There is a new iPhone app out there for all you comic book loving nerds. The kids down at Macapper.com have the skinny on Comic Zeal, a comic book reader for your iPhone.
From ars technica comes news that Apple is proposing HTTP streaming as the IETF standard. Yay, I guess.. or not.. I didn't understand a word of it.
For all the twits out there who like to tweet while they should be toiling, check out Spreadtweet, an AIR based twitter client that looks like an excel spreadsheet. No Numbers version as yet, and for those still using LOTUS 1-2-3, you can probably do whatever you want at work, because your management obviously doesn't care.
Do you get a tingly sensation in your pantal area when you meet other Apple fan-boys?*This guy does. He writes for Shufflegazine.. WTF?! That's terrible.
There are a couple of new social media bookmarky sharing thingo sites. Dropular, which has an associated iPhone app and seems to be geared towards your 'arty' types, and Pinboard, which is like a minimalist version of delicious. Pinboard has a joining fee which John Gruber thinks is 'brilliant'. I don't think the millionth person to join is going to be so enamoured with their $1000 financial CAPTCHA. Incidentally, it was $3.92 when I joined.. Hey! If Gruber's in, I'm in.
Over at Fortune, they've taken a look at the latest Microsoft "Laptop Hunter's" ad, but this time the budget is USD$700 instead of USD$1000. Looks like the poor bastards are going to have to settle for a shitty HP again.
In Wednesday Morning News' continuing love affair with iPhone tripods, here are some more for your consideration. Someone's going to make a feature film on an iPhone one day.. no one will watch it, but they will make it!
The New York Times and The Age have both published articles predicting the death of the PND (portable satellite navigation device, apparently.. PSND?) due to the rapid uptake of smart-phones. Obviously Garmin and TomTom haven't paid their advertising bills. Great work with 'end of the road' there too Louisa. Gold.
If you've ever wondered exactly what your iPhone and iTunes are getting up to while they are plugged in together and "backing up", wonder no more. Apple have explained it all*here.
And finally, in non-Apple news, those bastards down at Seven are going to kill Austext stone dead. I'm still mourning the loss of Viatel, and now this? How am I supposed to keep up to date with the lotto numbers, race results and my stars now?
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