Yearly Archives: 2012

Halloween scare trick

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Don’t lie – half of you are trying to figure out ways to scare your kids with this trick.

On video game journalism

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Games journalism is in a sorry state these days, but is TechCrunch really the publication to point that out to the world?

Amazon reports $274 million loss

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Amazon.com Inc. posted a loss of $274 million, or 60 cents per share, in the July-September period. That’s down from earnings of $63 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier.

And this is what happens when you sell your shit at cost.

Apple posts $8.2 billion fourth quarter profit

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Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.0 percent compared to 40.3 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue.The Company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 58 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 14.0 million iPads during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.9 million Macs during the quarter, a 1 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods, a 19 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

Shelby 1000

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Carroll Shelby represents everything that is a muscle car. I want this.

Turn It UP! Guitar Documentary

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Hosted by actor Kevin Bacon, TURN IT UP! includes interviews and performances with Les Paul, Slash, Robby Krieger (the Doors), Paul Stanley (KISS), Carl Verheyen (Supertramp), Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Albert Lee, Steve Lukather (Toto), and the legendary B.B. King–plus many more.

You can help get this movie released by supporting it on Indiegogo. One of the many perks is getting a guitar lesson from Robby Krieger, guitarist for The Doors. There are a lot of other cool things you can get with your donation too.

I know the husband and wife team that put this movie together and was actually around for some of the shooting. This is a great project to support.

Typographic choices

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I’ll admit, I hate many of the fonts I see. It’s an important decision that escapes a lot of people.

Microsoft threatens to make more hardware

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Steve Ballmer talking to BBC News:

“Is it fair to say we’re going to do more hardware? Obviously we are… Where we see important opportunities to set a new standard, yeah we’ll dive in.”

Great, just what we need.

Now Microsoft is trying to piss me off

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A new Surface ad shows a guy jumping into a pool with his guitar. I’d throw every surface ever made into the water before I harmed a single guitar.

Conan O’Brien spoofs iPad mini ad

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Late night show host Conan O’Brien took a swipe at Apple’s new iPad mini in Wednesday night’s monologue with a spoof on the new TV ad.

Pocket launches Mac app

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Pocket, the popular “save for later” service for iOS and the Web, now has its own official Mac client.

Whaaaaaa

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Roger Cheng for CNET:

Apple, I thought we had a deal.I buy one of your products, and I’m guaranteed roughly a year feeling like I’ve got the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer. That’s primarily been your product cycle, and it’s worked out fairly well for everyone.

Apple didn’t make any such deal that I know about. They’ve always released products when they were ready to — this week is no different. If you ever get such a commitment from a company, I want to know about it.

Besides, your iPad works the same as it did before the announcement. Nothing got turned off, it functions perfectly.

[Via Shawn King]

Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive

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Apple’s Support Page just posted additional details about the Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012) Fusion Drive announced at Yesterday’s Apple Event.

As Apple says, “Presented as a single volume on your Mac, Fusion Drive automatically and dynamically moves frequently used files to Flash storage for quicker access, while infrequently used items move to the hard disk.”

There are some interesting tidbits such as you can only have one partition on the hard disk, third party utilities “may or may not” work (not unexpected) and some details about using Time Machine backups.

iPad resales surge over 700%

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MarketWatch:

As soon as Apple unveiled the iPad mini Tuesday, the first thing many consumers did was sell their old iPads.

Two major resale sites reported eye-popping surges in business in the run-up to the iPad Mini launch. Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle Tuesday – a 700% spike from the day before, says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at the site.

While some people are trading in first and second generation iPads, both Nextworth and Gazelle say that nearly 70% of their resellers are dumping the iPad 3.

How about you? Are you dumping your iPad for a newer model any time soon?

AnandTech reviews the Microsoft Surface

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I don’t believe Surface is perfect, but it’s a platform I can believe in. What I’m most excited about is to see what happens after a second or third rev of the design.

A very detailed and mostly positive review.

Schiller on the iPad mini

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“The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category. The most affordable product we’ve made so far was $399 and people were choosing that over those devices,” Schiller said.“And now you can get a device that’s even more affordable at $329 in this great new form, and I think a lot of customers are going to be very excited about that,” Schiller said.

Translation: We are going to sell a metric shit ton of these things.

Amplified: Nobody Is Allowed To Touch It

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Jim Dalrymple and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple’s press conference, the release of the iPad mini, the refresh of the Macbook Pro, iMac, and iPad lineups, and government adoption of the iPhone.Sponsored by Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME10 for 30% off), MailChimp, Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off), and CacheFly