OnAir in-flight mobile service is considered international roaming, and is billed appropriately. (First, your carrier has to have a roaming agreement with OnAir.) This AT&T page suggests OnAir calls are billed at $3.49 per minute, for example. Text messages are $0.50 each.

That should cut down on the needless yammering.

Facebook Inc is testing a feature that lets users of the social network create “wishlists” of home furnishings, clothing and other retail products, laying the groundwork for what some believe could be an eventual push into e-commerce.

Makes sense since so many people are on Facebook.

Barney Britton and Kelcey Smith for Digital Photography Review:

The most likely cause of the iPhone 5’s purple haze is probably lens flare and internal reflections in the camera lens assembly. All lenses are succeptable to lens flare to some degree, and as you can see from the images at the top of this page, the iPhone 4S isn’t immune either (ditto the iPhone 4 and competitive smartphones from other manufacturers).

It’s a shame that this even has to be said, but apparently many tech writers are so profoundly stupid, they don’t understand it.

Rovio Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. announced today a new blockbuster entertainment franchise collaboration; Angry Birds Star Wars. Launching worldwide on November 8, the unique partnership will combine all the fun of the classic Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space with the characters, stories and settings of the epic space fantasy, Star Wars.

Looks to be a nice selection here.

No jailbreak required.

Anvil takes your site folder, gives it a .dev URL and makes it run for you. Works for any static HTML sites and Rack apps.

I thought this was pretty cool.

[Via Big Week]

Committed is a great way to be alerted when someone pushes new code to the GitHub repositories you care about. Committed notifies you using OS X’s new Notification Center feature when someone pushes code.

Great new app from Justin Williams. I love that he’s using the Notification Center too — great detail.

Leave your laptop behind. Imagine having control over your computer from anywhere. Jump Desktop is a remote desktop application (RDP and VNC) that gets you to your computer from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and Android device. With over 4000 reviews, customers have declared it a 5 star app. It is super easy to setup, with automatic configuration you will be up and running in less than 5 minutes.

It is the easiest, the fastest and most secure way to get to your computer.

Dante D’Orazio for The Verge:

We reported a few weeks ago that T-Mobile had no intention of letting the iPhone 5’s smaller nano-SIM card interfere with its newly-bolstered plans to woo unlocked iPhone owners over to its network, and now we’ve received confirmation that the carrier’s stores have begun receiving stock of the new SIM cards.

Given the limitations – with the exception of a handful of areas, iPhone 5s don’t support T-Mobile’s high speed network, and you’ll need an unlocked phone (like Verizon’s) for it to work – I don’t expect that many users will go flocking to T-Mobile. But there’s one in every crowd.

Mat Honan for Wired:

Jobs, like the titans of industry before him, realized that when we think about how the world works, we are actually thinking about the way people have made it to work. And that means that if you don’t like the way the world works, you are free to change it. Which is exactly what he did.

A thoughtful piece about why Jobs remains so relevant a year after his death. Honan also doesn’t spare criticism at journalists and analysts that, as he put it, “trot out his corpse” at every opportunity to examine Apple’s strategic moves.

If this has happened in your pictures, Apple explains why.

Wired:

Watch as Oracle Team USA CEO Russell Coutts, a four-time America’s Cup winner, flips an AC45 in a practice race last summer. The AC45, named for its length, is 70 feet tall, 22.6 feet wide and weighs 3,086 pounds. Now consider that the boats racing in next year’s Cup finals are twice as big and have a top speed north of 30 knots. The big cats are back on the Bay.

I’m not a fan of Larry Ellison but I think he deserves props for livening up the America’s Cup Series. As much as I loved the “old boats”, these new ones are like F1 race cars – hi-tech and dangerous. I’ve seen some of the racing on TV and the new “yachts” are amazing and the new rules are designed to make the racing a real live TV sporting event. I wish Ellison luck.

I laughed when I read that.

In my mother, one found a moral clarity that I think can only be compared to John Wayne, who unfriended people by shooting them dead.

Tyler Munro for Aux:

Here’s what happened when Give Zombies the Vote singer Shaun Callaghan had a few too many, started cuddling his cat—named Bill Murray—and decided to toss together a makeshift music video for their song “Black Hole.” Naturally, he did this in secret, but as soon as his bandmates found the video they wasted no time posting it on reddit because what are friends for, if not humiliating you in front of thousands of total strangers?

Visit the site for some hilarious animated GIFs taken from the video.

Nice.

Luke Johnson for the Huffington Post:

The Maine Republican Party is attacking a Democratic candidate for State Senate over her “time-consuming double life” as a player of World of Warcraft.

I think it’s pretty ridiculous that someone’s hobby playing a video game has become a point of contention in a political race.

Stewart confuses the Maps app, a software application, with the mapping data that underlies it and the algorithms for driving directions that Apple put in place.

The New York Times should know better, but Glenn Fleishman sets them straight.

Foxconn officials on Saturday issued a statement denying a strike hit the company’s Zhengzhou iPhone plant on Friday, claiming instead that the factory was the site of two small altercations days earlier which had no impact on production.

As a thank you to our former MobileMe members who moved to iCloud, we have extended the complimentary storage upgrade they received until September 30, 2013. This extension applies to accounts moved to iCloud between October 12th, 2011 and August 1st, 2012.

Thanks Apple.

While there is certainly a ways to go, it is clear that the company is indeed moving quickly to address issues and improve coverage for the flagship 3D mapping and imagery features in the app.

Great news.

Vice:

Maritimers communicate with one another like young twins that invent gibberish language. For starters, Maritimers speak at a speed that can only be compared to an episode of Gilmore Girls cast with leprechauns on crank.Here are a few tips if you ever want to try and converse with someone from Tatamagouche.

I had tears in my eyes reading this. I love my home province but there’s no doubt – we talk funny sometimes.

If you’ve hung around The Loop’s Publisher long enough for him to have sucked back a few Heineken, you’ll have been lucky enough to hear some of these. And I’ll admit to talking way too fast at times, too.

Hat tip to the @beardsdaughter for the link!

Fascinating.

My thoughts on Tim Cook and Steve Jobs in a Mashable article by Samantha Murphy.

I need one of these.

Julie Bort for BusinessInsider:

HP this morning lost one of the few Wall Street analysts that was still giving it the benefit of the doubt. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu downgraded his recommendation to neutral, telling us that HP’s balance sheet is so awful, the company’s stock is really worth negative $2.

Actually, less than worthless.

Evan did my business cards for me and I love them. Superb quality.