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Amplified is an award winning talk show about Apple, Mac, iPad, iPhone, iOS, guitars, amps, music, and recording. Get ready to rock. Hosted by Jim Dalrymple & Dan Benjamin.

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57: King Of Canada May 29, 2013

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In Dan's absence – Jim is joined by Myke Hurley – to discuss Tim Cook at the D11 conference and WWDC Expectations.

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Tim Cook live at D11 - The Verge
Twitter / 512px: Seems about right: ...
Loop Membership
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The Loop magazine
This magazine will serve as an extension of my interests on The Loop Web site, with articles written by some of the great authors I’ve come to know over my nearly 20 years writing about Apple.
WWDC Expectations
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is only a couple of weeks away and everyone is wondering what the company will unveil during the keynote address. As much as we all have long wish lists for what we would like to see, I think it’s important to balance those with realistic expectations for what’s likely to happen.
Instacast for Mac - Vemedio

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56: I Was a Co-Ed May 23, 2013

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Jim and Dan talk about Tim Cook's senate testimony and discuss the issues involved in owning a company in the US but manufacturing your products abroad. Later they delve into Google's new 3D maps, a very young musician's incredible rendition of Van Halen's Eruption, the new Xbox one, and more.

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Watch Tim Cook’s Senate testimony
BBC News - Microsoft unveils Xbox One next-generation console
Microsoft's decision to show off its new hardware in the opening minutes of its presentation sharply contrasted with Sony's PlayStation 4 press conference in February when the Japanese company decided not to reveal the look of its machine - a move that was mocked by some commentators.
Apple remains No.1 in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands - WPP
Apple remains the BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand for 2013, worth $185 billion. Apple grew just +1% in the last year compared to a +51% growth for its closest competitor, Samsung, which is now no.30 in the global ranking with a brand value of $21 billion. Google is also a serious challenger for the no.1 spot, reversing last year’s decline to grow +5% in brand value this year. The brand is no.2 in the ranking with a value of $114 billion. IBM is no.3 in the ranking with a brand value of $112 billion.
The Shape of Everything: How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right
Here's my short and inconclusive list of things that will let us know iCloud might be ready for real world developer use.
Apple's WWDC Keynote Scheduled for Monday, June 10 - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD
Apple today said the keynote address for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will occur on Monday, June 10, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Not a big surprise, as that is the day the event kicks off. Speakers for the keynote have not been announced — nor are they likely to be. But expect to see CEO Tim Cook presiding over the standard cast of characters as they demonstrate the latest in Apple tech.
Mini Display for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Need extra space on your computer screen? Mini Display turns your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into a wireless monitor for your Mac.
Google's new 3D Maps destroy Manhattan in the wake of Apple's Flyover
Nearly a year after Apple introduced its own Maps service in iOS 6 with Flyover 3D satellite views, Google is expanding its own online Maps to support similar 3D satellite imagery, with the same sorts of buckled roads and visual distortions Apple was castigated for last summer.
Man finds comic book worth $100,000 being used as wall insulation | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
“That was a $75,000 tear,” said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of ComicConnect, a New York City online auction house that is selling Gonzalez’s treasure. He says the comic book would have graded out at 3.0 without the rip.
AnandTech | The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4
It’s that time of decade again. Time for a new Xbox. It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360. The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take right around 8 years, and the 360 won’t be going away anytime soon either. The console business demands long upgrade cycles in order to make early investments in hardware (often sold at a loss) worthwhile. This last round was much longer that it ever should have been, so the Xbox One arrives to a very welcoming crowd.
BlackBerry Founder Says IPhone Users Will Embrace BBM App - Bloomberg
BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis said he’s confident that users of iPhones and other devices will embrace the company’s BlackBerry Messenger platform, which will be offered on rival phones later this year.
Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple - Forbes
Gartenberg didn’t immediately reply to a voicemail message left at his office at Apple asking him to talk about his new role for the Cupertino, California-based company. He is working on the marketing team under Apple’s global marketing chief Phil Schiller, according to sources.
14-year-old plays Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”
The Loop Magazine for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
The Loop magazine will serve as an extension of my interests on The LoopWeb site, which includes music, design, technology, games and Apple, amongothers. Each issue will feature a number of really great authors thatI've come to know and respect over my nearly 20 years writing about Apple.
Interview with Bill Wadman — 5by5 Blog
Microsoft's Xbox One Launch Raises Questions About Apple's Mysterious TV and Living Room Plans - ABC News
The new console integrates with a cable box, will have streaming video capabilities, and also original Xbox video content, including a Halo TV series made by Steven Spielberg. It promises to loop your cable box into the interactive Xbox experience, allowing you to channel surf via voice control and video chat while watching TV and movies.
Amazon.com: JAM Studio Quality Guitar input for iPad, iPhone and Mac: Musical Instruments

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55: Come At Me, Bro! May 15, 2013

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Jim and Dan talk about Google's recent announcement including Google Play Music All Access and changes the changes coming to Google+, Larry Page's voice issues, the release of The Loop magazine app, and the issues that arise when launching such an app.

