Archive for August 2011
August 1, 2011
· Apple Launching New iPhone In October, Not September
· Google Chrome becomes UK's second most popular web browser
· Apple's Safari grows faster than Chrome in July
· South Korea starts a clinic to treat web addiction
· Who Wouldn’t Want a Wiimote-Controlled Fire Breathing Robotic Pony?
· 802.22 Wi-Fi standard offers 12,000 square mile coverage
· Strong sales of Apple's new Thunderbolt MacBook Airs result in stock-outs
· Apple wins iPods.com domain
· Windows XP's share falls below 50%
· Doctors: Hot Dogs Are as Bad as Cigarettes
· S.F. bakery goes whole hog with Angry Birds tribute
· Man hears own eyeballs, diagnosed with superior canal dehiscence syndrome
· D.C. Adults Top Alcohol Abusers in Country
· Website helps female students pay off debts by dating 'sugar daddies'
· LILY’S NATIONAL ANTHEM
August 2, 2011
· Analyst: 'Premium' iPad 2 coming
· Apple launches iCloud.com beta for developers
· Microsoft tweaks location services in response to privacy fears
· Android virus does voice recordings on the quiet
· Apple manages to get Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales halted in Australia
· Motorola Droid 3 Review @ TekGoblin
· The Newest Way To Crap Your Pants In Terror
· This Is How You Weigh A Baby Giraffe
· S Korea buys gold as safe haven, first time since '98
· iCloud pricing per year: $20 for 10GB, $40 for 20GB, $100 for 50GB
· Skype Pulls iPad App, Saying It Was Released Prematurely
· Samsung says Galaxy Tab 10.1 will launch in Australia, despite Apple complaint (Update)
· SmartBird from Festo flies like a real bird
· Nissan eyes powering your house from your car
· Swede held for building nuclear reactor in his kitchen
· Cinemetrics: An interactive fingerprint for your favorite movies
· Oxygen finally spotted in space
· Target and RadioShack Clearing Stock With Lower iPhone 4 Prices
· iPhone 5 Will Launch on October 1st According To Internal Docs [?]
· Coast Guard Intercepts Cocaine Submarine as It Sinks (video)
· MacTech Conference 2011 lists speakers
· Verizon Wireless updates mobile broadband drivers for Lion
August 3, 2011
· FCC Releases Actual Internet Speeds
· Apple Revises "What Makes An iPhone An iPhone" Ads
· UK to legalize private copying of CDs
· Space shuttle Columbia part found in east Texas
· Train Track Therapy Is The Latest Health Craze In Indonesia
· Man Enters Hospital with Stomach Pains and Leaves with a Hysterectomy
· Newly Declassified Missile Looks You in the Eye Before It Blows You Apart
· Lightning Nails Tree And Nearly Takes Dude Filming With It (video)
· Chinese agency downgrades U.S. credit rating
· Ex-soldiers sentenced to 6,000 years in prison for Guatemalan massacre
· If you're currently using Old Twitter, you'll be upgraded to New Twitter this week.
· World's smallest battery will put power everywhere
· EnviroKats replaces kitty litter with recycled tires
· Boingo announces streamlined WiFi data plans with support for any two devices
· Calling from Gmail now in 38 languages, with lower rates to over 150 destinations
· Suppliers to Begin Shipping iPhone 5 to Apple in September
· Biggest-ever series of cyber attacks uncovered
· AT&T to offer 4G BlackBerry Torch 9810 in August, Bold 9900 and Torch 9860 to follow
· Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charge You to Bury It Again
· Japanese city moves entire website to Facebook
· In-Depth with Mac OS X Lion Server @ AnandTech
· Angry Boobs
· Apple iOS overtakes Symbian, iPhone OS now second only to Android
· Apple Mac mini 2011 review @ techradar
· MacBook Air takes on MacBook Pro @ InfoWorld
· Apple, Amazon's clouds clash in developer survey
· Early Alfred Hitchcock effort discovered in a New Zealand archive.
