There’s been a little buzz going around about Nokia’s latest prototype phone and their statement:

“I don’t know what is copying and what is original but if there is something good in the world, we copy it with pride,” said Anssi Vanjoki, head of the Nokia multimedia division
Everyone’s making a little fun of it. But really? [...]

Categories: apple · iphone

Trying to migrate from my old iMac to my new one without doing a full copy is turning out to be not that easy. So, I probably won’t be posting as much over the next day or so while I spend my free time trying to make things work the way they need to work.
Sigh. [...]

Categories: apple · navel gazing

There’s a lot of talk about the new apple keyboards, are they good, do they suck, etc… well this post isn’t about them. I’ve gone through a lot of keyboards in my time, good, bad, clicky, quiet, whatever. I know my preferences, but really, as long as I can type on it ok, in general [...]

Categories: apple · rant

So it turns out that New Yorkers now live nine months longer than the national average, clocking in at 78.6 years. Yeaaahhh booooyyyyyy. Some of the measures the city has taken like the smoking ban and now the trans-fat ban are paying off, but really the main driver is that we walk a lot. We [...]

Categories: apple · breakfast links · nyc

by ronin
If I wanted to build myself a submarine, making one based on the world’s very first combat sub probably wouldn’t have been my first pick. But these guys thought differently. Although I’ll admit that what they’re doing looks pretty cool and at least it seems like they’re having fun. It’s too bad they’ve been [...]

Categories: apple · crazy · iphone · laptops · nyc

You know, I’ve been reading a lot about all the new iPhone stuff that hackers have been able to coerce iPhones to do. File system access, ssh onto the iPhone and most recently compiling new apps onto it. I find this incredibly amazing and while the technology is still fledgeling it is still the very [...]

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So, for the first time since 1999, Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest was won by an american! Joey Chestnut (for real? What an awesome name for the american winning back the belt!) at 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes vs a measly 63 for Takeru Kobayashi! Kobayashi, despite having a wisdom tooth pulled and diagnosed [...]

Categories: apple · breakfast links · iphone

So Apple had their big all hands internal meeting today and a bunch of interesting stuff was discussed. Check out ars technica for the big report.
Here’s what I take away from it:
· Steve said that they have the “best Macs” in the new product pipeline ever right now, and that the stuff coming out in [...]

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Well I guess Apple and AT&T have let the cat out of the bag - and damn, it’s a nice cat. TUAW reports that all plans come with unlimited data, visual voicemail, 200 text messages and rollover minutes.
· $59.99 for 450 minutes
· $79.99 for 900 minutes
· $99.99 for 1,350 minutes
That seems good to me. T-mobile [...]

Categories: apple · iphone

Ok, so I spend a little time thinking about the iPhone, it’s almost launch time, isn’t it natural? I am firmly in the camp that the AJAX as SDK announcement was a load of horse nuggets that Steve knows and Steve knows we know, but Steve also knows we got nothing to do but take [...]

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