The Big Picture: Over one month after the initial explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, crude oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico, and oil slicks have slowly reached as far as 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes. According to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, more than 65 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline [...]
Cupidtino, a new online date-finding service for Apple fans: Cupidtino is a beautiful new dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple products! Why? Diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in common – personalities, creative professions, a similar sense of style and aesthetics, taste, and of course a [...]
From Mark Jardine at TapBots (the creators of the excellent Convertbot iPhone app) has written about their recent App Store rejection: We’re no strangers to silly app rejection emails from Apple, but this one seems to take the cake (at least in our opinion). Convertbot 1.4 was rejected because our icon for Time is too [...]
Time: Cursive started to lose its clout back in the 1920s, when educators theorized that because children learned to read by looking at books printed in manuscript rather than cursive, they should learn to write the same way. By World War II, manuscript, or print writing, was in standard use across the U.S. Today schoolchildren [...]
NPR has a fascinating story about video footage shot on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission that was lost (possibly even destroyed) by NASA itself accidentally: Lebar and others spent hours and hours in a vast government storage facility known as the Washington National Records Center, a place that Lebar compares to the giant [...]
From Apple: Dear MobileMe member: As a final reminder, on July 7, 2009, the .Mac HomePage web application will be discontinued. As of this date, you will no longer be able to create new pages or edit existing pages using HomePage. Any pages you’ve already published will remain live at their current web address for [...]
It happened last year, and it’s happening again this year: the iTunes servers are crumbling under the load of millions of users upgrading to 3.0. I hate to say, but I told you so.
TUAW: One of the most awaited features, push notifications, requires a constant data connection. While the iPhone 3G can handle data and voice simultaneously when using a 3G/HSDPA connection, on EDGE (the cellular data service that the original iPhone uses) you are unable to take calls and maintain a persistent data connection. As a result, [...]
Relevant Magazine: In the 1970’s, every self-respecting music fan had a basement or bedroom that contained big, big speakers and crates of vinyl. In the 1980’s, the CD player became popular, and the shiny plastic discs were still mostly played through larger home stereo units. In 2009, a large amount of music listening is done [...]
Over the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by social media – and those trying to make a buck off of it as “social media gurus.” So what does CNN do? Give me someone else to dislike: Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful [...]
