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Dear Media, Please Stop Reporting Verizon iPhone Rumors as Factual News Stories

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Take a look at these headlines:

Looking at that list, you would think Apple announced something regarding the iPhone today.

Thing is, they didn’t.

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File This Under ‘Obsessive’

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Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac:

After taking a closer look at Apple’s latest iPhone 4 Retina Display ad, we noticed the scene about Twitter. We thought it would be interesting to plug the Twitter profile username from the ad into the actual Twitter to see if it was legit. Sure enough it is, and has a whole army of people with headshot-grade picture followers. Meet Apple’s fake Twitter army, full of perfect profile portraits, perfect names, and perfect tweets.

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Another Reason to Leave Comments Off

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Erik Sass:

Forget all those pleas for civility based on simple respect for other human beings. There’s an even better reason to watch what you say about other people online: one of them might just snap and try to kill you. And don’t assume simple things like distance or sanity will protect you.

These are the lessons of the saga of Breana Greathouse, 25, who drove several hundred miles from Kansas City, Missouri to Ottumwa, Iowa, to shoot a certain Forrest Jamison, whom she blamed for posting derogatory comments about her on the Internet. Fortunately her Midwestern odyssey, which the Coen Bros. might want to consider adapting for the screen, ended in failure when she was arrested by Ottumwa police for waving her gun around like the unhinged maniac she is.

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‘The Chokehold of Calendars’

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Mike Monteiro:

Meetings may be toxic, but calendars are the superfund sites that allow that toxicity to thrive. All calendars suck. And they all suck in the same way. Calendars are a record of interruptions. And quite often they’re a battlefield over who owns whose time.

In my experience, most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.

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The Macintosh TV

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Benj Edwards:

The Macintosh TV, released in October 1993, incorporated a 68030-powered Macintosh computer, a cable-ready TV set, and a CD-playing stereo system into one device. The Mac TV could display cable TV stations or an AV video signal on the computer’s 14-inch color monitor, play audio CDs through its integrated stereo speakers, and allow users to power on/off the computer and change channels with its bundled remote control.

I totally had a draft blog post about this machine.

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Apps Sharing UUIDs?

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Slash Lane:

A review of the “Most Popular” and “Top Free” categories on the iPhone App Store found that 68 percent of software would transmit UDIDs from devices. In addition, 18 percent of applications encrypted their communications, so it could not be determined what kind of data is being shared.

Snap.

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My Test Drive of Sparrow for Gmail [Beta]

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From their website:

Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. It was designed to keep things simple and efficient. No fancy stuff here… just your mail and nothing else.

Here is my experience:

11:15 AM — Downloading .dmg from their site. Disk images is named “Sparrow-latest.dmg” and clocks in at 7 MB.

11:16 AM — The disk image is named Sparrow–298. I assume 298 is the build number. No installer, just an .app file and a shortcut to drop it into /Applications. Nice and simple.

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