Leander Kahney's Blog, page 2271

Steve Jobs: Like Porn? Buy An Android Phone!

Want porn on the go? Go buy an Android phone is the advice of none other than Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Writing to Jobs about Apple's sometimes draconian content policing policies that most recently kept Pulitzer Prize winning caricaturist Mark Fiore from the App Store, Matthrew Browning wrote the following letter to Jobs:
I was converted [...:]

Gorgeous Docking Stations Allow You To Easily Use Your MacBook As Your Main Work Machine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKu9uwdwZI
I use my MacBook Pro as my main work computer thanks to a Logitech notebook keyboard stand and an external monitor, but I've often wanted something cleaner: a simple and elegant docking solution without any need to manually connect DVI cables and USB umbilicals.
Henge Docks' line of MacBook docking stations seems to be just solution. [...:]

Facebook Address Book Integration Coming in iPhone OS 4.0?

When it was first unveiled at CES 2009, one of the things I really liked about the Palm Pre was its integrated Facebook functionality. Instead of merely adding contacts to your phone manually, you had the option of subscribing to their Facebook contact details, which would automatically merge their phone numbers, email addresses and profile [...:]

Apple Will Replace Faulty Earbuds for Third Generation Shuffle Owners

Apple's perverse obsession with miniaturizing the iPod Shuffle doesn't seem likely to stop until they bring it down to the size of a nanoangstrom, but one of the biggest drawbacks of making a music player smaller than the controls needed to use it is that the user interface needs to be offloaded to a peripheral: [...:]

Apple Formally Asks For iPhone Back, Gizmodo Returns It

Apple sent Gizmodo a formal letter asking for its iPhone back (proving it was genuine) — and Gizmodo is returning it, along with a nice note asking Apple to go easy on the kid who lost it.
Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam says Apple called him today asking for its iPhone back. He said he'd be [...:]

Apple Engineer Tweeted About Beer On Soon-To-Be-Lost iPhone

The "sorry Apple engineer" who lost a 4G iPhone at a Bay Area bar has been identified as Grey Powell, Gizmodo reports. Powell is a 27-year-old software engineer with a taste for the sauce (judging by his pictures, like this one above with a PBR). He left the test unit at the Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood [...:]

Craigslist Lost & Found: Lost iPhone 4G (San Jose Downtown)

This is pretty funny (except for the poor schlub at Apple who lost the iPhone, of course).
Posted to SFBay Craigslist:
So I did it again this last week, consumed way too much straight vodka within perhaps an hour. The party started at 7, I had to be removed by 10pm because I was biting/attacking/wanting/insulting people [...:]

Poll: Will You Be Buying the Next-Gen iPhone?

Apple's next iPhone seems to answer a lot of geeks' prayers. It's got a forward-facing camera, a flash unit, and a super high-resolution screen. Combine that with multitasking and and universal inbox in OS 4.0, and who could say no?
Well, plenty of people, it seems. There's lots of haters out there put off by [...:]

"Sorry Apple Engineer" Who Lost iPhone Likely ID'd Says Gizmodo Publisher

Gizmodo publisher Nick Denton says the "sorry Apple engineer" who left the 4G iPhone at a bar may have been identified. He says he's calling the poor bastard, and the story is likely to follow.
Earlier in the day Denton promised to reveal the full story of how Gizmodo acquired the next-gen iPhone. The story [...:]

Review: ShiftIt, An Open Source Window Resizer

Back in December I wrote about Cinch, a tiny little app that lets you drag application windows around to the edges of your screen, and have them instantly resize to something useful.
Cinch is mouse-oriented, but has a keyboard-oriented cousin called Sizeup. Today, a comment on that old post alerted me to a free, open source [...:]