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Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Link roundup

1. News Corp does enough terrible things that you shouldn't have to make up claims.

2. Google's first social network Orkut was briefly very popular in Finland:
Orkut [the Google engineer who built orkut] is Turkish, so we had no idea when we launched it that in Finland evidently that same word means “multiple sexual climaxes.” When people saw a product called orkut, they thought it was a dating service or sex site, and it took off quickly. As soon as they saw what it actually was, interest cooled somewhat.
3. To take a screenshot on an iPhone, hold down the lock button and the home button at the same time for about one second until the screen flashes white. Via.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Link roundup

1. Some interesting predictions about the future of the legal profession. Via.

2. Apple not only censors emails sent by Me.com users, but doesn't even tell the users that their emails have been blocked?

3. The keys to finding a job in Hollywood.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011

Link roundup

1. How to make a Princess Leia cinnamon bun headband.

2. Gizmodo's latest must have iPhone and Android apps.

3. Want to tell if someone's lying? Skillfully question them (rather than looking for microexpressions).

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Link roundup

1. New specimen box by Alex CF.

2. I couldn't post anything new before I left for work this morning because Blogger was once again not working (third time this month? fourth?). Meanwhile, Tumblr unveiled a beautiful new app for the iPhone.

3. There's some question as to whether his math's way off, but here's an assertion that Apple's brand new top secret data center is mostly a shell for show.