Emulator for NeXT Step?

[jj]

what else we got ?  fm radio yet , or is that 2 year old rumour just that

[bloodline]

what else we got ?  fm radio yet , or is that 2 year old rumour just that

No chance of a Radio, Apple don't ever add aged technology... It's a bit annoying at first, but you get used to it. But iOS5 does give you a healthy speed up

[nicholas]

Notifications was something that I really liked on Android (though I think Android copied it from WebOS)

Doesn't Android pre-date WebOS?

[bloodline]

Doesn't Android pre-date WebOS?

Android yes, notifications no (as far as I can remember). I had a Nexus One for a few weeks to test it out and I don't remember notifications.

[nicholas]

Android yes, notifications no (as far as I can remember). I had a Nexus One for a few weeks to test it out and I don't remember notifications.

I've only used Android since 2.1 which had them, can't say whether 1.5/1.6 did or not though.

[esc]

No chance of a Radio, Apple don't ever add aged technology... It's a bit annoying at first, but you get used to it. But iOS5 does give you a healthy speed up

Additionally, I can tell you from the perspective of a radio / rf theory guy...that you simply need a decent sized anteanna to listen to FM radio well.  And it's all line-of-sight, so a tiny little antennae hidden inside a cell phone and you're inside a building, it just won't work well.  Most of the cell phones that have been reviewed that include FM receivers can contest to that.

Also, we may be running out of room to place antennae components

[Vlabguy1]

And since I am a NeXT junkie, here is a short video of my NeXTcube Dual Dimension driving 2 large 21" displays running NeXTSTEP 3.3 and playing an MP3.

Fun stuff.  Still digg NeXTSTEP myself.

Enjoy.

tj

Little dark but hey, not a pro video guy and my room is ultra dark it seems.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj7_G6rabd4

Is there a web browser for the NeXT ??

Rich
ny

[amigasociety]

Is there a web browser for the NeXT ??

Rich
ny

Yes, Omniweb was the biggie there.  I actually browse websites (slowly) with it on my Cube when I use it.  Very outdated but can do some of the basics like get me on nextcomputers.org so I can download apps, etc...

Omniweb went on to be an OS X browser for a while on Macs since NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP basically became OS X.

TJ

[Vlabguy1]

TJ,

Is the Turbo Cube the macdaddy of the NeXT computers?  And do you have to use
a NeXT monitor?

Rich
ny

[amigasociety]

TJ,

Is the Turbo Cube the macdaddy of the NeXT computers?  And do you have to use
a NeXT monitor?

Rich
ny

NeXTcube Turbo with 1,2, or 3 NeXTdimension boards in it would be the Mac-daddy!  I need color so have to have those.  I have 2 NeXTdimensions in mine running two stock NeXT 21" CRT displays.

With the proper cable (someone makes them on NeXT forums I think), you can connect to non NeXT VGA displays.

I like to run 3 displays on mine.  The stock 17" Mono and then two NeXT 21" color.

TJ

Like this:

[LoadWB]

Additionally, I can tell you from the perspective of a radio / rf theory guy...that you simply need a decent sized anteanna to listen to FM radio well.  And it's all line-of-sight, so a tiny little antennae hidden inside a cell phone and you're inside a building, it just won't work well.  Most of the cell phones that have been reviewed that include FM receivers can contest to that.

Also, we may be running out of room to place antennae components

My Sony Ericsson phones use the headphones as an antennae for the FM radio.  Works pretty well.

[psxphill]

Most of the cell phones that have been reviewed that include FM receivers can contest to that.

My old phone also uses the headphone cord as an antenna. I thought that was how they all did it.

[jj]

You would hope.  My nokia N900 used the bluetooth as a recevier and the headphones as an arieal.
 
It is anooying because I often want to listen to the radio in work, 500mb data allowance is not enough to use internet streaming.

[bloodline]

You would hope.  My nokia N900 used the bluetooth as a recevier and the headphones as an arieal.
 
It is anooying because I often want to listen to the radio in work, 500mb data allowance is not enough to use internet streaming.

Hmmm, I didn't think of that... I'm on an unlimited data plan so I forget about people on capped plans and without WiFi :-/ I'm also not keen on any commercial radio stations so will d/l and sync podcasts with music and chat that I like rather than use radio... Is that and option for you?

[jj]

I do already sync a lot of podcasts, but there are occasions when radio would be good.
 
Yeah I wish I hadn't gone with vodafone. Three were much better.
 
I still go awhie to go on my contract. I gave my Nokia N900 to the wife. I broke my Creative Zen so needed a new mp3 player. Had an 8gb third gen ipod kicking around but not enough to replace my 60 gb creative. So though way as well buy an iphone rather than a 4th gen ipod.
 
Sorry Thread for the hijack

[nicholas]

Notifications was something that I really liked on Android (though I think Android copied it from WebOS)

Doesn't Android pre-date WebOS?

Android yes, notifications no (as far as I can remember). I had a Nexus One for a few weeks to test it out and I don't remember notifications.

 

The pull-down notification window. Though these early phones clearly weren't without their flaws, it was almost universally acknowledged that Android nailed the notification system on day one — it would take iOS another three years before launching a design as effective at triaging messages and alerts coming from users' ever-growing collection of mobile apps. The secret was in the G1's unique status bar, which could be dragged downward to reveal every notification in a single list: text messages, voicemails, alarms, and so on. The fundamental concept lives on (in a refined form) even in version 4.0 today.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/7/2585779/android-history