19 · 01

Bounty Offered for Solid Evidence of Apple Tablet

With Apple's New Event is only a week and a day away, things are getting really wild with rumors.

While there have been some pretty funny calls, the funniest has been from a tech rumor site callled Valleywag.

Valleywag is saying that they will give $10,000 for a picture of the tablet, $20,000 for video of the tablet being used, $50,000 for any video with Jobs himself playing with it, and $100,000 for a one hour play date with the Valleywag men. 

Unfortunately there have been no pictures but there has been a Cease & Desist letter from Apple. This letter almost guarantees the release of a tablet.

Valleywag did give the guys at Apple a reward for this letter:

Granted, it's no photo of Steve Jobs holding his heavenly device himself (prize: $50,000), but we do feel like it merits some kind of reward. So, Michael, we're sending off a gift basket to you that includes: A DVD of Legally Blonde 2, a $25 Zune Marketplace giftcard, and a fabulous set of steak knives!

So what do you think of an Apple Tablet, will you buy it?

[From Modmyi.com]
15 · 01

Chrome Update for Mac Adds New Multi-Touch Gestures [Updates]

Google Chrome Developer build for Mac users has just hit its newest version. Version 4.0.295.0.

Multi-Touch trackpad gestures are one of the few new features in this build. Holding the CMD key and swiping with three fingers will open a new tab with whatever you have going on with the back and forward browser buttons. This works with the apple Magic Mouse without the CMD key.

For instance, if you wish to go back a page but don't want to lose the current one you are on simple hold CMD and then swipe left with three fingers. If you are using the Apple Magic mouse then two fingers to the left without the CMD key does the same thing.

Also added in this developer version of Chrome is a crude bookmarks manager.

 

Download the developer version here


from (Lifehacker)

14 · 01

Languages and Computers. Are computers becoming more and more like us?

If you went to college you had to have studied language in highschool. Languages are very important as they let you form connections with people all over the world. And this got me thinking. As most of you will know, computers are used all over the world for all kinds of different things. A person in the US probably has the same computer as somebody in Japan. Now that we have that straight I wish to explain this: Computers are all different with different bodies/cases, just like the humans who use them all over the world. And here is my thought: If computers "live" all over the world and there are different colors/races, then in a way, computers a very like the humans that use them. Now you may be asking, where to languages come in? The language is very similar to the OS. In the human world there are thousands of languages while in the computer there are only 2. Windows and Mac. Although both languages are based on binary, so are languages. Not on binary but le in French is the same as the in English. Languages share simarities(binary) but are not identical. Windows and Mac share similarities(binary) but they are not the same. So, computers speak different languages (windows/mac) and they have different races (colors/body shape). Some even have drivers (shots) installed to stop viruses. Computers are weirdly like humans aren't they. Leave a comment below and tell me what you think of this thought or tell me a thought of your own.
Oliver Ames

I'm a Social Media Guru and Rotary Exchange Student living in rural Vermont due to leave for Belgium this summer.

I became an Apple and Google enthusiast about 5 years ago and originally thought that "Google" was the whole internet.

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