Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
Really, what more can we say that hasn’t already been said. The world has lost a genuine visionary.
Thank you for Apple.
Thank you for Pixar.
Thank you for everything Steve.
You will be very sadly missed.
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
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Review: Spinning Streak App
Spinning Streak iPhone App
Just been sent a link to this great little free iPhone game/app called Spinning Streak. It’s described as ‘a game of skill and balance’, where your purpose is to ‘become the most famous Spinning Streak act on the planet’.
The object of the game is to keep the coins spinning on the poles by flicking the screen. The longer you can keep them going, the more points you get. Like a lot of iPhone apps, it’s a pretty simple premise, but also amazingly addictive. As you improve, you move up through the ranks, performing at various locations, until you manage to reach the ultimate goal of spinning your coins in Las Vegas.
Spinning Streak is a great little free and fun app which runs on all flavours of iPhone.
Just follow this link for the free download!
Gizmodo Find the New iPhone!
New iPhone
My guess would be, at this very moment, at least one Apple employee is becoming an ex-Apple employee, after this seeingly genuine prototype of the brand new iPhone was lost in a bar in Redwood City… And then handed in, not to Apple, but tech site Gizmondo… (The rest of Apple employees I suspect are cowering in corners as Steve Jobs hurls furniture around the office in a blind rage.) ;)
After some close examination, including taking it apart, the phone (which was camouflaged in a case to look like an normal iPhone 3GS) appears to be the real deal.
New features include a front-facing video chat camera, Improved regular back-camera with flash (unfortunately, not the flash we all want on the iPhone, but still nice), a switch to Micro-SIM, improved display, and a bunch of changes to the layout and buttons.
Lots more photos and video over at Gizmondo.
iPod v. Walkman
Scott's Walkman Trail
BBC have a great article where they took away a 13yr old boy’s iPod, and gave him a classic Sony Walkman instead.
Born in 1996 (the year i graduated… i feel so old…) this was pretty much the first time young Scott Campbell had needed to deal with old analogue technology, particularly the staple of my youth, the humble home audio tape, producing my favourite remark from the article:
“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”
kids today…
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop!
Apple introduces the MacBook Wheel, a revolutionary new laptop that replaces the keyboard with a giant scroll wheel! Keyboards are sooo 2008! ;)
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
(I love theonion.com 
;)
The Steampunk Mac Mini
Dave Veloz built this wonderful steampunk mod of a Mac Mini as a wedding present for his soon to be wife. It really is a stunning piece of work! Lot’s more pics over at steampunkworkshop.com
