Home brew turns to business for local man | Business | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR

Home brew turns to business for local man | Business | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR: He now owns a brewery in Tenmile, and last week, he opened Draper's Draft House on Jackson Street in Roseburg. "I just wanted somewhere comfortable to be able to serve my beers and some other micro-brews," Sam told KPIC News.

Netflix streaming tops 1 billion hours in month for first time

Netflix streaming tops 1 billion hours in month for first time: Netflix's digital streaming service hit a major milestone last month: more than 1 billion hours viewed in a month.
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You want to know why that is? Because I started The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes on NetFlix just this month. So there.

Google to Shut Down iGoogle

Google to Shut Down iGoogle: Google is doing some spring cleaning in the middle of summer, announcing it will shutdown five more services, including iGoogle. Fans of Google's widget-based homepage have a little over year to find a replacement.

I Heart Robotics: Business Plan: 3D manufacturing

I Heart Robotics: Business Plan: 3D manufacturing: This blog post presents a case study in the use of 3D printing technology for manufacturing. The information is primarily geared towards entrepreneurs looking to bootstrap their business without dealing with conventional sources of funding. If you have VC funding, you should just buy a 3D printer since it will probably cost about as much as you were going to spend on a foosball table.

LukeW | Evolving E-commerce Checkout

LukeW | Evolving E-commerce Checkout: Checkout is the lynchpin of e-commerce. It’s how customers buy and retailers get paid. Yet despite years of evolution, only a few changes have significantly impacted checkout conversion online. Knowing what worked, what didn’t, and what might can help improve checkout forms today and reveal what the future of digital shopping could be tomorrow.

Newly Discovered Particle Appears to Be Long-Awaited Higgs Boson

Newly Discovered Particle Appears to Be Long-Awaited Higgs Boson: Prepare the fireworks: The discovery of the Higgs boson is finally here. Early in the morning on July 4, physicists with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced they have found a new particle that behaves similarly to what is expected from the Higgs.

Marvel NOW Relaunches The Marvel U

Marvel NOW Relaunches The Marvel U: Marvel Comics gets aggressive with their post-AvX relaunch as "Marvel NOW" introduces five months of new series debuts, the return of the original X-Men, widespread digital tie-ins, character redesigns and more.

iOS App Review: Apple's Podcasts is welcome, but underwhelming

iOS App Review: Apple's Podcasts is welcome, but underwhelming: People new to podcasting will find this podcast manager from Apple useful and relatively easy to operate. But with its occasionally quirky interface and lack of features such as iTunes and subscription syncing, Podcasts is only a modestly capable first step.

July 3, 1999: Gobbling Up a Pac-Man Record | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

July 3, 1999: Gobbling Up a Pac-Man Record | This Day In Tech | Wired.com: The world record was set by 33-year-old Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, during a U.S.-Canada clash over the Fourth of July weekend. Mitchell took more than six hours to complete the game at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.

To achieve the game’s maximum score of 3,333,360 points, Mitchell navigated 256 boards (or screens), eating every single dot, blinking energizer blob, flashing blue ghost, and point-loaded fruit, without losing a single life.

“It was tremendously monotonous,” said Mitchell, a father of three and president of Rickey’s World Famous Sauces, a manufacturer of Louisiana hot sauces.

Author Claims Electric Vehicles Are a Green Illusion

Author Claims Electric Vehicles Are a Green Illusion: To hear automakers and environmentalists tell it, electric vehicles (EVs) are the greenest and cleanest solution to personal mobility. But in his book Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, author Ozzie Zehner argues that EVs are more symbolism and marketing than environmental and fossil-fuel saviors.

Researchers a step closer to 'printing' new blood vessels

Researchers a step closer to 'printing' new blood vessels: Bioengineers jump a major hurdle by building 3D printed templates of filament networks to create vasculature. They say the trick is sugar.
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Spray-on Rechargeable Batteries Could Store Energy Anywhere

Spray-on Rechargeable Batteries Could Store Energy Anywhere: A team of mechanical engineers has published a paper demonstrating its latest invention -- spray-on rechargeable batteries that could be combined with solar cells to create self-sufficient, energy conversion-storage devices.

Entrepreneurs: Please do your homework on the competition

Entrepreneurs: Please do your homework on the competition: One of the biggest stumbling blocks that trips up most entrepreneurs is their lack of market and competitive research.
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'Leap second bug' causes site, software crashes

'Leap second bug' causes site, software crashes: The addition of an extra second to the world's atomic clocks was apparently too much for some popular Web sites and software platforms to take.
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Murray wins match with latest finish ever (Yahoo! Sports)

Murray wins match with latest finish ever (Yahoo! Sports): WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Andy Murray beat Marcos Baghdatis in the latest match ever to finish at Wimbledon, wrapping up a 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory at 11:02 p.m. Saturday underneath the Centre Court roof.

