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Consumer Reports on Wednesday put out a big survey of thousands of desktop users and found that Apple’s (AAPL) desktops were the least likely to need serious repairs.
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No kidding? I would never have guessed.

Apple Desktops Don't Fall Apart


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Long story short, instead of using the entire metal band for antennas like in the 4, the 4S only uses the top and bottom sections as antennas. Since the flat sides don’t contribute to transmitting signal and only help with the structure of the device, it makes sense to make them even more integral to the structure. This is what makes a unibody iPhone possible.
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Interesting concept, and it actually looks to me like it could be real enough. Also presented in the linked article are four possibilities:
<ol>
<li>A very elaborate hoax</li>
<li>A decoy made by Apple</li>
<li>An early model or sample</li>
<li>An actual production sample of the next iPhone</li>
</ol>
I don’t think Apple is above the decoy, but they’ve never done that before that I can remember so I don’t think it likely. I think options 3 or 4 are good possibilities. Time will tell.

The Tech Block

Unibody iPhone?

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There’s an actual debate going on right now about whether or not Samsung copies its design from Apple.
This is nuts.
Of course Samsung swipes ideas from Apple, you just have to look at their designs side by side.
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This is an actual debate? I thought the only people who actually contend that Samsung doesn’t copy everyone are Samsung’s lawyers. Also, is this not the funniest thing you have ever seen? Who would look at that Samsung connector and not think it was the iPod connector?
<img src="/images/uploads/apple-iphone-usb-cable-2007-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-usb-cable-2010.jpg" alt="samsung is a piece of crap">

Business Insider

Samsung is a copy-cat

This is quite possibly one of the best comics I have read in my entire life.

The Oatmeal

Web Designing for Clients

Logo Design Love

Combined Logos

The Oatmeal on the Music Industry

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Valve head—and one-time Microsoft employee—Gabe Newell has branded Windows 8 “a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space” at videogame conference Casual Connect in Seattle.
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Well, everyone except for Apple (taking the term PC to mean personal computer, and not Windows computer).
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He argued that one of the last remaining things keeping people away from Linux was the lack of games.
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Well, that, and the fact that Windows is the most backwards, not user-friendly, and hard to use Operating System in existence.

Ars Technica

Window 8 Catastrophe

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Yes.
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Ha. I don’t normally quote an article in it’s entirety… but I didn’t have much of a choice this time.

Shawn Blanc

Shawn Blanc Answers The Question

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Warm up your broadband connections, because Mountain Lion is now available for public consumption. Apple released OS X 10.8 to the Mac App Store on Wednesday morning, less than a day after announcing its third-quarter earnings—just as we originally predicted. The release weighs in at 4.05GB and costs a flat $19.99 for the upgrade, so long as your Mac is supported.
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Now waiting to see what reports come in of bugs and stuff.

Jacqui Cheng writing on Ars Technica

Mountain Kitty!

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Mountain Lion is Apple’s answer to all these questions. It is the digital manifestation of Apple’s belief that the Mac is still relevant, that it can be made better than it was before. In some ways, I feel the same as I did over a decade ago when considering a new version of OS X: I want to believe.
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Can’t read it until later, but it looks as epic as ever.

John Siracusa writing at Ars Technica

John Siracusa's Review of 10.8


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The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is finally here in HD. Just in time for the 25th anniversary, the series makes its debut on Blu-ray on Tuesday. TrekMovie has had some time to check out the new set and it is impressive. More details and photos in our review.
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Be sure to go check out the screenshots. Like any good geek, I opened the comparison shots in tabs and switched back and forth between them to compare. I really love what they are doing with the remaster!

Athony Pascale writing at TrekMovie.com

TNG Remastered - Season 1 Available Today

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“Scalpers reportedly are re-selling The Dark Knight Rises’ midnight IMAX tickets for $65-$100 apiece on both Craigslist and StubHub for NYC’s AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 — higher even than for Avengers.
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Crazy. I want to see this movie quite a lot, but not that much (besides which I already have my tickets for Saturday).

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