Sunday, January 31, 2010

From Russia With Love: Did Putin Attempt to Force the U.S. to Bail Out Government-Sponsored Mortgage Giants?


From Russia With Love: Did Putin Attempt to Force the U.S. to Bail Out Government-Sponsored Mortgage Giants?

Who needs foreign enemies when you've got Congress to do their dirty work for them? In 2008, Russia apparently attempted to make a pact with China to force the U.S. to bail out government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The plan, first reported in former Treasury Secratary Hank Paulson's memoirs, failed. But, like a football team that forgets which end of the field its goal posts are on, we ended up bailing out the two giant, quasi-public mortgage agencies ...

'The Babies Were Going to Die the Next Day'


'The Babies Were Going to Die the Next Day'

Yesterday Scott Roeder, who killed Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller last May, took the stand in his own defense at his murder trial in Wichita. But since Roeder admits to shooting Tiller in the head at his church after carefully planning the act, he really has no defense to offer. Judge Warren Wilbert would not allow him to argue that his crime was necessary to prevent a greater evil—i.e., Tiller's continued murder of unborn children. Nor would Wilbert allow Roeder to argue that he should be convicted of voluntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder because he acted based on "an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force." Wilbert nevertheless allowed Roeder to explain his motive to the jury. "I did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children," he said. "I shot him....If I didn't do it, the babies were going to die the next day." Barring jury nullification, this explanation won't have any impact on the verdict, so the trial seems pretty pointless from a legal perspective. Roeder freely admits to what the law defines as premeditated murder, and under the law his motive makes no ...

Sunday Talk - Let Obama Be Bartlet


Sunday Talk - Let Obama Be Bartlet

For the past few months, progressives have been lamenting the fact that the Barack Obama they saw on the campaign trail was nowhere to be found in the White House.

But then, a funny thing happened on the way to the State of the Union address — President Obama found his voice, and used it to excoriate Republican obstructionism and Supreme Court activism ...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

iPad UI gets ported to the iPhone and iPod touch


iPad UI gets ported to the iPhone and iPod touch

At this particular point, 50-something days away from the earliest iPad deliveries, we doubt too many people are up in arms about the iPad's ability to act as a jumbo iPhone. On the other hand, if we told you you can take pretty much the entire iPad experience and distill it down to your iPhone OS device, well you'd probably care a lot more, wouldn't you? To get that extra 3D flavor to your UI, including the fetching iBooks shelf and other iPad-specific touches, you'll need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, access to the Cydia app store, and the manpower to click past the break for the full instructional video. Come on, you know you want ...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Pedestrian footsteps, converted into energy - Springwise



If the energy people expend dancing and working out can power cellphones, lights and other electrical appliances, why not apply the same concept to all the energy spent by millions of people every day simply walking along city sidewalks? That's exactly the premise behindPavegen slabs, which can be inserted among regular sidewalk sections to capture the kinetic energy people spend just walking.

LukeW | New Multi-touch Interactions on the Apple iPad

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Cyber conmen exploit Apple iPad fever


Cyber conmen exploit Apple iPad fever

Cyber conmen are launching attacks that trade on surging interest in Apple's iPad tablet computer.

'Catcher In The Rye' Author J.D. Salinger Dies At 91



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'Catcher In The Rye' Author J.D. Salinger Dies At 91
by Neda Ulaby

NPR - January 28, 2010

The famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger has died at his New Hampshire home, his literary representative said in a statement. He was 91 years old.

Jerome David Salinger retreated to a New Hampshire farmhouse in 1953, a few years after he published the high-school classic The Catcher in the Rye. And there he stayed, for the next 50-plus years, scowling at photographers who dared snap his picture.

'I Refuse To Publish'

Salinger's published works include Nine Stories, a short-story collection, and Franny and Zooey, a novella about one of his favorite fictive subjects, the sensitive Glass family. His last published work was a short story that took up almost the whole New Yorker magazine in 1965 — though rumors have Salinger stashing reams of unpublished fiction in a vault.

Salinger rarely explained himself, though the interview requests never ceased. In 1980, reporter Betty Eppes sent her picture along with her request. She was granted one of the only interviews the author ever gave.

"He said, 'I refuse to publish,'" she told NPR in 1997. "'There's a marvelous peace in not publishing,' he said. 'There's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.'"

Catastrophe In The Background

Salinger came from a Jewish-Scots-Irish New York family who imported meat. In the 1930s, he worked briefly as a cruise-ship entertainer. Then came World War II.

"He was a writer formed by the 1940s," says Andrew Delbanco, director of American Studies at Columbia University. "He participated in D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge. There's a sense to my ear in The Catcher in the Rye and stories [of his] that catastrophe lies in the background of everything he feels and writes."

One of his most popular stories, "For Esme — With Love and Squalor," deals with a soldier on leave who finds solace in a conversation with a 13-year-old English girl. Many of Salinger's shell-shocked heroes click best with children, an allegation that was thrown the author's way as well.

Salinger "celebrates their innocence and beauty in a way that to our sensibility is almost unnerving," says Delbanco. Another favorite, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," is about a troubled honeymooner who plays with a little girl in the ocean before killing himself. The protagonist of "Bananafish" is Seymour Glass, the Glass sibling featured most often in Salinger's stories about that peculiar family. Published stories about the Glasses had already established Salinger as a minor literary star by the time he published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951.

'Holden's Indignation ... Struck A Nerve'

The Catcher in the Rye, starring the disaffected adolescent Holden Caulfield, was an instant success, though it puzzled some reviewers. Long before it became a staple in American high schools — and ever since — screenwriters, novelists and actors begged for the rights to adapt it. Salinger seemed appalled by the attention and withdrew to New Hampshire shortly after its publication. He steadfastly refused to sell the rights to anything he ever wrote.