Cilic edges Querrey 17-15 in 5th in 5½ hours (Yahoo! Sports)

Cilic edges Querrey 17-15 in 5th in 5½ hours (Yahoo! Sports): WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Marin Cilic of Croatia outlasted Sam Querrey of the United States 17-15 in the fifth set after 5½ hours of play Saturday to reach Wimbledon's fourth round for the first time since 2008.

Shvedova wins 'golden set' vs Errani at Wimbledon (Yahoo! Sports)

Shvedova wins 'golden set' vs Errani at Wimbledon (Yahoo! Sports): WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan became the first player in a Grand Slam tournament to win every point of a set on her way to beating French Open runner-up Sara Errani 6-0, 6-4 Saturday in the third round of Wimbledon.

SWilliams hits 23 aces, edges Zheng at Wimbledon (Yahoo! Sports)

S. Williams hits 23 aces, edges Zheng at Wimbledon (Yahoo! Sports): WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Serena Williams hit 23 aces, held every service game and barely escaped an upset bid by Zheng Jie, winning 6-7 (5), 6-2, 9-7 Saturday in the third round at Wimbledon.

The Puns and Detritus in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” : The New Yorker

The Puns and Detritus in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” : The New Yorker: They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where (and here we can drop the Dante analogy) she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was June 16, 1904, the day on which Joyce set “Ulysses.” When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating.

Joyce had known only prostitutes and proper middle-class girls. Nora was something new, an ordinary woman who treated him as an ordinary man. The moral simplicity of what happened between them seems to have stunned him. It was elemental, a gratuitous act of loving that had not involved flattery or deceit, and that was unaccompanied by shame or guilt. That simplicity became the basis of their relationship.

The day everyone started touching their phones

The day everyone started touching their phones: Five years ago today, Apple launched what would become the most exciting and successful smartphone ever produced and I was there, in the trenches, on day one.
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VLC Media Player 2.0.2 - Popular multimedia player.. (Free)

VLC Media Player 2.0.2 - Popular multimedia player.. (Free): VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

SRS Labs launches all new software designed to improve overall sound quality on Apple Macs – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

SRS Labs launches all new software designed to improve overall sound quality on Apple Macs – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: SRS Labs announced today the availability of Audio Essentials for Mac, an advanced software suite of high-performance audio processing solutions designed to give any Mac computer the ability to fill a room with powerful, HD-quality sound. Loaded with a complete assortment of fully customizable SRS audio enhancement solutions, SRS Audio Essentials for Mac works seamlessly with the entire Mac audio system, giving users full control of their entire audio experience, regardless of where they source content from.

Apple’s revolutionary iPhone turns five: How it changed the world

Apple’s revolutionary iPhone turns five: How it changed the world: A few highlights:
• Five years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist. It now generates nearly $25 billion of revenue per quarter, or $100 billion per year.
• The iPhone business is now bigger than Microsoft.
• The iPhone business likely now generates at least $30 billion of profit per year (profit!).
• The iPhone has destroyed at least three huge companies in the past 5 years, and has deeply wounded others.
• The iPhone has created an entirely new industry and ecosystem.
• The iPhone has made Apple the most valuable and profitable company in the world.

The American Scholar: The Right Honourable Mr. Burke - Brian Doyle

The American Scholar: The Right Honourable Mr. Burke - Brian Doyle: the chatterbox “never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off,” as Samuel Johnson said (probably with a tinge of self-recognition);

Wimbledon considers starting 1 week later (Yahoo! Sports)

Wimbledon considers starting 1 week later (Yahoo! Sports): WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Wimbledon is considering a calendar change that would have the tournament begin three weeks after the French Open instead of two, and top players like the idea of more time between the two Grand Slam events.

Apple Offers New Dedicated Podcast App for iOS

Apple Offers New Dedicated Podcast App for iOS: - Enjoy all of your audio and video podcasts in a single app
- Explore hundreds of thousands of podcasts including shows in over 40 languages
- Try the innovative new Top Stations feature to find new podcast series in a variety of topics, including arts, business, comedy, music, news, sports, and more.
- Browse by Audio or Video podcasts, or see what's most popular in Top Charts
- Tap subscribe for your favorites and automatically receive new episodes for free as they become available
- Stream episodes or download to listen while offline
- Skip forward and back using simple playback controls
- Turn on Sleep Timer to automatically stop playing a podcast while listening in bed
- Share your favorite episodes with friends using Twitter, Messages and Mail
- Optionally sync your favorite episodes from iTunes on your Mac or PC
- Sync your episode playback for seamless transition between devices

5-STAR REVIEW: "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009"

5-STAR REVIEW: "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009": James Hunt gives "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009" 5 stars, saying the tale by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill "sits happily alongside the previous League volumes as arguably one of the greatest comics of all time."

