Yearly Archives: 2012

Glassboard Premium

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Glassboard premium was created to give you more of what you need from Glassboard – more storage, more boards, the ability to bookmark messages and much more, all for just $5/month.

Great stuff from Sepia Labs.

Tom Reads His Spam

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Our LOLs of the day come from Tom Webster, creator of “Tom Reads His Spam.”

Apple ID security increased with 3 questions and rescue email address

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iPhone in Canada:

For those accessing iTunes today, you may have noticed Apple has added extra security to your iTunes Account by asking you to fill out three security questions and input an alternate recovery email address.With these additional security questions now being asked in the event of account recovery, and the additional rescue email option, it should increase Apple ID security. But of course, nothing can beat a strong password, which Apple ID accounts now require a capital letter and numbers.

I’ve checked with friends in Canada and some of the questions are really obvious – like, “What is the name of your lead dogsled dog?” and “How many relatives do you have in Toronto?”

iPhone 5 promo video

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I laughed so hard at this. Especially the Siri part:

Chickpea salad. Nom nom nom. I am happy.

Dell reports everything is down

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Dell just announced its quarterly earnings:

Income: Down Revenue: Down Enterprise: Down Government: Down Small and medium businesses: Down And Consumer: You guessed it, down.

Oh and stock price: Down

Despite all of that, Dell posted “better than expected second-quarter earnings.”

Honda debuts Miimo robotic lawnmower

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Autoblog:

Miimo is an autonomous robotic mower that Honda will be selling in the European market only (for now) starting in 2013.Miimo runs on power supplied by its lithium-ion battery pack and, just like a Roomba robotic vacuum, will return to its charging station for a fresh batch of electrons when it runs out.The mower can operate in a random pattern, a directional mode where it mows back and forth in lines, or a combination of the two. As for safety, Miimo has bump sensors so it won’t break any potted plants, and if lifted off the ground, its blades will automatically stop and starting up again requires entering a unique PIN number.

As a kid, sweating behind an old fashioned push-blade mower (no – I’m not that old. My father was that cheap!), I would have saved my allowance and bought one of these!

Misleading, incomplete coverage of Apple’s record value

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Columbia Journalism Review:

The big market news today is about Apple’s gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high. There’s a big problem with all of the headlines: They’re all false.Apple is not the biggest or most valuable company in history—not by a longshot. That’s because the press is overlooking reality for the apparently irresistible pull of a headline that includes “Apple” and “record” = pageview gold.Apple’s $622 billion market cap is a nominal record, which means “in name only,” or alternatively, not really. That’s because it’s a record only if you don’t adjust Microsoft’s 1999 market cap for inflation.

Keep this story in mind next time you read of something or other achieving “record” status. Always question the numbers and where they come from.

Apple to open its own stores in Russia

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The Moscow News:

Gadgets manufacturer and darling of the hipster set, Apple Computers plans to sell its products in Russia without the use of middlemen, bringing the price of its trendy equipment down.Apple has registered a company Apple Rus and assigned Vitaly Morozko, the corporation’s local legal advisor, as its director general, Kommersant reported.According to an unnamed manager of an Apple distributor, the company could start direct sales in Russia in 2013, but it is unclear when first Apple Stores will open.

“darling of the hipster set…”? Hipsters didn’t make Apple the most valuable public company in the world.

David Beckham looms large at the 5th Avenue Apple Store

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Adweek:

David Beckham is bigger than ever, in almost every way, now that Spellbound Media and Zenith Optimedia have unleashed giant silver statues of the footballer around three U.S. cities for H&M.Three statues have gone up outdoors in New York—one in front of the Apple Store at 58th Street and 5th Avenue; one near the Flatiron Building; and one at the South Street Seaport.The outdoor figures will remain up through Sunday.

Lifetime job at Apple

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Goodrich, who worked for Jobs since 1998, was promised by late chairman of the world’s most valuable company in a one-on- one meeting in May 2005 that he would always have a job at Apple, according to the complaint. The conversation took place after Jobs’s return from medical leave to receive treatment for pancreatic cancer, Goodrich said.

Just playing devil’s advocate here, but aren’t things like this said all time? “You’re good, you’ll always have a job here.” Things change.

Twitterrific continues

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We’re re-doubling our efforts to bring you an all-new version of Twitterrific: one that complies with Twitter’s new guidelines and makes reading and posting to Twitter even easier and more fun.

Great news. I’m glad to hear that the guys will continue one of the great Twitter apps on the market.

Russian court Web site hacked to support Pussy Riot

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The website of a Moscow court that convicted three members of punk band Pussy Riot to two years in jail each for belting out a profanity-laced anti-Kremlin song inside a cathedral was hacked on Tuesday.A slogan denouncing President Vladimir Putin was posted on the site as was an appeal for the trio’s release along with a video clip of one of the band’s latest anti-Putin songs and a clip by Bulgarian singer Azis, local media reported.

Respect to Pussy Riot.

How Pixar made Merida’s hair

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The Princess Merida’s hair was almost a three year process to get correct. Earlier hair such as for the characters in The Incredibles had much more groomed hair, but here the character’s hair simulation needed to solve how to get this messy, tempestuous and unpredictable look while still looking attractive and flowing nicely with the animation.

It’s the details.

Vectrex emulator coming for iOS

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Rantmedia Games is preparing a Vectrex emulator for the iPad – one of the coolest video game consoles you’ve probably never played.

Dog shaming

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Dogshaming is a new Tumblr for dog owners frustrated by their canine companions’ occasionally inappropriate behavior.

Apple becomes most valuable traded stock ever

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Eric Slivka for Mac Rumors:

Microsoft’s market capitalization peaked on December 30, 1999, reaching an intraday high of $119.94 per share. With Microsoft having documented 5,160,024,593 outstanding shares as of October 31, 1999 in its quarterly earnings report, the company would have had a market capitalization of $618.89 billion on December 30.Apple’s most recent quarterly filing listed 937,406,000 outstanding shares as of July 13, 2012, and with the company’s stock price hitting $660.73 today, its market capitalization reached $619.37 billion.

Impressive.

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Twitter has lost its way

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Ben Brooks:

Twitter has turned it’s back on the very users that not only made the service popular, but that came up with the very features that Twitter is now using to try and profit from. And that bugs me.In my mind Twitter took the easy way out: venture capital and eventually paying that money back by slapping ads everywhere.

I don’t think anyone minds that Twitter makes money, but do it respectfully and don’t screw your users and developers along the way.

iTypewriter

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It is a typewriter for the ipad. Users can enjoy the old feeling of typing and also the lastest technology.

The iPhone is now worth more than Microsoft

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Forbes:

One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975. In the quarter ended March 31, 2012, iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion; Microsoft Corporation, $17.4 billion.Now when we say “worth” there’s a number of different things that we can mean.

Agreed. “Worth” may be a bit misleading but there’s no argument about the sales numbers.