But the book's popularity soared out of sight as counterculture became mainstream culture in the 1960s, according to Delbanco.

"Holden's indignation, his sense of the world, really struck a nerve," he explains. "Everybody carries with them the impulse to say no. [It's] the dissident impulse that is powerful in American culture and literature."

Delbanco traces that impulse from America's first immigrants through Emerson and Thoreau to the Beat writers who were Salinger's contemporaries. He says Salinger empathized with young people as outsiders, and romanticized their straightforward, "non-phoney" impulses.

The title of the book comes from the protagonist's dream to keep everyone from growing up — to preserve the childhood grace Salinger idolized and resist falling headlong into adulthood:

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in a big field of rye and all. ... Thousands of kids, and nobody big at all, nobody big but me. And I'm standing on the edge of this crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to come and catch them. If they start to fall ... and don't look where they're going. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.

The Catcher in the Rye inspired censors, assassins and innumerable ordinary readers, who found in Salinger's hopeful yet disillusioned heroes an uncompromising kindred spirit. Copyright 2010 National Public Radio

Dog Rescued After 75-Mile Trip On Ice Floe



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Dog Rescued After 75-Mile Trip On Ice Floe
by The Associated Press

AP - January 28, 2010

A frightened, shivering dog was rescued after floating 75 miles on an ice floe down Poland's Vistula River and into the Baltic Sea, officials said Thursday.

Now his saviors just have to figure out who really owns him.

Four people have already claimed him, but so far rescuers say there's been no wagging tail of joy from the miracle dog they nicknamed "Baltic."

The dog's frozen odyssey came as Poland suffers through a winter cold snap, with temperatures dipping to below minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

The thick-furred male dog was found adrift Monday 15 miles out in the Baltic Sea by the crew of the Baltica, a Polish ship of ocean scientists carrying out research.

Researcher Natalia Drgas said Thursday the rescue was difficult and at one point it seemed the dog had drowned.

"It was really a tough struggle. It kept slipping into the water and crawling back on top of the ice. At one point it vanished underwater, under the ship and we thought it was the end, but it emerged again and crawled on an ice sheet," Drgas said.

At that point, the crew lowered a pontoon down to the water and a crew member managed to grab the dog by the scruff of his neck and pull him to safety.

Too weak to shake off the frigid water, Baltic was dried and wrapped in blankets. After he warmed up, he was massaged, fed and soon got on his feet to seek company, Drgas said.

A firefighter in Grudziadz, on the Vistula River 60 miles inland from the Bay of Gdansk, told The Associated Press the dog was spotted Saturday floating on ice through the city. Firefighters tried to save him but could not approach the dog because of shifting ice sheets, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Baltica crew, now moored in the port city of Gdynia, have been searching for the dog's owners, ship captain Jerzy Wosachlo said. So far four people have claimed him, but Baltic has not claimed any of them back, Drgas said.

The dog didn't welcome the first two people to come for him, keeping his distance and showing no recognition toward a couple on Wednesday and a woman on Thursday who both said he was theirs. Two other would-be owners were still en route to Gdynia for a possible reunion.

Once in port, the brown-and-black mongrel was taken to a veterinarian, who found him in surprisingly good condition and estimated his age at around 5 or 6 years old. Veterinarian Aleksandra Lawniczak said the 44-pound dog was clearly frightened but in strikingly good shape and had suffered no frostbite.

A dog with thick fur and a layer of fat can survive such cold conditions for as long as eight days if it has water to drink, Lawniczak said.

She described Baltic as a friendly dog who was clearly well treated before getting lost.

Wosachlo said the research team is prepared to adopt Baltic if his original owner is never found. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hacker Breaks Into 49 House Sites, Insults Obama | ABC 7 News

 http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0110/700773.html

Apple Lifts Ban on iPhone Apps Making VoIP Calls Over 3G


Apple Lifts Ban on iPhone Apps Making VoIP Calls Over 3G

In an update to its iPhone SDK, Apple is now permitting apps to make VoIP calls over 3G wireless networks, an option that was once only available over a WiFi connection.

A Consideration of the iPad's Aspect Ratio [Ipad]



"It's not widescreen!" you might've snorted about the iPad's display. Besides the practical consideration that a tablet w/ a 16:9 screen would be more awkward to hold, Lonely Sandwich's diagram explains a lot of what's going on there. [Lonely Sandwich]

Irradiated Software - TwoUp



For Mac OSX

In Short
TwoUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen) via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys). Similar to "tiled windows" functionality available on other operating systems.

For more features such as Full Screen and Multiple Monitor Support, you might try 
SizeUp, the bigger brother of Twoup.

Truetwit - looks like captcha based follower validation... Nice!

 http://truetwit.com/

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Security jobs via liquidmatrix.org

 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2010/01/27/order-of-jobs-hold-the-ipad/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Liquidmatrix+%28Liquidmatrix%29


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Five uncluttering things you can do in your office right now

 * Grab all of those post-it notes off your screen, phone, keyboard, and bulletin board and permanently capture that information. Enter phone numbers into your address book, put to-do items on your calendar, and hide your passwords in a place where snoopers can't find them.
* Gather up all of your writing implements, and test your pens and markers. Get rid of those that don't work, and sharpen all of your pencils. Finally, put all of these items in an organized container that is near where you use them.
* Process an inch of paperwork from your desk's inbox. File, sign, scan, read or return the papers as necessary. Don't put anything back into your inbox.
* Get everything out of your office that doesn't belong there. Walk that dead printer to the IT department for recycling, and give your co-worker back the scissors you snagged off her desk when you couldn't find yours.
* Check your bulletin board for any out-dated office phone lists, take-out menus, or memos, and drop them into the recycling bin or shredder. Rearrange what is left so that the information you reference most often is in the spot that is easiest to see.

