Leander Kahney's Blog, page 2260

iRetrofone: Vintage Rotary iPhone Dock

Man, I want one of these. It would look so good next to my pack of Pall Malls and Royal Portable Typewriter. Freeland Studio sure knows how to cast resin around my heart's desires. Too bad it's on back order for 3 weeks, priced at $195 and doesn't let me talk on my iPhone with [...:]

100 Tips #13 – How To Quickly Change Finder Views

When you're browsing a bunch of files in a Finder window, you can choose whether to view them as icons, as a list, or in columns. This tip shows you how to quickly switch from one view to another.

Here are the different views available, so you know which is which.

First, icons view. Should be familiar [...:]

Did Apple Order Cops To Raid Gizmodo Editor's House?

Apple sits on the steering committee of the special police task force investigating iPhonegate, Yahoo News reports, raising the possibility that the company may have had a hand in the raid of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house.
Friday's police raid on Chen's apartment was ordered by Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) task force, which is [...:]

Gizmodo Publisher Said Unlikely To Back Down To Apple, Police

Gizmodo's publisher Nick Denton is not likely to back down to Apple or the police, says a publishing industry executive who has followed Gawker closely for years.
Denton, who owns Gizmodo's parent company, Gawker Media, relishes a fight in the courts, says the executive, who asked not be named.

On Friday, Silicon Valley police investigating iPhonegate raided [...:]

Gawker Says Seizure Of Editor's Computers Is Illegal, Cites O'Grady

The seizure of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's computers is illegal, says Gawker Media, the parent company of the blog.
As a journalist, Chen is legally protected from divulging his sources of a story: in this case, details of Apple's 4G iPhone, which Gizmodo purchased after an Apple engineer left a prototype in a bar. Gawker says [...:]

Introducing: Top 50 Mac Essentials

Tomorrow on Cult of Mac, we're starting a new series: the Top 50 Mac Essentials.
Inspired by our ongoing 100 Tips series, we wanted to put together a list of the desktop applications that newcomers to OS X ought to know about.
Each app has been chosen because it's great value for money, or the best in [...:]

Police Investigating iPhone 4G Seize Gizmodo Editor's Computers

Wow. Silicon Valley police have seized several computers belonging to Jason Chen, the Gizmodo editor who detailed Apple's iPhone 4G prototype for the site.
California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of [...:]

Dilbert On Top Secret iPhone Prototype

Scott Adams, the evil henchman behind the Dilbert Comic Strip, posted two comics about the drunken misplacement of the iPhone Prototype today on his blog. What's cool is that these strips will never reach the funny pages and are exclusive to Adams' blog. Thanks for sharing, Scott.
I'm never one to lol when reading print material, [...:]

Chinese iPad Clone Offers USB Ports, Slightly Lower Price

A couple of Reuters reporters scoured electronics shops in Shanghai for an iPad clone until someone led them to a dark backroom on a fifth floor of one of the city's many clone marts.
You can't see a whole lot from the blurry pic, but they report that the counterfeit iPad sports three USB ports in [...:]

Suspect Held in Finger-Wrenching iPad Theft

Denver police arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with an iPad theft that also cost the victim part of his pinky.
20-year-old Brandon Darnell Smith was arrested early Saturday at a traffic stop.
"It's bittersweet," the victim, 59-year-old Bill Jordan, told local ABC affiliate 7NEWS. "The bitter part of it is there is nothing anybody can do [...:]