Don't buy a jumbo LCD TV, buy a projector

Don't buy a jumbo LCD TV, buy a projector: Projectors provide better picture quality and value than any huge LCD
TV.
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Why did Apple lock in Liquidmetal for two more years?

Why did Apple lock in Liquidmetal for two more years?: Arora writes, “Liquidmetal alloys are made of a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium, among other metals. These materials feel as smooth as liquid or glass when touched; hence the name Liquidmetal. These materials offer high tensile strength, excellent resistance to corrosion, and strong resistance to scratches. These materials can be easily cast and molded using heat similar to thermoplastics. Apple has an exclusive agreement to use Liquidmetal technology in consumer electronics.”

Small Town Cops Pile Up On Useless Military Gear

Small Town Cops Pile Up On Useless Military Gear: Small police departments across America are using a little-known Pentagon program to amass battlefield-grade arsenals. Which means billions of dollars' worth of U.S. military gear are in the hands of small-town cops who neither need the equipment nor are properly trained to use it, critics charge. At best, it's a waste of resources (since the milgear still has to be maintained). At worst, it could cost lives.

Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge

Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge: The figure is based on owners fully charging the tablet every other day, according to the Electric Power Research Institute.
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Sign your PDFs electronically using Preview | Macworld

Sign your PDFs electronically using Preview | Macworld: In this week’s Macworld video, I’m going to show you how to electronically sign your PDFs using tools you’ve already got on your Mac: a FaceTime or iSight camera and OS X’s Preview application.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) - Reeling with Rene Rodriguez - MiamiHerald.com

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) - Reeling with Rene Rodriguez - MiamiHerald.com: Enormous in its scope and colossal in its stupidity

Sign your PDFs electronically using Preview

Sign your PDFs electronically using Preview: Instead of mailing paper or sending faxes, these days we can email important documents. But for many people, the biggest hurdle to going all-digital is signatures: How do you sign a PDF document? In this week’s Macworld video, we show you how to electronically sign your PDF document using tools you’ve already got on your Mac.

Microsoft Windows Phone 8 to launch this fall with NFC e-wallet support

Microsoft Windows Phone 8 to launch this fall with NFC e-wallet support: “Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off of Windows Phone 8, set to launch this fall alongside Windows 8 for PCs and the new Surface tablet, featuring e-wallet support with NFC chips, as well as support for high-definition screens,” AppleInsider reports.

Retina MacBook Pro Can Run Three External Displays Simultaneously

Retina MacBook Pro Can Run Three External Displays Simultaneously: Other World Computing posted this picture on their blog showing a MacBook Pro with Retina Display hooked up to a pair of iMacs serving as Thunderbolt displays and a third monitor via HDMI. This setup powers four screens with a total of 15,680,000 pixels.

The writer of the post, OWC Mike, seemed impressed with the performance of the MacBook Pro:
Moving images and media didn’t create any lag and we were able to play video on all four displays simultaneously.

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Crawdads and music drew big crowds to Umpqua on Saturday

Crawdads and music drew big crowds to Umpqua on Saturday:

The first ever Country Crawdad and Cajun Blues Festival came to the Henry Estate Winery on Saturday. It was a festive event in the warm weather.

Way to go, Andrea!

Microsoft breaks tradition with a Microsoft Surface tablet | Microsoft - CNET News

Microsoft breaks tradition with a Microsoft Surface tablet | Microsoft - CNET News: The specs include:
A full-sized USB port and a 16:9 aspect ratio angled at 22 degrees.
10.6", 16:9 widescreen HD Display.
Integrated Kickstand: Built-in kickstand lets users move Surface from active use to passive consumption.
Touch Cover: 3 mm pressure-sensitive Touch Cover senses keystrokes as gestures will come in different colors.

Aquatics complex out, but new pool in at UCC

Aquatics complex out, but new pool in at UCC:

The UCC Board of Trustees voted unanimously to go ahead with the upgrades necessary to get the pool up and running.

Theory Explains the Quantum Weirdness of Exotic Materials

Theory Explains the Quantum Weirdness of Exotic Materials: Physicists have developed a theory to help explain the weird collective behavior that arises when many individual atoms work as one, leading to bizarre materials such as superfluids, Bose-Einsten condensates, and neutron star matter.

Lamenting the Demise of Earth's Mightiest Cartoon

Lamenting the Demise of Earth's Mightiest Cartoon: ROBOT 6's Carla Hoffman expresses her disappointment with the cancellation of "The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes," which had "no gimmicks, no CGI or special power suits, just quality adaptations of quality stories."