D.C. Bag Tax Update: Now With More Porn Mags


D.C. Bag Tax Update: Now With More Porn Mags

The Washington Post tracks the predictable yet irrational response to the city's new 5 cent bag tax, aimed at reducing consumption and keeping the Anacostia River clean. As anticipated, people have lost their minds in incredibly inefficient ways: ...


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Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Twitter Headquarters

 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/westboro_baptist_church_to_picket_twitter_headquar.php

Parents, Read this - The Top 10 Things Children Really Want Their Parents To Do With Them


The Top 10 Things Children Really Want Their Parents To Do With Them

What do you think matters most to your children? You driving them to lessons and practices, or is it the smile and hug you greet them with after school?

Why Hummel Figurines Are Pretty Much Worthless Now


Why Hummel Figurines Are Pretty Much Worthless Now

Prices, [antiques expert Terry] Kovel says, have "gone to hell." "If we have a Hummel whose book value is $325, they are now bringing about $50, sometimes less," wrote estate liquidator Julie Hall, the author of The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents' Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff, in an email. On eBay, ultra-rare Hummels still occasionally fetch big bucks -- 'Adventure Bound' recently sold for $1,135 on eBay. But that's the exception. Many other Hummels don't sell at all -- or sell for less than $50, a once unheard of price for Hummels. ...

Nice ideas, but $110? The Soft-Hearted Pillow, In Memory Of..


The Soft-Hearted Pillow, In Memory Of..

Until now, pet owners had a singular choice for preserving cremated remains; a solid, stationary urn to be positioned on a shelf, forever still. Now comes the Soft-Hearted Pillow, a supple huggable pillow that captures the love and tenderness that pet owners feel for their pets in a secure yet soft, embraceable, warm ...

Live coverage of the Apple Tablet Event, maybe...

 http://live.twit.tv/

Hmm... Outsource your NOC to Romania?

 Network Operations Center / NOC Services / Luxoft

I'm sure these are stand up guys, but don't think senior management would go for it. Just sayin'

The global Network Operations Center, LuxNOC, is based in Bucharest, Romania and staffed by over 100 engineers. The LuxNOC provides managed services for European and North American carriers and enterprises by performing 24/7/365 monitoring of their network infrastructure.


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Palm OS Isn't Dead Yet. Not Quite, Anyhow

Engadget has taken note of the fact that Palm has seemingly removed the Treo Pro–the last Palm phone that wasn't a WebOS phone–from its site. It's the end of an era–the first decade and a half or so of Palm's existence leading up to the announcement of WebOS and the Palm Pre a year ...

Android developers mostly American; Windows Mobile developers mostly greedy


Android developers mostly American; Windows Mobile developers mostly greedy

Distimo, a company that sells tools for app store analytics, released today its December Report, a State of the Union of application development, with a number of interesting findings about who's developing apps and what they're selling them for. ...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The man who blew the whistle on Jack Abramoff tells the story of how he did it - TheHill.com



He was instrumental in shining the light on one of Washington's biggest scandals. He made Jack Abramoff a household name. But few know who he is.

Tom Rodgers preferred to operate strategically behind the scenes as he played a leading role in taking down the most notorious lobbyist on K Street. But now, in an interview with The Hill, he has decided to go public with his story.

S.C. politician's welfare comment called 'immoral'



At a town hall meeting Thursday, Bauer, who is running for governor in his own right now that Sanford is term-limited, said: "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that."

New Walmart Clown Commercial Goes Beyond Low Prices


New Walmart Clown Commercial Goes Beyond Low Prices

Walmart is going out on a limb with a new clown commercial (featured above) that aired during the NFL conference finals. In the recent past, Walmart's marketing strategy was relatively simple: Stream in-store ads and de-clutter stores. But the Walmart clown ad above is actually edgy, a new move for the traditionally mellow advertiser. ...

Apple iTablet: the obvious name?


Apple iTablet: the obvious name?

With all the recent talk about the iSlate, iPad, iSlab, whatever... doesn't it seem like the obvious candidate for the name of Apple's rumored tablet computer is being completely overlooked? Like Apple's first phone that later came to be called the iPhone, isn't the most obvious name for an Apple tablet the iTablet? To support the theory we decided to share the above image that we received from a trusted source and believe to be authentic. It's a picture taken of an Apple Store employee's corporate email after receiving information about the time and place of Wednesday's Apple event. While the content of the email wasn't very enlightening, note the word used in the filename of the second attachment: "itablet." Now this doesn't prove a thing. The administrative assistant who sent the mass email could have been using "itablet' much in the same way that we've been using the term for years as a generic placeholder for the rumored device. Then again, maybe we should heed the wisdom of Occam's Razor when speculating about Apple's naming preference for a 10-inch tablet ...

Leaked intel: Iran's secret bomb plans


Leaked intel: Iran's secret bomb plans

According to classified documents, nuclear research in Iran isn't just for civilians

The fake colors of Hubble photography


The fake colors of Hubble photography

Those wildly colorful Hubble telescope photos...how do they get them to look like that?

The colors in Hubble images, which are assigned for various reasons, aren't always what we'd see if we were able to visit the imaged objects in a spacecraft. We often use color as a tool, whether it is to enhance an object's detail or to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human ...

The Elevator Pitch for Enterprise 2.0


The Elevator Pitch for Enterprise 2.0

We have not been writing too much as of late about Enterprise 2.0. Perhaps that's in part because it seems like the phrase is getting a bit tired.

