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Inside Jonathan Ive’s Apple Design Lab
The guys behind forthcomoing gadget design doc Objectified recently filmed Apple Chief Designer Jonthan Ive at work in his secret Cupertino lair. I am now even more excited for this movie. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-best-gadget-designers-speak-in-objectified-5123118 Do you notice how incredibly clean this place is? I imagine aside from its rows upon beautiful rows of design stations and exotic … Continued
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Palm Responds to Apple’s Legal Posturing With Even More Posturing
You could see some litigious intent in Tim Cook’s recent statements regarding competition, but they weren’t direct threats to Palm, or about the Pre. That didn’t stop Palm from taking them that way. https://gizmodo.com/apple-hints-at-palm-pre-legal-battle-5136645 Pressed about Cook’s words, a company spokesperson told Digital Daily: “Palm has a long history of innovation that is reflected in … Continued
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Vudu Releases App For the iPhone and iPod Touch
Fans of Vudu can now download a free app for their iPhone or iPod Touch that allows you to browse their catalog and download titles directly to your box at home. Remote access to their catalog is nice, but I don’t see anything about a wish list or rating system in here —so let’s hope … Continued
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Knight Rider Clones the iPhone, Poorly
Pardon us for being a bit late on this one, but apparently Knight Rider went through the trouble of crafting this strange fake iPhone, UPDATE: built on a Sony Xperia X1 body, for the series. Spotted during Season 1 Episode 12, the KnightPhone pulls just enough iconography from the iPhone to make people think (oh, … Continued
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Come Up With Some iPhone Apps Apple Would Never, Ever Allow
There are some apps we wish Apple would approve but won’t for some unknown reason. Then there are those apps they are obviously never going to allow in a million years. For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to design some fake iPhone apps that would clearly never make it through Apple’s approval process. … Continued
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Wired’s Image Viewer Used to Spread False News on Steve Jobs Heart Attack
Looks like some assholes took advantage of Wired’s wide-open image viewer to publish false news about Steve Jobs having a heart attack. And the worst thing is that a gazillion people bought it on Twitter: For future reference, you can basically display anything you want in Wired’s image viewer, as you can see here. [Thanks … Continued
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Torrented Copies of iWork ’09 Come Laced With a Nasty OS X Trojan
This may be a first for the Mac software world, and it’s not cool at all: ill-gotten copies of iWork ’09 circulating on Torrent sites contain OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is something you don’t want. https://gizmodo.com/iwork-09-includes-iwork-com-costs-79-subscription-5124555 The Trojan parks itself in your /System/Library/StartupItems folder with read-write-execute root privileges-from there it can phone home to a remote server … Continued
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iPhone Twitter App Battlemodo: Best and Worst Twitter Apps for iPhone
When the App Store launched, there were a handful of Twitter apps for the iPhone. Now there’s ten zillion. We’ve read thousands of tweets on every Twitter app, so here are the best, and worst. The Quicklist • Best Overall: Tweetie • Best Paid: Tweetie • Best Free: Twitterfon • Most Powerful: Twittelator Pro • … Continued
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1984 Macintosh Ad Still Rocks Our Socks 25 Years Later
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the perhaps biggest advertisement in history. One that generated millions in free coverage and still does today: 1984-presenting the Apple Macintosh-is still a gem that leaves most people speechless. The production values of this ad, created by Steve Hayden and Lee Clow at advertising agency Chiat/Day-Apple’s current ad agency-and … Continued
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Do You Want a Boxee Dedicated Set-Top Box?
Boxee, makers of fine open-source media center software, apparently couldn’t go anywhere at CES without someone asking them to build a set-top-box. Now they’re asking you if they should go through with the plan. They’ve posted a survey on their blog to test the waters. They say that getting Boxee embedded on a specialized Apple-TV-like … Continued
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DVR Remote Is Another, Better Way to Control TiVo With Your iPhone
Not long after we saw the App Store’s first TiVo remote for the iPhone, we see its second, DVR Remote. https://gizmodo.com/tivoremote-the-app-stores-first-tivo-remote-app-5132403 DVR Remote uses Wi-Fi to connect to TiVos on your network with a one-button command. I’ve tried out the $3 program, and even though it’s $2 more than its competitor (which has recently been … Continued
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Bush Leaves MacBook Air for President Obama at Oval Office, Or Something
What you are seeing here-in an official photo from the White House-is a close-up of the President’s desk in the Oval Office. And that thing on top is, yes, you know exactly what it is. https://gizmodo.com/apple-introduces-manila-case-the-worlds-thinnest-notebo-345406 Yeah, it is a manila envelope. It was left for President Barack Obama by Former President George W. and … Continued
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Apple Hints At Palm Pre Legal Battle
Here’s what Apple no. 2 Tim Cook just said about iPhone competition: “We like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP. And we’re going to go after anybody that does.” https://gizmodo.com/apple-quarterly-revenues-over-10-billion-for-first-tim-5136594 Analyst asks back if he’s talking about Palm, since the Pre has some very iPhoney elements, like multitouch. Steve, remember, made … Continued
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SoundClip: Passive iPhone Amplifier
The SoundClip is just a piece of plastic, and you could duplicate the effect by cupping your hand. But those points alone don’t necessarily make it a bad idea. Priced at $8, the SoundClip snaps on the bottom of your iPhone around the speaker. Tiny molded plastic creates a pocket to amplify (but probably mostly … Continued
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Apple Quarterly Revenues Over $10 Billion for First Time Ever
You wouldn’t know there’s a recession by Apple’s earnings report from this past quarter: Revenues were over $10 billion for the first time ever and they sold the most iPods ever. Updated. Update: From the Q&A: Tim Cook on iPhone competition: “We like competition as long as they don’t off our IP. And we’re going … Continued
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LogMeIn App Allows Remote Access of Your PC or Mac via the iPhone or iPod Touch
LogMeIn has taken their awesome remote access desktop app and ported it to the iPhone and iPod Touch—allowing one click control of your PC or Mac from anywhere. The guys at TUAW gave the LogMeIn Ignition app a thorough test and discovered that it was stable and worked exceedingly well on Wi-Fi and 3G. You … Continued
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Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X’s Dock
Yeah, I said it. The Windows 7 taskbar is the most important Windows UI change since Windows 95, and it will dramatically change the way you use Windows. And it’s better than the Mac’s Dock. That’s because the “superbar”—as the taskbar is known by developers—jerks taskbar functionality in a new direction. It’s no longer merely … Continued
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We Now Interrupt Pandora Radio For This Brief Message, Every So Often
Everybody’s favorite web- and iPhone-streaming internet radio service Pandora is now getting brief 15-second audio commercials sprinkled into its free playlists. The campaign, which started yesterday for a targeted segment of pandora listeners, brings a 15-second audio spot for the Fox show “Lie to Me” (yay!) after you stream 10 songs, and then again after … Continued
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