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Police search furor grows
Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:40 AM EDT (Times Union)
ALBANY -- Chief James W. Tuffey said Wednesday that his department is not obligated to report all civilian complaints against police officers to a Citizens' Police Review Board, but several city lawmakers have said that was not the intention of the law they created.
Albany police accused again
Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:38 AM EDT (Times Union)
ALBANY -- Another woman has publicly accused the Albany police of conducting an improper cavity search.
Breaking: Apple Special Event Goes Down September 5 - Gizmodo
Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:55 PM EDT (Gizmodo)
Mark your calendars, because what Jesus told you before is true: Apple is planning a Special Event for the Wednesday following Labor Day weekend—that's September 5 at 10am Pacific.
Hint: How to redesign the Leopard dock so it sucks less - ThinkMac Software
Seeded on Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:10 AM EDT (thinkmac.co.uk)
The dock has always been one of those sort of 'live with it', rather than 'love it' features of OS X. Right from the start it's had pointless special effects like the magnifying icons, but in Leopard it really takes the biscuit.
Don't Get 'Hung Up' On Buying An iPhone
Seeded on Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:41 AM EDT (New York Post)
June 26, 2007 -- TENS of thousands of people are expected to line up this Friday for themost hyped gadget of the decade - the iPhone. Don't be one of them. Oh, it's a technological marvel.
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering - Joel on Software
Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:16 PM EDT (joelonsoftware.com)
Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low resolution screens. Where they differ is in philosophy.
Enjackass (Daring Fireball)
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 8:33 AM EDT (Daring Fireball)
I got a surprising (to me, at least) amount of email regarding my calling Engadget's Ryan Block a jackass for his post on the bogus "iPhone and Leopard are both delayed" email.
Answers from Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2007 8:08 AM EDT (roughlydrafted.com)
At Apple Inc.'s May 10 annual shareholder meeting, a series of proposals were presented for voting after which CEO Steve Jobs answered a series of questions from the audience. As has been the case over the last three years, a large portion of the questions and comments from t …
Leopard Delayed Until October
Seeded on Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:58 PM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.
The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point (Ars Technica)
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 3:31 PM EDT (Ars Technica)
The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to any measurable energy savings.
With five private jets, Travolta still lectures on global warming (This is London)
Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:39 PM EDT (This is London)
His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment. But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway. The 53-year-old actor, a passionate pilot, encouraged his fans to "do their bit" to tackle global warming.
Executive producer Ron Moore discusses thrilling 'Galactica' cliffhanger
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:42 PM EDT (-)
As the title says, an interview with Ron Moore. If you haven't seen the season finale do not read this.
Would Apple Mix DRM and Non-DRM Music at the iTunes Store? (Daring Fireball)
Seeded on Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:31 AM EST (Daring Fireball)
I've seen others arguing along similar lines, that Apple would need all of the major record labels to agree to abandon DRM before Apple would sell non-DRM music at the iTunes Store, to keep the experience consistent.
Apple Hard At Work Making iPhone Obsolete | The Onion
Seeded on Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:35 PM EST (The Onion)
CUPERTINO, CA—Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were already working around-the-clock on the touchscreen smartphone's far-superior replacement.
Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music' (Daring Fireball)
Seeded on Wed Feb 7, 2007 8:30 AM EST (Daring Fireball)
Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" essay is really quite a good piece of writing, and an intriguing and aggressive strategic move on the part of Apple. Is it a challenge to the major record labels? An answer to the increasingly hostile European governments (Norway, France, G …
Bloomberg Plans to Cut New York's Property Taxes
Seeded on Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:57 AM EST (The New York Times)
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is proposing to cut property taxes by roughly 5 percent and eliminate the city sales tax on clothing and footwear as New York enjoys the bounty from its booming economy and real estate market, city officials said yesterday.
Infinite Loop: Apple to license FairPlay DRM?
Seeded on Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:51 AM EST (Ars Technica)
Apple's FairPlay DRM has been under fire since... well... since DRM in general started getting big. And Apple, in particular, has been particularly nazi-like (bad metaphor alert! BWOOP BWOOP BWOOP!) in keeping it to themselves—Apple don't wanna share.
President Bush signs bill banning pretexting
Seeded on Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:39 PM EST (Ars Technica)
President Bush has signed the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 into law, making the practice of pretexting illegal.
Ars at Macworld: Interview with Parallels
Seeded on Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:39 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng interviews Parallels Marketing Manager Ben Rudolph. Some highlights include new features coming within the next few months to Parallels including hardware graphics acceleration, iSight support and an updated coherence mode.
Daring Fireball: At ARM's Length
Seeded on Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:11 AM EST (Daring Fireball)
When Steve Jobs introduced the Apple TV during the keynote, he mentioned that it was powered by an Intel CPU, and they popped up a slide with an Intel logo. But what Intel processor? Well, no one seems to be saying.
Coming soon: iPhone nano, iPhone Shuffle?
Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:01 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica's Ken Fisher Speculates about possible toned down, cheaper versions of the iPhone.
In Cingular-Apple Deal, Only Phone Was Missing - New York Times
Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:54 PM EST (The New York Times)
When Cingular executives went to the company's board last year to get approval for a deal with Apple, they did so without so much as a prototype of an Apple phone to show the directors. The board signed off anyway.
Rome's Colosseum lights up in death penalty protest
Seeded on Sun Jan 7, 2007 9:13 AM EST (Breitbart)
The Colosseum in Rome was illuminated evening as part of Italy's campaign for a global moratorium on the death penalty following the bungled hanging of Saddam Hussein.
Bush to Nominate Khalilzad to U.N. Post
Seeded on Thu Jan 4, 2007 4:41 PM EST (ABC News)
ABC News has learned that President Bush will nominate Zalmay Khalilzad to be the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Khalilzad is currently the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. The announcement may come as soon as tomorrow.
VMWare Fusion releases public beta for Mac
Seeded on Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:29 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Many of us are getting intimately familiar with Parallels on our Macs these days, but that's not to say that there aren't other virtualization software packages out there that we may have forgotten about.
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