Is your desktop background getting boring? Perhaps something new is just what the doctor ordered. And what better way to show your love for Apple that an Apple-themed (Hey, this is TheAppleBlog remember. If you don’t love Apple, why are you here?) wallpaper! I scoured the… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
Let me start off by saying this: The idea behind Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series is conceptually crazy good. After all, if you want to produce a low-budget CGI animated prequel to your big-budget blockbuster, what better way to execute it than to use the… Read More »
Facebook today rolled out support for the digital identity standard known as OpenID, the latest and to date most successful attempt to allow users to log into a web service (from many different, sometimes competing companies) with one login and password. Scoring Facebook, one… Read More »
We T-Mobile G1 owners are getting tired of patiently waiting for our Android 1.5 update, known as Cupcake in Android land. If a new video of a future version of Android, Rosie, is real, then we don’t want Cupcake. Rosie looks really sweet, given… Read More »
A district judge has ordered YouTube to pay $1.61 million in royalties to U.S. songwriters, and $70,000 per month going forward. The judgment came last Wednesday in New York, but we didn’t see coverage of it until today when Techdirt picked it up; there was… Read More »
Energy-efficient lighting investments are starting to trickle back onto the scene after cleantech deals plunged in the first quarter. On Tuesday, Braemar Energy Ventures raised its bet on lighting with a $10 million investment in Hawthorne, Calif.-based Fulham Inc., a 7-year-old company that makes… Read More »
CNET announced the winners of its third annual “Webware 100″ awards today, and just like high school homecoming kings and queens, the 10 winners of the Photo & Video category were all popular kids. The awards were created to recognize “the best Web 2.0 sites,… Read More »
WebNotes, the online annotation and research tool, yesterday launched WebNotes Pro. This new premium product adds PDF annotation capabilities (check out the demo) and multicolor highlighting to the basic free app that Scott liked when he reviewed it in beta. Thanks to the good… Read More »
iTunes cleanup software TuneUp has been undergoing some exciting changes. Last week, TuneUp launched a new UI, and today the company is announcing the availability of the software at Apple Store retail locations in the U.S. Over 250 Apple Stores will now offer a retail-packaged… Read More »
OK, at this point I think we know just about all we’re going to know about the Palm Pre. Well, at least until we get them in our hot little hands starting on June 6, that is. While I was disappointed to see the… Read More »
Sony CFO Nobuyuki Oneda said today that the joint handset manufacturing effort between Sony and Ericsson will need to raise at least 100 million euros ($135 million) this year, according to the Nikkei English News. This prompted ratings agency S&P to issue a note saying… Read More »
Poll: Who’s buying a Palm Pre? (jkOnTheRun) Would you pay for Tiki Bar TV? (NewTeeVee) Hackintosh Dell Mini 9 OS X: Is it worth it? (TheAppleBlog) The importance of contingency plans (WebWorkerDaily) Guerrilla giving, creative contributions and the vitality of open source (OStatic) Tesla, Daimler… Read More »
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