Posted by on March 16, 2010 in
Apple intelligence
About a hundred years ago, while I was still a Windows user and thought that a Mac was what you covered in a cheese and slurped down for lunch, I whiled away way too much time playing a DOS-based artillery duel game called Scorched Earth. Dot Matrix Interactive Designs have created their own version in
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Posted by on March 12, 2010 in
Apple intelligence
U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble claims to be unconcerned about the iPad’s threat against their own e-reader, the Nook. Indeed, they are so excited about the possibilities of the iPad that they are now promising iPad owners that they can expect to download their own free Barnes & Noble e-reading software just around the time
Tags: around-the-time, barnes, download-their, ipad, news, noble, nook, nook-indeed, possibilities, the-time, their-own, time
Posted by MacMan on March 12, 2010 in
Apple intelligence
Did you buy an iPad when Apple began pre-sales this morning? If so, you weren’t alone. Indeed, Apple may have sold 20,000 iPads per hour, leading one commentator to suggest the Cupertino, Calif. company was earning $10 million per hour on its new tablet device
Tags: barnes, cupertino, ipad, morning, nook-indeed, the-time, their-own, time
Posted by on March 12, 2010 in
Apple intelligence
Still confused about which iPad to pre-order? In collaboration with handsome Wilson Rothman, Gizmodo’s lovely own Rosa Golijan put together this handy, haiku-ified iPad buying guide which — while thoroughly tongue in cheek — more or less lines up with my own feelings on the matter: if you’re buying the iPad WiFi, there’s little reason
Tags: barnes, buying-guide, gizmodo, golijan, ipad, less-lines, matter, more-or-less, nook-indeed, the-time, their-own
Posted by on January 3, 2010 in
Apple news
While it was initially suggested that Google Latitude was rejected from the app store to keep iPhone users from confusing it with Maps, this new patent shows that Apple might be working on their own friend- and ex-girlfriend-tracking app. (more…)
Tags: app store, apple, from-the-app, google-latitude, initially-suggested, patent-shows, their-own, working-on-their
Posted by on October 13, 2009 in
Apple intelligence
Photo by Stephanie Diani for the New York Times Very interesting news from the New York Times: Disney is completely overhauling its retail stores, with Steve Jobs at the helm. Theaters will allow children to watch film clips of their own selection, participate in karaoke contests or chat live with Disney Channel stars via satellite. Computer chips embedded
Tags: apple, chat-live, chips-embedded, completely-overhauling, from-the-new, helm, its-retail, photo, stars-via, stephanie, steve-jobs, their-own, times, watch-film
Posted by on September 21, 2009 in
Apple news
People who watch television have seen the commercials where the Mac man makes the PC man look like an overweight, virus-infected nerd. But is there truth to these advertisements? Sure, everyone has their own opinion on what computer works best for them, but is one really superior to the other?
Tags: man-makes, one-really, really-superior, seen-the-commercials, steve-jobs, the-release, their-own, these-advertisements
Posted by on August 7, 2009 in
Apple news
In It Might Get Loud, director Davis Guggenheim invites Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2), and Jack White (The White Stripes) to tell the history of the electric guitar from their own unique perspectives. How did each develop a sound unique to rock music? See It Might Get Loud and find out. The documentary comes to theaters on August 14.
Tags: davis, did-each, electric, history, jimmy, jimmy-page, sound-unique, the-electric, their-own, white, white-stripes, yardbirds, zeppelin
Posted by on April 23, 2009 in
Mac info
With a growing crescendo of tittle tattle surrounding an Apple netbook , their own man Tim Cook has weighed into the debate, telling journalists and money types that the Cupertino company was not interested in putting Mac branding onto …
Tags: branding-onto, cupertino, debate, growing-crescendo, not-interested, telling-journalists, their-own, tittle-tattle