Monthly Archives: January 2010
70 Of The Weirdest Craigslist Posts
70. Beautiful fly – Los Angeles – [Link]
Date: 2009-09-10, 10:29PM PDT
I caught a fly.
Shimmers green, red eyes.
Measures approximately 9mm by 5mm, flies great.
Want to give to a good home.
Categories craigslist, Lists
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Tablet Wars: Which Slate Reigns Supreme? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Above is an infographic design to compare the Apple iPad vs. the JooJoo vs. the Amazon.com Kindle DX vs. the HP Slate. Since the HP Slate specs have not been released yet, I had to base the information on speculation and rumors. This infographic and blog post will be updated upon the actual date of the HP Slate.
Categories Amazon Kindle DX, Apple iPad, HP Slate, Infographics, JooJoo
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iPad.com and the Mystery of Enero 6 Corp. [Screenshot]
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced their latest product today, the iPad. Generally companies make sure to own the domain name of a product or service that they offer. Apple owns iPod.com and bought Me.com from a company called Snappville.com. However iPad.com is owned by a company called Enero 6 Corporation according to the website. Apple bought the domain name iSlate.com about a year ago which led people to believe that this would be the name of the new device.
At the bottom of the screenshot you will notice that the website is owned by Enero 6 Corp. Enero means January in Spanish which is the same month that the iPad was launched. Enero 6 may stand for January 6th. Coincidentally Apple and Steve Jobs had some milestones around that date:
January 6, 1998 – Steve Jobs announces that the company will show a $45 million profit for the first quarter of fiscal year 1998
January 6, 2000 – Steve Jobs announces OS X.
January 6, 2002 – Apple announced the iMac with 15″ LCD.
January 6, 2004 – Apple announced iLife 2004 and iPod Mini at Macworld
January 6, 2005 – Bill Gates was giving a presentation at CES and Windows froze.
January 5, 2009 – Steve Jobs said he would not be at MacWorld because he wanted to spend time with family.
January 6, 2009 – iTunes becomes DRM free.
Categories Apple Inc., iPad.com
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Introducing the Apple iPad
The Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is now official!!
Features include:
1. iTunes built in
2. YouTube/YouTube in HD
3. Contact list in book form
4. Same maps application as iPhone (Google) — Classic/satellite/hybrid/terrain/traffic/compass/drop pin features
5. Appears to be a bigger version of an iPhone
6. E-mail support (Message list in a column on the left and full message on the right.)
7. Large on-screen QWERTY keyboard
8. No Adobe Flash support
9. Slide to unlock feature (similar to iPhone)
10. 10 hours of battery life
11. Over a month of standby time
12. Accelerometer and compass
13. WiFi 802.11n/Bluetooth 2.1+EDR/3G Plans
14. 1GHz Apple A4 chip
15. 16GB-64GB Flash storage
16. Full capacitive multi-touch
17. 9.7″ IPS display
18. 0.5 inches thin/1.5 lbs.
19. “We think it’s going to be another gold rush for devs. And of course every iPad comes with the app store on it.”
20. “We rewrote all of our apps for this display. the iPhone SDK supports development for this now… and we’re releasing it today.”
21. Prices
250MB / month through AT&T = $14.99
Unlimited data through AT&T = $29.99
NO CONTRACT AND CANCEL ANYTIME!
22. Separate number touchscreen keypad for data entry on spreadsheets
23. Syncs through USB
24. All iPad 3Gs are unlocked
25. WiFi only models shipping in 60 days — 3G models shipping in 90 days
Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPad
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400 Free WordPress Themes Worth Checking Out
WordPress is one of the most commonly used blog platforms and is used by millions of websites. The blog platform is completely open source and can be customized through the use of plugins and themes. Below is a comprehensive list of some of the themes I like the most. This is especially useful for designers. If you want to learn more about installing WordPress themes, click here.
1. FFF WordPress Theme [Download]
Categories Automattic, Lists, Wordpress
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Jeff and Erin’s Epic Wedding Trailer [VIDEO]
Erin Martin and Jeffrey Wong have made their own Save the Date wedding trailer. It is over 4 minutes long and is one of the most epic trailers I have ever seen. The trailer even has that deep manly voice that is used for the standard movie trailer. I’m impressed. What about you? Leave a comment here to let us know what you think.
Categories Erin Martin, Jeffrey Wong
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20 Of The Most Useful Adobe AIR Applications [Screenshots]
1. AOL Top 100 Videos [Download]
Everyone likes listening to music. This Adobe AIR desktop widget offers a simple to use way to watch music videos through AOL. The videos are categorized by ranking and genre.
Categories Adobe AIR, Adobe Systems Inc, Lists
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TalkGOD TV Show In U.K. Gets Rick Roll’d [VIDEO]
I’ve seen some funny Rickrollings in my day, but this one is one of the most epic. It features a show in the UK called TalkGOD receiving an e-mail that says “I think there is a real shame that there is cynicism directed towards this channel which only wants to help fellow members of the flock. When will people learn that God will never give them up, never let them down, never run around, or hurt them?” The e-mail reader agreed wholeheartedly with the e-mail until he found out that he just got Punk’d.
The Ultimate Showdown [Video]
In case you don’t who the keyboard cat is, it is a video of Fatso. Fatso is a cat owned by Charlie Schmidt. Fatso is now deceased, but his keyboard playing skills lives on in the information superhighway. There are now over 4,000 videos that feature the keyboard cat playing people off. This usually happens after an unfortunate incident. The website PlayHimOffKeyboardCat.com aggregates some of the best clips featuring Fatso. Now the keyboard cat has a foe. This video is the keyboard cat vs. the keyboard dog. Who will win the battle at playing someone off?
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Bill Gates Joins Twitter, Launches Facebook Page, and Bing Might Become Default iPhone Search
The richest man in the world Bill Gates has embraced social media once again. This is his second attempt as his first try was somewhat difficult due to all the requests he received.
Last summer Bill Gates created a Facebook account and he received tons of friend requests, pokes, etc. I poked him on Facebook too, that probably did not help the situation. He had to quit Facebook as a result.
Now Bill Gates has launched his own Facebook Page. This allows him to participate on Facebook without the hassle of having to deal with friend requests hitting his e-mail inbox. Gates has already uploaded pictures from a recent trip to India on his Facebook Page. Facebook verified that this was his account.
Gates is embracing Twitter now too. Twitter has verified that the account BillGates belongs to the Microsoft co-founder. In less than one day Bill Gates amassed over 200,000 followers. Gates’ first tweet was: “Hello World.” Hard at work on my foundation letter – publishing on 1/25. Some of the people that Gates is following on Twitter include Ashley Tisdale, Ina Fried (CNET), the UNICEF account, Steven Levy, Rania Al Abdullah, Vinod Khosla, Ryan Seacrest, Ashton Kutcher, TechCrunch, Kara Swisher, Barack Obama, Hans Rosling, Chris Anderson (TED), and Nicholas Kristof.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is also reportedly talking to Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) about adding Bing.com as the default search for the iPhone. Google has largely benefited from being the default search engine for Apple. But the relationship between Google and Apple has become quite tumultuous since Eric Schmidt was let go from the Apple Board of Directors, Apple rejected the Google Voice iPhone application, and Google announced their own operating system. The news about the talks between Microsoft and Apple was reported by a source with Bloomberg.
Categories Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Corporation
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