins)
Listening is an ART! It is a GIFT! It is impossible to be a great friend if you cannot listen. And isn’t that what you want? I mean, we talk all the time about how great a friend GOD is to us, but what about us being a great friend to HIM? And more than that, back in the day, people bowed in reverence to the gods because they were a bit afraid of what they could do. I know that more than once, the Jews dropped to their faces due to sheer terror of Y—-H. Why is it that we now do not feel the need for that kind of breathtaking reverence and awe? I want to give reverence and listen. I want to be a friend and listen. I want to listen.
I am relearning that it isn’t about hearing everything GOD has to say. It’s about being available to HIM in case HE wants to say something to me. Even if HE doesn’t, at least I have hallowed the ground and made ready the space. Because HE is worth it.
It’s time to unplug again. Turn everything off. Light a few candles. Quietly worship. Let reverence overtake you and BE.
“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.” – Democritus of Abdera
LISTEN.
WAIT.
WATCH.
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” – Richard Moss
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.” -J. Isham.
Don’t desire the miracles, they are only HIS hand. Desire HIM. HIS FACE. HIS TOUCH. HIS VOICE. Make Poppa’s heart leap because of HIS excitement of one of HIS kids wanting to be near HIM.
“The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
And DON’T LET DISTRACTIONS STEAL THE PURE JOY OF LISTENING TO POPPA LIKE A CHILD! It is so fun to sit at his feet and listen to him.
“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.” – Alexander Crummel
Just thoughts for starting the year
Blessings!
pd
here are some quotes I found on listening that I like. Since this is an art, we should cultivate it with not only GOD, but others in our daily lives. Just check these out. This is a bonus. HAHAHA!
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus
“He holds him with his glittering eye– . . . . And listens like a three years’ child.” – Wordworth
“And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.” – Shakespeare (the Taming of the Shrew)
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.” – Wilton Mizner
“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” – Frank Tyger
“From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.” – Anon
“A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.” – Katherine Whitehorn
“Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.” – Jack Nichols
And as far as listening to others:
“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.” – Kenneth A Wells
“Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating “heart talk” frequency. “Heart talk” is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth.” – Sara Paddison.
“Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me – and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.” – John Lahr.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force…When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life…When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other…and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. …Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. – Brenda Ueland.
Just as we thought the behemoth Google would trounce the tiny Apple David, we see that all hope is not lost!
It seems that apple will always be here to give us something new and culture shifting. All we have to do is pay the right price…
Actually, the Apple Tablet looks to be just that; a culture shifter. Tablets have not generally been heralded with much fanfare or even a notice, but this one will be VERY DIFFERENT and already is different.
With so many iPhone users out there and a simple interface that is much like the iPhone’s, it makes sense that this tablet might be more than a computer, game system, communications device, multimedia platform, but even the salvation of print journalism… well, not really print, but at least the print houses…
Read more below on just what it does. I think you will be just as amazed as I. And I think you will likely yawn a bit as Google continues its push into the mega cellular market…
* A tablet with a 10- to 11-inch color screen (other reports suggested that a 7-inch version might also be in the works) * A multimedia device that will let people watch movies and television shows, play games, surf the Internet and read electronic books and newspapers. * Something that could redefine the way consumers interact with a variety of content, including multimedia textbooks or newspapers that integrate live up-to-the-minute information from multiple sources. * Priced at about $1,000, possibly including a subscription to a nationwide Wi-Fi wireless service.
You can read the Journal report here. A video Yukari Kane adding color to her Journal story is available here. The Jan. 27 unveiling date comes from John Paczkowski in Digital Daily, another News Corp. (NWS) property. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler tries to divine the tablet’s actual price from some curious changes that were made in the Journal’s story between its posting on the Web and its publication in the paper.
Well they really went off and did it. As if beating the hound out of Microsoft in the search wars wasn’t good enough for them, they went and picked a fight with their old friends at Apple.
With all the who do about iPhone killers out there, I would have to say that this thing looks like the nearest rival if any.
I mean, it isn’t going to take the phone out of the ipod, but it sure will likely put the search in the OS.
