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AzRmusic - In Dedication: Thank You, Steve (Only Mac Sounds Used) (by AzRmusic)

I made this song using only sounds from Apple products and Steve’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech. Every instrument, including drums, has been sampled from a Mac product, tuned by ear, and replayed in the context of the song.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gate

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”

The average…

uhlenbrock:

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"Thursday morning, employees at a Best Buy in South Brunswick walked into the store to find a pile of debris, a hole in the roof, and a bunch of missing laptops. Theft, to be sure — but how did the plunderers avoid the spider web of alarms? According to Police Sgt. James Ryan, the thieves managed to climb a gas pipe to scale the building, and used some type of suction device to lift a hole in the roof. Ryan speculates that they then lowered themselves through the hole into the store, managing somehow to keep themselves ten feet above the floor at all times, evading the store’s motion sensors. They even kept behind store banners throughout the operation, thus shielding their faces from security cameras. Upon swiping $26,000 worth of Apple laptops, they scurried out the same way they’d come in."

‘Mission Impossible’-Style Best Buy Thieves Swipe Laptops, Baffle Cops (via duwanis)

It must be nice to brag about having visual voice mail on some phones, while quietly hiding that it’s an extra $3 a month.

It must be nice to not allow convenient syncing of data, media, bookmarks, etc, via the excellent iTunes environment, instead using clumsier tools if anything is allowed at all, and have your customers just take it in stride.

The Apple Blog has a good overview of the reasons all cell carriers suck, but mostly why Verizon sucks the worst.

(h/t @commondream)

This is fantastic. I want one.