Greatest Comic of All Time | Daredevil #220 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

Greatest Comic of All Time | Daredevil #220 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment: Why it’s the greatest comic of all time: Historical importance aside, this is just a fantastically put-together comic book, a great example of how work done in the assembly line process of work-for-hire comics can occasionally become more than the sum of its parts.  The big draw is Mazzucchelli’s art, about which the editor of a major superhero website remarked “I can’t believe this is in a Marvel comic” when I showed it to him.  Indeed.  What makes the best of Mazzucchelli’s pre-alt-comics work so special is how convincingly he was able to pull off the meat and potatoes of superhero action without ever resorting to the lexicon of stock poses, angles, and compositions laid down by Jack Kirby and company in the mid-20th century.  Instead, Mazzucchelli’s best pre-Born Again work looks something like action comics by an artist who combines the best of Bernard Krigstein, Raymond Pettibon and Edward Hopper.  The slashing, immensely bold brushwork gives straightforward shots of hands and faces the visual might of a great punching panel, and when the punches do start flying his emphasis on figure drawing and realist gesture sells the bones they jar and the blood they draw much better than the kind of amplified blocking this comic makes a point of avoiding would.  The approach to violence on display in this issue’s panels is almost a matter-of-fact one, far removed indeed from the balletic fury most comics about fighting strive for.  Mazzucchelli saves the high drama for ink-splattered panels of ran falling, buildings jutting into clouded skies, fog turning a city into a collection of grainy gray rectangles.

Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘Patriot of Persia’ by Christopher de Bellaigue · LRB 21 June 2012

Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘Patriot of Persia’ by Christopher de Bellaigue · LRB 21 June 2012: In 1872, with the country starved of capital and suffering from a massive budget deficit, he had granted a monopoly in the construction of railways, roads, factories, dams and mines to another British citizen, Baron Reuter (founder of the news agency). Even Lord Curzon was appalled twenty years later when he was told the terms, describing it as ‘the most complete surrender of the entire resources of a kingdom into foreign hands that has ever been dreamed of much less accomplished in history’.

Start Your Engines — Slot Car Racing Is Back!

Start Your Engines — Slot Car Racing Is Back!: Invented in 1912, the small-scale, obsessive sport of slot car racing has seen its ups and downs over the last hundred years. The hobby, in which motorized model cars speed around a slotted track, enjoyed its height of popularity after World War II, then sputtered in the '70s with the introduction of Pong and other videogames. The public arcades where hobbyists could race have largely been wiped off the map, but an estimated three million slot car enthusiasts still rev their tiny engines in basements and garages.

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Free breakfast and lunch for Roseburg kids under 18

Free breakfast and lunch for Roseburg kids under 18:

The Summer Food Service Program, operated by the Roseburg School District, provides free, nutritious meals to all children ages 1-18.

A Closer Look at the New MacBook Pro's Retina Display

A Closer Look at the New MacBook Pro's Retina Display: AnandTech takes a closer look at the new MacBook Pro's 2880x1800 Retina display, revealing just how well the display stacks up against its predecessor and other notebook displays and delving into the details of how it handles various resolutions.

Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - See everything the new OS X can do.

Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - See everything the new OS X can do.: These are the 2 most killer new features of Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring and Dictation.

AirPlay Mirroring

Wireless mirroring
Send what’s on your Mac screen to an HDTV wirelessly with Apple TV. Mirroring is great for classrooms, conference rooms, and your living room.

High definition
AirPlay Mirroring sends a video stream automatically optimized for the HD capabilities of your Mac and Apple TV. It supports up to 1080p HD.

Automatic detection
When a Mac with Mountain Lion detects an Apple TV on the same network, the AirPlay Mirroring menu item appears in the menu bar.

Menu item
To wirelessly mirror your Mac to your HDTV, click the AirPlay Mirroring menu item and choose your Apple TV. Use the menu to select a different Apple TV on your network and set resolution matching.

Resolution matching
AirPlay Mirroring scales the contents of your Mac desktop to fit on your HDTV. For a sharper image, choose to set the resolution of your desktop to best match that of your Apple TV.

Seamless integration with iTunes
When you play movies or TV shows with iTunes on your Mac, AirPlay Mirroring will automatically switch to a full-screen AirPlay experience on your HDTV.

Encrypted streaming
AirPlay Mirroring uses encryption to securely send what’s on your Mac to your Apple TV.

Audio support
With AirPlay Mirroring, audio from your Mac is wirelessly sent to your Apple TV. You can use this feature independent of AirPlay Mirroring by selecting your Apple TV in the Sound pane of System Preferences.