I don’t know, but whether or not this thing is as big as an Apple, I definitely think this phone will be FUN TO WATCH… especially since you can buy them unlocked.
Now that’s not something that Cupertino would allow is it? pd
As I have been reading articles about the new possibilities of an Apple Tablet and what it could mean to the world, the changes in global finance and the growth we possibly will see in the economy and the advances in everything from breakthrough ideas for 2010 in business to medicine to science or even the way people deal with house buying through emotions this past year and for the year to come, I came across this article at Motley Fool and wanted to pass it along as well.
Well, we are off on another crazy year. I hope it is better than last year. I mean, if it is much better, then, my more than 2000% gains from 2009 are going to be a drop in the bucket!
Of course, to join me this year in the celebration, you are going to have to have nerves of steel and faith like a rock!
Tip your hat to mark the passing of 2009 – even if the market now and then would lose its mind.
The Dow’s finishing the year aloft by — phew — 20%; Perhaps, at last, the doomsayers and naysayers are spent.
Obama moved to D.C., and the country kept him busy. His health-care bill drove legislators right into a tizzy.
2009 exposed a pile of putrid Ponzi schemes, Preying on unfortunates with get-rich-quickly dreams.
Periodic public panic? Thank the market, or swine flu, Not to mention pink slips issued at Sprint (NYSE: S), Boeing (NYSE: BA), and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO).
Bank execs repaid the TARP to keep their parachutes gold. And like that mineral’s rising price, their paychecks stayed bankrolled.
An irate ex went after David Letterman for cash, But Tiger Woods lost even more in one unlucky crash.
For its gas-guzzling line of cars, GM had no defense. So Uncle Sam gave $50 billion — how does that make sense?
We gave out cash for clunkers, and for anything with wheels; Low interest rates gave homebuyers a slew of housing steals.
The Yankees won the series; Avatar’s a big success; and hefty gains left Sirius (Nasdaq: SIRI) and Ford (NYSE: F) investors blessed.
Now, as we draw the curtain on the best of 2-K-9, let’s hope 2010 becomes the market’s year to shine.
A look back at 2009:
* What Was Your Worst Investment Mistake in 2009? * The Hottest New Products and Trends of 2009 * 2009: The Year That Ruined Retail * The Financial Lessons of 2009 * Will 2009’s Hottest Stocks Be 2010’s? * 2009: A Year in Streaming * Hey! Who’s Flying This Thing? (The 2009 Boxed Set) * 2009 Biotech Cheers and Jeers * 2009 Cheers and Jeers for Pharma * 2009: The Year Pharma Learned to Love Itself * The Biggest No-Brainer Buys of 2009 (and 2010?) * Where the Big Bucks Were in 2009 * 2009: The Year Borrowers Got a Clue * The Past Decade in 50 Headlines * 3 People Who Spoke Up in 2009 * The Decade’s 10 Biggest Bankruptcies * The Worst Footnote of the Year * 2009: The Year in Tech * 2009: One Long, Baffling Spit-Take
Predictions for 2010:
* The Best Stocks for 2010 * Roundtable: The Biggest Investing Danger in 2010 * 3 Stocks to Avoid in 2010 * 5 Stocks That Should Beat the Market * The Global Industrial Outlook for 2010 * 3 Predictions for 2010 * 5 More Predictions for 2010 * What Will Be the Best Stock for 2010? * Get Ready for a Bumpy 2010 * The 10 Best Stocks for 2010 * Which Company Is Destined to Fail in 2010? * 7 IPOs I Would Love to See in 2010 * The Key to Investing Better in 2010 * The Top Profit Opportunity of 2010 * What’s the Best Tech Stock for 2010? * Don’t Ignore These Winners in 2010 * Cash In on Alcohol Deals in 2010 * Where to Gamble in 2010 * Expect More of This in 2010 * Avoid This Sector in 2010 * The Best Bargain for 2010? * Why the 2010s Will Be a Great Decade * Where’s Potash Headed in 2010? * 2010 FDA Decisions to Watch
