This is a must-read from Brian Stelter who covered the Joplin tornado with an iPhone.
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More on Apple Store Planking
From the blog that publicized the photos that led to a Mac Genius being fired:
I have already been asked multiple times if I feel guilty that this young man had lost his job, which is a ridiculous question. Of course I do. Do I feel completely responsible, from the talks I have had with him, no not at all. It just seemed as if that picture was the final nail in the coffin and it seems as if he is even happier now.
Pleeeeeeeeeaze?
The Macalope, on Apple backtracking on its in-app purchase restrictions:
APPLE: Hey! We’d like 30 percent of all Kindle sales!
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: Please?
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: Come on.
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: Pleeeeeeeeeaze?
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: Yes.
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: Do it.
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: DO. IT.
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: DOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIT!
AMAZON: No.
APPLE: ARRGH.
Apple Employees: Don’t Plank or Drink at Work
The recent outbreak of in-store “planking” by Apple retail employees has led to the firing today of a midwest U.S. employee, highlighting how closely Apple monitors the Web in general and employee blogs in particular, where personal or incriminating information might be posted.
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Today’s termination came after a Store Leader noticed an employee planking photo on the Web and recognized the employee. In an email to IFO, the employee said the Store Leader then somehow located the employee’s personal blog, “wherein they found a post talking about myself and a coworker allegedly drinking during last month’s store meeting.”
Dropbox Etiquette
But when you share files via Dropbox, you’re sharing what many people consider to be their most personal living space. Dropbox is wonderful, but there’s a slippery slope from collaboration Utopia to file frat house. Be a good Dropbox roommate.
‘Your Data is the Computer’
This is the new world that Apple is creating. Where your data resides, the device you use to access it, how it is saved, where it is saved, how to manipulate it, how to back it up, how to recover if you make changes to it that you did not intend, all will be things you don’t have to think about.
Your data will be available to you on any device you own. It will be left exactly as you last left it. You can open it in any application that it is able to open it. Should your computer crash, do not fear, your data is safe. And when you get a new machine, simply log into it and all of your data will be there in short order. Buy a new Mac, a new iPhone, and new iPad, simply log in and the data will be there too.
It’s the Little Things
Someone clearly spent some time on these sidebar icons from Finder in Lion. Impressive work:
More on Shared AppleIDs and iCloud
To sum it up, it is still possible to use iCloud for your personal stuff, but a shared Apple ID for you and your family. For me, the key was to skip the automated iCloud setup at the iOS welcome walk-through.
[via Shawn Blanc]
iCloud: A Study of Apple and Google
Of all the things Apple announced at WWDC, iCloud is the most difficult to explain. After watching the keynote and reading Apple’s site, the whole thing is so big it is hard to think about.
As John Gruber pointed out in this week’s The Talk Show, not everything in iCloud is actually new. iBooks has been using the “it just works” sync-like features since the service launched over a year ago. MobileMe’s contact and calendar sync has been pushing data between devices for years.
Two New Elements Added to Periodic Table
They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they’ve gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table.
The elements were recognized by an international committee of chemists and physicists. They’re called elements 114 and 116 for now — permanent names and symbols will be chosen later.
You’re not likely to run into any of this stuff. Scientists make them in labs by smashing atoms of other elements together to create the new ones.
Tennessee Law Bans Posting Distressing Images to the Internet
A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines.
The Tennessee legislature has been busy updating its laws for the Internet age, and not always for the better. Last week we reported on a bill that updated Tennessee’s theft-of-service laws to include “subscription entertainment services” like Netflix.
Evernote Peek Harnesses Smart Cover Power
This is the sort of thing that excited me when Apple announced the Smart Cover.