Perhaps also it is because it feels like so much of the discussion centers around the technology that Enterprise 2.0 is all ...

How Free Software Pioneer Richard Stallman Avoids Internet Distractions [Quotables]


How Free Software Pioneer Richard Stallman Avoids Internet Distractions [Quotables]

"Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe three times a day I connect and transfer mail in and out. Before sending mail, I always review and revise the outgoing messages. That gives me a chance to catch mistakes and faux pas." [Richard Stallman uses this via ...


Google Voice Comes to iPhone, Apple Be Damned


Google Voice Comes to iPhone, Apple Be Damned

Google Voice comes to the iPhone — say what? Well, it's a web app, which means Google has found a nifty way to bypass the Apple approval process. It's an impressive implementation of HTML5 that is so responsive you may not care if Google's Voice app for the iPhone remains in limbo ...

Get Paid What You're Worth


Get Paid What You're Worth

Before you take your next job offer, figure out how to get paid what you're really worth.

Google attackers posed as employees' friends | Security | News | PC Pro



The Chinese hackers who broke into companies such as Google and Adobe posed as friends of the companies' employees, according to a new report.

The highly sophisticated attack saw the hackers target specific employees within the companies who would have access to sensitive data.

The hackers then broke into the social-networking accounts of friends of the employees and used those accounts to send links to malicious sites, hoping that the employees would be more likely to trust links sent by known acquaintances...

Mass arrests after Nigeria clash


Mass arrests after Nigeria clash

Police arrest more than 300 people suspected of being involved in deadly religious clashes in central Nigeria.

Woman Uses iPhone App to Get Pregnant


Woman Uses iPhone App to Get Pregnant

After four years of infertility, all it took was a simple download for 30-year-old Lena Bryce to get pregnant, making her the proud mother of Britain's very first "iPhone baby."

Last week we learned that your iPhone can save your life, this week, it turns out that it can create life as well. Bryce, who desperately wanted a child, told The Sun: "It began to weigh heavily on us. We were considering IVF and adoption when [my husband] Dudley gave me the iPhone for my 30th. I typed in 'get pregnant' and downloaded five ...

Metro employees suspended for rider incident


Metro employees suspended for rider incident

Two Metro employees have been suspended after three passengers, including a 90-year-old woman, disappeared for five hours after leaving an adult care center.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Wow! iPhone gets a full-size, QWERTY keyboard. Will Apple crush it?


Wow! iPhone gets a full-size, QWERTY keyboard. Will Apple crush it?

A company called Ion is showing two prototype full-size keyboards for the Apple iPhone. One uses flat, MacBook-style keys, and the other standard PC keyboard keys. Called the iType, the keyboard has its own battery, which may also be used to charge the iPhone. Will Apple allow ...

50 Apple Tablets Already Online, Apps Downloaded: Analytics Firm Flurry


50 Apple Tablets Already Online, Apps Downloaded: Analytics Firm Flurry

Flurry, an internet analytics company which tracks mobile applications, has tracked down 50 devices it says are almost certain to be Apple's expected tablet. It says these machine have downloaded some 200 different apps, and Flurry places them inside Apple's Cupertino ...

RT @scottprice_geek Stress Testing Vs. Performance Testing - Different Opinions http://ow.ly/16q7hW


Scott Price (@scottprice_geek)


New Blog Post: Stress Testing Vs. Performance Testing - Different Opinions http://ow.ly/16q7hW

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Download David Risley's Six Figure Blogger Blueprint for Free Today

If you are interested in earning money from your blog and have a little spare time over the weekend – grab yourself a copy of the Six Figure Blogger Blueprint by David Risley.

It's a free report that David re-released today and it talks Bloggers through some great introductory stuff on how to make money blogging – but not in the way that most bloggers do ...

Square for iPhone Demo by Kevin Rose


Square for iPhone Demo by Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose, owner off Digg.com, gives us a demo of Square for iPhone. The picture you see above and the video inside is just a prototype so the final product may look a bit different. Basically what this will let you do is charge someones credit card right on your iPhone. You just need to type in the amount you are charging, they will slide their card and they write their signature on the iPhone. It will even tell you the location of where the charge took place, this is good for fraud. This should be out in a few months according to Kevin and I know I can't wait to check it out. This could come in handy. Take a peak inside to get the demo from Kevin ...

iPhoneAppFreelancer.com - Turn Your Ideas Into Apps


iPhoneAppFreelancer.com - Turn Your Ideas Into Apps

The goal of the iPhone Freelancer site is to bring entrepreneurs and businesses closer to seasoned iPhone application developers and make the collaboration between these two groups not only possible but also fruitful. The fact remains that the development of apps is not for everybody, and ideas which can be potentially lucrative end up being nothing more than that until someone has the vey same thought and comes up with the app that you had once envisioned. That is certainly frustrating, and the objective of this site is to let any individual user or businessman translate his ideas into practice and have them find their way into the App ...

Man dies after Arlington police use stun gun to subdue him


Man dies after Arlington police use stun gun to subdue him

Arlington County Police say a man has died after a struggle with officers, who used a stun gun in an attempt to subdue him.

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Overheard: Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet "Will Be The Most Important Thing I've Ever Done."

"This will be the most important thing I've ever done" – Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet.

We haven't heard this first hand, but we've heard it multiple times second and third hand from completely independent sources. Senior Apple execs and friends of Jobs are telling people that he's about as excited about the upcoming Apple Tablet as he's ever been. Coming from the man who has created so much, that's saying something. ...

App Crate


App Crate

The Boy Scouts of America have a motto nearly every adult male knows by heart.  The motto?  Be prepared.  Although I was never more than a Cub Scout myself, I've always admired that motto and, whenever possible, tried to live my life according to it. ...

