Steve Jobs TV movie to film at the original Apple garage
For those wondering how authentic the upcoming made for TV movie about Steve Jobs will be, maker Five Star Feature Films says it’s going to actual locations, including the garage where the first Apple computers were pieced together. The film’s production company today said it plans to begin shooting principle photography at Jobs’ childhood home [...]
You can’t deny Eduardo Saverin a visa for being a jerk
So if I’ve got this straight Raul Castro’s daughter Mariela deserves a visa to enter the United States but not (former American citizen) Eduardo Saverin. Saverin, as you may have heard, has renounced his U.S. citizenship and will avoid paying capital gains taxes on windfall profits after Facebook goes public on Friday. As the company’s [...]
Facebook’s Saverin: I’m a ‘global citizen,’ not a tax dodger
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin (Credit: Facebook) Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is simultaneously becoming one of the richer and more reviled people around, wants to set the record straight. Saverin, who helped Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook in 2004, will become an instant billionaire when the social-networking giant goes public in its massive IPO later this [...]
Stunning Apple news: Men love Zooey Deschanel
I am going to whisper this very quietly, but there are some people who are sick of Zooey Deschanel’s “self-consciously cute ways.” I use the quotation marks because I don’t want the person who said it to have his house broken into by rabid men ages 18 to 34. It would be men in that [...]
Perian plug-in for QuickTime to be discontinued
The development team of the Perian plug-in for QuickTime has announced today that it will no longer be making future versions of the plug-in. The Perian project began over six years ago, and the plug-in has been a simple and straightforward way to add extensive media support to OS X without juggling multiple media players. [...]
Hank Crumpton: Life as a spy
(CBS News) There are more foreign spies on U.S. soil now than at the peak of the Cold War, according to Hank Crumpton, former head of the CIA’s National Resources Division, a highly sensitive operation charged with collecting foreign intelligence here in the U.S. Crumpton also led the covert response to 9/11 in Afghanistan, where [...]
Facebook censors members after unjustly labeling them spammers
Facebook user Rima Regas is being censored by Facebook. The social network put her on time out after apparently getting complaints about public posts she has made. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be an isolated incident. The story Regas posted the following Facebook status today: I’m getting very annoyed. Facebook punished me for what [...]
Help! I’m confused about storage on my smartphone
One of the things that many Google Android users like about their devices over the iPhone is the fact that most Android devices allow you to add additional storage capacity. The iPhone doesn’t. But figuring out how and where to store apps, music, photos, video and games isn’t as easy as it sounds. In this [...]
Facebook launches Action Links for Timeline apps
Summary: Facebook has launched Action Links for the Open Graph apps available for Facebook Timeline. The customizable links tie one action to another and are part of the stories that appear on the service. Facebook today launched Action Links, a new way for users of its service to interact with Timeline apps. The customizable links [...]
Apple updates iLife apps with minor fixes, tweaks
GarageBand got a few tweaks, but they are mostly limited to fixing stability issues. Apple says a bug that formerly would crash the app when uploading songs to iCloud, and another that caused an error when logging into SoundCloud with a Facebook account, have been fixed. iPhoto received mostly bug fixes and enhancements to streamline [...]