July 2010
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Microsoft Kills Kin →
Wow. That has to be some sort of speed record for killing a product.
Hope someone notified the next-of-Kin.
Yeah, too easy.
June 2010
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Title Jackers
Classy. This site jacked my title word-for-word on this video. No link back.
They then did it again with the follow-up video. No link back.
Fuckers.
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On Antennas, Bumpers, And Old iPhones
I’ve had the iPhone 4 just about a week now. I’m going to post a full review on TechCrunch, hopefully tomorrow. But I wanted to jot down a couple quick things I’ve noticed about the antenna issue here.
It is definitely real (at least in the phone I have).
It is definitely only in the lower left corner (the right corner does nothing to degrade the signal).
At first I thought...
Hulu Launches Premium Subscription Service ‘Hulu... →
The long, slow death of the cable companies continues…
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Foursquare Locates New Funds to Expand - WSJ.com →
The Wall Street Journal: providing great recaps of everything TechCrunch has reported over the past two months.
With zero references to said reports, obviously.
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Still Image Capture, iPhone 4 v. DROID X « Boy... →
iPhone 4 camera destroys the Droid X camera.
People yap about the megapixels, but I’ll take the better quality any day. The iPhone 4 camera is pretty amazing — especially when you see it perform in relatively low light.
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Techcrunch - Best Blogs of 2010 - TIME →
If you squint, you can see my avatar in the left featured item in the screenshot. But I’m more proud of getting my James Bond-esque pic in there.
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WatchLake Tahoe In HD
Behold the iPhone 4 taking HD video. Thing of beauty.
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WatchHitler Is Very Upset About The iPhone 4 Antenna. (via Michael’s Posterous)
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Love The iPhone 4, Shit On AT&T
After reading all of the reviews of the iPhone 4, the major takeaways:
All agree it’s the best smartphone ever.
All agree that FaceTime is awesome.
The consensus on the battery life ranges from much improved to hugely improved.
The thing seems to be indestructible.
AT&T sucks.
The last point is rather humorous. At least 2 of the 5 reviews (WSJ and Boing Boing) brutally rip apart...
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How AT&T Plans to Lift Its Image Via Social-Media... →
One vocal and visible critic of AT&T service, TechCrunch blogger MG Siegler, thinks acknowledging holes in service and outreach might be able to quell at least some backlash for the brand. “It’s enough for a certain percentage of people,” he said. “A lot of people complain about Comcast, but when they get someone person-to-person reaching out, a lot of people feel...
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Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades | The... →
An old classic.
Now we’re standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we’re the chumps. Well, fuck it. We’re going to five blades.
What part of this don’t you understand? If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende?
As...
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Anonymous asked: How long can an average person stand you? Days, minutes, hours? And I mean face to face.
Anonymous asked: question for you, good sir: what is happening with the ipod touch, and will facetime work with ichat? or is iphone4 to iphone4 only for now?
hehimself asked: If an iPhone user is within range of their Micro-Cell, wouldn't they be 99% likely to be in range of their home wifi connection? I don't actually have an iPhone but this seems like a bit of a non-issue to me. I guess maybe you have to tell your phone to connect every time you go home and that could be a pain, but maybe AT&T prefers to encourage people to do this rather than figure...
“The only pitcher to have a lower ERA than Jimenez through his first 14 starts...”
– Colorado Rockies vs. Minnesota Twins - Recap
Here's The Latest Way AT&T Is Screwing Its... →
It’s counting any mobile data you use — over the 3G Micro-Cell, over YOUR broadband connection — toward your monthly AT&T wireless bandwidth cap and overage fees.
Fuckers.
“Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent, and us...”
– Paramount Home Entertainment President Dennis Maguire on same-day rentals
Oh my god, a Hollywood executive actually making sense.
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iPhone 4 Confirmed to Have 512MB of RAM - Mac... →
Two things here.
1) It’s interesting that Apple refuses to state anywhere how much RAM is included in the iPhone (or iPad). Seriously, look at the tech specs page, it’s nowhere.
I agree that these specifics matter less and less to most consumers (especially of these types of devices) and can be misleading.
Also, I asked Apple specifically about the iPhone 4 RAM at WWDC and two...
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“Sprint suggests that you turn the 4G feature on and off as needed throughout the...”
– David Pogue on the EVO’s battery life
Sprint’s Bold Evo Phone Fades a Bit in the Details... →
Actually, make that “short car rides,” “brief movie shoots” and “afternoon camping trips,” because this feature eats through a full battery charge in as little as one hour.
All of this fine print would probably take at least some of the wind out of any Evo devotee’s sails. But the big letdown is battery life.
If you charge this phone all night long, then leave the house at 8 a.m., you’ll find its...
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iBoom 4
AT&T: 10 times the iPhone 3GS first day sales.
Apple: 600,000 first day pre-orders.
Next batch of iPhone 4s not shipping from Apple until July 14th now.
Two thoughts:
1) It’s going to be a nightmare to activate these things on day 1.
2) How much are the first batch going to sell for on eBay? $1,000? $2,000? More?
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Daring Fireball: I'll Tell You What's Fair →
John Gruber:
Now that DF has achieved a modicum of popularity, however, what I tend to get instead aren’t queries or complaints about the lack of comments, but rather demands that I add them — demands from entitled people who see that I’ve built something very nice that draws much attention, and who believe they have a right to share in it.
They don’t.
I love this. My view on comments...
Motorola Droid X preview -- Engadget →
This is starting to remind me of this.
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iPhone 4 Order Security Breach Exposes Private... →
Despite entering their username and password, the AT&T system would take them to another user account.
If this is true, alongside the colossal fuck-up that has been the iPhone 4 pre-order, and given the recent iPad info leak incident, and given that, you know, AT&T just doesn’t work most of the time, Apple seriously needs to rip-up the exclusivity agreement and move its device to...
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Annoying World Cup horn comes to iPhone | Beyond... →
Well that didn’t take long.
You know that sound during the World Cup games that sounds like a constant swarm of bees? This is that.
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We're very excited to announce that coming July... →
Excellent move by Starbucks. It will be the default hangout of choice for those with WiFi iPads.
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U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in... →
Another thought: Afghanistan will become Pandora from Avatar.
Unobtainium.
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“Afghanistan could become the ‘Saudi Arabia of lithium’”
– An internal Pentagon memo reveals that the wartorn country may become the new capital of batteries (and $1 trillion dollars worth of other minerals)
Microsoft Kinect gets into motion as E3 confab... →
Can’t wait to try this out. But this looks to be yet another branding fail by Microsoft. They just released the Microsoft Kin (a feature phone) and have been heavily advertising it.
My initial thought upon hearing the name “Kinect” was that maybe there would be some kind of tie-in to the Kin. Nope, don’t think so.
