June 2009
1 post
Apple employees uninvited to iPhone prom
We’ve been hearing a lot about the iPhone Launch Party, an exclusive soiree featuring industry celebrities and demos of groundbreaking applications for everyone’s favorite mobile device. Initially, a large crew of Apple employees was on the coveted attendee list, curiously identified not by their profile pictures but by the logo of their corporate overlords. It wasn’t long before...
April 2009
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Ateş meets girl, Marini oddly threatened
Apple engineer Robert Marini was seen tweeting today in a defensive, almost frantic manner after hetero life mate Faruk Ateş brought home a lady friend. The two have been inseparable for months, often “checking in” from the same location or quoting each other, but never before has the fairer sex been a part of their rapport.
Marini was clearly unsure how to navigate this unexpected...
March 2009
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Halsall and Zarra seen sharing drink, vowing never...
Mac dilettantes Anne Halsall and Marcus Zarra were spotted together today at the Café de la Rue, enjoying a toast to their mutual promise never to blog again. The meeting takes place in the wake of two ill-conceived posts that garnered the pair an unhealthy amount of negative attention.
“I really wasn’t expecting the lynch mob,” Zarra admitted, his cheeks ruddy from an extended...
October 2008
3 posts
Handshake/Puzzllotto simultaneous launch a "total...
Two notable new iPhone apps hit the store today, the much-anticipated Puzzllotto from United Lemur and the too-good-to-be-free Handshake from Ian Baird and Kyle Richter. Sources close to the situation say it was a “total coincidence” that they shipped at the same time, and that the developers involved certainly had no intentions of competing for press or users. “It was also...
iPhone developer builds game, demands "two-fitty"
There was a beautiful light show on Twitter earlier today as several active iPhone developers got into a heated discussion about the seemingly low price points for games. The community was all a-twitter in anticipation of Mike Lee’s innovative new project, Puzzlotto, but when it was discovered that the app was going to cost a shocking $4.99, seasoned developer Jon Wight expressed some...
What the hell is this shit?
Sometimes a word is so powerful, so unique, so beautifully self-descriptive that is represents the very idea it stands for in its totality. Today I have found such a word, and it is Dramacintosh. It called, and I answered.
I don’t think I need to explain what it means to you. You know where I’m coming from, you’ve lived it, you’ve loved it. I feel like we’re really...