UK firms warned of 'bumpy ride'


UK firms warned of 'bumpy ride'

UK companies should prepare for 'a bumpy recovery', despite a fall in the number of profit warnings, a report says.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Why You Should Look at Your Company as a "Small Business"


Why You Should Look at Your Company as a "Small Business"

Want to be the next Bill Gates? My buddy, Maryelene Delbourg-Delphis, explains why you should "Look at Your Company as a Small Business" in order to reach your goal. Check it out to learn why saplings are saplings, not little big trees. ...

15 Creative Elevator Adverts - http://bit.ly/77nt9a

 15 Creative Elevator Adverts - http://bit.ly/77nt9a

Walmart Customer Arrested For Urinating On Steaks


Walmart Customer Arrested For Urinating On Steaks

Police say Jenkins was arrested after they responded to a call from an employee at the Wal-Mart store on Atlantic Blvd. NE, claiming a man walked up to the meat counter and began urinating on the steaks, destroying more than $600 dollars in meat. ...

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Unify the new American 'tea party'? Good luck with that.

An attempt to solidify the tea party movement with a convention next month in Nashville is now looking like it could backfire. So far, pragmatism, not party politics, has boosted the tea party's profile. ...

Facebook Gives Harman His Name Back, Apologizes


Facebook Gives Harman His Name Back, Apologizes

An update to our post last night – Facebook Snatches User's Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International. Facebook says they'll be giving Harman Bajwa his /harman vanity URL back shortly: ...

Twitter Disables Widget Feature Due To Security Glitch http://ow.ly/16p5Hm

 Twitter Disables Widget Feature Due To Security Glitch http://ow.ly/16p5Hm

Abortion in spotlight with Roe v. Wade anniversary, Kansas trial


Abortion in spotlight with Roe v. Wade anniversary, Kansas trial

The trial of a man charged with killing an abortion doctor in Kansas opened Friday on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights. A precedent could be set if the defendant is allowed to argue he believed deadly force was needed to save the lives of unborn ...

Nmap 5.20 Released


Nmap 5.20 Released

ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. ...

Venezuela oil 'may double Saudis'


Venezuela oil 'may double Saudis'

A US study of Venezuela's oil could give the country double the reserves of current world-leader Saudi Arabia.

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Trijicon sights: How the 'Jesus gun' misfired

Biblical references on rifle sights have been an open secret among soldiers. But it's become an embarrassment for the Pentagon, causing Michigan gunmaker Trijicon to send 'removal kits.' ...

Does this video show the real Apple tablet in action?


Does this video show the real Apple tablet in action?

It comes from a video sharing site in the Netherlands. Real, fake or something else? 

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Facebook Snatches User's Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International

This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his Facebook vanity Url – Facebook.com/Harman – was unceremoniously revoked yesterday for violating Facebook's policies. His new Facebook URL is the much less memorable ...


Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Earth Asteroids


Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Earth Asteroids

The United States will not reach its 2020 goal of detecting all large asteroids that may collide with Earth, a new blue-ribbon panel of scientists has concluded.

D.C. embezzler's ill-gotten goods sold to highest bidder


D.C. embezzler's ill-gotten goods sold to highest bidder

Instead of tiptoeing to Tunisia with her stolen millions, Harriette Walters hoarded designer bags. The former tax manager -- and the most brazen embezzler (embezzleress?) in city government history -- bought purse after purse on the taxpayers' dime. When she was arrested in 2007, the crime scene ...

Inside the "mind" of a Twitter bot posing as a real person: http://j.mp/5xxOcP

 Inside the "mind" of a Twitter bot posing as a real person: http://j.mp/5xxOcP

Nigeria bodies stuffed in wells


Nigeria bodies stuffed in wells

More victims of deadly religious clashes in central Nigeria are discovered, with scores of bodies stuffed in wells.

"After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive," it said in a statement.

Twitter Starts Rolling Out Local Trends (Picture)


Twitter Starts Rolling Out Local Trends (Picture)

As you can see in the picture, Twitter has started to roll out its new Local Trends feature, which takes the standard Trending Topics area and uses Twitter's geolocation feature to make it based on location. Twitter team members Ryan Sarver and Raffi Krikorian have confirmed ...

Ex-Pentagon man jailed for spying


Ex-Pentagon man jailed for spying

Former Pentagon official James Fondren is convicted of spying for China and is jailed for three years.

AT&T Insider Reports Losing iPhone Exclusivity 1/27


AT&T Insider Reports Losing iPhone Exclusivity 1/27

Inside of AT&T, we are hearing that having the iPhone is hurting AT&T's image because they are the only company to carry it. We don't remember hearing about AT&T's "horrible network" before the iPhone--do you? The iPhone itself doesn't handle the switch from 3G to EDGE very well, so more calls are dropped when network congestion ...

Saturday, January 23, 2010

GIVESEATTLE.ORG - John Roderick

 Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWX2DNIOdxo&feature=youtube_gdata


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Review: Monoprice's iPhone leather-cased battery backup is another great deal


Review: Monoprice's iPhone leather-cased battery backup is another great deal

Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, Reviews, iPhone, iPod touch

We like Monoprice around here. They are a wonderful source for cables and iPhone battery backups as well as lots of other accessories and add-ons. We covered their 2200 mAh battery dongle a few months back and nearly everyone who bought one was quite happy including our own Auntie TUAW. The price was great at US$14.50 when reviewed and currently up just about 75 cents to a still absurdly cheap US$15.23. One problem people had with it was that if left in your pocket, the dongle could get loose and stop charging the iPhone. Pushing it back into place corrected that, but it was an inelegant solution. ...


