Another investor sues Apple

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The new lawsuit, filed by an investor from Pennsylvania in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks to block Apple from moving forward with a February 27 shareholder vote on two proxy proposals.

One of the proposals is the same measure Einhorn targeted that would eliminate from the company charter Apple’s ability to issue preferred stock.

FLEXeFX Guitar Pedals

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I met the guy that’s building these during NAMM and I like what he’s doing. Go take a look at his ideas and support the project.

Apple’s rumored TV-related event in March

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Apple is gearing up for a special media event next month related to its television initiative that may deliver the tools developers will need to prepare applications for a formal relaunch of the company’s Apple TV product, analysts for Jefferies Equity Research said Wednesday.

Nope.

Top 10 recognizable guitar riffs

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Pauline France at Fender.com

There are tons of guitar riffs out there, but only a few have become deeply ingrained and ubiquitous in pop culture. Our Top 10 Instantly Recognizable Guitar Riffs all have something in common: They’re the ones you can’t wait to learn how to play; the ones you catch yourself humming; the ones that are revered worldwide by musicians and non-musicians alike.

There are so many riffs to chose from — Pauline picked some good ones.

Stream HBO Go to your TV over AirPlay

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Speaking at our D: Dive Into Media conference on Tuesday, HBO’s Eric Kessler said “effective today we will be enabling AirPlay” for HBO Go.

HBO still say they’re coming to Apple TV.

Another Samsung translation

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While not a main talking point of the interview, [Samsung Executive Vice President David] Eun told All Things D’s Kara Swisher that he saw the seemingly endless legal struggle as “a loss” for innovation in the fast-moving tech industry.

Translation:

We are very upset that Apple is focused on the lawsuits and not releasing more amazing products that we can blatantly steal.

BBEdit 10.5.2

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One of my favorite apps gets updated with some bug fixes.

CSS3 test

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Test your browser. I got two different scores in Safari, although they were close. Chrome scored about nine points higher.

Apple releases iOS 6.1.1

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The update ” fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S.” Check software update on your iPhone.

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UC Irvine: Students with iPads do 23% better in national exams

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He added that the first class participating in the iMedEd Initiative scored an average of 23 percent higher on their national exams – taken at the end of the second year of medical school – than previous UC Irvine medical school classes, despite having similar incoming GPAs and MCAT scores.

That’s impressive.

Between Dropbox and iCloud

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As much as iCloud is the right idea still not realized, Dropbox is the wrong thing done brilliantly well. And at the end of the day, that still amounts to the wrong thing.

Interesting article by Rene Ritchie.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Healey

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You all know SRV, but you may not know Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey. He was an incredible talent. He was blind and died far too soon. […]