The End of Mac

February 16, 2012 – The latest Mac OS X is now just OS X. The "Mac" is now gone. It's a clear declaration of intentions. The end of Macintosh—the desktop metaphor that reigned supreme for more than two decades—is near. Not the MacBooks and the iMacs, no, but what defines them. More »

I Have Never Seen Anything Like These Tornadoes On the Surface of the Sun

February 16, 2012 – I've seen many sun flares, but I've never seen anything like this video showing several dark plasma tornadoes on the surface of the Sun, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. More »

What the Hell Happened to Apple’s Attention to Detail?

February 15, 2012 – Oh Apple, as much as I love you—yes Phil, you know I do love you—you can really piss me off sometimes. No, I'm not talking about iOS' serious privacy problem or the obnoxious nature of some of your Apple spokepeople. More »

Two Million Dead Americans Can Vote, 51 Million Alive Americans Can’t

February 15, 2012 – According to a new study, there are about two million dead Americans listed on active voter registries. Not only that, but one out in every eight registrations is either invalid or inaccurate. More »

Any iPhone App Can Steal Your Contacts Now—Against Steve Jobs’ Will

(Gizmodo.com ) February 15, 2012 – Someone found out that Path—and most probably other apps—was stealing your contacts' information from your iPhone and iPad without telling you about it. [Gawker]

Photoshop CS6 Can Magically Move Around Any Object In Your Photos

February 15, 2012 – When Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes showed me the new content-aware features of CS6, my mouth opened like an imbecile out of complete disbelief. More »

Any iPhone App Can Steal Your Contacts Now—Against Steve Jobs’ Will

February 15, 2012 – Someone found out that Path—and most probably other apps—was stealing your contacts' information from your iPhone and iPad without telling you about it. More »

Casablanca: The Best Love Movie Ever—And Possibly the Best Movie, Period

February 14, 2012 – Every year I watch Casablanca and Singin' In the Rain. I need them. They make me happy. Singin' In the Rain is just silly, lighthearted and flawlessly directed, sometimes visually surreal and abstract, always a joy. More »

David Bowie: Heroes

February 14, 2012 – So, Valentine's Day. Personally, I don't give a damn. Every day should be your Valentine's Day or else you aren't truly living. This comes from a guy who has been married three times and truly fell in love at least twice. But if you must have a song for your Valentine's, you can't go wrong with... More »

The Next-Generation MacBook Pro 2012

February 14, 2012 – Have no doubt about this: Apple is revamping their MacBook Pro line in 2012 in a radical way—not merely evolutionary. We know this not because of the usual rumors, but because there is no way this will not happen. This is what we expect. More »

I Just Fell In Love With iCade’s New Retro NES-Style Gamepad for iPhone and iPad

(Gizmodo.com ) February 13, 2012 – If you loved the latest iCade controllers for iPhone and iPad, you are going to want to have sex with their new iCade 8-Bitty, a Nintendo-style gamepad controller with eight buttons. The iCade 8-Bitty has surfaced at NYC's Toy Fair 2012. [Kotaku]

The Two Faces of Lego Frodo—Plus My Precious Gollum Minifig

February 13, 2012 – I love all the new Lego Lord of the Rings' minifigs, but I have one favorite: Gollum. They truly captured his creepy nature, yet he still looks cute. My favorite detail, however, are the two faces of Frodo, showing his transformation through the story. Here's Gollum, holding his precious fish and... More »

I Just Fell In Love With iCade’s New Retro NES-Style Gamepad for iPhone and iPad

February 13, 2012 – If you loved the latest iCade controllers for iPhone and iPad, you are going to want to have sex with their new iCade 8-Bitty, a Nintendo-style gamepad controller with eight buttons. The iCade 8-Bitty has surfaced at NYC's Toy Fair 2012. More »

Lego Bruce Wayne Transformation Into Batman Transforms Adults Into Giddy Nerdy Kids

February 13, 2012 – The new Lego Batcave is so neat. It is modeled after the original comicbooks and uses the classic blue Batman. Its coolest feature is the Bat-Gear part, where Bruce Wayne turns into Batman. More »

These New Cool Lego Stormtroopers Minifigs Are Incredibly Detailed

February 13, 2012 – Among all the Lego surprises at Toy Fair 2012, there's a cool new Star Wars set called Droid Escape. It's the pod in which C-3PO and R2-D2 use to land on Tatooine in the original movie. More »

Exclusive Videos of the New Lego Lord of the Rings Sets

February 13, 2012 – Lego has some really cool new stuff at their NYC Toy Fair booth, but I pounced on the new Lord of the Rings sets right away. I was able to record them quickly for your nerdgasmic pleasure. Here are all the details and my impressions: 9489 Gandalf Arrives The simplest of all the new Lord of the... More »

The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder That Didn’t Exist When We Saw It

(Gizmodo.com ) February 12, 2012 – In 1995, the world was astonished by the image of a group of 4-light-year-tall columns located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from here. So unimaginable it was that someone called them the Pillars of Creation. The only problem is that the pillars didn't really exist. [io9]

A 787 Dreamliner Drew the Boeing Logo Across the United States

February 12, 2012 – What you're looking at is the real-time geographic tracking information of flight ZA236 as it was coming back to its home base in Washington state. It flew across the United States, drawing this gigantic Boeing logo. More »

The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder That Didn’t Exist When We Saw It

February 11, 2012 – In 1995, the world was astonished by the image of a group of 4-light-year-tall columns located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from here. So unimaginable it was that someone called them the Pillars of Creation. The only problem is that the pillars didn't really exist. More »

This Touchscreen Van Gogh’s Starry Night Is So Stunningly Beautiful It Should Be Made Into an App

February 10, 2012 – Petros Vrellis has turned Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night into an animation that changes when the user touches it. The effect is so beautiful and mesmerizing that I'm now craving an app that would let me do the same. More »

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