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The first Indiana Jones movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” will get a limited run on Imax theater screens before being released on Blu-Ray Disc.

Jim Dalrymple and Dan Benjamin talk about a unibody iPhone, Apple’s cable television patent victory, Origin going multiplatform, the iBookstore changing the game for textbooks, more of the Samsung v. Apple lawsuit, as well as a new one for Apple with Microsoft, and rabid beavers.

. Gadling:

How far would you go to get a bird’s-eye city view while swimming? If you’re staying at the Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao, you’ll get to take a dip in their glass-bottom pool, which appears to be suspended in mid-air as it partially hangs over a 24-story drop.

Easy answer to the headline question. HELL NO.

Now that’s funny.

Bryan Larrick:

I looked on my server, and there was a whole other website squatting on my domain, selling vpn access to god knows who out of who knows where. I’d been hacked.

Wow.

An interesting look at dots and pixels as John Gruber makes his way from a Pac-Man coin-op machine to a Retina MacBook Pro.

More than $60,000 worth of “computers and personal items” were allegedly stolen, but Flattery declined to say whether they belonged to Jobs, who died last year at the age of 56, or another family member.

A classic comic from Joy of Tech.

Rene Ritchie:

No one can look at Samsung’s mobile products over the last decade and not consider them anything other than a ruthless, relentless copy of everything popular that’s came before. It’s not that Samsung doesn’t continuously push the limits of hardware specifications and capabilities as much if not more than anyone else. They do. But they do so by systematically, institutionally copying what other vendors have already done first.

Rene just goes off on Samsung.

A really nice message from Om Malik to John Gruber, congratulating him the 10 year anniversary of Daring Fireball.

A new Web site aims to help end-user confusion over lengthy Terms of Service agreements with various sites by summarizing and grading them.

iNeedHelp sends your location via text message and email at the push of a button to your HelpList.

Seems ideal for children or senior citizens.

Objective-Cologne is an Objective-C & Cocoa community-organized conference taking place next month in Cologne Germany. Speakers include Mike Lee, Jason Harris and Ken Aspeslagh.

A great looking line-up of speakers. I wish I was going to Germany.

I love it when people are taken to task for avoiding questions they should answer.

I took a minute today to call John Gruber and congratulate him on his 10th anniversary of running Daring Fireball. John has had a tremendous influence on me as a writer and on my current business model. […]

Bryan Beverly sent this to me this morning and it fits the Apple, Samsung trial so well.

“The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterward.” — Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation, 1964.

Maria Popova writing about how Hitchcock affected one child.

NASA:

On the nights of Aug. 11th through 13th, the best meteor shower of the year will fill pre-dawn skies with hundreds of shooting stars. And that’s just for starters. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up right in the middle of the display. The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the nights around August 12th as Earth passes through a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle.“We expect to see meteor rates as high as a hundred per hour,” says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “The Perseids always put on a good show.”

NASA even has a free app you can use to count meteors and upload the data to researchers.

LogMyRun now supports kilometers for distance and Celsius for temperature in addition to miles and Fahrenheit. You can convert the distance or temperature units for your entire log in Settings. You can also log individual runs in either kilometers or miles when adding a new run or editing an existing run.

Cheers people!

Michael Mulvey brought up another great point to Marcelo Somers “Linkblog Cancer” post that I linked to yesterday:

If I don’t have a unique perspective to the link in question, I usually won’t link to it. I don’t want to be the noise in the conversation.

That’s a great point. I believe readers are looking for a writers perspective. There are lots of places to get the news, but each writer has their own perspective.

Many thanks to Harvest for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week. We’re more than halfway through 2012. You can’t buy that time back, but you can start tracking it wisely. Use Harvest to log your billable hours, and see … Continued

According to macProVideo.com’s Founder and CEO, Martin Sitter, “Until now, macProVideo.com has been the place ‘Where Mac Users Learn.’ With the acquisition of AskVideo.com, we have purchased a great brand with over 8 years of experience in online training. AskVideo will become our primary portal for bringing our trademarked NonLinear Educating System™ to the larger world of Windows PC users.”

Huge news in the video training market. I’ve been a user of MacProVideo for years. Good luck to Martin and the gang.

NPD’s research also revealed that the lion’s share of smartphone-market growth is concentrated in the top two brands. In fact Samsung’s and Apple’s combined smartphone unit sales rose 43 percent between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012, as unit sales for other brands fell 16 percent.According to NPD, the top five smartphone brands, and their market shares, in Q2 were as follows:* Apple: 31 percent * Samsung: 24 percent * HTC: 15 percent * Motorola: 12 percent * LG: 6 percent

Sebastian Anthony for ExtremeTech:

In Curiosity’s case, the CPU is a PowerPC 750 (PowerPC G3 in Mac nomenclature) clocked at around 200MHz — which might seem slow, but it’s still hundreds of times faster than, say, the Apollo Guidance Computer used in the first Moon landings.

Enjoy. […]

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