Archive | February, 2011
Paying a blogger to switch from an iPhone to a Droid
Heather Armstrong is a professional blogger who puts virtual pen to paper over at the immensely popular website Dooce. With over 1 million Twitter followers, 100,000 unique visitors to her website on a daily basis and estimated ad revenue of approximately $40,000/month, Armstrong has made a strong career out of candidly writing about cleaning diapers, […]
Continue reading...Developer video preview of OS X Lion
27. February 2011
A great walk-through from Ian Bauters of some of the many changes in the upcoming OS X Lion update. Watch it while it’s hot because Apple may pull it at any moment.
Continue reading...Is Apple design guru Jony Ive looking to move back to England?
27. February 2011
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If you follow Apple, you’ve no doubt heard of Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design. Ive’s design sensibilities have been an integral facet in the development of nearly every major Apple product launch since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. From the iPod to sleek MacBooks to a slew of iMacs and […]
Continue reading...The 25-year old who works for Pixar
27. February 2011
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Barely in his mid-twenties, Erik Benson made a quick transition from college student to Pixar artist where he’s already made invaluable contributions to Toy Story 3 and the upcoming Cars 2. Armed with a long-held dream of working for Pixar, Benson enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. As part of the […]
Continue reading...Apple asks security experts to examine OS X Lion
26. February 2011
For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won’t hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. Indeed, the primary reason why the Mac has been relatively immune from security threats often found on Windows is because the Mac’s relatively paltry market share […]
Continue reading...“Hello, my name is Mr. Burns.”
26. February 2011
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Put your appetite for Apple news on hold for a second and enjoy this classic Simpsons clip from the episode Blood Feud.
Continue reading...Google claims Bing is copying their search results
26. February 2011
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Search Engine Land wrote a few weeks ago: Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this. As a result of the apparent […]
Continue reading...Put some Apple Pi on your shirt [Photo]
25. February 2011
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Hey there Math and Apple nerds. What better way to celebrate your segregated place in society than with these Apple logo inspired Pi T-shirts? It’s hard to tell from the picture, but if you look closely, the logo actually lists out Pi to lord knows how many digits. You can these puppies up at TeeFury […]
Continue reading...More iPad 2 rumors; Apple to unveil iOS 5 next week
25. February 2011
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Apple’s iPad 2 media event is just days away and the rumor mill is a-flowin. The latest news courtesy of Engadget, and corroborating a previous report from iLounge, says that the iPad Apple will unveil next week will lack a few rumored features such as an SD card slot and a higher resolution display due […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs reminisces about building illegal blue boxes with Woz [Video]
25. February 2011
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A great video find of a bearded Steve Jobs (with a curious blue denim button-up) reminiscing about the good ole’ days he spent with Woz tinkering with and building illegal blue boxes to make free telephone calls around the world. We were so fascinated by them that Woz and i actually figured out how to […]
Continue reading...Two-finger trackpad scrolling in OS X Lion is backwards
25. February 2011
With the beta of OS X 10.7 now in developers hands comes this video showing that the two finger trackpad scroll we know and love from previous iterations of OS X has been changed in OS X Lion. Users, though, can go back to the old two-finger scroll via system preferences, but this is undoubtedly […]
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27. February 2011
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