Lifehacker: Joining Gmail, Yahoo, and other mail services, Windows Live Hotmail launches incoming POP3 access for the U.S., Canada, and Brazil, meaning Hotmail users can aggregate all their other email accounts into one inbox. As we’ve previously reported, Microsoft recently allowed outgoing POP3 access. While Hotmail users in the U.K., France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Germany have had access to [...]
Birdfeed – a new twitter application by Buzz Anderson (of PodWorks and more) and designed by Neven Mrgan – is now in the App Store for $4.99. Five bucks is high for a Twitter client, but Birdfeed is simply gorgeous. It fits nicely between Tweetie’s simple layout and Twitterrific’s design-heavy approach. As a 1.0 release, Birdfeed [...]
Wired: Just a week after the release of Apple’s new iPhone, a few owners have complained about the handset’s high temperatures, which in some cases are high enough to start browning the white plastic on the back of the phone. Only a small number of iPhone 3GS customers have reported their handsets are reaching very [...]
CNN: “Steve Jobs is back to work. He is at Apple a few days a week and working from home the other days,” Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said. “We’re glad to have him back.”
From Apple: Dear MobileMe member: As a final reminder, on July 7, 2009, the .Mac HomePage web application will be discontinued. As of this date, you will no longer be able to create new pages or edit existing pages using HomePage. Any pages you’ve already published will remain live at their current web address for [...]
Remember when it came out that Apple’s new notebooks were running SATA at 1.5Gbps, instead of the 3.0 standard? Well, Apple released a firmware update to address the issue, but it looks like the update is causing issues with third-party hard drives. Gizmodo points to this thread on Apple’s discussion boards, full of posts complaining [...]
CNN, quoting AOL: Today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth. Twitter, AIM, Google News, TMZ, the LA Times and other sites all suffered outages as news broke about Michael Jackson late yesterday.
Ars Technica: Mobile uploads to YouTube have increased by 400 percent since last Friday’s release of the iPhone 3GS, Google announced today. The device is the first iPhone with video capabilities and is able to upload videos directly to MobileMe or YouTube, even over the 3G network. With the ability to send videos to the [...]
From the Wall Street Journal – via Google News to get around the WSJ’s stupid pay wall: “At this point, losing Tim Cook would be a bigger deal to investors than if Steve Jobs stepped aside,” says Gene Munster, an analyst for Piper Jaffray. “Just that thought makes my stomach tighten up.” [...] “Now it’s [...]