High performance
AirPlay Mirroring takes advantage of advanced hardware video encoding to deliver high-definition mirroring efficiently and optimize processor use.

Dictation

Talk anywhere you can type
OS X now supports Dictation. So wherever you can type, you can use your voice instead. Just select a text field and turn Dictation on. Use the keyboard shortcut — press the Function key twice — or choose Dictation from the Edit menu in any app. When you’re finished speaking, click Done. Dictation converts your words into text.

Works with any app
Dictation works with text fields in any OS X app — no additional third-party developer support is required.

Works with Contacts
Just say your friend’s name, and Dictation knows who you mean. It works with information in the Contacts app to recognize and spell names accurately, even if they have unusual spellings.

Keyboard shortcut
Press the Function key twice to start Dictation. Press it twice again when you’re done speaking.

No setup or training required
No setup or special training is required. Dictation just works. The more you use it, the better it understands you. Dictation learns the characteristics of your voice and adapts to your accent.

Works out of the box
Dictation uses the built-in microphone on your Mac, so it works as soon as you start speaking. You can also use an additional microphone.

Dictate commands
Dictation understands basic text-related commands such as “all caps,” “new paragraph,” and “new line.” When you say “period,” “comma,” “question mark,” or “exclamation point,” Dictation punctuates for you.

Languages
Dictation supports English (U.S., UK, and Australia), French, German, and Japanese. When your system is set to one of these languages, it automatically enters the right text.

Songza app streams tunes that suit your mood | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews

Songza app streams tunes that suit your mood | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews: I could build playlists for all these situations, but who's got time for that? What I need is a music concierge, someone who can put together a playlist based on any given activity: exercising, chilling out, working, and so on.
That's Songza (Android | iOS) in a nutshell. First previewed back in April, my new favorite app works like Pandora in that it streams music based on my personal preferences, but focuses on situations rather than individual songs and artists. And it's not only free, but also commercial-free. (Sorry, Pandora! I love you, I really do.)
Songza really is like your own personal music concierge. Based on the day of the week and time of day, it offers up six likely scenarios for what you're doing. For example, here on Monday evening, it asks if I want to play music for Evening Commute, Working Out, Unwinding After a Long Day, Cooking, and so on.
If I choose, say, Eating Dinner, I'm then presented with up to six genres, including Cool New Music, Acoustic & Folk, and Golden Oldies. Finally, I pick from one of three playlists. In the case of Golden Oldies, my choices are Classic Girl Groups, Doo-Wop, and Smooth Rockabilly.
Once you've drilled all the way down, you'll get a detailed description of the playlist, including some of the artists it contains, and a Play button. Music time!

Songza app streams tunes that suit your mood

Songza app streams tunes that suit your mood: This amazing app deserves a place alongside Pandora and Spotify. It's packed with playlists that are perfect for every occasion, and it streams them commercial-free.
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An Explanation of the News From Apple - NYTimes.com

An Explanation of the News From Apple - NYTimes.com: On Monday morning in San Francisco, I watched the new Apple C.E.O., Tim Cook, give brief remarks at the beginning and the end of the keynote presentation at the Worldwide Developers Conference, which will apparently become what the old Macworld Expo used to be: a place for Apple to take the wraps off its latest inventions. He handed off the actual announcements to his lieutenants.

MacBook Pro With Retina Display Gives Apple 1-Year Lead on Ultrabooks

MacBook Pro With Retina Display Gives Apple 1-Year Lead on Ultrabooks: Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro is about as thin as a MacBook Air, as fast as high-end desktop computers, and features the highest-resolution notebook screen ever made. And, according to industry analysts, the new notebook pushes Apple at least a year ahead of the best competing ultrabooks and high-end PC notebooks.

Apple kills 17-inch MacBook Pro | Apple - CNET News

Apple kills 17-inch MacBook Pro | Apple - CNET News: More than nine years after Apple created the first one, Apple's unceremoniously removed its 17-inch laptop from its lineup, announcing just 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros and the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display at WWDC 2012.

Mac Pro quietly gets first update since 2010 | Macworld

Mac Pro quietly gets first update since 2010 | Macworld: The Mac Pro update wasn’t mentioned during the WWDC keynote, but Apple updated the Mac Pro product page soon after the keynote concluded. Overall, the update to the Mac Pro is a relatively minor one—a speed bump and increases in RAM. Not only did the storage and video remain the same as in the previous models released in July 2010, but Apple didn’t see the Mac Pro fit for Thunderbolt, which is on every other Mac. The Mac Pro still uses USB 2.0 ports instead of USB 3.0, which made its debut in the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

Djokovic's 27-match Slam streak ends against Nadal (Yahoo! Sports)

Djokovic's 27-match Slam streak ends against Nadal (Yahoo! Sports):

PARIS (AP) Moments after his rain-interrupted French Open final against Rafael Nadal resumed Monday, Novak Djokovic netted a forehand and punished himself by smacking his racket strings against the side of his head three times.