· NASA Kennedy Space Center is a toxic hell
· New Zealand man 'decapitated' by home-made hovercraft
· Apple seen merging iOS, Mac OS X with custom A6 chip in 2012
· Yahoo Mail suffers outage; extent undisclosed
· Apple Has Secret Deals In Place To Launch A Video Streaming Service, Says Jefferies
· U.S. warns that Anonymous, LulzSec could up their game
· Deputies: Jealous teen used Facebook in murder plot
· Found Footage: Apple introduces Cocoa at the 1996 WWDC
August 4, 2011
· Find My Mac Goes Live For Developers
· Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook to Start New Social Media Firm (Resignation Letter)
· Giant African Rat Kills with Poisonous Mohawk
· Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
· Google accuses Apple and Microsoft of teaming up to strangle Android
· MacTech Conference 2011 Early Bird Registration Saves You $200, Ends August 8
· American Airlines And Gogo Roll Out In-Flight Personal Device Video Streaming To 767 Fleet
· Skype 2.1 for Android enables video on majority of Android devices
· Spotify, Spokeo, AOL, Others Sued Over Web Tracking
· London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere
· Researcher follows RSA hacking trail to China
· Texas Instruments says all day battery life coming in 2013
· Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay
· Visualized: Boeing 747-8 makes its longest flight to date, writes name in the sky
· Sydney teen's chilling ordeal: Sore from holding 'bomb' for 10 hours
· First U.S. Blackberry 7 Smartphones going to Sprint this fall
· Japan sacks three nuclear power officials in shake-up
· Chinese City Bans Keeping Dogs As Pets, Telling Owners To Turn Them In
· Apple begins approving iPhone apps with iOS 5 compatibility
· 5 Practices to Survive a Volatile Market
· Lion USB sticks now available for $69 through AppleCare, free to some
· AT&T Is Starting To Revoke Unlimited Data Plans For iPhone Jailbreakers Who Tether For Free
· Hope You Like Trackpads, Because Apple Is Killing Off The Magic Mouse
· Insulin pumps and blood-sugar monitors aren’t safe from hackers
· Hackers break into Subaru Outback via text message
· Some Lion users plagued by black-screen bug
· Woman's outfit blamed for police-dog bite
August 5, 2011
· 50 shed clothes on Wall Street, 3 arrested
· Debunk: Lion USB sticks are not yet available (Update)
· Russian online payment site linked to MacDefender malware scam
· Vibrating glove improves sense of touch
· A contractor loses hundreds of bank account details, leaving them at a London pub.
· Fingerprints can reveal more than just your identity
· Cops: Van man in the can who ran down man he thought he fought
· Purple Heart Came C.O.D.
· Cartoonist Targeted With Criminal Probe For Mocking Police
· Experts grow mouse sperm to help with human infertility
· Florida Friday: PSC Student Arrested In False Bomb Threat
· Florida Friday: Bicyclist Finds Human Skull In Sarasota
· Florida Friday: Waitress rips off customers with credit card skimmer
· Florida Friday: Psychologist suspended for sexual activity with a patient, and billing her insurance company for it
· Florida Friday: Boynton police buy and return stolen guitar to widow
· Florida Friday: Want to catch a ball at the Trop? Fan Zack Hample does it 7 times at one game
· Florida Friday: Paralyzed man uses PVC pipe to drive ATV, crashes with children in vehicle
· Florida Friday: Gun parts found in Tampa International Airport terminal restroom
· Florida Friday: Paralegal suggests Ed Smith Stadium should be a homeless shelter
· Florida Friday: One day late with mortgage payment, gas station owner could lose business to foreclosure
· Florida Friday: Kidnappers Introduce Victim's Girlfriend To Wife
· Apple and China Mobile Reportedly Strike Deal to Bring iPhone to World's Largest Carrier
· The Army Didn’t Bother Testing 5 Million Bulletproof Body Plates
August 6, 2011
· US loses AAA credit rating after S&P downgrade
· Airport body scanners useless: German police
· Apple Ready to Compete on Price; iPhone 3GS likely to Come for $350 Off-Contract
· Afghan helicopter crash kills 31 US special forces
· The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing
· Antisec Hackers Dump Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Data
· Star Wars Millennium Falcon is remote controlled
· Rice University chemists bake graphene out of Girl Scout cookies, redefine low-carb diets
· 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web opened to the public
· Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 5 and iTunes 10.5 Beta 5 to Developers
· Restaurant Replaces Menus and More with iPad
· What Traveling Around the World Looks Like in 1 Minute (Video)
August 7, 2011
· Apple cornering the market on light laptops
· MobileMe to iCloud Transition Gives You 25GB Storage Until June 30th, 2012
· Apple officially killing MobileMe sync for keychains, widgets, accounts, preferences
· Yacht and tanker collide at Cowes Week regatta (Video)
· Boeing rolls out 787 Dreamliner after years of delay
· Police impersonators steal pot and cash
· One man’s junk is another man’s Spitfire
August 8, 2011
· World War II: The American Home Front in Color
· Apple Launches $999 iMac for Educational Institutions
· Anonymous hacks Syrian Ministry of Defense website
· Amazon quietly rolls out Kindle social network
· Zombie head bowling balls
· As Sun Storms Ramp Up, Electric Grid Braces for Impact
· Shopper Receipts Join Paperless Age
· Smugglers use zip line and slingshot to sneak iPads into Shenzhen
· Bluelounge unveils MiniDock for iPod, iPhone
· Black Hat: Apple does well but Microsoft does better with enterprise security
· Apple’s Netflix Killer iTunes Replay Stalled By Hollywood
· Double-Amputee Sprinter with Carbon Fiber Legs Will Race in the World Championships
· Start-up to release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever
· Sierra Leonean scouts 'missing' in Sweden
· Sony intros 200-pound battery to power businesses, government agencies during a blackout
· FBI releases its first iPhone app: Child ID
· iPhone users click more ads than Android
· The Long-Shot Rifle That Can Drop a Taliban Fighter from 1.5 Miles Away
· Texas town turns off water, leaving residents boiling mad
· Twitter Officially Switches: R.I.P. Old Twitter, Long Live #NewTwitter
· Syrian hackers retaliate, deface Anonymous' social network
· RIM May Be Helping UK Police Track Down Rioters
August 9, 2011
· 200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States
· Apple TV 2G Gets Its First Ever HTML5 Based Game, Courtesy Of Jailbreak (Video)
· RadioShack runs temporary discounts on iPhone 4
· North Korea Accused of Hacking Online Games For Profit
· Craigslist’s Casual Encounters Penises Are the Internet’s Best New Game
· Creepy In-Vitro fertilization Using Eggs From a Dead Teenager
· Airport Extreme (5th Gen) and Time Capsule (4th Gen) Review @ AnandTech
· Missing Lion Install Disks Cause Frustrated MacBook Air Users To Struggle With System Restores
· Aug. 9, 1995: When the Future Looked Bright for Netscape
· Long Island Bus Driver Fired After Rescuing 3 Police Detectives During Hail Storm
· Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites from Space
· Sony warehouse burns in London riots
· Hiker told park of aggressive goat before his death
· Mexican Smugglers Nearly Interrupt California Surf Contest
· Get $500 Each Time Sprint Called You After You Said Stop
· Apple is now the world's most valuable public company
· Apple Expands Recycling Options for Old Computers and Mobile Devices
· Woman dies in freak recycling bin accident in Ohio
August 10, 2011
· Apple Is Emptying Some UK Stores In Case Of Riots
· Walmart, Unable to Keep Up With iTunes, Shutters MP3 Store
· Oops! A Phone Number on a Toy Truck Turned Out to Be a Sex Line
· Anonymous Vows Destruction of Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day
· No DNA match with new suspect in D.B. Cooper case
· Apple involved in class-action lawsuit over ebook pricing
· Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader uses Safari to bypass Apple's App Store rules
· China hit by 480,000 Trojan horse attacks in 2010
· Bikinis with barcodes makes for an interesting ad platform
· Apple sending confirmation e-mails to some iTunes users
· Security flaw found in feds' digital radios
· Apple seen doubling or even tripling market share of iPhone & Mac
August 11, 2011
· Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEx) website hacked, impacts trades
· Mozilla shrinks Firefox's memory appetite by 20%-30%
· How an F-16 (Might Have) Avenged the Taliban’s Helicopter Killing
· Teen Found Dead In School Chimney
· Polygamist Sex Freak Masturbates 15 Times a Day in Jail
· High School Pals Targeted In FBI Hacktivist Probe
· Cannibal 'killed friend and ate steak-sized slice of flesh from his back' after argument
· Real estate co. releases thousands of scorpions into apartments to force residents to move.
