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Jony Ive is in a large, white room. Live from Apple’s iPhone 5 event! – The Verge

In iTunes press cmd+t (while a song is playing)Now M a few timesNow ++++ for more particlesNow F to freeze in 3D Space —Joseph Thornton (@jtjdt) April 13, 2011

Apple seems to be using dirt from this mound to build an earthen levee around the new structure. Trying out a new feature: dumbest Apple news ever. Suggestions welcome! Current champ: Exclusive Pics: Apple Breaks Ground at Mystery Data Center, Wired.com

It’s going to be important. Get your apps ready for China. Craig Federighi ad-libbing at the WWDC keynote. I’ve said it before, this guy feels like he could take Steve’s place as the public face of Apple.

Apple Bets it All On Siri and iCloud | TightWind

Apple Bets it All On Siri and iCloud | TightWind I’m not entirely sold, but envisioning an “iPhone shuffle” is a pretty interesting thought experiment.

Interesting new UNIX commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion

Interesting new UNIX commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion sharing, server info, caffeinate, fdesetup, pgrep, pkill, tccutil

It is the visible stiching in the notepad cover that really lets me know I’m dealing with a piece of quality merchandise. A cheaper cover might use glue to seal the seams, but you know that will split eventually and then your cover will fall apart and your note pad and your reminder slips will […]

An app does syncing through MobileMe. Now, it needs to do it through iCloud. Fine. But Apple won’t let an app use iCloud unless it’s sold in the App Store. Fine. But Apple won’t approve an app for the App Store unless it’s sandboxed. And for many developers, sandboxing means that half of their app’s […]

I used LSD from approximately 1972 to 1974. Throughout that period of time I used the LSD approximately ten to fifteen times. I would ingest the LSD on a sugar cube or in a hard form of gelatin. I would usually take the LSD when I was by myself. I have no words to explain […]

Apple shows how its technology is helping to open the world to the blind, to the impoverished, or to those for whom even basic communication is a struggle. You get the impression that someone there gives a damn about the people using their products. Diogenex: Thoughts on a Keynote, 2012