cobra starship replaces kanye on the purple nano
by Justin Horn on Dec 17th, 2008 @ 11:07 am
From the Cobra Starship MySpace Blog
“That’s right, move over Kanye, guess who just replaced you in the Nano ads!
Wanna know the crazy thing? no ONE even knew about it! not us, not FBR – nobody. which is kind of badass that apple just does what they want. we dont get paid, nor do we get free gear, or even a discount code to use on checkout. nothing. but fuck – that used to be kanye west in the purple nano – and now it’s motherfuckin COBRAS! I just think it’s fuckin rad that we’ve made enough of a niche into pop culture that someone at apple decided to associate us with the color purple. Of course all of you guys know, but it’d dope to see your fuckin record all over these stores like that. Now i just need my own Crayola Cobra Purple and my life will be complete. “
I think it’s funny that they didn’t know about it until they saw it. Just saw these guys in concert a few weeks ago and they put on a great show. Check out their albums on iTunes, you won’t be disappointed.
I also find this extra amusing due to the recent Colbert vs Kayne ‘fued’, Operation Humble Kayne. (Colbert videos after the break, sorry for non US visitors they are Hulu vids)
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apple cancels Christmas!
by Justin Horn on Dec 16th, 2008 @ 5:54 pmIf you haven’t heard yet, then I guess I will have to be the bearer of bad news… apple has cancelled Christmas. Ok, WTF am I talking about? Well apple announced today that this will be the last year at macworld and Jobs will not be the one delivering the final keynote:
CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.
Within a few hours of this announcement someone has put up this funny website called Apple Canceled Christmas which is basically a paraody of the apple offical annoucement:
CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this is the last year for Christmas. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing spoke at a joint press conference held with Santa Claus at the North Pole, where he announced: “Apple has been honored to work with the North Pole the last several years to make Christmas possible, however, we have decided together that this is the last year for Christmas.”
Well let’s hope this paraody doesn’t turn out to be true for apple stock holders. The stock has dropped over 5 points after hours dipping below 90 after a close around 95. At 5:55EST it has recovered a bit above 92.
OUCH! 
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my new apple headphones… they are finally here
by Chiyin on Dec 16th, 2008 @ 4:03 pmAfter waiting for a long time I finally received my new Apple In-Ear Headphones… Like anything Apple the headphones came in beautiful packaging… Along with the earbuds the content in the box included a carrying case, 3 sets of silicone ear tips (small and large in a separate carrying case and medium already inserted in the earbuds) and a set of replacement mesh caps…
Here are some pictures…
The pill like capsule is the carrying case for the extra silicone tips and the metal thing are the replacement mesh caps…
Now the question is… Are 2 drivers better than 1? Come back for a full review and comparison… I’m not an audiophile by any means, but I like music… a lot… So I’ll try to put the set through its paces and see how it fares…
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pull my finger, I dare you!
by Justin Horn on Dec 12th, 2008 @ 10:04 pmI’m sure by now you’ve heard the story of the ‘pull my finger’ app [iTunes Link] from air-o-matic being rejected from the app store. Well apple seems to be lowering their guard on what apps can appear in their online shelves. Just the other day macenstein.com reported about the “first ‘adults only’ game” to hit iTunes.
I don’t think I can really do a review of this app considering, but for 99 cents it’s pretty amusing. I bought it to check out for the blog, but I’m pretty happy with my purchase 
If for no other reason, you should buy this app to let apple know to keep on relaxing their restriction of apps. I think the only apps they should block are ones that can do harm to the iPhone or someone’s privacy, but otherwise let the ‘free market’ decide.
Here’s is a little clip of me playing with it so you can see for yourself if it’s your thing…
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dell keyboard fail…
by Chiyin on Dec 9th, 2008 @ 4:26 pmI just recently purchased 2 Dell computers for a client and noticed something peculiar about the keyboard… take a look, see if you can spot what’s wrong…
Dell should take a look at their quality control.. I guess Michael Dell is not like the boss Apple fired and then brought back…
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iPhones available without contract…if you live in the UK [update]
by Justin Horn on Dec 9th, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Those of us in the US are still locked into a contract with at&t, but if you live in the UK apple is now letting you purhcase without an O2 contract. The 8GB is selling at $506USD (£342.50) and 16GB at $578USD (£391.45) which can be seen on the apple UK webstore. These amounts include the VAT tax.
If you live anywhere in any of the european countries pictured below you should be able to purchase one of these from the UK webstore and have it shipped to you, but unfortunaetly it can not be shipped direct to the US. So all you geezers and birds can make a killing shipping these things over to the US!
UPDATE Seems like this has been avaialble for some time now from O2 directly, just not from the Apple stores. I also assume that the phone is still locked to O2, so without hacking/unlocking the iPhone you would still have to use it on O2, just on a month to month instead of a contract.
[via phonesreview.co.uk]
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