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Jerome, where’s my mirror?
Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz has a wonderful solution to the problem of videoconferencing on your 3G iPhone: compact, convenient and battery-free!
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Snow Leopard might not be the best code name
The great Mental Floss blog actually did the research on something that occurred to me as soon as Steve said “Snow Leopard” during the keynote — naming an OS after a cat “sometimes known as the ounce” might not be the best idea.
File this stuff in the “didja know” column: snow leopards aren’t actually leopards — they’re actually closer in family to cheetahs, which means that the new OS might be a little closer to Aqua than we’re all comfortable with. Also, they’re pretty timid — not only can they not roar (so new audio features in the OS are out), they’re known to hide behind their fuzzy tails. We’ll put it this way: you wouldn’t exactly want to call your football team The Snow Leopards, so we’re not quite sure why Steve decided to use the moniker.
Finally, the weirdest tie here is that the snow leopard as a symbol is already taken — by the Girl Scouts of Kyrgyzstan. Of course, Steve’s naming capabilities haven’t really been up to snuff lately, and maybe he just didn’t want to go with Cougar — even though Apple owns it, they may not have been ready to take on all the connotations associated with that particular nomenclature. Then again, maybe this will be good for the snow leopard’s image — after seeing all these pictures of cool cats, if you feel you’d like to help them out, we’re sure the Snow Leopard Trust would be happy to hear from you. Read
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MacBook Air: dangerous weapon?
Engadget has a silly, but mildly humorous post up on a German MacBook Air user who claims his elbow was sliced open by the sharp front edge of the Air. In addition to his sliced up elbow (bis aufs Fleisch!), he says that his couch was ruined by all the blood. Just what we need, another reason for the TSA to ban the Air: it’s a deadly weapon.
So Air owners out there, have any of you been attacked by your ultraportable Mac?
Update: As one of our commenters pointed out this story was generated by a mistaken translation. The guy’s elbow was cut by a regular MacBook, not an Air.
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AT&T: Your plastic bag. Delivered.
I purchased an iPhone during the refurb sale that AT&T had last week. In two working days I got my 16 gig iPhone, times two. Two identical boxes, two identical iPhones and two identical charges on my debit card. Given the good deal, I decided to keep both (yes, despite the impending update). Imagine my surprise when my wife called me at work the next day to report that a third box had arrived from AT&T via DHL 2-day shipping, and that it was twice the size of either of the iPhone boxes. Given the previous day’s spoils, I couldn’t wait to get home.
Arriving at my house, I located the box and sat down with it on the couch. It was very, very light, but I’ve become accustomed to good things not weighing much. Pulling out my trusty Swiss Tech Utili-Key, I carefully sliced open my unexpected delivery. Inside was a packing slip with a single line item:
75011 MISC iPhone PPA BAG … $0.00
Yes, it was an unsolicited, rush delivery, plastic iPhone bag. This is definitely not a first for AT&T and the monetary waste involved in packing and shipping a completely unnecessary plastic bag is, I assume, passed back to the consumer. Next time you look at your AT&T bill, you can think about my MISC iPhone PPA BAG … which I’ll be cherishing forever. Or at least until the novelty wears off.
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Photoshop disasters for your weekend amusement
We’ve all seen our fair share of Photoshop, whether we know it or not. The PhotoshopDisasters blog, however, is compiling the most bizarre (and funny) examples of extra limbs, flipped text, and heads that don’t belong to their associated bodies. Not that I’d know anything about that.
Apparently, Australian iPhones will run Windows XP. Who knew?
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