Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. “The App [...]
Archive > September 2009
Maximum PC on Thermaltake’s Level 10 PC Chassis
This is the first interesting PC design in recent memory that isn’t even vaguely an Apple rip. And it’s a true design — a rethinking of how things work, not just a layer of decoration.
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Hacking Snow Leopard’s Weather Widget to Show the Last Time It Was Updated
Back in 2005, I published a piece explaining in detail how to hack the then-current version of Apple’s Dashboard Weather widget to show a time stamp indicating when the data had last been updated. Unsurprisingly, those instructions broke in a subsequent revision to the Weather widget. I never bothered to do it again because, starting [...]
Peter Cohen: ‘Home Sharing Is iPod Touch’s Killer App for Families’
It’s been the case all along that iPhone apps have the same sharing policy as DRM-protected music and video from the iTunes Store: you can share them between up to five computers registered with the same iTunes account credentials. What’s new now is that iTunes 9 makes it easy and obvious how to do so, [...]
Yankees Win A.L. East Title
In the sweetest way: completing a three-game sweep of the wildcard-bound Red Sox.
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William Safire Dies at 79
From The Times’s obituary:
Then, from 1973 to 2005, Mr. Safire wrote his twice weekly “Essay” for the Op-Ed Page of The Times, a forceful conservative voice in the liberal chorus. Unlike most Washington columnists who offer judgments with Olympian detachment, Mr. Safire was a pugnacious contrarian who did much of his own reporting, called people [...]
Roman Polanski Arrested in Switzerland
Surprise:
After more than 30 years as a fugitive from U.S. justice, Roman Polanski, the director of legendary films including “Chinatown” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” was arrested in Switzerland on an international warrant as he arrived in Zurich for a film festival featuring a retrospective of his work, the Swiss authorities said Sunday.
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Palm Pre for $79.99 at Walmart
That’s the price with a two-year contract, and after a $100 mail-in rebate. But, still, that’s cheap.
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