Yearly Archives: 2012

The coolest iOS alarm clock

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I use the alarm on my iPhone a lot when I travel, but I have never seen any alarm look this cool. You just move your finger up and down to change the time and swipe right to turn it on. This is the epitome of doing one thing and doing one thing right.

100 greatest sports photos of all time

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Sports has always played a big part in the life of many of us and Sports Illustrated captured some amazing moments in the history of sport. Here are there “Top 100”. I’ve included my favorite shot here but I bet … Continued

The Tipulator

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This is an app I’ve had on my iPhone since the very first version. It was just updated a couple of days ago and is still great.

Amplified: Holiday Jim

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Jim and Dan discuss the iPad and iPad Mini sales, their favorite text editors, the great London beer flood of 1814 and more.

Messages for Jenny

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A little history on Jenny from Wikipedia:

“867-5309/Jenny” is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Tommy Tutone that was released on the album Tommy Tutone 2, on the Columbia Records label. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1982 (see 1982 in music). Co-writer Call came up with both “Jenny” and the telephone number and completed the song with Keller.

The song caused a fad of people dialing 867-5309 and asking for “Jenny”.

Now a some people got the famous Jenny phone number and are recording the messages that come in.

Understanding and Recording Guitar Speakers

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This is an article from earlier this year, but it’s also something I’ve talked about on Amplified. The cabinet speaker is a very important part of your tone. It’s an interesting read.

The Worst CEOs of 2012

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Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Andrew Mason at Groupon almost made the list, but escaped.

Apple wins patent case against Motorola

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Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone didn’t violate patent rights owned by Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility for a sensor that prevents accidental hang-ups, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge said today.

What Instagram did wrong

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Furthermore, once you sell to a frequently-criticized juggernaut like Facebook, users’ expectations change from supportive to skeptic, and, especially because of Facebook’s long history of privacy-related mishaps, you may very well lose all benefit of the doubt amongst some of your users.

It’s amazing that Instagram would allow the language in the privacy policy go through. That’s just plain stupid.

Instagram responds to critics

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Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram posted his thoughts on the recent privacy policy changes and promises the company is listening.

Hollywood execs pick the year’s best unmade movies

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The Verge: Hollywood insider Franklin Leonard this week released his annual Black List — a collection of the year’s best unproduced screenplays. Compiled based on insights from more than 290 film executives, this year’s list includes plenty of time-bending, apocalyptic, … Continued

IPHONE Android phone

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Jordan Golson:

Brazilian electronics maker IGB Electronica SA has announced a new line of Android phones under the IPHONE brand, a trademark that was originally applied for in Brazil in 2000.

When is weak demand for your product good? When you’re Amazon

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Bartley now models Amazon selling just 6 million units this quarter of the Fire, down from 8 million previously, and 10.5 million for all of 2013, down from 12.5 million previously. While his investigation of the supply chain last month suggest component orders had risen for both October and November by double digits, he now thinks total Q4 component orders fell by more than 20%.

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Writes Bartley, “Although weak Kindle Fire de- mand is potentially positive for profitability, it does imply that Amazon is still struggling to compete against Apple (AAPL), and may even be seeing competition from Google.

Amazon is selling its products at cost or even below cost. The more products they sell, the more money they lose. I’ve said it before — I don’t believe this is a sustainable or a wise strategy.

MarsEdit

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Seriously love this piece of software. In fact, I’m writing this post using MarsEdit and never have to look at the Wordpress backend.

iOS 6.0.2 released

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According to Apple the update “fixes a bug that could impact Wi-Fi.”

Review: Posse Monitor System

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The Posse Monitor System is a headphone amplifier system that incorporates multiple inputs, and various additional features, for musicians to hear themselves while performing. This analog system is a good quality hard-wired system that fills a need for such a thing where one is conspicuously absent. In other words, the mainstream pro-audio manufacturers like AKG, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, and others, continue to focus on developing wireless systems. […]