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It can help you hide a body.

Apple has published a support article outlining correct steps for using multiple AppleIDs on a single device. This is a life-saver for someone like me — I’ve got iCloud account for Mail, Contacts, etc., and another AppleID for iTunes purchases.

Brett Kelly has revamped his website. It looks great.

Well, iCloud is here, and as it goes with such things, there seem to be a few issues.

Mine involves Mail on the Mac. I upgraded my MobileMe account, but when I go to set it up on 10.7.2, it hangs here:

If I open Mail’s settings, this is set as my incoming server for the account:

Oh, and I can’t edit it manually. Hooray!

Joshua Topolsky:

Reviewing the iPhone 4S is in many ways a lot like reviewing the original iPhone 4, except that it’s not. The device, which was just announced at a special event on Apple’s campus, is very much the same phone the company released in June of 2010 — but it’s also something completely new.

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In reality, however, the hardware is only half the story. Maybe not even half. The introduction of the iPhone 4S marks the introduction of iOS 5 as well. The new operating system is loaded with big improvements, from notifications to how your device connects to your computer. Packed with major features like iCloud integration and an innovative, voice-activated “intelligent assistant” named Siri, it’s not unfair to consider this one of the most meaningful updates to iOS we’ve ever seen.

John Gruber:

In a sense, Siri is like a second interface to iOS. The first interface is the app interface. Launch, tap, drag, slide. The Siri interface is a different world. As stated above, this new interface is in many ways the opposite of the regular one — open-ended and implicit instead of narrowly defined and explicit. I don’t mean to imply that Siri doesn’t fit in or feel right at home — it does. But Siri is indicative of an AI-focused ambition that Apple hasn’t shown since before Steve Jobs returned to the company. Prior to Siri, iOS struck me being designed to make it easy for us to do things. Siri is designed to do things for us.

Related: This is my favorite Siri screenshot posted so far.

Damn.

… with a two-year contract, of course. Oh, and the iPhone isn’t listed.

via @internhack

It’s free in the App Store.

In this episode of Ungeniused, Myke and I talk about frying pans, Teflon and its nerdy creator, Roy J. Plunkett.

Steven Heller:

In 1986 Jobs approached Rand to design the logo for his NeXT educational computer company. After obtaining permission from IBM, Jobs offered Rand a handsome sum to develop a logo for a product that was not yet public. The only thing Rand knew was that the mysterious NeXT computer was a black cube.

This is a great article for any design or Apple nerds.

via @carlfoxiv