Craigslist Ad: Wanted, Steve Jobs Look-Alike
Someone is looking for a Steve Jobs look-alike for an “impersonator event” on Friday and Saturday in San Francisco’s SOMA — the area around Macworld. The actual job isn’t specified, but looking like Steve is important, of course, but so is “punctuality.” “If necessary, we can provide a black turtleneck and glasses,” the Craigslist ad says. Pay is
Brits Launch First iPad App Dev Fund
Before you can even get your hands on one, Northern Film & Media is offering £40,000 (about $64,500) for iPad application ideas from developers in England’s North East. Dev teams — which can include some members from out of the area – have until February 24 to come up with revenue-generating ideas that don’t duplicate the device’s
Will iPad Equalize the PC Netbook Market?
Apple has often dismissed the possibility the company should compete with low-cost netbook computers, saying the popular devices are ‘junk.’ When rumors of Apple making a tablet computer appeared, focus was on ebooks and publishing. But will the iPad turn out to be Apple’s answer to those pesky netbooks? One highly-placed supplier thinks the iPad
4G iPhone will have 'magic' touch sensitive shell? | 9 to 5 Mac
perhaps they are using to control phone functions such as volume, etc. i remember a while back there was a patent filing from apple regarding using the area around the screen as a touch sensitive place to perform command functions for …
Lock And Unlock Your MacBook Just By Walking By With An iPhone
Yup, it’s just that easy — Kentucky-based MHA’s new Airlock app turns your Mac into a proximity sensor that un/locks the computer’s screen when your iPhone enters a user-defined range; it can also do nifty things like run apps when it senses your iPhone enter or exit the area. And there’s nothing to install on
Rumor: Apple ordering parts for first Mac netbook? (Geek.com)
Although Steve Jobs once infamously described the iPhone as “Apple’s netbook,” he may as well have described it as Apple’s flying pegasus unicorn: it’s very obviously nothing of the kind. The comment was meant to dismiss the netbook movement as something unworthy of Apple’s attention. But it’s pretty clear at this point that Apple’s reluctance
Apple unsheaths four new Get a Mac ads (MacNN)
After a period of relative quiet in the area, Apple has debuted four new Get a Mac ads, claiming the superiority of Macs over PCs. In the first, “Biohazard Suit,” PC is dressed in protective garb because of a “major new PC virus” circulating the Internet. As many as 20,000 new viruses or pieces of malware appear for PCs each day, the ad alleges. The first Mac botnet recently became active….
Mac Hack Shows Apple Apps Vulnerable to Botnets (Publish)
The malware seeded by pirated software months ago and creating what was dubbed iBotnet by Symantec security researchers proves the concept of botnets on Apple systems, but doesn’t achieve major botnet status.