Unanswered Email Undermines Your Productivity [Time Management]


Unanswered Email Undermines Your Productivity [Time Management]

We often blame our lack of time-management skills for an overflowing email inbox. Lifehack.org's Francis Wade says our overflowing inboxes might be the reason we're so unproductive in the first place. ...


Firefox 3.6 Portable Available for Your Thumb Drive Needs [Downloads]


Firefox 3.6 Portable Available for Your Thumb Drive Needs [Downloads]

Windows: It's always exciting when a new release of your favorite browser comes out, but if you're a Firefox Portable user, you've always got to twiddle your thumbs a touch longer. Well twiddle no longer; Firefox 3.6 Portable is available for ...


New Best of the Web talks: Richard Dawkins, Taylor Mali


New Best of the Web talks: Richard Dawkins, Taylor Mali

Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe

At the Royal Institution in 1991, Richard Dawkins asks us to look at our universe with new eyes. Packed with big questions and illuminating visuals, this memorable journey through the history of life magnifies the splendor of evolution and our place in it. ...

Twitter terror? Man arrested for venting about canceled flight.


Twitter terror? Man arrested for venting about canceled flight.

Briton Paul Chambers says he was only venting when he wrote on Twitter that he might blow an airport "sky-high." He's the first person arrested in Britain for a tweet, and he's banned for life from his local airport. ...


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AT&T and Verizon to Carry Apple's Tablet [RUMOR]

Here's another Apple Tablet rumor for you: Both AT&T and Verizon will carry the Tablet in the United States, subsidizing the up-front price of the device if you sign a contract to pay for their 3G data networks. ...


Write like a pro with ZenTap Pro on the iPhone


Write like a pro with ZenTap Pro on the iPhone

ZenTap Pro is here on the iPhone to make us pros at text editing. This application from Aram Julhakyan ensures that we create a flawless piece of writing when we are texting or emailing someone on our iPhone. ...


Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September <--Thanks M$...


Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September

It turns out that Microsoft has known for four months about a critical security flaw that was used to hack Google, Adobe and other companies but didn't patch it until this week.


US firm backs down over Bible references on army gun sights <--WTF?


US firm backs down over Bible references on army gun sights

A US military contractor says it will stop engraving Biblical references on rifles used by the US army, as well as the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

The inscriptions - which include "2COR4:6" and "JN8:12", relating to verses in the books of II Corinthians and John - appear in raised lettering at the end of the stock number.

Apple Tablet Looks Like a Flattened First-Gen iPhone, To Have 3G, GPS, 30-Pin Connector?


Apple Tablet Looks Like a Flattened First-Gen iPhone, To Have 3G, GPS, 30-Pin Connector?

AppleInsider is reporting today that people familiar with Apple's tablet say that this (image below) image is the closest mockup of an Apple tablet they've seen. According to their source, the device will closely resemble a first generation iPhone "that's met its match with a rolling pin," right down to the home button. You'll also see a volume rocker, a headset jack, speaker and microphone, GPS, 3G connectivity, and a 30-pin iPod-style dock connector. To top it off, the enclosure is said to be an aluminum unibody, a la ...

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Designers Unearth Apple Tablet Prototypes — From 1983

Designers at Frog Design recently uncovered photos of Apple tablet prototypes they created for Steve Jobs more than 25 years ago.


FlashCookiesView Shows Exactly How Web Sites are Tracking You [Downloads]


FlashCookiesView Shows Exactly How Web Sites are Tracking You [Downloads]

Windows only: Portable utility FlashCookiesView displays a list of those hidden Flash cookies that web sites use to track where you are going, and allows you to easily delete them. ...


Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript


Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Have you wanted to build an iPhone app but didn't know where to start? Me too! I'd like to build applications that allow me to control electronics on an XBee network remotely via a host computer, or hack an interface to the powermeter on my bicycle. So it was very exciting to be at this month's Geek Dinner in Providence RI, which doubled as the launch party for Jonathan Stark's new book, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, edited by O'Reilly Senior Editor and Providence Geeks co-founder Brian Jepson. Jonathan discussed the pros and cons of developing "native apps" versus "web apps" for the rapidly changing mobile phone platforms. He also discussed several nice open source tools for facilitating iPhone application development. This book is perhaps the most informative, accessible, and concise guide to iPhone coding I have come across. Very ...


Send tweets automatically during a Keynote presentation with Keynote Tweet


Send tweets automatically during a Keynote presentation with Keynote Tweet

Filed under: Software, How-tos, Productivity

Imagine if, as Steve Jobs moves through each slide of his Keynote presentation, he also has the telepathic powers to automatically tweet information related to the slide. ...

Rumor: Apple to announce Verizon iPhone on the 27th


Rumor: Apple to announce Verizon iPhone on the 27th

Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone

A tablet still might not be the only new hardware we see from Apple next week -- the rumor mill is still churning out news that the "one more thing" next week will be a brand new version of the iPhone, set up on the Verizon network. Obviously we've heard a lot about this one before, but this time it comes not from an anonymous source, but Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek, who says that not only will we see the new hardware as expected, but we'll have those nice red maps on it as soon as June of this ...

Fairfax County sets Tysons Corner approval process timeline


Fairfax County sets Tysons Corner approval process timeline

Five years and dozens of workshops later, Fairfax County officials have presented a revised blueprint for redeveloping Tysons Corner and have set a timeline for the approval process. ...


Friday, January 22, 2010

3 Essential Twitter-Enhancing Sites - The Consumerist

 http://consumerist.com/2010/01/3-essential-twitter-enhancing-sites.html

Huitter.com/mutuality2 - New version of Mutuality. Twitter cheats, tweaks, tools

 http://huitter.com/mutuality2/

Killing ROI


Killing ROI

How do you measure success? If this were a high school cheer, it would probably end in: "R-O-I!"

