When set up against the job of making an ad for a motor saw manufacturer, most of us will probably think of lightly-clad girls, muscular men and the jungle.
According to DirectDaily, the folks at the chainsaw manufacturer STIHL went a different way. They created a self-updating paper calendar, which is pictured below:
Not much to add here…
The iPhone’s lack of stylus was praised when the unit first came out – unfortunately, having no stylus makes using the unit with gloves difficult.
Koreans discovered that a popular type of snack sausage could be used as stylus – and an innovative vendor has now capitalized on their findings. His “sausage” is non-edible, but can be used as a stylus for long times without fear of “degeneration”:
Those of you who feel like taking a stab can do so for the acceptable price of 1 USD – further information is at the URL below:
http://www.casecrown.com/iphone/accessories/iphone-1g-3g-3gs-sausage-screen-stylus
Microsoft has traditionally used the Catalonia Plaza hotel in Barcelona as its “base” during the congress – it offers better logistics and cleaner, better-managed venues. This year, they really overdid it though – and transformed the entire hotel into a huge Windows Mobile 7 ad.
During the day, the clock was always set to Seven:
And at night, it got really funny. Not much to add to the shot below:
Either way you turn it: the fight between Adobe and Apple is becoming more and more virulent every minute. Apple’s iPad still doesn’t support Flash – but the ads show it showing flash-enabled web sites.
An Adobe employee called Lee Brimelow has now released the following spoof ad:
Apple’s response was rather swift: the offending images were pulled…
Don’t ask me why, but it looks like politicians in the US seem to have a collective alcohol problem, which gets magnified in the Winter due to the availability of various warm hard liquors.
Nope, I am not sarcastic – after the idiocy in Maine, we now have somebody wanting to force retailers to print SAR labels as big as device prices onto the device labels.
SFGate claims the following:
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San Francisco would become the first city in the country to require that cell phone retailers label the devices with the level of radiation they emit under a controversial proposal being discussed at the Department of the Environment and endorsed by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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Anyone of you want t bet that we will see something dumber in a few days?
Usually, stupid anti-cellphone/anti-internet rhetoric comes from a specific type of individual which does not need to be named further. This time, however, we seem to be dealing with a common idiot who has been elevated into a position of power somehow.
Yahoo News reports the following:
A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
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Maine Rep. Andrea Boland, D-Sanford, said numerous studies point to the cancer risk, and she has persuaded legislative leaders to allow her proposal to come up for discussion during the 2010 session that begins in January, a session usually reserved for emergency and governors’ bills.
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I’d file this one in idiots 101…
Apple’s iPhone is AT&T-exclusive in the USA – unfortunately, it looks like the carrier was overwhelmed with the amount of data traffic caused by the device.
An US TV show has now taken a stab at the never-ending story of AT&T and network congestion:
Let’s see how Apple responds to this…
Apple’s App Store is known for some extremely weird decisions – however, the one below is especially cool.
In short, we’re looking at an application which was rejected due to the name of local variables. The full story is below:
So we submit an app. It is rejected because we supposedly call two private, undocumented APIs: compositeName and deviceName. Turns out we do, in fact, ask the address book for the composite name, and we do, in fact, ask UIDevice for the device name. In both cases we are following the programming guides and getting these values the right way. But we apparently made the mistake of storing them in Core Data entity attributes whose names match the names of private APIs.
It’s like getting arrested by the government for having a file folder in your file cabinet labeled “CIA Top Secret Information” that contains your grandmother’s spaghetti sauce recipe.
We’ve asked Apple to document all the undocumented APIs so we can avoid using conflicting names for any of our local variables.
Nothing to add here…
Verizon Wireless and Motorola have just unveiled the next set of commercials for the Android-powered Droid. And, surprise, surprise, the iPhone is the prime target yet again.
Their YouTube channel describes the ad as following:
Its not a princess, its a robot. A phone that trades hair-do for can-do. In a world of doesnt. Droid Does.
The full 30-second ad is below:
Apple’s iPhone has always been especially attractive to the bling crowd. People who more cash than brains make excellent customers for all things shiny – Stuart Hughes has just released the abomination pictured below:
They describe it as following:
Priced at £1.92 million , 10 months in the making , the whole casing was created with 271 grams of 22ct solid gold . The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds colour F ,which total to a massive 68 cts . The rear logo in solid gold has 53 flawless diamonds amounting to 1ct and the front navigation button is home to a single cut very rare diamond at 7.1 cts. The chest which houses this unique handset is made from a single block of Granite , in Kashmir gold with the inner lined with Nubuck top grain leather , which weight is a massive 7kg. We have also included some original & raw construction images for you view.
Those of you who feel like dropping a cool 2 million GBP (and their good taste) can do so at the URL below:
http://stuarthughes.com/newdawn/product_info.php?products_id=57
