Tag Archive | "politics"
Seattle Mayor pushes for transition to Macs, right in Microsoft’s backyard
Seattle’s newly elected Mayor Mike McGinn appears to be up to no good in the land of Microsoft. The mayor elect is a solidified iPhone user, and according to a recent report in Slog, his “transition team has eschewed the Blackberries usually handed out to mayoral staffers and instead asked for four iPhones.” But come on, who [...]
Continue reading...Apple removes Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ e-book from the iTunes App Store
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Comments Off
Last Friday, a Spanish translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf made its way onto the iTunes App Store as an e-book. Even more perplexing was that the apps icon was a front and center picture of a swastika. We wrote on the topic last week: Now how in the world did Apple’s app store review team ever [...]
Continue reading...Apple rejects caricature app featuring bobblehead politicians
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Comments Off
In the latest episode of Apple fumbling around the app store rejection process, Apple rejected an app which provided users with detailed information about members of the United States Congress because each politician’s entry was accompanied by a caricature of said politician, each drawn by talented Mad magazine illustrator Tom Richmond. Apple’s reasoning was that [...]
Continue reading...Apple allows Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ e-book into the app store
Friday, November 6, 2009
Well this sure is surprising. Apple, which is notorious for rejecting apps that appear to poke just a little bit innocent fun at political figures like George Bush and Barack Obama, has accepted a Spanish translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf as an e-book into the iTunes App Store. Even more disturbing is that the app’s icon [...]
Continue reading...Karl Rove is a Mac user [Photo]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Turns out that Karl Rove, the controversial former advisor to President George W. Bush, is a Mac guy with Apple roots that stretch all the way back to 1983. Rove’s role as an effective political consultant for Republicans left him with a reputation for being one of the more polarizing figures in D.C. But we here [...]
Continue reading...A look back at the iTunes App Store - Part III: The bannings and the rejections
Friday, July 10, 2009
The iTunes App Store has been exceedingly successful for Apple, but the past 12 months haven’t gone off without a hitch. Since its inception a year ago, the iTunes App Store has been embroiled in controversy, and it often seemed that the unprecedented breadth and popularity of the app store left Apple confused, and unsure [...]
Continue reading...Al-Jazeera launches streaming app for iPhone and iPod Touch
Monday, July 6, 2009
The controversial Arabic TV News network Al Jazeera recently launched an iPhone and iPod Touch app that gives users a live feed of the English language version of the channel. The stream works both over Wi-Fi and 3G networks, though they note that there is a bug that prevents the program from working properly on [...]
Continue reading...Apple rejects Obama trampoline app for the iPhone
Saturday, February 7, 2009
First Apple rejects an iPhone game that lets you throw a shoe at George Bush, and now it rejects a game that lets you bounce a number of political figures up and down on a trampoline! Oh the humanity. According to TechCrunch, ‘Obama Trampoline’ lets users “select a known U.S. politician (both republicans and democrats) and [...]
Continue reading...Apple rejects “Throw a shoe at George W. Bush” iPhone app
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Apple recently rejected a Pakistani developers iPhone application that lets users use the iPhone’s accelerometer to hurl a virtual shoe at former President George W. Bush. If you recall, in the weeks preceding Bush’s tenure as President, he was giving a speech in Iraq when a journalist popped up and threw a shoe at him. [...]
Continue reading...Obama team used to working on Macs are shocked to find antiquated Windows systems in the White House
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The Washington Post had an interesting article earlier this week highlighting some of the technological hurdles the Obama team is encountering as it begins to set up shop in the White House. One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was [...]
Continue reading...Clarence Thomas sleeping during the inauguration?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Not on topic, but this was too funny to pass up.
Continue reading...Obamafy yourself with Photo Booth
Friday, December 26, 2008
If any of you left-leaning Mac users have some time to kill, check out this Photo Booth plugin that mimics Obama’s ‘Hope’ poster. The plugin was created by Dubi Kaufmann and can be downloaded (with instructions) from his website. And sorry Tiger/Panther users, the plugin only works with Leopard.
Continue reading...
Monday, November 16, 2009
Comments Off