Apple: Retina display MacBook Pro starts at $2,199

Apple: Retina display MacBook Pro starts at $2,199: New ultrathin laptop measures 0.71 inches thick with a 15-inch screen; Apple calls it lightest MacBook Pro ever.
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Article: Real Strike: Take on a First Person Shooter Persona in this Augmented Reality Game

Real Strike: Take on a First Person Shooter Persona in this Augmented Reality Game
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It's Official: Neutrinos Can't Beat Speed of Light

It's Official: Neutrinos Can't Beat Speed of Light: Scientists at CERN have confirmed that neutrinos can't travel faster than the speed of light and that the groundbreaking results from 2011 can be blamed on faulty equipment.

Camera+ boasts 8M copies sold in two years

Camera+ boasts 8M copies sold in two years: With 8 million copies of its app sold in two years, the popular photo app turns down acquisition offers from Adobe, Google, Zynga, and Twitter.
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What happens during permissions repair in OS X?

What happens during permissions repair in OS X?: The permissions structure in OS X helps prevent inadvertent file access, and a permissions repair ensures the integrity of this structure.
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LinkedIn confirms breach, urges members to change passwords

LinkedIn confirms breach, urges members to change passwords: LinkedIn today confirmed reports that some of its users' passwords have been compromised and provided instructions on how to change them.


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It’s time to kill off broadcast TV

It’s time to kill off broadcast TV: “The richest block of spectrum available is being used for over-the-air television broadcasts. The more than 200 MHz of prime bandwidth assigned to broadcast TV should and be put to a better use.”

Wildstrom writes, “Why we are dedicating any spectrum to over-the-air TV[?] The fact is that relatively few people watch it.

Is "Black Panther" Next For Marvel? It Depends on Who You Believe

Is "Black Panther" Next For Marvel? It Depends on Who You Believe: Will "Black Panther" get the big screen treatment as Marvel Studios' mysterious 2014 project following "Captain America 2?" SPINOFF has the details.

Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451', dies at 91

Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451', dies at 91: The legendary science fiction author, who also wrote "The Martian Chronicles," passed away in Los Angeles overnight.
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Article: Flipboard: Behind Mobile’s Most Beautiful Newsreading Magazine

Flipboard: Behind Mobile's Most Beautiful Newsreading Magazine
http://mashable.com/2012/06/05/flipboard-design/

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Article: Apple II torn down, restored to glory

Apple II torn down, restored to glory
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/05/apple-ii-torn-down-restored-to-glory/

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Corning reveals astounding roll-up Willow glass for flexible displays (with video)

Corning reveals astounding roll-up Willow glass for flexible displays (with video): “Glass as thin and as flexible as a sheet of paper that can be printed on rolls just like a newspaper will be available to phone makers as soon as this month, said Dipak Chowdhury, head of Corning’s ultra-flexible thin-glass project Willow,” Jeremy A. Kaplan reports for Fox News. “‘It’s seriously built like paper,’ Chowdhury told FoxNews.com, ‘and behaves just like that.’”
“Ordinary displays in notebooks or smartphones are made of glass sandwiches, usually three sheets of the stuff measuring a bare 0.7 or 0.5 millimeters in thickness. At 0.1 millimeters thin, Corning’s brand new Willow glass is as thin as the finest human hair — and will makes those smartphone sandwiches as much as 7 times thinner,” Kaplan reports. “Glass isn’t inherently a rigid substance, Chowdhury explained. When it gets superthin, it becomes flexible just like any substance.”

Kaplan reports, “Willow Glass won’t immediately lead to roll-up iPhones, Poor was quick to note. The entire display industry is built for inflexible sheets of glass, made in massive, astronomically expensive plants. ‘It costs billions of dollars to build an LCD plant these days,’ Poor said.”

Google buys Meebo to bolster Google+

Google buys Meebo to bolster Google+: Meebo -- the Web IM service turned advertising tool -- has been acquired by Google, and will work on the company's Google+ social network.
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I use MEEBO occasionally. It's useful. Web-based login to multiple chat systems.

IPv6 to go live on June 6

IPv6 to go live on June 6: IPv6 will go fully live on June 6. That's the date when 50-plus access networks and more than 2500 websites -- including Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo -- will turn on a permanent upgrade to the Internet's main communication protocol.

"Avengers" Surpasses "Harry Potter," Becomes Third-Biggest Film Ever

"Avengers" Surpasses "Harry Potter," Becomes Third-Biggest Film Ever: Upping its total box office take to $1.331 billion worldwide over the weekend, Marvel’s "The Avengers" has become he third highest-grossing film of all time behind "Titanic" and "Avatar."

