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Twitter Founder, Jack Dorsey, has his new payments system called Square which is now out in the public domain. It looks great but begs the question when will we be able to drop the credit cards all together for payments? We have devices and they can be set to pin access only. We have apps on those devices which also can be secured so in essence the Credit Card is superfluous in the next decade in my opinion. I think what he has done is brilliant. The no credit card approach will win in the end, and hopefully it’s a good guy like Jack.

One word - wow! This is pretty amazing stuff. Earlier today Steve Jobs, Apple’s charismatic but somewhat elusive CEO announced the impending launch of the Apple iPad. This product has been shrouded in secrecy for quite a few years now, with the tech world eagerly awaiting Apple’s take on the handheld tablet computing concept. And as I said….wow, i think theyve nailed it. Who cant see themselves using one of these little beauties at some point in the future! Watch the video.

Even though the Apple iPad won’t be available for another 60 or 90 days, Apple already has its official iPad website up and running.

In addition to showing off some of the applications, features and design and technical specifications, the website also features an eight-minute video with Apple’s design and development team discussing the device and showing it off. Check it out!

I read a great article this morning explaining an issue with the way colours can display on Macs while surfing the web. Heres the example from the article.

The image on the right is infact closer to: #EC9546;

If you are on a Mac with Safari take a look for yourself.

Apparently the issue all stems from the fact that Macs use a gamma setting of 1.8 where as PCs use 2.2.
However the Mac doesn’t simply brighten up everything, or there wouldn’t be a problem. One could simply counter this with the monitor or system gamma settings.

The problem is that OSX will infact render different parts of a web page with different gamma settings.
HTML, CSS and other rendered graphics will follow one gamma setting, while images and in particular photos with embedded colour profiles, will render differently.