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Google takes on Spotify with Google Play Music All Access subscription service, priced at $9.99 per month | The Verge
However, unlike a lot of Google services, All Access isn't free. It's priced at $9.99 a month, though there is a 30-day free trial. Google is looking to reward early adopters, however: if you start a trial by June 30th, your monthly fee will run just $7.99.
Scott Adams Blog: Larry Page's Voice Update 11/08/2012
First look: Google+ shifts the focus to better photos and big data | The Verge
Data-center muscle is coming to Google’s social network in three ways: powerful processing that automates photo selection and image editing
The Loop Magazine updated and an apology
When The Loop Magazine shipped last week, I had high hopes for delivering readers the best content available on Apple’s Newsstand. Unfortunately, the app shipped with a subscription bug that caused errors when trying to read the magazine on multiple devices.
The Loop Magazine for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
The Loop magazine will serve as an extension of my interests on The LoopWeb site, which includes music, design, technology, games and Apple, amongothers. Each issue will feature a number of really great authors thatI've come to know and respect over my nearly 20 years writing about Apple.

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54: Dan Seacrest May 08, 2013

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Jim and Dan talk about CocoaConf Alt, the status of Apple Displays and Macs at WWDC, spider bites, laptop bags, Spock vs. Spock, 100 million copies of Windows 8, and Megadeth.

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Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dead at 49 | Billboard
Just over two years after contracting a rare skin tissue disease, Slayer guitarist and songwriter Jeff Hanneman died on Thursday from liver failure at Hemet Valley Medical Center, near his home in Southern California's Inland Empire area.
Don’t Blame Spider Bite For Felling Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman - The Daily Beast
Jeff Hanneman, lead guitarist of the seminal thrasher metal group Slayer, died this week of liver failure. Without exception, the somber coverage of his death has included mention of the nearly fatal infection Hanneman had sustained in 2011 when he developed necrotizing fasciitis, aka flesh-eating bacteria, of his right arm. Even a representative of the band, which Hanneman had played in since its founding in 1981, suggested the bite that seemingly led to the devastating infection may have played a role in his early death.
CocoaConf Alt canceled for WWDC
CocoaConf Alt was a conference that was organized for the week of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for all of the attendees that couldn’t get tickets for Apple’s event. However, organizers of CocoaConf Alt contacted attendees this morning and said the event has been canceled.
#AltWWDC
Join us for AltWWDC - a free and open alternative to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference - June 10th-14th, 2013. Five days of talks, food, co-working, and mingling with other developers all without the bar noise. Got a WWDC ticket? Didn't get a WWDC ticket? Doesn't matter - the conference happens outside the conference.
The king of Apple talk radio - Apple 2.0 -Fortune Tech
In the middle of a live broadcast discussing Twitter's new president, Google's (GOOG) Android market share and why Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone 7 is a terrible name for an operating system, the guest pauses to ask his co-host: "Speaking of well-hung Wookies, does this show have a sponsor?"
Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone
mStand Laptop Stand - intro
Cadet - Checkpoint friendly laptop bag in sizes for Apple laptops - TOM BIHN
Mac mini - Buy Mac mini Computers - Apple Store (U.S.)
iMac - New iMac Desktop Computers - Apple Store (U.S.)
5by5 Jackal T-Shirt (WWDC Edition) – 5by5 Store
Featuring the official 5by5 Jackal logo printed on a heather black American Apparel poly cotton 50/50 short sleeve crew neck T-Shirt (size chart) using the discharge process for a softer hand. The back collar features the 5by5 logo.
Spock vs. Spock in new Audi ad
There are so many in jokes to love here, like Nimoy singing the Bilbo Baggins song and the gratuitous use of lens flare every time they show Zachary Quinto’s Audi.
Leak sends water pouring into Apple Store on Fifth Avenue - NYPOST.com
"I was down there at 5:45am because I had trouble backing up my computer and everyone started yelling," customer Errol Rappaport, 68, told The Post. "There was a leak then--boom--the whole thing opened up out of the ceiling. Then everyone started scrambling, moving tables...It didn't look like there were any electrical issues otherwise they would have evacuated the store."
About Those 100 Million Windows 8 Sales | The Tech Night Owl — Cutting-Edge Tech Commentary
If you can believe Microsoft, over 100 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold so far. This number is consistent with the initial uptake of Windows 7, so you have to wonder how these figures are being collected, since PC sales continue to decline. Is it possible Microsoft is just lying?Well, probably not. But what constitutes a sale?
Microsoft Windows 8 criticism: New Coke comparison made | BGR
The difference, says Doherty, is that while Coca Cola ditched New Coke after just three months, Microsoft’s problems with Windows 8 have been “going on for seven months.” Doherty also claims that Coke “listened better” to its customers by moving more quickly to address their concerns.
iTunes - Music - Trust - EP by Megadeth

