Joshua Rhett Miller, for Fox News:

After 576,000 miles — or more than a trip to the moon and back — in the same 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente, [Rachel Veitch] the 93-year-old Orlando grandmother is stepping on the brakes due to age-related macular degeneration in both eyes. She realized her vision had completely failed her in early March after running a “bald-faced red light,” Veitch told FoxNews.com.

She’s taken meticulous care of the car since she bought it new in 1964, but won’t give it to a family member, fearing they won’t take care of it as well as she has. She’s amenable to selling it to late night talk show host and car collector Jay Leno, however.

Mike Watkinson for MacProVideo:

In this article we shall look more closely at the management of takes you have captured on a single playlist, and also how to manage multiple playlists and use them for editing composite takes.

Loop recording is a powerful tool if you know how to properly manage all of the takes. This article gives you some practical tips.

These are just so incredibly beautiful.

I don’t know what happened here. But I can state the facts. As much as it hurts for Android loyals, they depend on iOS first apps. And that’s a shame.

Apple has been leading the way in hardware and software innovation for the past five years. It’s not too much of a surprise that developers try their apps on iOS first.

Shawn Blanc:

If you don’t own an AirPrint-enabled printer, yet you want to print from your iPhone or iPad, you will need to install a 3rd-party app. But, which one? I found that with certain 3rd-party apps you get additional functionality and benefits beyond just being able to print from your iPhone.

Matthew Handrahan for GamesIndustry International:

Throughout [Cousins’] talk, and during the course of our conversation immediately after, it becomes clear that, to some extent, Cousins regards free-to-play as an economic imperative. As soon as one competitor in a specific field drops the price to zero, he argues, it becomes very difficult for others to continue charging. It happened to mobile games in the space of a few years, and the touch-paper that will spark the same transition in PC and, ultimately, console gaming has already been lit.

Interesting analysis from the head of ngmoco’s Sweden studio, Ben Cousins. Cousins feels that the free-to-play model, which already dominates the mobile gaming market, is going to take over. Cousins expects a game like Skyrim to be available free-to-play in the coming years.

Of course, free-to-play doesn’t mean it’s entirely free – players are expected to make up for the lack of a purchase fee either by submitting to intrusive advertising or by making in-app purchases, which some gamers find irritating.

Research In Motion on Tuesday launched software that enables its large “enterprise” customers to manage Apple and other rival devices through the same servers as they use for the BlackBerry smartphone and Playbook tablet.

Translation: You win.

I used SpamSieve for years and loved it. The only reason I stopped is because I started doing spam filtering on the server.

Peter Pachal for Mashable:

Apple has taken firm root in America. Just over half of all households in the country own at least one Apple product, a new survey says, showing just how far the reach of the company has come in the last decade.

Households that own Apple products typically own an average of three, according to the report, and about one quarter of those plan to buy another one in the coming year.

Jeff Sneider for Variety:

The King of Twitter is now the King of Apple, as “Two and a Half Men” star Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic “Jobs,” which Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) will direct from a script by Matt Whiteley.

I thought this was an April Fool’s joke when I first read it. Ashton Kutcher is no Noah Wyle.

This is unrelated to Walter Isaacson’s book, by the way. That book has been optioned and is currently in development at Sony Pictures, but no casting has been announced.

Josh Lowensohn for CNet:

According to market research firm ComScore, iPhone owners in both the U.S. and the U.K. consumed more of their data over Wi-Fi and their carrier’s wireless signal than smartphone users on Google’s Android platform during the month of February.

Apparently iPhone users, overall, are a more frugal lot when it comes to data usage. Either that, or we prefer the higher speeds afforded by Wi-Fi.

I really like the interface of this app.

Daily Mail:

Companies such as Apple have made their name by marketing their products not just as technological tools but as glamorous and fun toys.But this marketing technique is nothing new, as these vintage adverts from the early days of PCs show.They portray computers as fun, easy to use – and even sexy, with the help of a few eager-looking models.

Look how sexy that 4800 baud modem is!

CNN:

Ad Age reports that Craig’s tougher, darker Bond will star in an upcoming Heineken ad, which will do double duty as promotion for the upcoming James Bond flick “Skyfall.” “Skyfall” director Sam Mendes will direct the commercial as well.

Trying to be more like the beard are we Mr. Bond. Pfft.

New York Post:

Over his storied career behind the wheel, he’s ferried movie stars such as John Wayne and Rock Hudson, suffered countless bad tippers — and tolerated passengers getting frisky in his back seat. Well, until the new hybrids arrived.

Imagine the stories he could tell.

[Via NextDraft]

John Gruber responding to Anil Dash about Readability.

This is a great read from Time tech columnist Ben Bajarin.

This is a great looking app.

AllThingsD:

Led by the 4S, Apple’s iPhone line continues to rack up strong sales at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. So strong that some believe it’s likely the top-selling phone at all three of those carriers.“Our March checks indicated the iPhone continues to extend its market share gains,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley writes in a note to clients today. “In fact, we believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon.”That’s pretty astonishing, all things considered.

But Android is still “winning”.

Ben Brooks has been all over this Readability debate. Another interesting read.

Universal Audio:

But while XY microphone recording is the most obvious method, it’s not the only game in town. The Mid-Side (MS) microphone technique sounds a bit more complex, but it offers some dramatic advantages over standard coincident miking. If you’ve never heard of MS recording, or you’ve been afraid to try it, you’re missing a powerful secret weapon in your recording arsenal.

I love using this technique to record.

Matt Burns and his article “It’s Time To Believe In RIM And The BlackBerry Again”:

RIM is beaten and laying on the floor. Together, Apple and Google knocked out the champ. Since then, they’ve started fighting each other, seemingly ignoring RIM as regains his strength. He might take another blow from time to time, but with a renewed focus he should stay on his feet from here on out. After years of savage beatings, he’s like the honey badger now and just doesn’t care.

At best, this article is misguided.

BBC News:

Announcing its recommendation, Sir Alan Haselhurst, chairman of the committee, said the trial had cut MPs’ costs by “several thousand pounds” as they could circulate information electronically rather than in hard copy.

Brett Terpstra gives us an amazing amount of information about iOS text editors.

Brought to you by Flying Meat’s Acorn, the Mac OS X image editor for humans.

Jean-Louis Gassée:

The trouble for RIM is simply stated: Too little too late, while the money runs out. If only the cure were as easily put.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

The Macalope’s 10 fools of the year.

Ben Bajarin:

They create objects of desire and out of that focus comes a visually and easy to use user experience paradigm that drives emotional responses in consumers of their products.

Great way to put it. Apple products, like few others, elicit a response from its users. It’s not just the design or the interface, it’s the whole package.