one bad one spoils the bunch
apple admitted that the company that can usually do no wrong had hired underage workers at three plants outside of the u.s. where iphones and computers are made. the report said “Across the three facilities, our auditors found records of 11 workers who had been hired prior to reaching the legal age, although the [...]
happy jack!
have you heard about the magicjack that device you can use as a home phone for $20 bones a year and make unlimitted nation-wide calls? i was a little skeptical about it (i’m paying a lotta money for supposedly cheaper internet phone service courtesy of my cable company) until i came across this article in [...]
next time, send a postcard
do you have friends that over-share via facebook status? do they tell you about the sandwich they just ate? the nose they just picked? the job they hate? well, some dude named maxi sopo is feeling like a neo-maxi zoom dweebie because of the mistake he made over-sharing on facebook.
maxi was a fugitive from the law, [...]
gulp when you check out yelp
here is an interesting story via gawker and venture beat. seems that the contributors on yelp! tend to use similar rating when reviewing a restaurant. apparently, when they rate a dining experience “they award four or five stars 69 percent of the time”. venture beat says “there are so many reviews that it’s virtually impossible [...]
check this out!
soon, the iphone really will do anything. usaa, a private bank with only one branch in san antonio, tx and with customers all over the world will update its iphone application to allow customers to deposit checks. users will be able to take a copy of the front and the back of the check and [...]
but how’s it going to look as a tattoo?
out with the old, in with the new. bokode will soon be replacing barcode if the scientists at m.i.t. have anything to do with it. the new bokode system is a teensy-weensie l.e.d. that that “encodes visual information at various brightness and angles…the out-of-focus image, which can be stamped onto just about anything, holds thousands of times more information [...]
all that without copy and paste…
artist jorge colombo created the cover of the new yorker using an iphone application called “brushes”. we here at sacredbird think the gadget is pretty cool but know that some people think it’s a little too cool. one of the consistent complaints about the iphone is the ability to copy and paste things like urls [...]