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53: People Love You May 01, 2013

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Jim and Dan discuss Jim being driven to strike someone at a Metallica concert, tarantulas and june bugs, a Volkswagen Beetle with an iPad dock, and more.

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WWDC - Apple Developer
Instacast for Mac - Vemedio
The sad state of Apple rumors | Macworld
It’s a weird time for those of us who’ve followed Apple rumors for years. (And I'm not the only one who has noticed.) At the risk of sounding like your prototypical hipster, today’s rumors just aren’t as good as they used to be. The devices that we hear whispers about now—a smartwatch, a television, a cheaper iPhone—seem lackluster compared to the rumored products of days past—products that, when they actually appeared, changed entire industries.
Apple's Tim Cook Returns to D Stage to Open 11th Annual Conference - Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg - D11 - AllThingsD
Although we are only about a month out from our 11th D: All Things Digital conference, we still have a few big speakers to announce, not the least of which is Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Justin "Justin Garrity" Garrity » Blog Archive » 2012 VW Beetle with Custom iPad Mini dock in dash.
Recently, VW announced the iBeetle in conjunction with Apple. Before this new integration was announced, I had a custom iPad Mini dock installed in the dash of my 2012 Beetle. From what I’ve read about the iBeetle, I think using the iPad Mini instead of the iBeetle’s iPhone integration results in a much better experience.
Elm327 WIFI Wirless OBD2 PC Car Diagnostic Reader Scanner Scan Tool with Wireless for IPhone : Amazon.com : Automotive
Apple wows market with record $17 billion bond deal | Reuters
Apple Inc wowed the debt markets on Tuesday with the largest non-bank bond deal in history, pricing a whopping $17 billion as the U.S. computer giant switches strategy to placate restless shareholders.Just a week after announcing its first drop in quarterly earnings in a decade, Apple came to market with the massive deal to raise funds for an ambitious program that will return $100 billion in cash to holders of Apple shares.

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52: Don't Yell At Me, I'm Married Apr 24, 2013

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Jim and Dan discuss the Úll conference, Apple's Q2 earnings, secret new products, the iWatch, the Mac Pro, the iMac's missed opportunity, the WWDC announcement (and the hidden meanings in the image), how to attend WWDC, the state of Windows, and more.

