Rev. Lisa Vaughn, of a church in Nova Scotia, is blessing its congregations’ laptops, cellphones, and mobile devices, BUT gives no assurances regarding God’s power over worms, viruses, and software glitches.
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These two iPad-obsessing duo, Jacob Walker and Joseph Velarde, attempted to exchange their iPod touch and a bunch of weed with a nice iPad, on Craigslist, no less.
This past Thursday, Police arrested two men who posted a Craigslist ad (pictured above) in an effort to try and trade a 32 GB iPod Touch and a sizeable amount of Pot in exchange for an iPad. And as if that wasn’t dumb enough, these enterprising young fellows actually posted a picture of their weed on a scale, sitting right next to a third-generation iPod Touch.
Who knows, maybe the weed, which the Craigslist ad refers to as “blue dream straight outta caliâ€, had to be seen to be believed. Then again, if it was really that good, maybe they would have asked for the 64GB iPad 3G model instead.
Below, the offer no iPad owner could not supposedly refuse.
From the artist:
This is a typeface-driven design based on the “Here’s to the crazy ones” ad campaign from Apple in the 90s, using Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded, fonts present in Apple branding and products.
The iSnort iPhone app, seen here being demoed by a very convincing person, allows one to make three columns of cocaine on the phone’s screen, which you can “snort” for coolness. Best done in public, in full view of a crusty old fart of a cop.
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Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple’s work from rivals.
The Silicon Valley trend-setter has been hiring people from many different segments of the semiconductor industry, including engineers to create multifunction chips that are used in cellphones to run software and carry out other chores.
Apple could use the internally developed chips to sharply reduce the power consumption of its hit iPhone and iPod touch devices, and possibly add graphics circuitry to help its hardware play realistic game software and high-definition videos, people familiar with its plans say.
In one sign of the new focus, Apple recently hired Raja Koduri, who was formerly the chief technology officer of the graphics products group at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Mr. Koduri started at Apple this week, following in the footsteps of Bob Drebin, who had held the same title at AMD and is also now working for Apple. Online job postings from Apple describe dozens of chip-related positions it is trying to fill, some with partial descriptions like “testing the functional correctness of Apple developed silicon.”
The first rumblings in Mac Paradise, brought to you by the first Mac-targeting malware.
Some Japanese guy loves Apple so much — The Steve Jobs Apple — that he found a way to express this through his Fuji apples. One month before harvest, he put stickers on the fruits, and now they all have these iPod/Apple logos on them!
Microsoft doesn’t only have fangs, it also has liver. It seems the giant is taking its “I’m A PC!” ad campaign to another level by actually rubbing it where it matters. This is a photo of a new “I’m a PC” recording booth just outside an Apple Store in Bullring, Birmingham, England, where a staff of about three Microsoftees –presumably all zombies — are on hand to enlighten anyone on the awesomeness of Microsoft.
While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the Mac maker now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths its revenues.
For the quarter ending in September, Microsoft released revenues of $15.06 billion, net profits of $4.37 billion, and a reserve of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments that added up to $20.7 billion.
Apple reported $7.9 billion in revenues and $1.14 billion in net profit, but those numbers don’t include most of its iPhone business, which is hidden away in subscription accounting under GAAP rules. For that reason, Apple also released its real earnings: $11.68 billion in revenue and $2.44 billion in net profits. The company also reported a cash position of $24.5 billion.
{Image: Bill Gates dances with an iPod}
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Nothing much, really. Just Apple taking a stab at Windows Vista. In some other planet, they’d just call this mud slinging. But actual mud slinging is definitely more fun.
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This is the sketch of Kane Kramer’s IXI prototype that he invented in 1979 — a credit card-sized music player that could have played a “whopping” 3.5 minutes of music. Apple, in its efforts to defend itself from the lawsuit filed by Burst.com, has admitted that it has in fact copied its iPod technology directly from Kramer’s device.
Have you been using that iPod only for music and shit and stuff? WTF SRSLY? How about turning it into an awesome taser weapon, magically transform it into an iPhone, or your own personal pirate radio station? And more!
{Photo: Bill Gates dances with an iPod like a silly girl}
“Each of us is exposed to thousands of brand images every day, most of which are not related to paid advertising. We assume that incidental brand exposures do not affect us, but our work demonstrates that even fleeting glimpses of logos can affect us quite dramatically.â€
– Gavan Fitzsimons, researcher, on how even the briefest exposure to well-known brands can cause people to behave in ways that mirror those brands’ traits.
{Cool: Do you hear the Mac OS sing?}
{Photo: Steve Jobs, iPodfather}
The world’s first 24kt Gold & Sapphires Macbook Air, exquisitely designed to make you look down on other Macbook Air users and treat them like wet dog poop.
{Mad: Nothing says “impeccable class” than the penis chandelier}
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Somebody combined all those little bells and whistles from Mac OS X to make this little tune.
