Hamburg, Germany is the home to the world’s largest model railroad and model airport. The airport took six years and over $4,440,000 to develop.
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RSS Sponsor: Igloo Software⇢
Igloo’s latest platform release – Q – is here.
With Q, Igloo customers can now link related content together. Simply use the smart search to set up a one- or two-way relationship. And – boom – everything is kept in context. Your content just became much more relevant.
Since Igloo is a fully integrated solution, all content types can be related – from blog posts to calendars, documents to wiki articles, and more. It’s all stored together in the same place.
iPad mini Review: Good Things Come in Small Packages
It’s become a familiar cycle, these things. First, we see a single rumor, then photos of camera cables leak from China, then a Best Buy employee sends a screenshot to 9to5Mac with price points. Back housings and screens pop up, and before we know it, someone’s assembled a product that hasn’t been announced.
Then, Apple gets on stage, announcing the very thing we all know is coming, leaving some people underwhelmed and disappointed at the lack of anything surprising.
A New Foundation⇢
Nilay Patel at The Verge:
There are many other valid reasons to vote for Obama — from health insurance to women’s issues to immigration policy, his platform offers the most complete path to recovery for nation still badly damaged by a terrible recession and two costly wars. But true economic recovery requires more than just replacing what was lost; it requires building something new. The internet is the foundation for an entirely new economy, and it’s vitally important we select a candidate that will protect it. In this election, that candidate is Barack Obama.
Incapable⇢
Nathan Swartzendruber, on the aforementioned NYT piece:
It’s sweet, in a way. We should want to be together enough that we’re worried we’ll miss each other. Either by not showing up at the right place at the right time, or by being so distracted by our pocket computers that we don’t recognize who’s with us. But are we really so incapable of putting our phones away that we need a hurricane to do it for us?
On Smartphone Withdrawl⇢
Jenna Wortham with The New York Times:
While Hurricane Sandy left hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers without electricity or heat, the loss of one utility left some especially bewildered: cellphone service.
“Not having hot water is one thing,” said Kartik Sankar, 29, a technology consultant who lives in the East Village. “But not having a phone? Forget about it.”
The whole article is interesting. This paragraph sums it up nicely:
Sosumi⇢
To this day, this is the alert sound I use on my Macs.
‘The Biggest Compliment’⇢
Shawn Blanc, on the Kindle Paperwhite:
The Kindle Paperwhite has a lot going for it: the e-ink screen, million-year battery life, illuminated display, improved software, the iOS Kindle apps that sync with my iPad and iPhone, and the lightweight yet rugged build of the device hardware. The biggest compliment I can give the Kindle is that thanks to it, I read more books and I read more often.
I agree. I’ve read a ton more since purchasing my first Kindle a year ago. It’s one of those devices that is so enjoyable to use, I can’t help but spend time with it.
Unidentified Hipster Buys iPad mini, Celebrates in Street⇢
This photo made me laugh.
Dear Apple...⇢
This post made my morning.
DIY Apollo Guidance Computer⇢
Well, this is one hell of a hobby project.
A Closer Look at Apple’s Executives
These pieces on Bob Mansfield and Eddie Cue have something in common: both guys’ careers are in better shape with Scott Forstall gone.