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And next week is Xbox unveil, and next month of WWDC. Looks to be a fun summer.

5 days ago on Apple passes 50 billion App Store downloads 2 replies 21 recommends

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Works on all of iTunes, iOS App Store, and Mac OS App Store. You could buy a lot of professional software with 10K in credit, if you’re into that sort of thing. Otherwise, albums and vids, lots and lots of albums and vids.

5 days ago on Apple passes 50 billion App Store downloads 2 replies 4 recommends

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If only tech websites published their findings, or linked them to an RSS feed, then we wouldn’t need to sit and wait for a keynote to play out in real time…

5 days ago on Google Maps for desktop: hands-on with the world's most-advanced web app 4 recommends

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For as nice as Sony’s latest hardware is, do they have a thing for placing the buttons on the wrong end of the phone? You have to awkwardly adjust the device in your hand every single time you press a button. Has Samsung somehow patented button placement where your thumb rests?

7 days ago on Sony shrinks the Xperia Z to 4.6 inches with new Xperia ZR 1 reply 1 recommend

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I’m going to tell you this as a friend. Regardless of what you do, you’re going to pay at least $199. Now, the iPhone 5 replacement will cost you $229 to replace, BUT your replacement will continue one with your 1 year warranty. This means that although you broke the screen, only the repair payment is outside of warranty. The replacement, however, still carries that original warranty with Apple. So if that one has hardware problems within that year, then Apple is obliged to replace it.

HOWEVER, AT&T is not beholden to this, because AT&T’s plan has nothing to do with Apple. As such, you’re at the mercy of AT&T’s quality control. No AppleCare. No warranty. The extra $30 is overall worth it, especially considering AT&T’s 21 month upgrade plan.

8 days ago on So, my iPhone 5 screen cracked. 1 reply

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Except that if you need to restore your phone for any reason whatsoever (and constantly updating over WI-FI greatly increases that chance that you do), then you must have iTunes. There is literally no other (warranty-covered) way to fix the device. That said, while iOS may not necessary depend on iTunes for many of its core functions, you still NEED iTunes if you want your phone to maintain long-term dependability (it doesn’t happen all the time, but glitches do arise). That said, anything that can create a more painless experience with iTunes should be welcome. Windows and iTunes have rarely ever gotten along as it is, and Windows 8’s UI changes make the relationship all the more frosty.

10 days ago on Microsoft wants an iTunes app for Windows 8, but it's not coming 'any time soon' 1 reply 1 recommend

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Well, so much for that. Just remember to take things with a grain of salt, especially if it seems too good to be true, and even more especially when it’s on the Internet.

12 days ago on Demonoid is reincarnated.

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Yeah, I got the email about that last night. I remain…cautiously optimistic. We’ll see if this is truly a site run by benevolent admins or….something less friendly.

13 days ago on Demonoid is reincarnated.

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“Don’t worry, Senator. No one will ever know of our meeting today.”

Wink Wink

18 days ago on Google Glass app lets you sneak photos with a wink 1 reply 85 recommends

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To be fair, the old displays were still flat, but the viewing angles were so poor that they used convex glass to refract the light toward wider angles. This, by contrast, curves the entire device while maintaining the flat (i.e. evenly distributed) glass. That said, I want the displays to become concave, such as the viewing angle (at least of the partial images) is over 180 degrees. As for these current curved displays, while they are impressive, the bezel once again ruins the look of an extended array. If LG can get 1 mm bezels on its LCD displays, surely it can do the same and better of OLED.

22 days ago on LG's 55-inch curved OLED TV arrives in Korea this June for $13,500

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Not really a reader, are you?

The article makes no mention of land usage. Why? Because the studies employ a similar idea to biofuels as studies involving algae: you grow it all in giant tanks. You know, tanks that can be taller than they are wide, thus becoming space efficient. Furthermore, neither algae nor E. Coli require the same resources as crops (besides the overly abundant sunlight).

This has nothing to do with corn and sweet grass. Go away.

23 days ago on New advances with E. coli bacteria could eventually improve biofuel production 1 reply 2 recommends

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I had my entire executive board use it at my club in college. It was an amazing tool for project collaboration, and the Playback feature was absurdly powerful. As I recall, it was a precursor to that Versions directive that Steve Jobs wanted for his OS X file system. If there was anything that should have survived, it was that feature. Instead, the other, more socially relevant features found their way into Google’s products (the headline feature being real-time, multi-user document editing).

I do miss Google Wave, but in the end, I knew it was merely an experiment, and I’ve glad some of the features have made it out of the Lab (which incidentally is also gone). Some of the other tools and Playback may find their time in the sun once again (hopefully in Google’s business suite), but until then, Google Drive remains the core for collaboration.

25 days ago on To anyone who actually used Google Wave: was it a failure for you? 1 recommend

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Yeah, I’m going to specifically start asking bank tellers for the older 100’s. This is disgusting. Maybe if the blue stripe disappeared and could only be viewed with a special light or ink, but this bill corrupts everything about the design of currency while only marginally stemming the tide of counterfeiters. The redesign is crowded, it clashes, and it breaks form with every other bill in the series (seriously, what is with that back right edge?).

Sorry, I’ll use the old bills and skip this series.

26 days ago on Blue money: Federal Reserve says redesigned $100 bill will enter circulation October 8th 1 recommend