It really feels like the stylus is making a comeback, in very specific use cases.
I, for one, love my Cosmonaut.
Year: 2012
Garret Murray, on the Das Keyboard
I’ll tell you this, friends: It’s hideous and it’s loud and it’s heavy and it’s huge… but I love typing on it. I love the feeling of rattling off a long paragraph of text uninterrupted while the air is filled with insanely loud clacking and I love the way the keys feel as I strike them. If I can just control my gag reflex each morning when I walk into the office and see the thing, everything will work out just fine.
If.
I feel the same way about my Extended II, except for the looks. I love this beige behemoth.
‘Bartending’ in the Press
See what the press has been saying about Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius.
Santorum To Suspend Campaign
On a related note, I meant to link to this a while back, but didn’t. As a liberal Christian, I won’t be sad this joker go.
On Mike Wallace and Depression
But in 2005, Wallace made news of his own when he acknowledged his longtime war with depression – a fight that nearly caused him to take his own life.
“I came perilously close to committing suicide,” Wallace wrote in his memoir “Between You and Me.”
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Going public with his struggle did much to help others know they weren’t alone, said Dr. Charles Raison, CNNhealth’s mental health expert.
Telling everyone that someone as famously intelligent and successful as Wallace could be taken down by the disease helped to lessen the social stigma that often comes with the label “clinically depressed,” said Raison, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
On the Thunderbolt Display
The 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt Display is the North American market leader for LED LCD computer screens sized 24 inches and up, accounting for 26.2 percent of the market.
Though Apple leads sales in that market segment, its position has fallen considerably from 2010, when the Apple Cinema Display accounted for 53.3 percent of LED LCD monitors 24 inches and up, according to new data from NPD’s DisplaySearch.
While I love my 27-inch display, unless you have a ton of Thunderbolt accessories, its hard to ignore panels made by other companies that sell for far less.
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Did Facebook Buy Instagram Out of Fear?
Facebook was scared shitless and knew that for first time in its life it arguably had a competitor that could not only eat its lunch, but also destroy its future prospects. Why? Because Facebook is essentially about photos, and Instagram had found and attacked Facebook’s achilles heel — mobile photo sharing.
This makes a lot of sense.
T-Mobile Welcomes Unlocked iPhones
Though T-Mobile remains the only major carrier in the US without an official iPhone in their lineup, now that AT&T is officially unlocking eligible, off-contract iPhones, T-Mobile is welcoming them with open arms — and cheap family plans. T-Mobile already had over 1 million unofficially unlocked iPhones on their network, and now that people can run iPhones without having to worry about jailbreak and software updates, it looks like they expect those numbers to rise.
AT&T Unlocking In-Contract iPhones for Deployed Service Members
On Apps and Money
Instagram customers who feel betrayed: you either pay for a product, or it pays for you. Twitter is going the same way, eventually.
In the world of VC-funded services, this is the cold, hard truth.
A New ‘Sleek’ iPhone Coming?
According to Mac Rumors, the next iPhone might look a lot like a small iPad 2 or 3.
The site describes a phone with a flat back with rounded corners, unibody construction and 4G/LTE connectivity.
While I usually don’t get excited about rumors like this, I can’t help myself this time. That thing looks really good.