In accordance with everyone’s speculation, gizmodo has pulled this story out of their arse. They seem to think that they’ve got the scoop on the 3g iPhone release. 

The article seems to base everything on “a secret undisclosed source”, which is the staple standard of the Apple rumour mill. 

In other obvious news, fish swim, ducks quack and gizmodo isn’t news, it is blatant gossip blogging, which does drive traffic, as it’s top of techmeme right now.

 

I should get on an article about the 4g one they’re readying for next year, now where’s my “source”. 

 

Breaking: iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed

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Apple’s online store seems to be out of iPhones.

I wonder why.

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Looking to be something of an odd acquisition for Yahoo!, everyone’s favourite safari plug-in, Inquisitor has been snapped up as a “search assistant” (or to get Yahoo as the default on a few more people’s copies of safari). It’s a bit of a shame, but I liked the google default. Congrats to David Watanabe on the sale of it anyway. He does make it clear that Yahoo! didn’t buy him out.

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13:23:12 stephanie: hi hu r u?

13:23:24 Dean Gray: ?

13:23:39 stephanie: wat r u foreign

13:23:43 stephanie: hu r u?

13:24:06 Dean Gray: Oh, sorry, I couldn’t understand your fragmented speech

13:24:34 stephanie: who r u?

13:24:57 Dean Gray: Who am I?

13:25:09 stephanie: yh dat is wat i sed

13:25:38 Dean Gray: Wow, it’s like translating from idiot to coherent English

13:26:06 stephanie: yh an ur like a fukin gay arse licker

13:26:32 Dean Gray: Really? What have you got to base that off of other than assumptions?

13:26:53 stephanie: coz u look it u fudge pCKER

13:27:22 Dean Gray: If that was an insult, you could have at least tried to make a “your mother” reference.

13:31:24 stephanie: nah ur mamas 2 much waste 2 even mention jus like u

13:32:36 Dean Gray: You are aware you come across as being very poor, badly educated and probably very ugly, right?

13:34:17 stephanie: nah m8s im as beatiful as da sunshine ur as beatiful as my assholw 

13:34:45 Dean Gray: The way you type shows you’re slovenly, the fact you don’t have a decent picture as a display image shows you’re probably too poor to afford a digital camera, that coupled with the grammar, lack of a retort and poor spelling shows you’re more likely to come from a low income household, and thus have a very poor lifestyle

13:34:51 stephanie: an yh so wat i aint got an education jus coz ur a snob an do an u look dwn ur nose at me even doe i cud do a million fings betta dan u

13:35:22 Dean Gray: Really? Typing, spelling and staying coherent are definitely not things you can then

13:35:22 stephanie: nah m8 im not on my comp

13:35:32 stephanie: an r u callin ma mum poor 

13:35:37 Dean Gray: Yes.

13:36:25 stephanie: well u no wat my mum aint yh we dnt all cum from rich families yh an n e way i wouldnt want 2 look at u ur a fukin arse lickin snob

13:37:06 Dean Gray: If I have a good income, how could that possibly be a bad thing?

13:38:27 Dean Gray: State handouts are quite the cop out.

13:38:50 stephanie: im not sayin it is dick ead im callin u a snob lookin dwn ur nose at ova ppl it must look far den init seemin ur nose is like da size on de eifle tower

13:40:09 Dean Gray: Well if people don’t get themselves in gear and don’t work to get anywhere, earn next to nothing and have a shit life why should i see that as an okay thing?

13:40:19 stephanie: u speak like a posh bastard

13:40:41 stephanie: well u dunt ave da rite 2 judge dem init]

13:40:59 Dean Gray: Good, I enjoy having an IQ higher than my shoe size, how is having one lower than yours going for you?

13:41:34 stephanie: wat i got dyspracia an dislexica so shut ur mout

13:41:58 Dean Gray: Well It’s not my fault someone invented inbreeding.

13:42:10 stephanie: fuk u u fukin hore

13:43:07 stephanie: my familly aint inbread its more like richer ppl seemin dey got all dat stuff hidden in dere house an kids wid liek 8 toes on 1 foot

13:44:03 Dean Gray: Really? Oh well, then it must be the alcohol dependency then.

13:44:26 stephanie: wat u chat a fukin lot of shit u no dat 

13:44:46 stephanie: see us ppl are dwn 2 earth u ppl are 2 up dere own arses

13:44:59 Dean Gray: Down to the gutter more like.

