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New Apple Patents Show Exaggerated and Distorted iPhone Maps to Help You Get Around Easier
Apple Insider has uncovered some new Apple patents that may make maps a lot easier to figure out. The general idea is that they’ll highlight the stuff you care about through exaggeration: routes are bigger, landmarks are emphasized, etc. The patent, entitled “Schematic Maps”, is supposed to get rid of the fluff in maps today … Continued
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HTC Buys Beats: All Your Bass Are Belong To Them
HTC just shouted to the world that it has made a massive investment in Beats By Dre to the tune of $300M. Here’s what it means for everyone involved—especially you. https://gizmodo.com/beats-by-dr-dre-audio-coming-to-htc-handsets-this-fall-5829785 What It Means for HTC For starters, the speakers on HTC phones and tablets are going to start sounding a lot better. Beats has … Continued
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It’s Ridiculously Easy to Steal iPads from Walmart
Californian Walmarts have got a problem on their hands, with a trio of thieves stealing iPads in a very simple ruse involving one man telling an assistant he wants to buy two iPads, which are then set aside for him under a counter. As the story goes, he then pretends to browse other products, while … Continued
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What If Samsung Stopped Supplying Parts For the iPhone 4?
This is all hypothetical, but what would happen to the iPhone 4 if Apple’s vigorous legal campaign against Samsung caused an irreparable rift between the two companies? https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-samsung-over-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-5793228 Several key components of the iPhone 4 including the Flash Memory, DRAM memory and applications processor come from Samsung. Together, these account for $45.68 in parts which … Continued
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Apple Closes Above Exxon as the World’s Most (Quantitatively) Valuable Company
At the close of trading today, Apple’s total market cap sits at an impressive $337.17 billion versus Exxon Mobil’s $330.77 billion. That being said your money is probably still safer in oil futures. [MacRumors] https://gizmodo.com/could-apple-be-the-worlds-most-valuable-company-without-5829284
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The Amazingly Seamless New Apple Cube
The massive glass cube hovering over the Apple Store at Fifth Avenue is truly iconic: It’s transformed a store where people buy iPhones into a legitimate New York City landmark. And it’s about to be reborn, made even more striking by its sheer simplicity. The current, cross-hatched style cube is composed of 90 panes of … Continued
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The 5 Worst Pieces of Advice Apple Ever Got
Steve Jobs didn’t care about any of the advice that pundits gave Apple back in the day. He’s now commanding one of the world’s most valuable companies. Here are the top 5 barfs that he never listened to: https://gizmodo.com/could-apple-be-the-worlds-most-valuable-company-without-5829284 5. Invest heavily in Newton technology. — Wired, 1997 Newton was cool, but not that cool. … Continued
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Composite Lets You Remix Your Surroundings in Real-Time
There are plenty of apps out that can take your environment and let you add your own style on top. But, using the iPad’s built-in cameras, the Composite app lets you reinterpret that environment any way you like on the fly. https://gizmodo.com/street-tag-for-iphone-tag-up-walls-with-graffiti-witho-5828864 Developed by James Alliban, Composite is a really cool departure from your typical … Continued
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The Classiest App To Get People Naked
Despite the great things the internet has done, it’s also made us prudish about having naked images of us captured, and that’s made it harder to get people to take of their clothes for you. Until now… Until the internet came, you only needed a fancy-looking camera and a beret and the clothes would drop … Continued
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How They Got All Those iPads on iPad Head Girl’s Head
As you’ll recall, iPad Head Girl turned heads *groan!* when she went a-walking through Bryant Park last week. The folks over at ThinkModo now give you an inside look at how they pulled it off… er, put it on? https://gizmodo.com/why-is-ipad-head-girl-stalking-around-new-york-city-5826555 It looks like fun. I may not ever use the Cosmo for Guys app, but … Continued
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Apple Is Also Suing Motorola Over the Xoom Tablet Design
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn’t the only tablet on Apple’s lawsuit radar. Foss Patents unearthed a paragraph from the Samsung complaint which mentions that Apple also filed a complaint against Motorola, related to the design of the Xoom tablet. https://gizmodo.com/apple-blocks-galaxy-tab-10-1-sales-in-the-whole-eu-5829152 That passage says that Apple filed with the same court (district court of Düsseldorf) … Continued
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The Best and Worst of the iPhone 5s
As the launch of the iPhone 5 looms, the number of idiotic fakes is increasing exponentially. Every fanboy with Photoshop is trying to be the center of attention by posting blurry images made with their cute little sausage fingers. Here’s a guide of the best and worst iPhone 5 fakes and concepts so far. Terrible … Continued
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Gizmodo Officially Not Being Charged in iPhone 4 Case
The District Attorney of San Mateo County is moving forward in the case of the iPhone 4 prototype we posted about last year. Fortunately, nobody from our team is being charged. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-apples-next-iphone-5520164 Here’s our parent company, Gawker Media’s official statement on the matter: We are pleased that the District Attorney of San Mateo County, Steven … Continued
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Lawsuit Filed Against Apple and Book Publishers Over Illegal Ebook Price Fixing
Anything’s possible when people club together—just look at the UK riots as a really bad example of that. Class-action law firm Hagens Berman’s seeking more plaintiffs for its lawsuit against Apple and five publishers over illegal ebook price-fixing. The publishers include HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster—five of of the top names in … Continued
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The Newest Way Lion Mauls You
It seems that Apple has ported iOS’s background applications system over to the desktop in a feature called Automatic Termination. In concept, it frees memory. In practice, it closes things when you don’t want it to. Matt Neuburg at TidBITS noticed this feature (read: annoyance) in his OSX 10.7. If you have an application open, … Continued
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Remember Crookster Bernie Madoff With iPad Cases Made From His Old Pants
Ponzi-schemester Bernie Madoff has already gone through the shame of seeing hundreds of his belongings auctioned off, but now he’ll have to live with the knowledge that lawyers are dressing their iPads in cases made from his old sweaters. http://gawker.com/5808776/someone-paid-200-for-bernie-madoffs-underwear?tag=bernie-madoff Upcycled and turned into iPad cases, the Christian Dior sweater and Bergdorf Goodman cardigans “sold … Continued
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Smart Phone Note iPhone 4 Case Is Actually Quite Smart
It’s too bad they aren’t selling this Smart Phone Note case for iPhone 4 outside South Korea, because it’s an excellent idea—especially if you’re into the whole taking-notes-on-paper thing. The protective foam design of the cover is neat. The window to the world is good, so is the way it holds your iPhone 4 in … Continued
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Amazon Bypasses Apple’s New iOS Rules With Kindle Cloud Reader
If you were wondering how Amazon was going to get around Apple’s new rule banning developers from linking to their own stores from within an iOS app, here’s your answer: an optimized web-browser Kindle reader, for iPads. It’s not just for iPads though—Amazon’s stated it will work on both Chrome and Safari, meaning you could … Continued
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