Republic Wireless – The $19 month Cellphone Hands On
Got an interesting delivery today. My $19 month cellphone. No it’s no gimmick, it’s Republic Wireless. Their whole shtick is unlimited WIFI calling with a 3G backup connection. Everything about this company screams BUDGET, but at $19 a month can you blame them? More to come.
Chocolate Invasion
Four days to manufacture a limited edition, laser engraved gift box, along with a postcard, a sticker and a mini poster – not to mention the gourmet chocolate of your favorite space invader. $25.
Its A Bean Bag, But Also A Sled!
This sled is made from double-stitched PVC-coated polyester, and uses a combination of polystyrene “beans” and air to give you the softest ride down the hill. All you need to do is hop on the bag, grab the straps and take off. That’s after you pay the $300 price.
Apple Store Revealed
Well that was surprising. Today Apple took the wraps off their Grand Central Apple store.
Seemingly giving journalists an early sneak peek.
The other side note is Grand Central Terminal is now live with free wifi courtesy of the Apple Store. A huge boon for NYC tourists and commuters.
(Via YouTube)
Interior of the Grand Central Apple Store Revealed and Construction Barrier Down
Opening this Friday at 10am seems like Apple has a little bit to do before the launch.
As you can see in the exterior shots the video wall has been removed and the store once again is shrouded in black curtains. The curtains by the sides of the grand staircase will be placeholders for Apple logos and the main archway will also house an Apple logo as seen by the reveal pictures.
Vintage Steve Jobs and Apple Video Clips
Was going through my old MacTV archives (ahhh those were the days) and found some vintage Steve Jobs videos I thought I would post for all to enjoy.
Easily Access iOS Settings on iOS With an Icon
With a short trip into the iPhone configuration utility you can easily make webclip icons for your favorite preference pane in iOS. Instead of you having to do the heavy lifting I precomposed a file for my loyal readers. Just click this link on your iOS device and trust the configuration profile and viola you have instant access to settings.
The Mythical Dip and Squirt Ketchup
For those who know me know, at least in the blogger sense, I’m obsessed with trying to find the mythical Heinz Dip and Squirt ketchup packet.
Well, the search is over. I found my holy grail of silly blogging trinkets (and had a good burger too – not to mention Garlic Rosemary fries!)
Why can’t more restaurants have these?
AT&T Gives on Buying T-Mobile. Prepares for a $4 Billion Loss
I never thought the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile would ever happen but I though the ending would have been in dozens of lawsuits, government antitrust hearings and shareholder revolts.
But shockingly, today, AT&T and T-Mobile have withdrawn their request from the FCC to merge.
AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG are continuing to pursue the sale of Deutsche Telekom’s U.S. wireless assets to AT&T and are taking this step to facilitate the consideration of all options at the FCC and to focus their continuing efforts on obtaining antitrust clearance for the transaction from the Department of Justice, either through the litigation pending before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:11-cv-01560 (ESH) or alternate means. As soon as practical, AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG intend to seek the necessary FCC approval.
I’m sure the $4 Billion will be welcome news and a good shot in the arm for T-Mobile as they enter into a new way to seek strategic alternatives to a merger.
Wow.
Sniffy
A bit of geekery needed here but sniffy monitors network traffic for media hosting websites and streams them in your favourite media player. It aims to keep out of your way and help rid the world of Flash. It works in conjunction with any web browser.
My Favorite Podcast App, Now for iPad
Well worth the price, Instacast by far is my favorite podcast app and now available for the iPad.
This is the high definition version of the famous podcast client, Instacast. More screen, more video, more show notes, better browsing, push notifications and iCloud syncing.
Apple Store Grand Central Revealed
Well, a day late but the Apple Store Grand Central’s facade has been revealed. As previously speculated here, it is a video wall that resembles a flip board style display – fitting of a train station.
Also, note in the left hand corner of the balcony. There is a film crew recording the passers by in the train station who stop to look at the Apple Store. I think they are creating a time lapse video similar to what they did when the Fifth Avenue Apple Store opened.
UPDATE: As you can hear in the video there is still major construction going on inside the store and the displays are either Apple Cinema or Thunderbolt Displays.
My Rearview Mirror is a DVR!
Everything is displayed on a 4.3 inch, 480 by 272 resolution screen and the internals are powered by a Centrality Atlas 4 Dual-Core 500 MHz processor and 64MB of RAM.
Storage is handled via SD or Micro SD cards, of which two are included (4GB each).
Portal Bookends
$25… Want…
Apple Store Grand Central Almost Ready to Go?
Seems that the Apple Store, Grand Central is in its final phases before it opens. Huge scaffolds have been erected and the plain construction barrier is now shrouded to hide reconstruction the previously speculated video wall. This is an important retail launch for Apple, considering that this is going to be their largest retail store in the world – square footage wise.
I’m guessing very soon we will hear some sort of official word from Apple regarding the stores official opening date.
Enter the UniBeast!
Introducing UniBeast- our new tool to create a bootable USB drive from your Mac App Store purchased copy of Install Mac OS X Lion or Apple Store purchased OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive. This all-in-one bootable USB drive can also be used as a rescue boot drive for system recovery.
UniBeast + MultiBeast is the easiest method to do a clean install of Mac OS X Lion or update any Snow Leopard system.
iCloud Can Automatically Sync Macs Files
This has to be one of the coolest hacks I heard this month.
What is of use is that any files put into the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will automatically upload to iCloud and push to any other Mac you have that is signed in to the same iCloud account and has the ‘Document & Data’ iCloud preference checked. Lion even notifies you of version conflicts and allows you to resolve them when you open the document.
Neat!
$19 A Month For Unlimited Voice & SMS
Enter Republic Wireless.
This could be a game changer. Just make sure you have enough of the Wi-Fi’s.
Here is My Problem With Android
Ok, so here is my beef with Android. When a person who buys a cellphone walks into a carrier and asks for an Android phone – there is no uniform expectation. Little do they know that every manufacturer has a different skin making the whole experience different, and even more so do they know there are diffferent versions of the OS and its VERY likely you will NEVER see an upgrade.
It’s an OS with great potential but the carriers and device manufacturers is Android worst enemy!
At least with iOS, Windows Phone 7, and WebOS (RIP) there is a uniform experience between models creation less confusion for the user.
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