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Das Keyboard Model S Professional for Mac

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Do the words, “gold-plated, German-engineered, mechanical key switches” mean anything to you? If they do, you’re going to love Das Keyboard’s “Model S Professional for Mac” keyboard. Those of us old enough to remember the wonderfully tactile and ridiculously loud … Continued

UltraViolet movies still have no Apple support

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Daniel Frankel, paidContent.org: That speed to get into the market was second-guessed at CES this week, with accounts of early adopters frustrated by UlraViolet’s extensive digital rights management, which requires users to register at two different websites. Singer boiled down … Continued

Apple to teach a few things about textbooks

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From the Wall Street Journal: While the notoriously secretive Apple remains mum about its education announcement Thursday at New York’s Guggenheim museum, the company is expected to unveil textbooks optimized for the iPad and that feature ways to interact with … Continued

CES sets attendance, space and exhibitor records

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PC World:

The 2012 International CES had more exhibitors (3100)…across more space (1.9 million square feet) and…more people (153,000 attendees) than any other CES in history. More than 20,000 new products were introduced at this year’s show, the association said, and more than 2000 news articles were written about innovations at the event — a 33 percent increase over 2011.

The increase in all aspects was reflected in the announcement the iLounge Pavilion at CES for next year’s CES sold out 95,000 square feet of space in just three hours.

Samsung ships Microsoft Surface 2.0 table

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Engadget: Samsung’s SUR40 has been a long time coming. The 40-inch next-gen Surface was unveiled at CES 2011, but it’s only just now starting to ship, following the 2012 edition of that gadget show. If you’ve never had a chance … Continued

Obama opposition turns the tide against SOPA

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Reuters: In a potential problem for the movie industry, the White House has issued a warning about the anti-piracy legislation in Congress. While agreeing that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem and requires a serious legislative response, … Continued

The 10 Most Hated Companies in America

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24/7 Wall St. says:

Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most hated in America.

There’s no doubt that some companies bug us more than others. Whether it’s your bank or your cel provider or your ISP, we all have a corporation or two we hate.

The Best of Everything at CES

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The “Best of Everything at CES” from Gizmodo: Well that about does it for CES. We managed to escape Las Vegas with our lives, most of our belongings, and almost none of our dignity intact. But for all our bellyaching, … Continued

Stephen Hackett interviews… me

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Stephen Hackett posted an interview that he did with me this week. If you want to know the who, what, where and why, go have a read.

The Joy of Books

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The YouTube description says:

After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago, my wife and I decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto

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Nikon D4 Overview

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Digital Photography Review: 16.2MP, 10FPS (24fps 2.5MP grabs), ISO 204,800, 1/8000th of a second shutter speed, 1080p30 HD video, 51 focus points, $5999.95. Short version? Drool.

52Tiger.net membership

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Dave Caolo over at 52Tiger.net opened up memberships on his site today. I really like Dave’s writing and already signed up for my membership.

BBEdit 10

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Thanks to Bare Bones Software and BBEdit 10 for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop.

BBEdit 10 from Bare Bones Software — The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Mac just keeps getting better, with more than one hundred new features. Download the demo and see for yourself!

Apple may not be able to stop Steve Jobs doll

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Paidcontent.org: A UK newspaper caused a stir yesterday when it reported that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had threatened legal action against a Chinese company that plans to sell an eerie replica of its late founder starting next month. The Daily Telegraph … Continued

RIM may license BlackBerry software to Samsung, HTC

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Research In Motion is reportedly working toward a major transition that will see the company begin licensing its BlackBerry software to third-party vendors including Samsung and HTC.

Great, now nobody but iPhone users will be able to send email.

If Apple Made An iBeard…

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Build-A-Beard:

… it would look like Jim Dalrymple’s. The editor-in-chief of The Loop has been writing about Apple for more than 17 years, but growing his 15″ beard since 2007. You must be somebody pretty special if Steve Jobs once recognized you (with or without facial hair). BaB had the esteemed privilege to speak with Jim about how his beard “kind of snuck up on him and took over his life,” the craziest moment he’s had playing with another serious bearded professional, what his beard likes to drink, and the best conference to attend for true facial hair scouting.

I had a lot of fun doing this interview.

Report says Kodak preparing bankruptcy filing

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Wall Street Journal: Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection filing in the coming weeks should efforts to sell a trove of digital patents fall through, people familiar with the matter said. Kodak has had a ridiculously … Continued

Roku Streaming Stick set to compete with Apple TV

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AllThingsD: Today, the company is unveiling plans for its Roku Streaming Stick, a flash-drive-sized dongle that plugs into the back of television sets to enable the same streaming capabilities as a Roku box. Roku is leapfrogging Apple by offering a … Continued

RIM preparing board change

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The Vancouver Sun: Under intense pressure from a group of shareholders, Research In Motion Ltd. is preparing to unveil a corporate shakeup at the beleaguered BlackBerry maker that could see co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie relinquish their titles as … Continued

Android ‘clopen’ as opposed to open

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Marketing Land: Imagine if when Windows 7 came out, it was only offered on only one particular Dell computer. It was also uncertain when or if other computers, including those made by Dell, would ever be able to upgrade to … Continued

Idiot

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Ben Brooks:

That’s not that hard to understand and the fact that Wasserman can’t understand that shows why is opinion isn’t really that interesting. He then devolves to talking about Kelly Clarkson and Ron Paul… yay?

I love it that Ben speaks his mind.

A Guide to Backing Up Pinboard

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Marcelo Somers:

So with so much dependency on all this, I knew I needed to save this stuff. If Pinboard disappeared tomorrow, I need a way to access this stuff I’m saving. Maciej Ceglowski, developer of Pinboard, gives you the option at any time to export all your items as HTML, XML, or JSON. Data portability is good. However, there’s no automated option to do this.So I came up with a way to automate everything. This is an idiot’s guide to do it, since I’m by no means a pro at this stuff – I just poke around until I can make it work.

Getting your Mac news from a guy that dresses like a hobo

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Macworld posted its Pundit Showdown XIV today and as always, it’s worth a listen. This show is a little different, at least for Peter and I, as Macworld’s Phil Michaels describes what it’s like getting his “Mac news from a guy that dresses like a hobo.”

He also mentions the beard and something about Peter’s pants. The part about Peter and I is at about 16:00 in, but listen to the who thing and have a laugh.