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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.
Depending on where you go and what time of day, a one-way tube ticket can cost from £1.80 to £4.00 ($2.75 – $6 circa) [...]

What’s Next For the iPad? A Tabletop iPad, According to Xerox PARC Circa 1991

Way back in 1991, just as Apple was transitioning from 68k to PowerPC chips, the braniacs at Xerox PARC were predicting it’s entire iPod, iPhone and iPad strategy. And next up for the iPad is a blackboard-sized device.
Nearly 20 years ago, just as personal desktop computers were taking off, researchers at Xerox started thinking about [...]

iPhone App Arms Users With Silent Panic Button

A new app called Silent Bodyguard features a panic button that sends an SOS distress signal with GPS coordinates to potential rescuers without alerting onlookers.
While the $3.99 app, available on iTunes, isn’t the first ICE (in case of emergency) app, this one is backed by Dr. Clint Van Zandt, former FBI chief hostage negotiator and criminal [...]

Early Apple Employees Auction Killer Collectibles

If there’s a good thing about the recession, it seems to be bringing some fine Apple memorabilia out of storerooms and closets.
Cliff and Dick Huston — ex-Apple engineers, for the record employees 27 and 25 — have decided to part with a treasure trove of Cupertino collectibles by auctioning them on eBay.

What’s on the block:

Apple [...]

Gallery: Gelaskins’ Coolest New Designs

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Kozyndan are Los Angeles-based mad scientists. They are working on a secret formula for controlled nuclear fusion and are creating a line of edible chickens. For fun, they like to take long, deep breaths and dip their heads into bowls of raspberry jelly and lemon curd. They live indoors and don’t paint on walls. The couple also moonlights as freelance illustrators.

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3 comments

    The problem is that the bezel has 0 protection

    Unless an article is REALLY detailed I won’t go past one page let alone go through 10 pages of what should be one page. The fact that these articles are split like this is causing me to seriously think about dropping this site from ones I look at.

    Seriously as in, three more articles that would have been interesting but are split apart solely to try to get page hits on the site.

    Don’t believe three will be enough? Check back in a few days and see if I’m still coming to the site. I’ve got over half a dozen Mac/iPod/iPhone related sites I look at. ALL are replaceable. Enough of this BS already.

    Seriously, I’m as annoyed by splitting this article into 10 pages as much as anyone else (it could easily have been 5 with 2 on each page, or 3 with 3 on each and an extra on the last) but really Olson? Pulling out the old “I’ll never come back here again” line?

    Come on guys, it’s one thing to take reasonable issue and explain why. It’s another thing to be that walmart shopper who storms out claiming they’ll never shop there again only to return the next time there’s a sale. No one cares, make a real argument. And I say this because I agree and I hate seeing the fact that it really is an annoying way of crafting an article (really editors? 10 pages for this?) but it’s all but reaffirmed by whiny trollish comments.

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