Ahh, the elusive ROI is Social Media. If yesterday's Blog post (Social Media Gurus - That Old Chestnut) didn't provoke some thought and commentary, then trying to crack the elusive Social Media ROI will surely get your noodle boiling. Richard Binhammer (from Dell's Social Media team) gave a private presentation yesterday and when one of the audience members asked about how Dell measures the ROI of their Social Media strategy, Binhammer responded that ROI was nothing more than an accounting term and probably has little to no place when it comes to measuring the success of any Social Media marketing ...

Man pleads guilty to gang recruitment at Fairfax High School


Man pleads guilty to gang recruitment at Fairfax High School

A 43-year-old man who was a member of the Bloods street gang pleaded guilty Wednesday to recruiting new members on the campus of Fairfax High School.

Monday, January 18, 2010

FoursquareX: Foursquare Addicts Need To Get This Desktop Fix Immediately


FoursquareX: Foursquare Addicts Need To Get This Desktop Fix Immediately

Use of the location-based service Foursquare is on the up and up. But it's use is mainly limited to mobile phones currently. That makes sense since the service is all about sending your location when on the go. But it would be nice sometimes to use it on your computer (beyond visiting the rudimentary mobile site from your browser). Enter ...


Key ministry officials asked not to use Blackberry for emails http://ow.ly/16mcZD

 Key ministry officials asked not to use Blackberry for emails http://ow.ly/16mcZD

Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal?


Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal?

theodp writes "Not too surprisingly, Apple was not amused by Valleywag's announcement of an Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt, which offered cash prizes ranging from 10K-100K for info about the much-anticipated new Apple device. The promo prompted a threatening cease-and-desist letter from Apple's lawyers, which Valleywag deemed the most concrete evidence yet that there may indeed be a tablet in the works. But is the Scavenger Hunt really illegal, as the attorney claimed? The jury's still out, but Slate concludes Apple's got a pretty good case, although it notes that Valleywag's unconventional Scavenger Hunt 'stunt' may not really be all that different from 'reporting' practiced by mainstream publications like the ...


Lego router works!


Lego router works!

Too cool - Luke rehoused his WRT54GL's PCB in an entirely Lego-built enclosure. He was also kind enough to provide downloadable instructions on his blog. Anyone out there been using Lego for their DIY electronics projects? [via Byphenyl's Twitter ...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

The Greatest Archive of Junk Store Cameras [Photography]


The Greatest Archive of Junk Store Cameras [Photography]

Laugh at the website's design if you want, but the subject matter depicted therein is un-mockable: Decades upon decades of sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly cameras bought from junk stores. Check out some of our favorites after the jump. ...


MA-Sen: Globe Explains What Brown Stands For


MA-Sen: Globe Explains What Brown Stands For

In endorsing Martha Coakley, the Boston Globe makes the case for Coakley:

Voters who want to cast a critical eye on Washington without destroying the Democratic coalition should go for Coakley. Her quiet diligence in pursuing some of the most thankless, but deeply important, tasks in prosecuting child abusers, scouring the fine print of Big Dig contracts to bring back hundreds of millions of dollars, and securing $60 million from Goldman Sachs for its subprime mortgage abuses, contrasts sharply with Brown's five-year record of voting no in a state Senate run by the opposite ...


Mauritius to Apple: Thanks for the iPhones, can we haz iTunes Store?


Mauritius to Apple: Thanks for the iPhones, can we haz iTunes Store?

Filed under: iTS, Apple, iPhone

Recently, the people of the island republic of Mauritius have been able to purchase the iPhone 3G and 3GS through mobile phone provider Orange, but there's one major problem -- there's no access to an iTunes Store. This brings back memories of the original iPhone, when there was no iTunes Store to tempt iPhone owners with its wares. Can you imagine? No apps, no songs, and no videos for purchase directly from your phone? It boggles the ...


Hey, That's Not How You Build a Log Cabin

 http://gizmodo.com/5449950/hey-thats-not-how-you-build-a-log-cabin


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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki | Workbench

 http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/2818/adam-curry-caught-sticky-wiki


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Network flaw causes scary Web error

 A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information.



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Friday, January 15, 2010

ShmooCon 2010 - Welcome



Different • ShmooCon is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues. The first day is a single track of speed talks, One Track Mind. The next two days, there are three tracks: Break It!, Build It!, and Bring It On!.



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De-ICE.net Pen Test Disks



The PenTest LiveCDs are the creation of Thomas Wilhelm, who was transferred to a penetration test team at the company he worked for. Needing to learn as much about penetration testing as quickly as possible, Thomas began looking for both tools and targets. He found a number of tools, but no usable targets to practice against. Eventually, in an attempt to narrow the learning gap, Thomas created PenTest scenarios

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Klava Helps You Hone Your Touch Typing Skills [Typing]


Klava Helps You Hone Your Touch Typing Skills [Typing]

If you've been meaning to get around to working on your lackluster keyboard chops Klava can help you hone your touch typing skills without having to install any apps or sign up for any services. ...

Why Adobe’s Bum Rush of the iPhone Doesn’t Matter


Why Adobe's Bum Rush of the iPhone Doesn't Matter

Apple has done all it can to keep Flash off the iPhone. It has used about every excuse in the book — too memory intensive, a drain on battery power, what have you — even though Adobe has pretty much addressed most of these issues. Flash is ready for the iPhone but Apple is not ready for ...

Workhouse Arts Center - Lorton VA

 http://www.workhousearts.org/

Really nice art center in the old Lorton prison. Great collection of
artists, amazing works. Watch the artists as they work. Like the
Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria (VA) without the crowds or
parking problems.

