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Apple Genius War Stories: "I Got Punched in the Face" and More [Apple]
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This is the life of an Apple Genius: Computers caked in toxic waste, screaming customers, dead cats, raging homophobes, and oh yeah—getting punched in the face.
We’re protecting the identity of the Geniuses who relayed these tales of total cockbaggage with pseudonyms, since some of them might still work for Apple. If you want to see all of the stories on one page, just click here.
Now tell us, which Genius deserves some free pizza to ease their suffering? (Sorry we can’t send you guys a medal, sheesh.)
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Parallels Thrashes VMware Fusion When It Comes to Graphics [Software]
March 16, 2010 - 3:20 am
Tags: clips, fusion, graphics, mac, mware-fusion, none-solid, parallels, parallels-thrashes, popular-options, video, vmware vs parallels
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There are two popular options for virtualization software: VMware Fusion and Parallels. But which is better? MacTech did a detailed comparison and they found out that there was an obvious winner when it came to handling graphics.
Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Greener Pastures Edition [Remainders]
March 16, 2010 - 2:00 am
Tags: apple, appleipad, develop-apps, employers, greener, greener-pastures, his-sights, microsoft, remainders, team-members, things, windows, windowsphone7series
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In today’s Remainders: new beginnings. Tim Bray, co-founder of XML, starts a new job at Google (and has his sights set on Apple); several Windows Phone 7 team members are leaving…to develop apps for Windows Phone 7; and more.
A "plastic bag" or "an iPad case"? You be the judge.
March 15, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: bogus, digital-water, distinctions, hermetically, ipad, iphone, kirf, kitchen, plasticbag, review
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Filed under: iPad I was surfing on Amazon over the weekend and decided to see what would come up when I searched for “iPad”. One of the first results was: TrendyDigital WaterGuard Waterproof Case/Cover for Apple iPad, Blue Border and what caught my attention was that it only had one star. That seemed pretty severe, given that the iPad was only available for pre-order on Friday.
FCC wants to know your mobile broadband speed
March 15, 2010 - 9:30 pm
Tags: AT&T, atandt, bandwidth, country, data, entry, fcc, flickr, iphone, location, network, personal, results, united-states, verizon
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Filed under: iPhone You may remember that Verizon started running ads a while ago showing AT&T’s anemic 3G coverage map . AT&T responded by saying “Our coverage includes 97% of the country!” In the small print on Verizon’s ads they make it clear that AT&T does have coverage outside of 3G
How Do You Use Gmail on Your iPhone?
March 15, 2010 - 9:20 pm
Tags: account, account-setup, apple, from-the-iphone, googlesync, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, level-or-ninja, like-on-android, microsoft, tipb asks, unique, yahoo
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Gmail may only be the 3rd most popular email service on the planet (behind Yahoo! and Hotmail) but it ranks first in the hearts of geeks everywhere and can be used in a variety of ways on the iPhone: IMAP (or POP if you’re really old school) right from the iPhone Mail app.
Windows Marketplace Will Be the Only Source For Windows Phone 7 Apps [Windows Phone 7]
March 15, 2010 - 9:10 pm
Tags: apps, briefly-thought, iphone, marketplace, microsoft, mix10, phone, platform, posts-tagged, windows phone, windows phone 7
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What many feared (or briefly thought about without much emotion either way) has turned out to be true: Microsoft PR has confirmed that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be the only source for Windows Phone 7 apps, meaning that you can’t sideload apps, and that Microsoft will be the sole gatekeeper for all apps on the platform.
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March 15, 2010 - 8:56 pm
Tags: came-out, divx, iphone, lot-more, native, none-solid, posts-tagged, support, surprise, windows, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 divx, windowsphone7
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GDC 2010: Ngmoco’s Neil Young on how freemium will change the App Store world
March 15, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Tags: apple, business, companies, freemium, game, gaming, gdc2010, history, iphone, rolando, scale, valentine, werule, words
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Filed under: Gaming , Software , Apple , Developer , iPhone , iPad On the third day of GDC 2010 , Ngmoco’s Neil Young took the stage in one of the largest rooms at the conference to talk about what his company had “unlearned” in its time in the App Store.
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Tags: code, copter, device, games, gaming, iphone, parrot, parrot ar.drone, sold-on-picking, weird
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Filed under: Accessories , Gaming , Hardware , Peripherals , Software , Developer , iPhone We actually got to play with the iPhone-controlled Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter back at Macworld a little while ago, but we didn’t get a chance to see the “AR” part of it (augmented reality, of course) until GDC last week. Parrot pulled out the AR targets for us, and while the games they had running were very rudimentary, we did get a good feel for the action
NY Times details Google/Apple relationship souring
March 15, 2010 - 6:15 pm
Tags: apple, business, chrome, chrome os, chromeos, companies, droid, internet, iphone, landlord, phone, steve jobs, stevejobs, Times
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Filed under: Apple Corporate What began as a jovial relationship between Google and Apple has devolved into an ugly personal and legal battle that’s only getting worse. In 2006, Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt joined Apple’s board of directors