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Apple - Press Info - Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $39.2 billion and net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37.5 percent compared to 47.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple says it has served 45B App Store downloads, with $9B paid to developers - The Next Web
Apple revealed on its Q2 2013 quarterly earnings call that it has seen 45 billion App Store downloads and had paid out $9 billion to developers, with $4.5 billion alone coming in recent quarters.
Tim Cook teases 'exciting new product category' and 'more surprises' in the fall | The Verge
During Apple's Q2 investor call, CEO Tim Cook teased "the potential of exciting new product categories," and suggested that the company will announce new products in the fall. "We've got a lot more surprises in the works," Cook said. "Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services that we can't wait to introduce in the fall and into 2014. We continue to be very confident in our future product plans." Cook said that there will be "really great stuff coming in the fall and across all of 2014."When asked about the new product categories, Cook declined to provide a specific timeframe, suggesting a new category may not appear this year. "The reality is that the work we do to produce truly innovative products is very hard," Cook said. "I assure you that we're working very closely with manufacturing partners to achieve a very exciting roadmap."
WWDC 2013 Tickets On Sale April 25 At 10AM PT, Runs June 10-14 - TechCrunch
WWDC - Apple Developer
Alleged Budget iPhone Leak
It’s been whispered about for a while now, but the above image allegedly shows the never before seen, rear shell of the rumoured budget iPhone. What do you think of this fantactus find? Could it really be the real deal?
Twitter #music for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
A fresh approach to finding new music by using Tweets and follows to power discovery.
Apple reportedly stops placing Mac component orders
Apple has reportedly stopped placing component orders for its Mac series products recently and related upstream suppliers so far have not yet received any word about when the US-based vendor will resume its orders, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.The suppliers originally expected to finish digesting their Mac inventories in April, but are now stranded waiting for further instructions from Apple.The sources revealed that Apple's Mac orders to the supply chain dropped to almost nothing after the Lunar New Year holidays. Apple had high hopes for its Mac product lines and placed aggressive orders at the end of 2012
iPad 5 Estimated to Be 15% Thinner, 25% Lighter Than Current iPad - Mac Rumors
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has on a number of occasions offered accurate information on Apple's product plans, recently published a new research note outlining his expectations for Apple's fifth-generation iPad. Kuo expects mass production and shipments of the new iPad to ramp up in the August-September timeframe, with the device registering roughly 15% thinner and 25% lighter than the current full-size iPad.
App Annie Index: Market Report Q1 2013 - iOS App Store revenue 2.6x that of Google Play - App Annie Blog
Over the past quarter, Google Play has achieved higher growth rates than the iOS App Store for both downloads and revenues. While Google Play reached close to 90% of the iOS App Store downloads in Q1 2013, the iOS App Store maintained its strong lead in monetization, earning about 2.6x the app revenue of Google Play.
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The NPD Group: After 10 Years, Apple Continues Music Download Dominance in the U.S. – NPD.com
On April 28, 2013 Apple will celebrate the anniversary of its iTunes Store, and even after 10 years the company continues to lead the market in digital music downloads. According to the latest information from The NPD Group, a global information company, with a fourth quarter (Q4) 2012 unit share of the paid music download market reaching 63 percent, Apple dominated the market for paid music downloads, followed by AmazonMP3 at 22 percent. Eight out of ten digital music buyers downloaded their tracks and albums from Apple’s iTunes store in Q4 2012.
Supplier woes stir Apple demand fears, stock drops below $400 - Yahoo! News
Apple Inc's shares fell below $400 on Wednesday for the first time since December 2011 after a chip supplier's disappointing revenue forecast fanned fears about weakening demand for the iPhone and iPad as competition intensifies. The stock dropped below $400 briefly before bouncing back to end 5.5 percent lower at $402.80, losing more than $22 billion of market value in a single day. Cirrus Logic, which makes analog and audio chips for the iPhone and iPad, on Tuesday warned of a reduced product forecast from one customer - which it did not name. But 90 percent or more of its business comes from Apple, making it a key indicator of demand for iPhones and iPads.
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Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8 - Network World
Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system.
Verizon nets 677,000 new wireless subscribers, activates 7.2 million smartphones, 4 million iPhones in Q1 | The Verge
Verizon just announced its Q1 2013 financial results, which reveal positive subscriber numbers and record smartphone penetration. America's largest wireless carrier added 677,000 net new postpaid subscribers between January 1st and March 31st, up 35 percent year-over-year, and now has 98.9 million retail customers in total (including prepaid and postpaid). That works out to 34.9 retail postpaid accounts, with an average of 2.7 connections per account. Verizon also revealed that 30 percent of its accounts are on a "share everything" plan that the company introduced last July. From a financial perspective, Verizon's postpaid ARPA (average revenue per account) for the quarter was $150.27, up 6.9 percent year-over-year. Total revenue of $29.4 billion represented a 4.2 percent increase year-over-year.
Avid |News Room
Offline bounce — Delivers mixes up to 150 times faster than real time.
Úll

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51: I Do This For A Living Apr 03, 2013

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Dan and Jim discuss Apple and China, the Pebble Smartwatch, a fantastic 6-year-old drummer, and more.

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“Hot For Teacher” performed by a 6-year-old drummer
The Pebble: Is the Time Right for a Smartwatch? — 512 Pixels
San Francisco DA met with Apple over phone thefts, hints next two iPhones designed under Jobs | 9to5Mac
Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial | Reuters
With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China's state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power of the government press.
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50: Fully Bearded Child Mar 27, 2013

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Jim and Dan talk about Apple's broken promise (iCloud), Google Reader, Fever, NetNewsWire, Black Pixel, Newsfire, iTunes Purchase fraud, WifiSLAM, the value of Apple stock, guitars, and more.

