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It’s the little things that count: one the best things about the new iPhone 2.0 software is the built-in Screen Capture utility. Smart move, Apple - now all the kids will be flickr’in up their screenshots all day long and documenting iPhone App BSODs - sweet!
Built-in Screen Capture Utility: With the iPhone 2.0 software installed, [...]

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I knew that Shifd - Nick Bilton and Michael Young’s Yahoo Hack Day-winning project was something special, so I’m stoked that they got a chance to take another crack at it and build it bigger, albeit with slightly less RFID. Fittingly, I read about their launch in the Times piece on Adobe AIR - [...]

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After Nora dragged me off to the last day of his show at the Cooper-Hewitt, I have a serious crush on Ingo and his endlessly inventive stream of playful, witty lighting installations.

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As is my habit, I woke up this morning and reached for whatever new iPhone pr0n was available. Luckily for me, Apple had just thrown up a lengthy (20 mins) new “documentary”/feature propaganda (20 mins) featuring a friendly Apple designer/model/actor.
One thing that stood out for me, in between high contrast video of the phone [...]

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OMG! Yesterday, at the Blizzard Invitational in Seoul, South Korea, Blizzard announced that they’re working on StarCraft II. If that doesn’t send shivers of unearthly delight through your spine, then you really need to go and read a bit more about the original Starcraft. In fact, why don’t you go out and buy it and [...]

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