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Commuter Delays? iPhone Tube Refund App Pays for Itself

Londoners stuck in the tube now have a handy iPhone app to request ticket refunds.
Tube Refund, which costs $0.99, zaps off the request for riders whose journey is delayed over 15 minutes.
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Check Out Apple’s New TV Ads – One Is Pretty Fun

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Apple has three new TV ads today.

Check them out.

There’s a new ‘Get a Mac’ ad called “Innovation,” featuring the Long and Hodgman dynamic duo and which is OK. Watch here.

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There’s a iPod nano ad called “Nano Shoots Color” which shows off video recording and the different case colors. It’s a fun, infections ad that makes me want to run out and buy one. Oh wait, I already have. Watch it here.

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The third as highlights gaming on the iPod touch. Called “Next Level Fun,” it doesn’t actually make the device look that much fun. The demos from Wednesday’s introduction are better. Watch the new touch ad here.

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Leander Kahney

Leander Kahney is the editor of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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2 comments

    Does anybody know what the song in the Nano ad is? Shazam can’t recognize it and I Google the lyrics but can’t find anything.

    It’s Bourgeois Shangri-la. Found it when I Googled the lyrics.

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