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Voodoo Chile-Jimi Hendrix / Gayageum ver. by Luna - YouTube
Voodoo Chile-Jimi Hendrix / Gayageum ver. by Luna
Apple's broken promise: why doesn't iCloud 'just work'? | The Verge
iCloud, perhaps more than any Apple software product, is meant to "just work." When Apple introduced iCloud, it made clear its hopes to eradicate settings menus and file systems in favor of automation. Steve Jobs pledged to do a better job than he did on MobileMe, Apple’s notoriously horrible stab at web services a few years ago. With iCloud, changes you make to documents on your computer show up instantly on your iPhone and vice versa. "It just works," Jobs exclaimed when he first demoed the service in 2011. "Everything happens automatically," Jobs continued, "and it’s really easy to tie your apps into iCloud’s storage system."
What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back? | TechCrunch
If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google is likely shutting down the product for a good reason: relatively few people used it, with less using it over time. More wood, fewer arrows, and all that.But that doesn’t mean this move isn’t a mistake for a couple reasons.The first is that Reader’s users, while again, relatively small in number, are hugely influential in the spread of news around the web. In a sense, Reader is the flower that allows the news bees to pollinate the social web. You know all those links you click on and re-share on Twitter and Facebook? They have to first be found somewhere, by someone. And I’d guess a lot of that discovery happens by news junkies using Reader.By killing the flower, Google could also kill the bees. That would be bad for all of us, even if we no longer use Reader or have any clue what RSS is.But the second reason worries me even more because it’s more quantifiable. By killing Reader, Google is likely to harm a lot of publishers, large and small, by eliminating a larger source of traffic.
5by5 | The Pipeline #8: Jason Kottke
Dan Benjamin interviews Jason Kottke, the independent publisher of kottke.org since 1998. They discuss blogging for a living, general vs. niche blogs, content longevity, making the transition to full-time blogging, how taking a break (even for a week) can affect traffic, finding links, guest bloggers, the good and bad of comments, and more.
Fever° Red hot. Well read.
Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can't keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you've even abandoned feeds altogether.
NetNewsWire App
Black Pixel
Given the discontinuation of Google Reader, I wanted to take a moment to talk about our plans for NetNewsWire.First, we intend to bring sync to future versions of NetNewsWire. It's too soon to go into details about this, but you should know that we recognize how extremely important it is and that it is a top priority for us.Second, even though we've been quiet about it, we have been working on new versions of NetNewsWire for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. We have some great new features and a modern design that we can't wait to show you.
NewsFire™ (for Mac OS X)
Simple to use and packed with features, NewsFire makes it a joy to keep atop the constant flow of information on the web.
Policeman Doug Crossan reports his 13-year-old son Cameron for FRAUD after running up a £3,700 bill on his iPad | Mail Online
When he discovered he had run up a ?3,700 bill on his father?s credit card playing games on his iPad, Cameron Crossan expected a very stern telling off at least.The 13-year-old was mortified by what he had done ? but worse was to come. For instead of punishing him, his father filed an official police complaint effectively accusing him of fraud.Doug Crossan, 48, said he was horrified when his credit card company informed him of the amount his son had spent on the games in Apple?s online App Store.
Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM - Digits - WSJ
Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up.Apple paid around $20 million for the Silicon Valley-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter who said the deal closed recently.An Apple spokesman confirmed the deal saying the company “buys smaller technology companies from time to time” and generally doesn’t discuss its plans. He declined to comment further.
Why You Should Buy Apple Now - Seeking Alpha
Apple (AAPL) is currently experiencing one of the worst sell-offs it has faced in the last decade. In this article, I will attempt to provide many reasons why the company's growth story isn't over and why the stock should be bought at these levels. Reasons for this include that recent growth worries are likely temporary, declining margin fears are overblown and manageable to the extent they occur, new product categories are coming, and that Apple is best positioned to continue to take over new product and service categories as much of the world's gross domestic product becomes tied into the mobile Internet -- and thus transformed and disrupted.
Apple rolls out fix for password reset security hole, iForgot site back up | iMore.com
Apple’s iForgot password reset page is now back online, and iMore has verified that the security hole, discovered earlier today in Apple’s password reset page, has been closed.Previously, after providing a victim’s Apple ID and date of birth, an attacker could send a URL to Apple that would change the password for that account, without needing to answer any security questions. In response, Apple blocked access to the password reset page, and a short while later took the entire site down in light of another loophole that still allowed the attack to be performed.This vulnerability came at an interesting time, just a day after Apple began to roll out its two-step verification system. Users who had already enrolled in the new system seem to have been immune from the password reset vulnerability.
I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. | Blog – Hooktheory
In this article, we’ll look at the statistics gathered from 1300 choruses, verses, etc. of popular songs to discover the answer to a few basic questions. First we’ll look at the relative popularity of different chords based on the frequency that they appear in the chord progressions of popular music. Then we’ll begin to look at the relationship that different chords have with one another. For example, if a chord is found in a song, what can we say about the probability for what the next chord will be that comes after it?
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49: New Overlords Mar 20, 2013

