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Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps, Planning “Grand Opening” of iPad App Store

Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
“iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today,” the email says.
There’s no details about when the store’s grand [...]

Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”

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Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
He says OS X is full of security holes. There are lots more than in Windows, he claims.
And yet: OS X is a safer system to use. Why? Because, in the words [...]

Apple Devotes Entire Home Page To Jerome York Obituary

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If ever you needed a sign that Apple was a different kind of technology company, this is it.
What other computer manufacturer would remove its top-selling, hype-inducing, industry-altering new product from the prime spot on its website home page, and replace it with an obituary to an investor?
This is one of those “Here’s to the [...]

Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.
The half-hour series called “iCon” is billed by the presser as “a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed.”
Making sure the barbs prick will be the [...]

DIY Acrylic iPhone Dock A Clear Winner

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Tod Kurt put together this clean, clear iPhone dock from four pieces of acrylic scraps. He was inspired to create it after buying a case that wouldn’t work with traditional docks. More details and close-up pic after the jump.

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He says of his clear confection: “it’s made of four slices of 1/4″ acrylic (actual width 0.22″). The top two slices have an oval opening just snug enough to fit the iPod connector and keep it in place…  It’s held together by four 1″ 2-56 machine screws with nuts. I was a little concerned with the nuts scratching the table, so I’ve since added little hot glue feet to the bottom of each nut.”

Full how-to here.

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nicole_martinelli

Nicole Martinelli was born in San Francisco and has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. Cultish tendencies and love for DIY increased while living on the Old Continent, where tech came late and cost more in Big Mac index terms. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. Since 1999, she's been tapping away at zoomata. You can also find her on Facebook, Linked in and Twitter.

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    What’s up with the short RSS feed? I could read the full post through Google Reader until yesterday, but not anymore. There’s advertising in every single post, so why would you make us click in every post now? Maybe you have some good reason, but, seriously, that kind of thing made me stop reading way too many sites, unfortunately.
    Hope it’s a bug or something.

    david, it’s not a bug — it’s on purpose. we’re trying out the summary feed to see if a significant number of readers click over on the stories they want to read. a ton of readers get the site through RSS, and frankly, we need to record that traffic on the site. traffic=revenue, and we have to make money or we won’t be able to keep producing. hope you understand. if there’s howls of protest, we’ll go back to the old way of doing it.

    Howling in protest! I’m not a fan of the summary feed. I’ve deleted more than one feed because of it. The way I figure it, I’ve already expressed inteterest in your feed by signing up. Why ask me again if I want read each article? Is there a way to give ppl a choice between summary and full feeds?

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