Normally, I don’t care about new Apple stores, but my mother’s family is from the next town over from Greensboro, NC, where Apple is set to open one soon. It seems (according to TUAW) that things haven’t been all smooth sailing for you-know-who: Apparently Greensboro won’t see the story by December 25th, as there’s apparently [...]
NY Times: Mr. Shanbhag, who lives in Boston but happened to be in Mumbai when the attacks began on Wednesday, described the gunfire on his Twitter feed — the “thud, thud, thud” of shotguns and the short bursts of automatic weapons — and uploaded photos to his personal blog. Mr. Shanbhag, an assistant professor at [...]
I took apart an iBook G4 today. I do that most days, but today I documented it:
Ars Technica: To lock users out a missing notebook, the users sends a text message to the notebook with a command reading “lockdown now PC” or “PC Shutoff.” The text message sends a command to the notebook via the cellular broadband modem and, even if the notebook is turned off when the command is received, [...]
From the NY Daily News: A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an “out-of-control” mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store’s front doors and trampled him, police said. The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines [...]
PCWorld chimes in on the Apple netbook: While other vendors scramble to keep up with the Joneses, Apple is well-known for creating innovative products that shake up staid categories. The prospect of an inexpensive mobile computer that melds the netbook form factor with technologies and concepts from the iPhone is intriguing. Could it really happen? [...]
The iPhone Dev Team has made an interesting announcement today: …the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s [...]
TUAW pointed to this site earlier today, which explains how to make an apple pie that looks like a Mac mini. This is amazing: We’re certainly not the first to put an Apple logo on a pie, but we think this implementation raises the bar a bit. Unlike a regular pie, you need to start [...]
No matter how many times I read this: The slipping economy will force Apple to address a glaring omission in its lineup: the lack of a lower-priced laptop, said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research Inc. “Apple is facing the possibility that as the economic news gets worse, that they’re increasingly pricing themselves [...]
Ars on their new 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display: The real nicety of the display is that Mac OS X knows when you have attached the display to use its integrated devices. That is, when you’ve hooked it all up, it will use the iSight in the display instead of the notebook’s, and it will [...]