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Jim and Dan talk about Kevin Lynch, the iOS update, Google Reader's demise, leaving Feedburner, Google's priorities, privacy, Dropbox, BlackBerry's claim that the iPhone is "old", learning guitar chords, the line-6 amp, and more.

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Google Reader to shut down July 1st | The Verge
Daring Fireball Linked List: Exhibit A in the Case That Newly-Hired Apple VP of Technology Kevin Lynch Is a Bozo, a Bad Hire
Daring Fireball Linked List: Exhibit B: Defending/Denying Flash Player's Adverse Effect on Battery Life, a Mere Two Years Ago
Thoughts on Flash
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ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot | TechCrunch
Apple credits evad3rs jailbreak team with 4 of 6 software bugs fixed in iOS 6.1.3 - The Next Web
Why did Apple hire Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch?
Sapphire Technology Web Site
Thorsten Heins, BlackBerry CEO: iPhone Is Getting Old
But “the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone — with all due respect for what this invention was all about — is now five years old.”
Advanced Guitar Amp Modeling | Spider IV Guitar Amplifiers
Warlock Metal Master Tribal Fire Guitars - B.C. Rich

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48: Hee-Haw Folks Mar 13, 2013

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Jim and Dan talk about truth in reporting, trusting the news and news agencies, android users in the air, twisting numbers, Rubin stepping down, "cheap" guitars, and more.

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The Only Thing That Has Really Changed At Apple Is That There's No More Reality Distortion Field
This year, it's a company for old people, and it's at risk of being the next Motorola — a one time high flyer who defined the mobile phone, but crashed when people moved on to the next thing. What happened to Apple that it's been so thoroughly tarnished?
Guessing the Wall Street Journal Agenda for Apple - The Hiltmon
I have noted the past few months that the WSJ seems to issue regular negative news, no, opinions, no, rumors, no, rubbish on Apple.
When It Comes To iPhone And iPad There Are Two Customer Groups Apple Doesn’t Want Or Need | Mac360
What have we heard about Apple ad nauseam for the past year? It’s not just that Apple is doomed.We hear that Apple needs to build an entry-level, less expensive iPhone or risk being left behind as Android dominates the smartphone world. Or, something like that. Such analysis overlooks Apple’s typical customer, and, importantly the customers Apple does not want.
Be safe Android users; Actually, I don’t give a shit
Android accounts for 79 percent of the security threats for mobile platforms. iOS barely registers in the results, despite the fact there are hundreds of millions of users.
Infographic: Staying Connected in Air | Gogo Blog
Apple devices are still reigning above the clouds, following the tablet trend with the iPad being the device of choice. Among all mobile devices being used to connect through Gogo, 84 percent carry Apple’s iOS operating system while 16 percent carry the Android operating system. If you look only at the smartphones our customers are using, the iPhone makes up 73 percent and all Android devices make up 26 percent, with Blackberry and Windows based devices each making up less than 1 percent of devices being used in air.
Apple Maps Improvements - Business Insider
Dalrymple is one of the most pro-Apple bloggers in the world. He's constantly attacking Apple rival Samsung (see here) and disparaging anyone that speaks ill of Apple (see here).
Apple’s Maps being updated often and significantly
The updates have been quite significant for the areas involved. For instance, the update in Japan brought toll road notifications and improved pronunciation of roads during turn-by-turn navigation
Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android at Google, will be succeeded by Chrome OS boss | The Verge
Google has just announced that Andy Rubin is stepping down as head of Android — he'll be replaced by Sundar Pichai who is currently the senior VP of Chrome and Apps. Pichai will keep his current duties, as well. CEO Larry Page announced the change on Google's blog today, and also took a moment to tout the domination of Android in the mobile marketplace — more than 750 million Android devices have been activated globally, and 25 billion apps have been downloaded from Google Play. Judging from the blog post, it sounds like Rubin stepped down of his own accord and will remain at Google in an as-yet unspecified role. Page hailed Rubin's work, and asked him for "more moonshots, please!"
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