Two weeks ago, Newzbin.com suddenly closed down completely, after having lost in court against MPAA. Today, Newzbin.com is back online and on servers in Sweden – but as “Newzbin 2” and with new owners. Owners, who “hacked” Newzbin some time ago to get the source code. Behind Newzbin 2 is “Team R Dogs” and their … Read more →
A good move by Facebook, I think. They have been through a lot with their privacy settings over recent years, both because they forced you to share your “Pages” with everyone, no way of hiding it to the public, and because the privacy settings were just too advanced and too many. Now, a few days … Read more →
In just a few short years the iPhone has completely changed the way that people look at mobile phones. Apple’s smartphone introduced the world to the idea of downloadable applications which meant that phones were no longer home to static content, but could be updated with new software and features from third party developers at … Read more →
Scott Kelby came up with this fantastic idea on how to increase your creativity by limiting yourself to “shooting old school” and helping out an orphanage in Kenya at the same time. Nowadays, most people are used to shooting digital with their cameras – and some of us, never even tried to shoot film on … Read more →
Dear Mozy, First let me say how thrilled I was when I first learned about you and your online backup services, I especially liked the part where I could get 2GB free and expand it with 0.5GB for each friend I referred – a great way to start out with your service. I also liked … Read more →
Here’s a video of a guy who really likes to have his iPad hanging around. And what’s the easiest way to do that? Velcro, of course! Stick some velcro on the back of iPad and the other part of velcro on whatever surface you want the iPad to stick to – and it will stick … Read more →
Last Friday (May 21st) was Pacman’s 30 year birthday and to celebrate, Google integrated a fully playable Pacman game into their logo on Google.com. RescueTime, who did some calculations based on the activity of 11,000 users, estimates that the time spent on Google’s frontpage last Friday went from 11 seconds on average to 45 seconds. … Read more →
This set of images came to me by e-mail, so I don’t know the source of origin, meaning I can’t give credit where credit is due. Never the less, that’s no reason to keep them from you, as I actually find them a bit funny 🙂 The actual screenshots are from an AllThingsD show, I’m … Read more →
Foxconn will manufacture 24 million iPhone 4G’s during 2010, says Ming-Chi Kuo, a senior analyst with Digitimes. Foxconn is the company that actually makes the iPhones for Apple and according to Ming-Chi Kuo, they will make 4.5 million of the new generation iPhone during the first half of 2010 (which ends soon) and another 19.5 … Read more →
Wired.com did what everybody was waiting for, except we didn’t know we were waiting for it. They put up six battles in the “Apple vs Adobe” war, with regards to Flash, of course. The six “battles” were: Mobile vs Desktop Openness vs Closedness Serving up the “full” web Games Security and Stability Streamlining development tools … Read more →
Steam for Mac has arrived – but you probably already know that, it’s been all over the Internet for the past few days. If you don’t know what Steam is, it’s kinda like an “App Store” for games, but on your computer. Previously it has only been available for Windows computers, but now also Mac … Read more →
I follow Nikon a bit from the sideline, since I’m a Nikon shooter myself. Not a pro or anything, I’ve only had my Nikon DSLR since November 2009 but I already invested quite a bit of money into this photography hobby and I’m really enjoying it so far. That’s why, when I saw that Nikon … Read more →
Browsing YouTube, I stumbled over a video called “The Simpsons – Think Differently”. The last part made me think of Apple, since that was the advertising slogan created for Apple in 1997. And true enough, the video was actually about Apple. Another The Simpsons & Apple video I found was the “Mapple Store” video. But … Read more →
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past, oh I don’t know, few months, you would already know that there’s quite a battle going on between Apple and Adobe over the use of Flash on iPhone and iPad. Few weeks ago, Apple posted a letter on their site called “Thoughts on Flash” by … Read more →
Shortly after Facebook’s privacy settings exploit (video) went around the world, a bug has also been found in another social media network; Twitter. While the Twitter bug is not as serious as the Facebook one, it’s still a bug that is related to one of the main features of Twitter – the follow/unfollow system. Apparently, … Read more →
According to a rumor picked up by MacDailyNews, it is being said that “Apple is planning to make MobileMe free”. MobileMe is usually a $99 (€79) yearly cost which will do a bunch of cloud-based things to your Mac and iPhone/iPad, such as providing you with an IMAP e-mail address, an iDisk, a place to … Read more →