June 2009
“On the eve of leaving for vacation my iPhone has died. If it doesn’t...”
– Shane
“My only obstacle to breaking on through to the other side is I shun risky...”
– klodt
anaisescobar:
I Walk The Line by Johnny Cash
Next-Generation iMacs to See Price Cuts? - Mac... →
AppleInsider reports that Apple is considering dropping the price points for its iMac line alongside the introduction of next-generation models later this year. The cuts, which Apple is rumored to be considering in the 7-10% range, would be in line with the significant price cuts seen in Apple’s latest notebook offerings introduced earlier this month at its Worldwide Developers Conference.
House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate... →
The vote was the first time either house of Congress had approved a bill meant to curb the heat-trapping gases scientists have linked to climate change. The legislation, which passed despite deep divisions among Democrats, could lead to profound changes in many sectors of the economy, including electric power generation, agriculture, manufacturing and construction.
The bill’s passage, by 219 to...
“$29 - Price for OSX Leopard users to upgrade to new OSX Snow Leopard”
– Shane (Info on Snow Leopard)
Pricing for Windows 7 Announced - Gadgetwise Blog... →
Microsoft today announced pricing plans for its new Windows 7 operating system, which will end up costing consumers less than its oft-vilified Vista counterpart.
Specifically, the estimated prices in the United States for a Windows 7 upgrade are:
* Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99 * Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99 * Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99
And the estimated...
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Nirvana - Smells Like Teen...
Michael Jackson’s Albums Storm The Charts On... →
Just hours after his untimely death, Michael Jackson’s albums are storming the charts on iTunes.
Jackson’s seminal album Thriller is currently the number one album on iTunes, while The Essential Michael Jackson is number two.
Severel of his other albums are climbing the charts fast. At the time of writing (about 6.45 PST) Jackson has nine albums in the iTunes top 40:
Thriller (25th Anniversary,...
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AppleInsider | Mossberg: New MacBook Pro has best... →
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday that the 13-inchand 15-inch MacBook Pro updates in June have achieved record results in his own, “harsh” battery tests that involve maximum display brightness, continuous music and no energy saving settings. The 13-inch model, which has the smallest battery of the two, still managed to last almost 5 hours under high strain....
“He was the first live performer I ever saw. I got to see him at Madison Square...”
– Lenny Kravitz (via several posts on Twitter)
Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50 -... →
For his legions of fans, he was the Peter Pan of pop music: the little boy who refused to grow up. But on the verge of another attempted comeback, he is suddenly gone, this time for good.
Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess took him from musical boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits and failed plastic surgery, was pronounced...
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My favorite...
brooklynmutt:
Don McLean — American Pie
The...
iPhone share of U.S. smartphone traffic hits 69% -... →
We’ve been watching that slice grow over the past few months. In February it covered 51% of the pie. By April it had grown to 59%. And by Thursday morning, when AdMob released the May edition of its U.S. smartphone pie, Apple’s share had grown to 69% — a 10 point increase in one month.
YouTube Daily Mobile Uploads Have Increased 400%... →
Google today announced that daily YouTube uploads directly from mobile devices have increased 400% since the release of the iPhone 3GS last Friday. The iPhone 3GS includes the ability to record video and provides for easy uploading directly to YouTube from within the Camera Roll section of the Photos application.
Sanford Confession Is More Bad News for... →
Speaking of Mr. Sanford’s confession, Mr. Musser said, “The concern here is that this continues a broader narrative that is completely unhelpful to the Republican Party’s rebuilding — that’s life, but it’s a personal tragedy that fairly or unfairly compounds a series of problems.”
That series of problems has become so chronic that even the party’s most pragmatic members could be forgiven for...
“In the intellectual demolition derby that is Twitter, my car shuddered to a...”
– klodt
atencion:
Nick Drake - Day Is Done
no one gets...
“There has been a lot of worthless chatter about what President Barack Obama...”
– Thomas Friedman - The Green Revolution(s) - NYTimes.com
Ahmadinejad Assails Obama; Opposition Defiant -... →
As Iran’s embattled opposition leader renewed a call for protests against the disputed presidential elections, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assailed President Obama on Thursday, telling him to stop interfering in Iran’s affairs and accusing him of striking the same hostile tone as his predecessor, George W. Bush.
The sharp words from the Iranian leader offered no prospect of eased tensions...
Apple TV 2.4 Update Now Available, Updated Remote... →
Update: Apple has updated its support document with details of the features in Apple TV Software Update 2.4:
Remote app directional control: Control your Apple TV with simple finger gestures via the Remote app. This feature requires Remote 1.3 running on an iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 3.0. Flickr Search: Search Flickr photo tags to find recently updated photos of interest. Save searches to...
Analyst: Palm has sold 150,000 Pres - Apple 2.0 →
With Palm’s quarterly earnings due Thursday — along with Jon Rubinstein’s debut performance as CEO — analysts have started to place their bets on what the quarter will show.
First out of the box — or at least, first in our inbox — is RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky, who expects investors to look past soft fourth-quarter results and focus on the potential for growth in the next fiscal year.
State of the Art - Decoding Battery-Life Numbers... →
A.M.D. thinks that the industry should adopt a much more realistic benchmark for laptops — and then represent the results in a style that matches cellphones, iPods and cars. It’s proposing a new logo that clearly shows the best-case/worst-case numbers. Your laptop’s box might say, “2:30 Active Time/4:00 Resting Time.”
This idea seems screamingly obvious to just about everyone who hears it. And...
Khamenei Vows Iran Will Not Yield ‘at Any Cost’ -... →
Ruling out political compromise after a harsh crackdown on the streets, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted Wednesday the authorities would not yield to pressure from opponents demanding a new election following allegations of electoral fraud.
“I had insisted and will insist on implementing the law on the election issue,” Ayatollah Khamenei told legislators, according to news...
