Apple, Pop Culture

What Will People With iPads Think Of Next?

Nick Nicoludis :: Thursday, May 6th, 2010 4:20 pm

iPads are quickly becoming less of a technological innovation to be used as a giant iPone or a tiny MacBook, and more of jack-of-all-trades device. People are taking their iPads and doing all kinds of ridiculously silly things with them. If you haven’t seen it already there were the two dudes who used the iPad for their Dj routine, and now some other random skate-bros with an iPad and apparently no regard for how much they cost, have made theirs into a skateboard; ultimately destroying it in about 3 seconds. Click through for the video. MORE »

Cupidtino, The Awful New Dating Website For Lovers Of Apple Products

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 3:00 pm

Do you base your entire personality on the fact that you own the same popular, expensive technology as most of the people around you? Well, luckily for you, there’s finally a dating website that can bring you together with singles just as bland as you are! Cupidtino, a dating website that will launch in June 2010, is a “beautiful new dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple products!” This raises a few interesting questions. What does this say about the extent to which Apple has invaded our culture? Could this website even work without quickly devolving into a gold-diggers’ paradise? How can a dating website even be “beautiful?” And last but not least, what? MORE »

New iPhone: June 7

Alex Moore :: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 2:30 pm

Mashable is reporting that the new iPhone will likely be released on June 7.

“Apple just put up details about its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on its site,” the tech blog says. “Given the recent iPhone 4G leak and Apple’s usual timing when it comes to iPhone announcements, it’s very likely that Apple will officially announce the next version of iPhone at the conference, which is being held from June 7-11 in San Francisco.” MORE »

The Jason Chen Raid: Does Steve Jobs Hate Blogs?

Alex Moore :: Monday, April 26th, 2010 7:45 pm

iPhonegate got more interesting on Monday, as Gizmodo editor John Chen’s computers were seized by police under warrant from a Superior Court Judge in San Mateo County. But more interesting is the philosophical question this raises about Apple’s relationship to technology: does Steve Jobs hate blogs? MORE »

The New $100 Bill: A More Badass Benjamin

Matt Kiebus :: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 3:00 pm

Counterfeiters need to start copying the yen or the peso because the United States Treasury just made the most complicated piece of currency my eyes have ever seen. This morning our wonderful government issued a press release for the new design of the hundred-dollar bill. To make their adoring public even more excited, the government went all “new media” on our asses. They made a video, and damn it made me proud to be an American! MORE »

The Price of Losing an iPhone

Stephen Blackwell :: Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 6:00 pm

On Thursday, July 16th, 2009, Sun Danyong threw himself from a window in his apartment. People kill themselves for all sorts of reasons: depression, mourning, melancholia, addiction, and so on. Danyong jumped out of a window for a different reason. About a week before he decided to take his life, he had lost an iPhone. MORE »

Apple Replaces iPads, Steve Jobs

Adam Kearney :: Monday, March 15th, 2010 12:00 pm

When, after days, months, or years of charging and recharging, it becomes time to eventually replace the battery on your iPad, Apple will instead replace the entire device, for a charge of $100. The lack of a removable battery on the iPad is something Apple product owners should be familiar with, as it is the same with the iPhone, iPod, and MacBook Pro. And as Apple stores are eager to replace their machines with new models, I wonder if Steve Jobs himself, back in action after a recent liver transplant, has actually been replaced with one of the artificially intelligent humanoids from I, Robot (the resemblance is striking!). MORE »

Nothing Ever Happens

Stephen Blackwell :: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 7:15 pm

The vast majority of Americans would never fly a plane into a government building. Nor would they bulldoze their own home. But Americans are susceptible to being swept up in crazes good and bad, whether it’s Beatlemania or McCarthyism.

Casting the Tea Party as a wacky fringe borders on idiotic. It’s a movement that elects U.S. Senators. Its potential to become the “third party” is staggering, and I suspect liberal hatred of the movement is rooted in two things: (a) it possesses an unwavering message that (b) is completely rational. MORE »

Air Teams Up With RjDj To Release iPhone App

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 1:15 pm

French band Air and London-based music technology company RjDj have combined forces and created an iPhone application that allows users to play with Air’s music in interesting ways. Interactive features let fans record their own voices and sounds and integrate them into the music.

Apple: The New BLOCKBUSTER

Nick Nicoludis :: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 1:30 pm

What is technology without innovation? Further, where would the Internet/technology be without sex? It’s not hard to imagine that some of the people propelling the Internet’s popularity are in some way connected to the porn/smut business. I mean, when you were 12 or 13 what took up most of your Internet time? Let me guess: talking on AIM to your buds, trying to download Rancid/Blink-182/Saves the Day/any other tween/pre-teen meme and finally, trying to find porn and not getting caught. Now, Apple has taken all the fun out of technology by banning any app they deem to have adult/objectionable content. MORE »

Fiction Lovers: A Kindle, an iPad and a Hard Place

Shannon Hassett :: Monday, February 8th, 2010 3:15 pm

It’s a confusing time to be a book, and maybe even more so a reader. Digital or hard copy? Kindle or iPad? Moral opposition to digitalization of literature, or admission of defeat and support of (now) underdog Kindle? Is Kindle playing the underdog card unjustly? The answers offer no sigh of relief, posing questions that simply delve deeper into the the world of digital books and leave paper bound backers with nowhere to turn but the one place from which they hoped to hide. MORE »

Mad TV Sort of Predicts the Future, Apple Continues to Take Over the World

Amy Laviero :: Friday, February 5th, 2010 1:15 pm

I don’t think Mad TV, the red-headed stepchild of sketch comedies, has ever been funny. I never understood Ms. Swan and thought Stewart was just plain creepy. Regardless, it seems as though it inadvertently predicted the future back in ‘05 with the i-Pad sketch. MORE »

Apple iPad Weighs In

Adam Kearney :: Thursday, January 28th, 2010 4:15 pm

So, as most computer enthusiasts already know, the Apple tablet was unveiled at a conference yesterday, and it has been dubbed the iPad, which to me sounds like a way-too-high-tech feminine hygiene product. Apple has a splendid page devoted to the device, complete with giant color photos and videos, while PC World gives it some tough love with their 10-point grading system. With a 9.7 inch screen and weighing 1.5 pounds, it could be mistaken for a steroidal iPhone, or a netbook with the screen ripped off, but you’ll definitely build some muscle mass trying to hold it for an hour.

Apple Tablet Unleashed (tomorrow?)

Adam Kearney :: Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 12:30 pm

Money says the wizards of Cupertino will show off the prototype Apple tablet at a conference tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the world will get a glimpse of the gadget with the potential to destroy print publishing as we know it. All we’ve had to go on so far are rumors about what the device will look like, how much it will cost, and what its capabilities are, but tomorrow all will be revealed (hopefully). MORE »

New York Times To Charge Frequent Readers

Adam Kearney :: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 2:05 pm

The New York Times has decided to begin charging repeat visitors to the website before the beginning of next year. This is likely to scare off some of the less frequent readers, so they have designed a plan where regular visitors would need to pay a subscription price, but those finding articles on search engines would be able to read for free, and keep generating advertising revenue. MORE »