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Breaking: Apple C&D's Wired Gadget Lab over OS X-on-netbook tutorial
Boing Boing Gadgets —
Wired's Gadget Lab blog is being sued by Apple for posting a tutorial on how to hack OS X Leopard to allow it to be installed on a MSI Wind netbook.
According to the author of that guide, Brian X. Chen, on Twitter:
Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X. One hell of a way to start off the day.
Ars Technica's Clint Ecker then asks if Chen (and other Conde Nast writers) are allowed to discuss it publically, or write about it. ...
Apple isn’t suing Wired after all
p2pnet news —
p2pnet news view P2P:- “Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X,” tweeted Brian Chen on his Twitter page yesterday, going on:
“One hell of a way to start off the day.”
Then, “Update: Apple is not suing Wired over the Hackintosh tutorial,” he tweeted.
“My misunderstanding.”
Ahhh. The art of microblogging. ...
Rest in Rice: My Poor, Dead iPhone (2007 to 2009)
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Last night I lost something very dear to me. While I was making my bed, my comforter bumped over a glass containing a tiny amount of water, which seeped right into my iPhone's weak spot — the dock connector. The screen turned white followed by a series of random fluorescent colors, as if my iPhone were seeing its life flash before its eyes. Then it shut off and wouldn't turn on again. Just a year and a half old, my iPhone was dead.
I began treading through the five stages of loss and grief. First, I was in Denial that the damn thing was borked. I quickly immersed the phone in a container of ...
What to Expect From Apple’s September iPod Event
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Let’s be frank: We all know Apple’s hosting a September event, as it has for the past several years. But this year’s keynote is shaping up to be a bit more interesting than usual, thanks to the frenzy of iPod, iTunes and tablet rumors… plus, of course, the return of Steve Jobs.
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The future is now? Augmented reality comes to the iPhone
Macworld —
... enables an augmented reality component. If you want to find out more about augmented reality, Wired’s Brian X. Chen wrote a farily lengthy (but worth reading) ...
Apple Confirms September iPod Event
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Just as everyone anticipated, Apple has confirmed a Sept. 9 event taking place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The keynote (hopefully with Steve Jobs as emcee) kicks off at 10 a.m. PDT. What will be announced? Read our previous story “What to Expect From Apple’s September iPod Event” for our predictions.
As always, Wired.com will provide live coverage of the event, so stay tuned. To keep up with the news as it unravels, follow @gadgetlab and @bxchen on Twitter.
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Rumor Roundup: Delays Might Trouble Apple’s Wednesday Event
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Apple on Wednesday will host an annual media, which has traditionally centered on its newest iPods and upgrades to iTunes. One day before the event, the Apple community is buzzing with a new crop of rumors regarding the event.
In late August we treated you with a list of what to realistically expect from this event, including iPods equipped with cameras, a new version of iTunes and the possible return of Steve Jobs as keynote emcee. (And sorry, but we don’t expect an Apple tablet.)
Today’s last-minute predictions include a delay for the new camera-equipped iPods due to ...
Liveblog: Apple to Present New iPods — and Maybe the Beatles
Wired: Gadget Lab —
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s that time of the year again — for the kids to go back to school, and for Apple to host an iPod event. Today’s Apple keynote takes place in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts starting at 10 a.m Pacific time (1pm Eastern).
Wired.com will be reporting from the event with a liveblog and up-to-the-minute news coverage, right here. Bookmark this page and keep refreshing it for the latest, up-to-date scoops on Apple’s announcements.
If you’re a fan of snarfing down information in 140 characters or less, follow @gadgetlab and ...
AT&T Starts Enabling MMS on U.S. iPhones
Wired: Gadget Lab —
As we reported yesterday, AT&T is finally turning on multimedia messaging service (MMS) for iPhones.
In enabling the service, which iPhones in other countries have supported since June, AT&T is finally making good on its promise to enable MMS by “late summer.” Well, not quite — since technically summer ended on September 22 — but considering that MMS is a 5-year old technology, what’s a few extra days here and there?
If you haven’t received a text message like the one shown here, you can still turn on MMS. Here’s how:
Connect ...
Screening The News
TechCrunch —
ZOMG You Can Has CatPaint for iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Here’s one good reason I’m not switching to a Droid: CatPaint, an iPhone app that will enhance my ability to annoy people by gratuitously posting photos of cats.
Indeed, with a minimal amount of stalking (i.e., following me on Twitter) you’ll notice I’ve uploaded countless photos of my kittens since I adopted them seven months ago. CatPaint is an app that enables me to insert stock images of cats onto any photo in my iPhone library. For me, that means with a few taps on the screen, I can sprinkle more photos of cats onto my photos of cats! There are eight cats ...