13:45:36 stephanie: nah mate jus coz u smell like dat

13:46:24 Dean Gray: What, like i’ve been out of the gutter? It’s called soap.

13:47:04 stephanie: yh eat shit n die yh

13:47:24 Dean Gray: No thanks.

13:47:27 stephanie: ur ovi a lil boy init

13:48:09 Dean Gray: I honestly couldn’t even comprehend that, so there’s not much of a chance for a retort.

13:48:23 stephanie: no coz u r a lil

13:48:26 stephanie: boy

13:48:42 stephanie: no wonder gals r lesbians coz of dick eads like u

13:49:13 Dean Gray: Really?

13:50:01 Dean Gray: Lesbians are lesbians, oh well… Keeps them out of the gene pool, unlike your family, unfortunately.

13:50:21 stephanie: wat the fuk u chattin nw?

13:50:46 stephanie: fuk u im a lesbian u dick ward

13:51:05 Dean Gray: Okay, well it’s good you won’t breed.

13:52:08 stephanie: yh i will jus nt wid dick eads like u so ur basically sayin dat n e 1 hu is straight inbreeds so u put urself imn dat catagory den init an ur mam an das

13:52:10 stephanie: dad

13:52:50 Dean Gray: No, you missed the point entirely, poor people do that.

13:53:38 stephanie: nah dats jus u

13:54:27 Dean Gray: Oh, really? See, I thought i new what I do, if you know better than I do, then maybe you could tell me when my birthday is.

13:55:11 stephanie: wen u die

13:55:29 Dean Gray: Just once?

13:55:37 Dean Gray: That doesn’t even make sense.

13:55:42 stephanie: fuk u 

13:55:52 Dean Gray: Not even for money.

13:56:08 stephanie: wat ur chattin shit again

13:56:18 stephanie: shit i can even smell it dis time

13:58:16 Dean Gray: You do realize you can’t send smells over the internet?

13:58:20 Dean Gray: must be you.

13:58:32 stephanie: nah m8s dats deffo u 

13:58:42 Dean Gray: Anyway, I’m off shopping. Bye.

 

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Showing that people think windows users are idiots and need everything spelt out to them, Apple changed their windows software update program so that it now shows what is new software. It is, however, still checked by default so there will probably be some outcry about it still. Everyone’s doing it, installing things you don’t need on windows because they can (microsoft still being one of the main people who do it).

The one thing this shows is that Apple is trying to make peace with the blogging community online for a change, changing software not to add features, but to please people who criticised them.

Somehow I’m guessing this was down to the PR department and not from Steve.

 

InformationWeek

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Just when I thought P2P was stagnant, stuck on torrents and limewire, along came Mojo by deusty designs came along and changed everything. Limewire stuck to the basis that you were going to share content you wanted to share and that you would keep it in a certain folder (or folders) and that you would remove it when you were done sharing it.

Mojo uses your iTunes library to enable more sharing features from within iTunes, extending the typical “i can stream music off of this location but i can’t save it” model that iTunes has to something along the lines of “If this person has added me on Mojo, I can take anything that isn’t protected content and I expect them to want to do the same”.

It’s not the most stable product in the world, it crashes, it doesn’t play that well with firewalls and it’s a bit of a pest to set up but past these obvious “beta as final” minor glitches, it’s a really good program to use when it’s working.Music transfer is based on upload bandwidth, so it’s never going to be as fast as other forms of P2P but it still seems to give the other methods a run for their money. 

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 This thing has to be one of the best prank items thinkgeek stocks, it’s just designed to randomly type/move the mouse cursor and bug whoever happens to be using the computer that the circuit board is plugged into. ThinkGeek :: Phantom Keystroker

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One of the best apple articles I’ve read in the last year, detailing everything they find that Apple does wrong that makes so much sense for them to do. I think they do most things well, but some things just bug me (Apple employees getting fired for hacking iPhones, etc.) How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

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 Apple replaced the 802.11b/g version of its Airport express monday, adding in 802.11n and leaving the price just where it was before. Connections for up to 10 users on Wifi, a printer and airtunes support. Great for people who haven’t already bought a time capsule. Apple Link 

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Apple today announced that they will be holding a press announcement, showing exactly what they’ve been putting into the SDK for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The enterprise bit in the image looks promising though. I’m looking forward to it.

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