A Long Island woman stabbed an attacker in the neck with her iPod charger, then managed to pick the twice-convicted rapist out of a police line up — he still had the prong marks from the charger on his neck.
Wondering whether the European iPod charger with rounded prongs would come in as handy for impromptu self-defense.
Via Macenstein
Written by Nicole Martinelli | Source: http://cultofmac.com
on November 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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Now that iPhone Firmware 2.2 is out (all 245.7MB of it), what do we all think of it? Initial reactions around the web seem broadly positive, and my own experience so far matches that. In recent weeks I’ve been seeing quite frequent application crashes on my 2nd gen iPhone, so I’ll be interested to see if they happen less often now. On very first impressions, the phone feels faster and snappier in use post-update.
Most of the changes were published in advance, but there are some hidden extras that are new to me.
My favorite is inside the App Store application, which previously only displayed one screenshot for each app you were looking at. This was always a bit limiting; it’s very hard to show an app’s capabilities with a single screenshot. Now the app displays a mini gallery of screenshots, which you can tap to view full size. App description pages have been redesigned slightly, and look a bit crisper and neater now.
Also, there’s a nice change in behavior when navigating through screen loads of apps (something many people have identified as a problem before). Now, clicking the Home button on any screen will teleport you straight back to screen #1, aka the Home Home Screen.
So there’s more reason than ever now to ensure that your most frequently used apps live there. Shame it’s so fiddly to get a newly-installed app from screen 5 or 6 all the way back to screen 1. Also a shame: still no todos. Still no notes sync. Still no copy and paste. Sigh.
Have you upgraded your iPhone yet? What are you liking so far? Or has anything gone wrong?
Written by Giles Turnbull | Source: http://cultofmac.com
on November 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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Inspired by our previous post on an iPhone stand from a standard binder clip, CoM reader Rich Sipe took matters into hand and fashioned another one, a bit more complex than the first one but it looks like it’ll give you a sturdy stand out of pinched office materials.
More on Instructables, too.
Written by Nicole Martinelli | Source: http://cultofmac.com
on November 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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Below is today's roundup
of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit
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news and blogs converage.
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Business Week Gives The iPod Touch A Rare 5 Stars --
by larryfire from gadgets « WordPress.com Tag Feed
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Catching Up: Star Trek Preview Impressions From a Casual Fan --
by Brian Lam from Gizmodo: Star Trek
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The iPod Touch Doesn’t Have a Proximity Sensor --
by John Gruber from Daring Fireball
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'Verizon's Blackberry Storm' --
by Jon Thompson from gadgets « WordPress.com Tag Feed
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iPhone Vulnerability, Fix Coming on November 21st in Firmware 2.2? (Arn/MacRumors) --
from Techmeme Firehose
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The iPhone Runs into a Storm --
from BusinessWeek
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Zagat launches Zagat To Go for iPhone --
from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
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Zagat To Go for iPhone --
from iPodNN | The iPod News Network
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Palm losing out as iPhone gains corporate fans --
by Tom Krazit from CNET News - Apple
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Walt, Kara & 300 of Their Best Friends --
by Jany from gadgets « WordPress.com Tag Feed
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Written by Apple iPhone - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet | Source: http://www.boxxet.com/iPhone/
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Apple’s new MacBooks are great — but as a proud owner of one of the milled wonders, I can confirm that the much-vaunted glass trackpad did have issues. Not constant ones by any means, but it would miss clicks quite often — probably one in ten times.
Having finally downloaded and installed Trackpad Firmware Update 1.0 yesterday, I can also confirm that the problems have completely gone away now. No fuss, and every click counts.
My experience has not been universal, however. MacFixIt reports that many users are having difficulty installing the update, and I’ve even heard of some people getting kernel panics and other bad news. Install at your own risk, obviously, but it’s a very welcome update — makes the already good significantly better.
Written by Pete Mortensen | Source: http://cultofmac.com
on November 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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