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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
9:44 am, July 12th, 2008, Pete Mortensen
“This is journalism to you?” Exactly. Anyone know who that brave man in the iPhone line was? I would like to give him a prize.
Via Daring Fireball.
Posted by Pete Mortensen in Humor, iPhone | Comment on this article
If you enjoyed this article:
Subscribe via RSS or email, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter
Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
Email the author | Read more posts by Pete Mortensen.
It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review 4×4 Jam, A Doodle Fly, Business Card Reader, Gorillacam, Magnetic Joe, Magnetic Joe 2, Neocell Fighters Evolution, Noise.io LE, Rasta Monkey, Samurai: Way of the Warrior, and Ultimate Video [...]
Last year I signed up for a landline phone for my office. I wish I hadn’t for two reasons:
1. No one calls me.
2. Toktumi’s Line2 iPhone app, which adds a second, distinct number to my iPhone.
With a service like Line2, there’s no need for a physical phone at my place of work. I give my [...]
About a hundred years ago, while I was still a Windows user and thought that a Mac was what you covered in a cheese and slurped down for lunch, I whiled away way too much time playing a DOS-based artillery duel game called Scorched Earth. Dot Matrix Interactive Designs have created their own version in [...]
It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review Air Assault, Bad Apples, Fire Drop Free, Ghost Capture – Free, Heli Rescue, Internet Radio Box, Sunday Lawn, synthPond Lite, Tiki Totems, and Titanic Rescue.
APP OF THE WEEK
Internet Radio Box: [...]
A couple of weeks ago I canceled my MobileMe account. Why? Because it didn’t do the one thing I wanted it to do: share my calendar with my wife so we could coordinate our busy lives. That’s all.
I love MobileMe’s email, calendar, contact syncing (especially on the iPhone) and even iDisk. I gave Apple a [...]
On Windows, when you’ve finished using a particular piece of software, you close it with the X symbol in the top right corner of the application window.
Many switchers assume that the window close control in the top left of an OS X application window does the same job: but that’s not quite true.
On Windows machines, [...]
In the Hackintosh community, the MSI Wind is somewhat legendary for being the first netbook out there that could essentially run OS X out of the box, with all features working and no hardware hacking required.
Now it looks like the venerable Wind has another Apple bragging point: with its keyboard ripped out and its [...]
The Menu Bar sits at the top of your screen at all times. Let’s take a moment to get to know it. It’s worth doing, because the Menu Bar is going to be one of your best friends.
When you used Windows, you were used to see menus inside each document window. File, Edit, all [...]
That was painful to watch. Calling him ‘Obnoxious’ is a sugar coated understatement. He was rude and disrespectful to a bunch of strangers. Asking that guy if he had seen a naked girl was worthy of getting fired in my opinion. Then getting all passive aggressive and telling the guy to have a sense of humor? What a man. I hate jackass light weights like this all jacked up on energy drinks thinking they are comedians and better than the subject they are reporting on. I’m not against making light of lining up for a phone but wow that witless moron really pissed me off.
Camperton, on July 12th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
A cameraman stuck his camera into my face yesterday while I was in line. He was very nice and just smiled and left when I said, “No.” Thankfully, not all are rude jackasses like the clown in the video.
denny, on July 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
This is EXACTLY what is wrong with news programs in our country these days. There is no news on The News!!! Isn’t there a war or something going on?
angusshangus, on July 12th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Do you think he has ever seen a woman naked?
This is really not journalism. This is a guy bullying some people on TV. Someone with more knowledge of hacking than I please get into this guys online life and give him a real bullying.
How about him?, on July 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Haha, that is ridiculous, and they can’t even spell “iPhone”!
Bram O., on July 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hey, anyone notice the book he was holding was an undersize hardback with a white paper cover?
Rob Beschizza, on July 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
journalist = dick.
erugalatha, on July 12th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
He may have ruined his reputation.
Poor guy!
deocliciano, on July 12th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Can someone get more details on that guy so a bunch of us can start attacking him online?
Ryu, on July 12th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
The KTLA morning news is known for their “humor” and their show is much less serious than other news programs. So it’s a bit harsh to criticize them for showing stuff that isn’t quite “newsworthy” as these types of stories are what they have been doing for years (and they’re usually quite entertaining and the reason people watch them).
CNN morning news is a much better example of journalists being horrible and often doing “fluff” stories rather than covering what’s really happening in the world.
Squidso, on July 12th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
The KTLA morning news is known for their “humor” and a show that is much less serious than other news programs. So it’s a bit harsh to criticize them for showing stuff that isn’t quite “newsworthy” as these types of stories are what they have been doing for years (and they’re usually quite entertaining and the reason people watch them).
CNN morning news is a much better example of journalists being horrible and often doing “fluff” stories rather than covering what’s really happening in the world.
Squid, on July 12th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I’m so glad that shoot went the way it did – and no anchor better to see it happen than the lovely Michaela Pereira, formerly of TechTV fame!
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the KTLA anchor who was embarrasedly trying to keep the “reporter” from making a jackass of himself was Michaela herself, who used to host TechLive on TechTV. That’s why she said “those are my people out there.”
Something tells me the “reporter” won’t be doing technology stories again anytime soon. Here’s hoping he’s not doing ANY stories anytime soon.
phoenix, on July 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
@ Ryu:
The guy’s name is mentioned in the YouTube comments: Eric Spillman
Cailin Coilleach, on July 13th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Eric as a blog on KTLA. Some of the comments on the iphone story just show the demographic he was obviously trying to appeal to.
http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/
Jesse, on July 13th, 2008 at 4:56 am
He should have answered: “Yeah – your sister!”
sdurnin, on July 13th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Just comfort yourselves with the following: he’s a guy on KTLA. He’s not moving up and has hit the peak of his broadcasting career. What a loser.
Luke Hendrickson, on July 13th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I guess I’m alone in thinking that the guy in line had no sense of humor. He actually came off as kind of a douchebag. I’d like to see triumph the insult comic dog go down there and pwn every one of those idiots.
Sonny, on July 14th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Sonny.
See that’s the key here. Triumph is actually funny. Eric Spillman is not. He has no business trying to roast people or match wits with them. Especially on live TV.
Camperton, on July 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
A minor point. It looks like it was a morning show. So it isn’t anything even approaching “journalism”, just noise whilst getting away for the morning.
No excuse, but…
Also, I think the anchors were as big of a ‘dick’ as the field ‘porter.
Richard F Jones, on July 14th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I love how the short bus drives by just as he is called a jackass and dumb.
Boyo, on July 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm