512 Pixels

Farewell, plastic friend.

I’m pretty sure the iPad is holding the knife in this scenario.

Apple stock has gained nearly $100 since Steve’s passing.

Dave Morin, Path CEO:

We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path.

In Path 2.0.6, released to the App Store today, you are prompted to opt in or out of sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path. If you accept and later decide you would like to revoke this access, please send an email to [email protected] and we will promptly see to it that your contact information is removed.

Good move, but I don’t see how it could have played out any other way.

Holy moly, this app is awesome. Be sure to check out Federico’s review. There’s a certain Memphis-based blog featured in a ton of the screenshots.

Weird. I thought Paul was dead.

These are the only cases I’d ever put on my iPhone.

via The Next Web

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Federico Viticci:

Earlier today Apple published two EFI Firmware updates for its iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro lines. The updates, available through Software Update or Apple’s website, bring Lion Internet Recovery to more Mac models from 2010 — the mid 2010 iMac, late 2010 MacBook Air, and early 2010 MacBook Pro.

Cool.

This week, Myke and I chatted about the stages of sleep and the body’s natural clock.

And nocturnal erections. It was uncomfortable.

Ungeniused 019 was made possible by Phraseology, an awesome writing app for the iPad. You can read my review of it here.

Florian Pichler:

NoMoreiTunes is an extension for Safari 5 that stops iTunes Web Preview pages and other links to the iTunes store from automatically launching iTunes on your Mac. On top of that it shows a familiar looking bar on the top edge of the browser viewport which informs you that the plugin has worked and let‘s you launch iTunes when you need it.

This is might be my favorite Safari plug-in. It doesn’t do a lot, but it scratches me right where I had an itch.

Update: It seems that I linked to this once before, but it is worth linking to again.

Not cool, Path. Not cool at all. Update: Path CEO Dave Morin, in a comment on that post:

We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and efficiently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.

We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.

Abdel Ibrahim:

For two and a half weeks, I mulled the Lumia 800’s merits. It’s a beautiful, sturdy phone with a great battery, a good camera, and a decent screen. But was it good enough to replace my year-and-a-half-old iPhone 4? I wondered. Well, it hasn’t. As impressive as the Lumia is, its ecosystem leaves a lot to be desired, and the apps I’ve come to know and love are nowhere to be found in Microsoft Marketplace.

I also feel that a smartphone ought to double as a pocketable computer. Unfortunately, the Lumia doesn’t fit that bill either. Too many pieces are missing from Mango. I am, however, confident that Microsoft and Nokia will hit their stride down the road, and when they do, the Lumia will be a force to be reckoned with. It’s just not there yet.

If anything, click through for the amazing photos on his review.