I heard about this on Friday, and went out to find it. Apparently some people over at 4chan, the same people who tricked people into shaving their heads for Justin Bieber, convincing them he had cancer, cooked up another doozer. It looked like an Apple ad for iOS7, except this ad told people that simply …
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Some iOS 7 Annoyances And How To Fix Them
The invitation to upgrade to iOS 7 has been sitting on my phone for a few days now, but I still haven’t bothered. Partly because headaches, partly because I’m going away soon and the last thing I need is a phone that doesn’t work and partly because I want time to read things like this …
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There Is An Apple IIe Emulator With Echo Speech. Thank You, Internet
This, if it works as advertised, is going to be beyond awesome! For years Carin and I wished that something like it existed, and now it does. Calling those of you who remember playing games on Apple computers back in the 80’s. Would you like to reconnect with childhood memories you thought were lost forever? …
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Giving The Finger To A Fingerprint Scanner
Remember years ago when we started hearing all about how biometrics like fingerprint and eye scanners were going to be the unbreakable security of the future? If you’re like me, your first thought wasn’t that’s pretty neat. It was more like how long is it going to be until somebody loses a finger or 2 …
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There Are New iPhones, In Case Nobody Bothered To Tell You
Since nobody really bothered to cover this, I feel it is my duty to let you know that there will be new iPhones in a few days. A few things from the article stick out. The new cheaper 5C, how much better is it than what’s currently available? Considering that my iPhone 4 still does …
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Nomorobo, A Spam Filter For Your Phone
Aaron Ross just won $50,000 from the FTC in a contest that asked people to invent something that would help put an end to those annoying telemarketing robocalls. His invention, called Nomorobo, sounds reasonably simple to set up and I’d really like to try it. Tell us how it works. If you have Simultaneous Ring …
Mobile And Wearable Technology Accessibility Survey
Some researchers from the University of Maryland are in need of people to take part in a quick survey about the accessibility of mobile phone and wearable technologies. They say it should take you no more than 20-25 minutes, but I’d be surprised if it took me any longer than 15. It only took me …
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Sony And Amazon Don’t Think You Should Be Reading This Post, Blind Person
Why do companies that make products and provide services I enjoy have to be such complete and total discriminatory arseholes? Check out these utterly absurd reasons why Sony and Amazon don’t think they should have to comply with the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, which mandates that electronic devices be made …
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This Phone Is Delicious
You’ve seen the wooden iPad and the potato iPad. Now, meet the apple iPhone. Police from the Upper Mt Gravatt Crime Prevention Unit say the 21-year-old woman placed an advertisement on the site saying she was interested in buying a few iPhones. Not long after she put the word out, a woman called and said …
If The Dog Could Talk, What A Tale He’d Tell, About The Cars, And The Stairs, And The Holes As Well
I saw this article about an electronic harness that a service dog can wear that they can use to communicate with us, and thought so many things. My first thought, after reading only the title, was “if they could pull this off, that would be freakin cool! How would this work?” Then I thought about …