Ever wondered what to do with that dusty old bricked Mac hardware? Rick H. is a Mac consultant from New Jersey who seems to have found the perfect answer for some old PowerMac G4′s; recycle them into saddlebags for his motorcycle!
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My Frictionless Interview
If you’re dying to know how I handle paperwork at my day job, this interview is for you.
Zombie Maps
Sparrow for iPad Coming
LinkedIn Sucks at Passwords
‘Don’t Drill Through The Glass’
On the verge of WWDC, Myke and I follow up on old Apple displays, talk about audio equipment and pontificate about predictions on this week’s 512 Podcast.
Special thanks to Squarespace and Harvest for making this week’s show possible.
‘This Moment’
31 Months
Thirty-one.
That’s the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners. Thirty-one months is just barely longer than a typical American mobile phone contract.
On iOS and Google Maps
According to MacRumors, Apple will be dumping Google Maps on iOS for its own in-house solution.
Of course, as I broke back in March, iPhoto for iOS doesn’t use Google Maps currently. Many have seen this as a dry run for a much bigger change.
If Apple moves away from Google Maps, many will view it as a sign of the growing rift between the two companies. While I do think Apple and Google are more competitive with each other than ever before, I think Apple’s primary reason for such a change is that the company thinks its own solution can offer users a better experience.
RSS Sponsor: Fantastical →
Thanks to Flexibits for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week. - SH
Fantastical is the Mac calendar app you’ll actually love to use. Type in that you have “Lunch with John on Friday at 1pm” and Fantastical will schedule it! Or type in that you need to “Buy milk by Tuesday” and Fantastical will create a reminder with a due date!
Fantastical’s natural language event/reminder creation, beautiful calendar, and gorgeous list make it the best calendar you’ll ever use. Stay on top of your schedule with features like native CalDAV support, automatic alarms for new events, iCal and iOS reminder support, and instant search.
University of Oregon Student Newspaper Transforming to Online Media Company
This coming school year, the University of Oregon’s 92-year-old Oregon Daily Emerald, first a daily student newspaper, then one with a website, will stop publishing altogether except for a Monday “weekly” style publication devoted to news and sports anchored by a 1,200-word cover feature and a Thursday culture and entertainment edition. The rest of the emphasis, effort, time and resources are going to be devoted not simply to a Web presence but to an information and media company called the Emerald Media Group (EMG).
$79 Kindle’s Software Updated
The update includes fixes for typography, better parental controls and includes support for more advanced layouts in books.
via Engadget