McLaren 1995 F1 GTR video clips by Kanal von rr2user on YouTube.
Video list for all cars and tracks – contributed by multiple users.
Best and average times, and other statistics, by car, track and driver. The related discussion thread is at Firemint Real Racing 2 forums.
The Lotus Evora or the Volvo C30 can match almost any F1!!! Try it:-) But with any car- driving skills are capital, with these small cars you have to do wide, soft curves to maintain speed!
One-word reviews for the cars of RR2.
Real Racing 2 car data tabulated in a Google Spreadsheet – Includes handling rating, top speed, 0-100, 0-200, 100-0 and 0-200-0 times, speeds at gear shifts and total gears.
Pictures of the actual cars used in the game.
How the Real Racing 2 cars actually sound like in real life.
Macbook Air & Me: Four Years Later:
The new Air is now my only computer. I have owned every single Macbook Air that has come out and despite its limitations of power (just like my own), I have loved it. I have adapted to it and it has adapted to me.
This is a fantastic demo of AirPlay mirroring (the best I've seen so far) of a jailbroken iPhone 4S and an iPad streaming to an Apple TV 2 that's connected to a HP monitor.
I especially like the comprehensive demonstration of Real Racing 2 (my most-played iOS game, ever) – the cars on the race track look absolutely amazing on the big screen.
In terms of smoothness, it looks like the jailbroken iPhone performs the same as a normal unit.
I'm tempted to jailbreak my iPhone 4 just to take advantage of the added functionality and widgets. They do look very cool and useful.
From The New York Times article "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work":
In 2007, a little over a month before the iPhone was scheduled to appear in stores, Mr. Jobs beckoned a handful of lieutenants into an office. For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket.
Mr. Jobs angrily held up his iPhone, angling it so everyone could see the dozens of tiny scratches marring its plastic screen, according to someone who attended the meeting. He then pulled his keys from his jeans.
People will carry this phone in their pocket, he said. People also carry their keys in their pocket. "I won’t sell a product that gets scratched," he said tensely. The only solution was using unscratchable glass instead. "I want a glass screen, and I want it perfect in six weeks."
On episode #76 of The Talk Show podcast, John Gruber mentioned that the iPhone demo prototypes used during the January 2007 announcement had a plastic screen. Very much like what the iPods had. High-quality plastic that looked like glass but were not scratch-resistant.
It was in a June 2007 press release that Apple formally announced that the iPhone would have an all-glass screen when it officially goes on sale:
Now Features Durable Glass Top Surface
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Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.
Daniel Eran Dilger, writing for AppleInsider:
While Apple appears to have become wildly successful in winning over corporate users through the backdoor of attractive consumer-focused devices, the reality is that Apple has also devoted significant efforts to make its consumer products more attractive to corporate users. Mac OS X has progressively added support for features such as 802.11X wireless authentication, Exchange Server messaging, Active Directory and related networking sharing protocols. Apple's iOS has similarly made enterprise security and device management a key product focus.
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Unlike Apple however, Google has not focused on delivering robust support for a set of features that are important to corporate users. Android still lacks the ability to connect to IPSec VPNs and has spotty support for Exchange Server. More importantly however, Android lacks strong support for management tools that corporate users can employ to monitor, manage and police the enforcement of their desired policies.
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Rather than offering a cohesive platform suitable as a potential alternative to iOS, Android offers a complex array of individual support options that, together, lack the critical mass Google's platform is supposed to offer. This makes Android-branded devices as problematic for corporate users as the incompatible variations of JavaME-based smartphones they replaced. The non-integrated "open" development of Android does not appear focused on solving this issue.