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Link Where I come from, this is called fraud: Apple's "flawed" signal meter

Apple Acknowledges Flaw in iPhone Signal Meter - NYTimes.com

“Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong,” Apple said in the letter. “Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength.”

Apparently this is true for older models and has “gone undetected for at least two years if not more.” Apple, the obsessive Apple, hasn’t noticed that it’s gimmied the signal meter for years to make it look like reception was better than it really is. Yeah right.

#apple #fraud #nytimes
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The new Apple iPad explained

#funny #apple #how-many-millions-did-steve-jobs-pay-for-product-name-consulting
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Double-fisted: Francis on a recent school trip:
Yes, that’s simultaneous drinking of apple and orange juice-blech!
Link Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter

A sixteen-year-old perspective on Techcrunch:

If you look at technologies trending with teens right now, it’s Apple devices (iPhone, iPod), smart phones (Blackberry, Palm), and then social networks (Facebook and MySpace). At least that’s what I see from hanging out with 1,500 other teenagers in high school every day (I am 16 years old). But why not Twitter? Well, because Twitter is a different type of social network than Facebook. Facebook is about connecting people, and sharing information with each other. The way my friends and I see it, Facebook is a closed network. It’s a network of people and friends that you trust to be connected to, and to share information like your email address, AIM screen name, and phone number. You know who’s getting your status messages, because you either approved or added each person to your network.

Martin’s comment: From my observation, this seems to be true with blogs too and for a lot of folks in their early 20s.

#twitter #teens #techcrunch
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Laptop Hunters: Homeless Frank goes shopping for a PC

#funny #video #apple
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"A new meta-analysis (pdf) of 72 studies, involving 4,795 groups and over 17,000 individuals has shown that groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members. “What this suggests is that teams who talk more amongst themselves aren’t necessarily sharing useful information. Therefore, they’re not actually coming to a better result. Rather, it’s more important what the teams are talking about, than how much they are talking,” said Mesmer-Magnus. Groups were also found to perform better when they engaged in so-called “intellective tasks” - that is, when they attempted to solve a problem where a correct answer exists, rather than seeking a consensus opinion or judgment."

Report on Consensus and Decision-Making. Well, how’ja like them Quaker apples?
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I wish someone had told me Apple Mail’s IMAP implementation was buggy. “imap command append failed” is something I never wanted to Google.
Link Eudora Mailbox Cleaner

Migrates Thunderbird email to Apple Mail
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Apple Safari’s “Top Sites” consistently forgets Facebook even though I’ve repeated entered it manually and push-pinned it. V. strange.
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Sorry, Apple, don’t notice any amazing speed from new Safari.
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Apple juice all over the kitchen floor. Serves me right for leaving Francis alone for a minute. Squeaky sneakers!
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Having to use an Apple Mighty Mouse. Feel like I need a tutorial to find right click!
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New not at all cheap Jawbone bluetooth headset arrived too. Beautiful packaging job I must say, they make Apple look like Dell!
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New not at all cheap Jawbone bluetooth headset arrived too. Beautiful packaging job I must say, they make Apple look like Dell! http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/818503340
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My wallet’s too heavy—heading down to the AC casinos to spend it & bringing my 4yo, the good luck kid Link http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/799519236