Sunday, April 3, 2011
When Millions Are Bad: I?ve Got A Case Of The Fridays
The web can be a funny thing. When something goes viral, it spreads to almost every corner of the web and finds a way to infect you. Rebecca Black’s music video for her (terrible) song Friday has amassed over 40 million views and close to 700,000 dislikes. As parodies funnier and better than the song [...]
Kraft Turning Tweets Into A Commercial In Next 24 Hours
Have you been tweeting about the goodness of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese? If you have a TV spot featuring your tweet and Twitter username could start appearing on Kraft commercials in the next 24 hours as part of the company’s new push to reach out to customers using social media. Twitter employees and the peeps [...]
Apple-themed April Fools' day pranks through the years
If it wasn't apparent already, today is April Fools' day and Apple's 35th birthday. To celebrate this occasion, Network World has compiled a list of popular Apple-themed April Fools' jokes from the past. Some are from Apple employees and some from the news media, but almost all of them are entertaining.
The most famous joke involves Clarus the Dogcow. Created by Susan Kare, designer of the happy-faced Mac computer icon, the black and white dog-slash-bovine became an integral part of the Page Setup dialog box in early versions of Mac OS.
Discussion of the cow-like dog icon continued internally within Apple's Developer and Technical Support (DTS) group until one member, Mark "The Red" Harlan, let loose the dogcow and named it Clarus in an Apple Technical document released on April 1st, 1989. This off-the-cuff joke has taken on a life of its own and is now a part of Apple's pop culture history.
Other notable April Fools' jokes include Macworld's 2004 "wicked fast", triple-CPU system called the PowerMac G5 Cubed or iFixit's genuinely clever 2010 teardown analysis of the Apple tablet, otherwise known as the Netwon MessagePad 2000. Oh yeah, we can't forget the April 1, 2006 date when we announced that TUAW was closing up shop.Apple-themed April Fools' day pranks through the years originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments
The most famous joke involves Clarus the Dogcow. Created by Susan Kare, designer of the happy-faced Mac computer icon, the black and white dog-slash-bovine became an integral part of the Page Setup dialog box in early versions of Mac OS.
Discussion of the cow-like dog icon continued internally within Apple's Developer and Technical Support (DTS) group until one member, Mark "The Red" Harlan, let loose the dogcow and named it Clarus in an Apple Technical document released on April 1st, 1989. This off-the-cuff joke has taken on a life of its own and is now a part of Apple's pop culture history.
Other notable April Fools' jokes include Macworld's 2004 "wicked fast", triple-CPU system called the PowerMac G5 Cubed or iFixit's genuinely clever 2010 teardown analysis of the Apple tablet, otherwise known as the Netwon MessagePad 2000. Oh yeah, we can't forget the April 1, 2006 date when we announced that TUAW was closing up shop.Apple-themed April Fools' day pranks through the years originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Google?s 1 Gbps Fiber Service Coming To Kansas City & Community, Nowhere Else
Google has finally announced which city it will grace with a 100 times faster than average Fiber Internet connection. The winner? Kansas City, Kansas. This finally puts an end to the year long wait of which lucky city would be visited by Google and graced with the insanely fast 1 Gbps connection. Of the 1,000 [...]
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10 Things That Simply Need To Be In iOS 5
WWDC. It's like Christmas for OS X and iOS developers. Each year, they flock to San Francisco's Moscone Center, anxiously awaiting the pair of gifts that Apple annually bestows: the new iPhone, and a bundle of new features on which they'll build their next big thing.
If whispers and hearsay hold true, this year's WWDC will only feature the latter; the iPhone 5, says the rumor mill, won't be showing its face until Fall. Instead, this show is purportedly going to be all about iOS and OS X. While Apple doesn't come right out and say it, it's pretty safe to assume that by "iOS" they mean "iOS 5".
Given that we're writing about iOS on a regular basis and talking about it with readers and friends even more, we've got a pretty finely-tuned wishlist for iOS 5. We also happen to know that a heaping handful of Apple folk read TechCrunch regularly ? and with the feature lock stage of iOS 5's development cycle (wherein they absolutely refuse to add anything new and just focus on what they've already started) presumably riiiight around the corner, we figured there was no better time than now to put it out there.
If whispers and hearsay hold true, this year's WWDC will only feature the latter; the iPhone 5, says the rumor mill, won't be showing its face until Fall. Instead, this show is purportedly going to be all about iOS and OS X. While Apple doesn't come right out and say it, it's pretty safe to assume that by "iOS" they mean "iOS 5".
Given that we're writing about iOS on a regular basis and talking about it with readers and friends even more, we've got a pretty finely-tuned wishlist for iOS 5. We also happen to know that a heaping handful of Apple folk read TechCrunch regularly ? and with the feature lock stage of iOS 5's development cycle (wherein they absolutely refuse to add anything new and just focus on what they've already started) presumably riiiight around the corner, we figured there was no better time than now to put it out there.
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Apple-backed rules prohibit electronics makers from buying minerals used to fund wars
Bloomberg reports that new rules have gone into effect which prohibit electronics makers from buying minerals that help fund wars in Central Africa. The Conflict-Free Smelter program specifically bars electronics makers like Apple and Intel from buying tungsten, tin ore, gold and coltan from Congo and neighboring countries unless mineral processors can prove purchases don't contribute to conflict in eastern Congo. The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition in Washington, D.C. and the Brussels-based Global E-Sustainability Initiative developed the regulations in conjunction with Apple, Intel and others in hopes to bring more ethical responsibility to the mining of materials used in everyday products like the iPhone and motherboards. However, while the new regulations take effect in America and Europe many Congo mines will seek out new buyers in Asia. "We're committed to continue with all these programs," John Kanyoni, president of a mineral exporters association in the Democratic Republic of Congo told Bloomberg, "But at the same time we're traveling soon to Asia to find alternatives."Apple-backed rules prohibit electronics makers from buying minerals used to fund wars originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Remote Desktop Software Comparison Chart
Amy Rinehart from remotedesktopmac.com has done a great comparison chart for remote desktop softwares. Wow..!! That’s a big chart.
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