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Partial eclipse of 'Strawberry Moon' Monday visible from Oregon | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR

Partial eclipse of 'Strawberry Moon' Monday visible from Oregon | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR: EUGENE, Ore. - Set your alarm clock: Monday's full moon will pass behind the Earth just before dawn, producing the first partial lunar eclipse of 2012.

The partial eclipse of the Strawberry Moon on June 4 - so-called because the short season for harvesting strawberries comes during the month of June - starts at 3 a.m. and peaks at 4 a.m. in the Pacific time zone, Dr. Tony Phillips with NASA said.

How to self-publish an ebook | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews

How to self-publish an ebook | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews: This is Amazon's e-book publishing platform and if you think you're going to sell a lot of e-books, you should figure out a way to upload your file (book) directly to KDP and avoid using any sort of middleman or e-book "aggregator" that takes a cut of the profits. If you're a true DIY person, you can create your own cover (though if you're not a professional designer, it's better to hire a pro) and format your e-book from a Word file using free software tools such as Mobipocket eBook Creator or Calibre. Mobipocket Creator allows you to create an e-book with a table of contents and convert it into Amazon's proprietary e-book format, AZW (MOBI, the file output by the program, is the same as AZW). You can start with a Word file, which then gets converted to HTML, then MOBI. (Check out the Mobipocket eBook Creator guide at the company's Web site).

Next week's solar transit of Venus the last until 2117

Next week's solar transit of Venus the last until 2117: June 5 and 6 will be the last opportunity this century to see the planet Venus as a little black dot moving across the solar disc -- a rare event with a long, important history in astronomy.
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I'm primarily interested in this because of the book Gordon Durand gave me, Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, where the Transit of Venus is a major plot point. Thanks, Gordon, I wasn't sure, but it turned out I liked that book very much, once I learned to catch on to the jokes. ;)

Isner loses in marathon match at French Open (Yahoo! Sports)

Isner loses in marathon match at French Open (Yahoo! Sports):

PARIS (AP) Playing in another marathon match at a Grand Slam tournament, John Isner lost to Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 18-16 in the second round of the French Open.

Google's World Wonders Project brings ancient, modern sites online | Macworld

Google's World Wonders Project brings ancient, modern sites online | Macworld: While many of us can't hop on plane to visit those places, thanks to Google's new World Wonders Project they’re just a mouse click away.


The project allows you to virtually tour 132 historic sites in 18 countries. Sites include Stonehenge, Pompei, Shark Bay in Australia, Yosemite National Park and the palace at Versailles.

From the World Wonders home page, you can choose a virtual tour by location or by theme.


Once you arrive at a site, you can immerse yourself in it. You can "walk" around using Google's Street View technology. Since automobiles weren't allowed in some of the sites in World Wonders, Google had to use cameras mounted on tricycles to create street views of the locales, the company explained in a blog.

Manually configuring an iCloud email account | Macworld

Manually configuring an iCloud email account | Macworld: Some people have had some difficulty making older MobileMe accounts work with iCloud. And yet when they try to manually set up such an account, they’re thwarted because there doesn’t appear to be a way to fiddle with iCloud’s IMAP and SMTP settings. But you can if you know the secret.

And here’s that secret. While in Mail’s Accounts setting, click on the Plus button and enter your iCloud address and password as you normally would. The button at the bottom will read Create. Hold down the Option key and that button changes to read Continue. Click on Continue. Instead of your account being set up for you, you can now set it up manually.

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Article: How To Get New TV Shows On Your iPad, Automatically

How To Get New TV Shows On Your iPad, Automatically
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Article: Triggers Turns Your iPhone Into A State-Of-The-Art ‘Toast Detector’

Triggers Turns Your iPhone Into A State-Of-The-Art 'Toast Detector'
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Article: App Synergy: How To Synergize Your Evernote Use

App Synergy: How To Synergize Your Evernote Use
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Article: Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors

Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors
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Meet 'Flame', The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers | Threat Level | Wired.com

Meet 'Flame', The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers | Threat Level | Wired.com: The malware, which is 20 megabytes when all of its modules are installed, contains multiple libraries, SQLite3 databases, various levels of encryption — some strong, some weak — and 20 plug-ins that can be swapped in and out to provide various functionality for the attackers. It even contains some code that is written in the LUA programming language — an uncommon choice for malware.

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So little energy. Barely able to keep up with even the few small things I do. Like this blog.

