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My buddy Corey Tamas is getting set to record his first album and he has a campaign up on Indiegogo where you can help. Support independent artists, I did.
Associated Press, via Huffington Post:
The ice cream maker that introduced the flavors Schweddy Balls and Karamel Sutra sued the maker of “Ben & Cherry’s” X-rated DVDs Wednesday, saying the “hardcore pornographic” films have smeared its reputation.
Caballero Video has produced titles like “Boston Cream Thighs” and “Peanut Butter D-Cup,” and has packaged them to imitate Ben & Jerry’s containers.
Scott Rose is back with more Shit Apple fanatics say. I’m a bit appalled by the ones I recognize coming from my own mouth.
Philips new cordless phone.
I’d like to thank Weather 2x for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.
A distinctively different kind of weather app for iPad and iPhone with stunning Retina-quality visuals and a refreshingly fun and touch centric UI.
Weather 2x is the perfect balance of aesthetics, intuitive functionality and the right amount of detail.
Check out the latest version with great new features including iCloud sync, Twitter & E-mail sharing, local weather detection, and images of Jim’s igloo for when it reaches those sub-zero temperatures.
I’ve been using Weather 2x since it first came out and love it.
Great rundown on what you’ll need to build your own style guide.
South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has launched an investigation into whether Samsung is abusing its dominant position in the wireless market to disadvantage Apple.
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Samsung.
Jeff John Roberts for GigaOm:
The lawsuit was brought by California man Betsalel Williamson who had to replace the screen of his brand new iPhone after he knocked it off the arm of a chair, resulting “in spider cracks across the back glass panel.”
The judge ruled that Williamson failed to demonstrate that Apple breached its warranty or violated laws in California by stating that the glass was “ultradurable.” He said that it’s a fact of life that glass breaks when it’s impacted. The judge threw out the case.
Businessweek did an article today focusing on Daring Fireball’s John Gruber. Besides being a friend, John has helped me with advice and encouragement when I was redesigning The Loop. There is no doubt he has had a big impact on blogging.
Om Malik:
Jeff Bezos announced a whole slew of Kindle devices and launched the new Kindle Fire tablets. And if you believe all the Twitter chatter, then he did it in a Steve Jobs style presentation.
I agree with Om that Jeff Bezos has done a great job — except at making profits — and from all I’ve heard, his presentation today was great. Having said that, he’s no Steve Jobs, as much as he may want to be.
So Nokia admitted to faking the video and now they fake the images too. Was anything about yesterday’s event real?
Wired:
Amazon packed a boatload of new products, services and information into its Santa Monica media event Thursday morning. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced a trifecta of new Kindle Fire Tablets, new software services to improve the tablet experience, and updated Kindle e-reader models.
If you are a fan of Amazon and/or their Kindle devices, there’s a lot to like about these announcements. Amazon has a niche – customers who want access to the Amazon ecosystem – and are serving it well.
It may not be a two horse race but the other horses are three legged.
Associated Press:
The nation will have a chance to say goodbye to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, in a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 13.The 10 a.m. service will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the websites of the cathedral and space agency.
I’d amend that first sentence to “The world will have a chance to say goodbye…” Armstrong represents and represented more than just America. He represented the best in all of us.
Vanity Fair:
At the apex of this year’s New Establishment list is a Digital Age grudge match–the warring heads of Apple, Google, and Amazon–while Mark Zuckerberg wonders when the gloom of Facebook’s I.P.O. is going to lift. But this crowd has entertainment powerhouses too (Joss Whedon, Adele, Ryan Seacrest), not to mention some real outlaws.
Kudos to Amazon. Looks like they pulled off a great event and they kicked it off with a nice commercial too.
Smash-and-grab robbers.
Interesting article from Marko Savic on how Apple names its products.
J.D. Power and Associates released its Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study, measuring customer’s overall enjoyment with their current phone.
For the eighth consecutive time, Apple and the iPhone topped the list. According to the survey, Apple scored 849 out of a possible 1000 points, and performed “well in all factors, particularly in physical design and ease of operation.”
Apple’s closest competitor was HTC with a score of 790.
The study is based on experiences reported by 8,736 smartphone owners and was conducted between January and June 2012.
Mariner Software on Thursday announced the release of Persona, a new tool aimed at creative writers who need to develop characters for their stories. Persona costs $49.95 and a trial version is available.
Persona helps writers categorize characters using 32 different archetypes, developing psychological profiles to help explain their motivation, define behavior and create predictable dialogue. Persona’s goal is to help writers create more compelling and believable characters for their stories, according to the developer.
Writers can also use Persona to explore relationships between characters, create “Smart Groups” of characters based on various attributes, shape details, come up with believable and meaningful names, and more.
Persona is available now from the Mariner Web site, and will also be sold through the Mac App Store and on retail shelves “in the near future.”
However, the location of the announcement and its proximity to Hollywood has some speculating that there may be more. One of the possibilities being raised is more content for Amazon’s Prime Instant streaming service. Of course, there’s another option: What if Amazon announced a streaming video device to compete head-to-head with Apple TV, Roku and Google TV?
Among its new features the app offers a sleak, easy to use interface, an intuitive system requirements checker, automatic game updates, and a place to meet with your fellow Mac gamers.
Great new Web site and app for Mac gamers.
If you can’t laugh at yourself…
Huffington Post:
Baskin-Robbins debuted Waffle Chip Dippers on Tuesday — soft-serve vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup, M&M’s and Snickers pieces. The ice cream is served with waffle and brownie chip pieces meant for dipping. Sound a bit like the dessert version of nachos? That’s what Baskin-Robbins is going for.
This sounds like the greatest single advance in soft serve ice cream delivery in the history of the medium.
Adrienne Crezo for Mental_floss:
While shoe-horning these into conversation today might prove difficult, these 17 synonyms for sex were used often enough in 19th-century England to earn a place in the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a book for upper-crust Britons who had no idea what the proles were talking about.
First of all, I am filled with indescribable glee knowing not only that there is a Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, but that according to the screenshot, at least two editions were published. Examining this tome first-hand is now on my bucket list.
My three favorites from this list are “amorous congress,” “convivial society,” and for its pure visual appeal, “St. George.”
Midwestern regional carrier Cellcom won’t reveal how many iPhones it sold last quarter, but according to CEO Pat Riordan the specific numbers are irrelevant. The iPhone is luring new customers into its stores, it’s keeping old customers loyal, and it completes Cellcom’s smartphone portfolio.
How many other phones fall into that category for carriers? My guess is zero.
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That looks like ass.