TwitterGadget iGoogle Twitter Client: How to install TwitterGadget for Gmail

 http://www.twittergadget.com/how_to_install.php

Why Michael Steele Is Wrong About Harry Reid

 http://www.theroot.com/views/why-michael-steele-wrong-about-harry-reid

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Palm CEO: “I’ve Never Used an iPhone”


Palm CEO: "I've Never Used an iPhone"

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein came out with an utterly unbelievable line during an interview at CES today, claiming he'd never used an iPhone.

Rubinstein, named a geek of the year 2009 by Fast Company, lives in the shadow of Apple's hugely successful smartphone as Palm struggles to return to its former ...


Neat resource of vintage ads

 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/neat-resource-of-vintage-ads.html

Friday, January 8, 2010

Datacenter of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ("SWIFT") Culpeper, VA

 http://wikimapia.org/7712236/Datacenter-of-Society-for-Worldwide-Interbank-Financial-Telecommunication-SWIFT

SWIFT



SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations with speed, certainty and confidence. Over 8,300 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 208 countries trust us every day to exchange millions of standardised financial messages.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Want to Make Money on Twitter? Take a Look at How Dell Does It : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum

 http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/want-to-make-money-on-twitter-take-a-look-at-how-dell-does-it-jennifer-van-grove

Dark Reading | U.S. Software Maker Accuses China Of Building 'Green Dam' On Stolen Code



Cybersitter, a small U.S. maker of Web security and content filtering software, is suing the Chinese government, two Chinese firms, and seven PC makers over the use of its code in the Green Dam Youth Escort program.

According to news reports, the $2.2 billion lawsuit accuses the defendants of misappropriating trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement, and conspiracy.

The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Los Angeles, alleges that the Chinese makers of Green Dam illegally copied more than 3,000 lines of code from Cybersitter's filtering software.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Rumor: Verizon and Apple are at odds over pricing on CDMA iPhone


Rumor: Verizon and Apple are at odds over pricing on CDMA iPhone

Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Apple, iPhone

Analyst Maynard J. Um told investors today that while the rumored Verizon/Apple deal to bring a CDMA iPhone to the big V is still on the table, it's hit a snag over a pricing disagreement. Apparently Apple is used to being paid about $700 for every iPhone sold through AT&T, while Verizon pays out just $450 for Motorola's Droid, and the two companies are at odds over how much money should change hands for iPhones sold over the network. Seems like there should be a compromise somewhere in there, but of course any delays in making an agreement mean delays in actually releasing the ...


Three Billion Apps Downloaded From Apple’s App Store - http://bit.ly/6QlU50



Saturday, January 2, 2010

Ben Heck's PS3 Slim laptop pops up for sale on Ebay


Ben Heck's PS3 Slim laptop pops up for sale on Ebay

You're probably already familiar with the work of modder / hacker extraordinaire, Benjamin Heckendorn... and if you're not, well, maybe it's time to familiarize yourself with his work. Regardless, some of his fantastic handiwork has shown up on Ebay for sale, and while we don't want to counsel you to foolishlessly spend loads of hard-earned cash, this is bound to be an heirloom one day. The listing here is for Ben's PS3 Slim laptop -- the one modded from a 17-inch Gateway 1775w LCD with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution -- and its currently at around $1,075.00 with 16 bids on it and roughly 3 days remaining. So if this kind of thing strikes your fancy (and we know that it does) hop to it! Check out our segment of The Engadget Show we filmed at Ben's evil laboratory after the ...


Liquid Image outs Summit Series Snow Camera goggles ahead of CES


This would be awesome!

Liquid Image outs Summit Series Snow Camera goggles ahead of CES

Liquid Image has just announced new camera-equipped ski masks, swimming goggles and scuba masks, just in time for them to be unveiled at CES 2010. The Summit Series Snow Camera Goggle 335 boasts a 5MP still camera capable of shooting D1 720 x 480 resolution video at 30 frames per second with audio. It's got 16MB of built-in flash memory, expandable to 16GB via its microSD / SDHC slot. Other features include large buttons on the side of the goggles which are easy to press while wearing gloves and and a light inside the goggles which indicates when recording. The goggles are estimated to get about 2,200 still images or over 2 hours of video per charge on their lithium ion battery. Liquid Image expects to ship the Summit Series goggles in the summer of 2010, with a price of $149. Full press release is after the ...


Ten Million Apple Tablets? A Little Historical Frame of Reference


Ten Million Apple Tablets? A Little Historical Frame of Reference

Apple rumor of the moment: Former Google, Microsoft, and Apple executive Kai-Fu Lee has blogged that he's heard Apple thinks it can sell ten million "iSlate" tablet computers in its first year on the market. (I persist in putting quotes around "iSlate" since we don't know if that's the product's name, assuming there is a product at ...


Finding a place for an Apple tablet


Finding a place for an Apple tablet

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Rumors

John Gruber has written a nice substantial post asking a question I've often asked myself here: who really needs an Apple tablet? He says that he's heard the tablet is real, and that it's still a well-kept secret -- all of the rumors we've heard so far are still just rumors. But the real question behind the device is what it's for. Like Gruber, I don't believe it's just a tablet PC running OS X -- the MacBook is already portable and powerful enough, in all of its incarnations, to serve that purpose, even if it doesn't have a touchscreen or a smaller footprint. ...


Official LEGO iPhone App Released


Official LEGO iPhone App Released

LEGO Systems, Inc. has just released an official LEGO application for the iPhone. Self-described as the official LEGO app for the iPhone, it lets you take portraits with the camera and transform them into LEGO masterpieces with the tap of a shiny, well-designed button. The overall app is very simple, pretty and well-made so it's a must-have for any true LEGO ...