My last words will probably be:

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Article: Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’

Obama and His Pot-Smoking 'Choom Gang'
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Article: 8 things you didn't know about orgasms and sexual satisfaction

8 things you didn't know about orgasms and sexual satisfaction
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Article: Astronomers prepare for rare transit of Venus

Astronomers prepare for rare transit of Venus
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Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder

Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder: In the 1850s, murderers learned of a fast-acting, incredibly lethal and virtually undetectable poison: nicotine. Science writer and Elemental blogger Deborah Blum unravels the toxic nature of this naturally occurring alkaloid -- and how it led to the advent of modern forensic chemistry.

Article: Brian Greene: Welcome to the Multiverse

Brian Greene: Welcome to the Multiverse
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Lodgit Desk 1.9.8 - Booking software for small to medium-sized hotels.. (Commercial)

Lodgit Desk 1.9.8 - Booking software for small to medium-sized hotels.. (Commercial): Lodgit Desk is a modern booking software that is suitable especially for small or middle-sized lodging establishments. The integrated SQL database allows for any number of rentable units in different objects to be managed.
Lodgit Desk makes managing accommodations in hotels, guesthouses, holiday apartments, camp ground or youth hostels a lot easier. Using the graphical reservation schedule, you can reserve and book accommodations directly, manage the units and guests, write and print invoices as well as set up a differentiated price system for the future.

Within the guest management, you can set up groups and attach notes to a guest profile.

With Lodgit Desk, correspondence with the guest (offers, confirmations, invoices, mails) can be handled in different languages.

Services and items that will be billed separately to the accommodation can be created as extras and added to bookings when necessary.

Extra items that are added often, such as breakfast, half-board etc. can be linked as a package to a unit, so that they will automatically be added whenever a new booking is added.

Police: Woman drives into house, punches cop

Police: Woman drives into house, punches cop:

A Roseburg police officer now has a broken nose, after a woman allegedly crashed her car into a house and then punched him in the face.

Why the Leap Is the Best Gesture-Control System We've Ever Tested

Why the Leap Is the Best Gesture-Control System We've Ever Tested: On Monday, Leap Motion wowed technology enthusiasts with a video of its new gesture-control platform. We were suspicious, but a hands-on demo proved out this new platform is much, much more powerful than Microsoft's Kinect.

Zuckerberg cashes in $1.1 billion selling Facebook stock

Zuckerberg cashes in $1.1 billion selling Facebook stock: The CEO and founder completed selling a portion of his stock -- at a price that few other sellers have been able to get since.
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Peter Weller to Voice Batman in Animated Dark Knight Returns « Spinoff Online – TV, Film, and Entertainment News Daily

Peter Weller to Voice Batman in Animated Dark Knight Returns « Spinoff Online – TV, Film, and Entertainment News Daily: Set a decade after an aging Bruce Wayne quit crimefighting in the wake of Jason Todd’s death, The Dark Knight Returns brings Batman out of retirement to save Gotham from sinking deeper into decay and lawlessness. With the help of a new, female Robin, Carrie Kelly, the Dark Knight ends the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city and confronts two of his greatest enemies. But then he must face his former ally Superman in a battle that only one will survive.

Classical music downloads spearhead changes in digital music pricing - TechHive Beta Blog

Classical music downloads spearhead changes in digital music pricing - TechHive Beta Blog: A new recording of Beethoven’s piano sonatas released on Tuesday stands out for a few reasons. First, the young Korean pianist HJ Lim, who burst onto the classical music scene in 2009, has begun her recording career with a complete set of piano sonatas that most performers only approach later in their careers. (It’s not entirely complete, but almost; see my review of the set.) Second, this pianist takes a unique approach to Beethoven’s music, with tempi that are much faster than usual.

But perhaps the bigger news is the price: for a limited time, EMI is selling this 8-CD Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas set exclusively on the iTunes Store for the bargain price of only $10. With the same set due to be released on CD this week at more than $90, EMI’s slashing the download price suggests an interesting strategy, but also points out how flexible the price of music downloads can be.

Article: 33 Perfectly Timed Photos

33 Perfectly Timed Photos
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'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut | The Nation

'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut | The Nation: We are as eager as children to swallow whatever illusions we’re handed.

Same as Cabell.

As for his fate, over the last many years of his life, that, too, he had described: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Compare + Contrast Cabell's "Mundus Vult Decipi."

Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker

Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker: The interesting questions about stories, which have, as they say, excited the interests of readers for millennia, are not about what makes a taste for them “universal,” but what makes the good ones so different from the dull ones, and whether the good ones really make us better people, or just make us people who happen to have heard a good story.

Opiate epidemic: 'People are dying from this, in record numbers'

Opiate epidemic: 'People are dying from this, in record numbers':

People are dying from drug overdoses in record numbers, and studies point to prescription painkillers as the source of an opiate epidemic.