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A video from inside Foxconn’s iPad assembly line →

All of the hype was over nothing apparently. If Foxconn has people coming from all over the country and lining up to work for them, $14 a day must be pretty good. Outside of the factory, it looks more like college life; with soccer fields and dorms. The video itself is pretty straight forward, but [...]

April 12 / 2012
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Stamped is a great looking recommendation engine

I really take pride in sharing the apps and web services that I enjoy and use most often here on my site. Many of these services are better with friends, so it’s only natural that I would want as many of mine to partake as possible. Stamped falls into this category. Stamped is a recommendation engine. [...]

April 05 / 2012

Why I’m Buying The New iPad

Let me start by saying the only surprise at today’s Apple event was the name. Even though we all knew what was coming long before the announcement, I was still on the fence about it right up until I hit the “place order” button. See, I hate buying Apple’s crap every other year. I’ve talked myself [...]

March 07 / 2012
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IPAD or iPad? →

Apple hired a british firm called Farncombe International to secure a trademark license for the name iPad. The trademark was then held by Proview, a Chinese company that made iMac-shaped monitors it called IPAD. To do this, Farncombe’s managing director, Graham Robinson, set up a shell company called — and this is rich — IP Application [...]

February 28 / 2012
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iTunes Match

Yesterday I received an email outlining the activation of iTunes Match from the Apple Developer Program mailing list. Match was announced at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference this year and was originally described as a service to “back-up” your iTunes library, even if you ripped or pirated the music. With the email last night came the news that it [...]

August 31 / 2011
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