· England riots: 24-hour criminal justice system after riots
· University of Wisconsin hacked: 75,000 social security numbers, student names exposed
· Fastest Plane In the World Will Be Tested Today
· iCloud: It's not the cloud, but it's good for the cloud
· App Lets Drivers Auction Public Parking Spaces
· Britain's PM considers social media ban to curb riots
· Apple now shipping Lion on a USB stick to customers in need
· Mozilla on track to ship Firefox 6 next week
· Report: 22 more fake Apple stores found in China
· Air Force’s Experimental Hypersonic Aircraft Disappears Again (Update)
August 12, 2011
· Dad Rescues Kidnapped Girl
· 3 more buttocks slashings in Fairfax stores reported
· Swedish Child Gets Swastika Tattoo with Fast Food Kids Meal
· The middle class 'rioters' revealed: The millionaire's daughter, the aspiring musician and the organic chef
· From 1997: 101 Ways to Save Apple
· R.I.P: Jani Lane, Ex-Warrant Singer
· Dell quietly kills Streak 5 while nobody's looking, mourns end-of-life status
· In Texas heat, servers take dip to keep cool
· What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?
· High Levels of Potentially Toxic Flame Retardants in California Pregnant Women
· Florida Friday: Ten commandments, 'Love God' monument triggers court fight
· Florida Friday: Man robs two convenience stores on his 31st birthday
· Florida Friday: 'I can't put my hands behind my back because I'm making a bowel movement'
· Florida Friday: Accused bathroom eater jailed in Vero Beach Walmart flap
· Florida Friday: Times a-changing and so is Spider Man
· Florida Friday: Police: Playboy Playmate Had Loaded Gun At Airport
· Report: Apple A6 production has begun
· Court releases Warren Jeffs audio sex tapes
· 30 Years Ago Today, IBM Released Its First PC Before Most People Had Any Idea What that Meant
· Apple planning media event for September 7?
· Airbags for cellphones patented
· Memory industry stockpiling in time for iPhone 5 in Sept.
· Rumor: Apple to begin 'iPhone 4S,' iPad 3 production in Sept for Oct launch
August 13, 2011
· Apple posts new Mac OS X 10.7.2 beta, iCloud beta 7
· Sprint Says ‘No Thanks’ to 4G BlackBerry PlayBook
· Report: Naked sword fight lands attorney in jail
· Germany marks 50 years since Berlin Wall
· International Left-Handers' Day celebrated around the world
· Yahoo! Search and Bing achieve highest search rate for July 2011
· Appeals court strikes health insurance requirement
August 14, 2011
· Deadly amoeba suspected of infecting Brevard girl's brain
· 4 dead, 40 hurt after stage at Indiana fair
· Chinese officials find another tweny-two fake Apple stores in one city
· We Must Study Porn to Defeat Al Qaeda
· Purported MacBook Pro prototype with built-in 3G appears on eBay
· This Season’s Must-Have Holiday Sweater
· Ohio woman, 94, wakes up to find windblown blimp from nearby airport landed in her backyard
· Iowa man tries to lure teen and gets mom's fist instead
· Illinois Gov. plans to sign legislation that will expand the state's ban on protests outside military funerals
August 15, 2011
· Pakistan let China see crashed US "stealth" copter-FT
· Google to buy Motorola for $12.5B
· Apple surges iPhone orders, plans 26m iPhone 5s in late 2011
· Egyptian activist charged with inciting violence via Facebook
· M-Disc holds your data 'forever,' Engadget goes hands-on (video)
· Is your printer compatible with Lion?
· What Kind of Beach Uses 7,937 Umbrellas to Block Out the Sun? A Freaking Weird One.
· Facebook bans European social network for violating its policies
· Stars Wars icons join Queen Elizabeth on Pacific Island coin
· Get money for your old Macs — from Apple
· Extremely Rare Volcano Smoke Rings Only Documented Three Times
· Official Steve Jobs biography due on November 21st
· Mother beats son for having a Facebook account
· Restaurant Forces Customers To Sign No Cellphone Contract Before Dining
August 16, 2011
· Starbucks serves up free iPhone apps
· Police Chase Shirtless Man on Forklift (Video)
· Palm Bay woman held after nutcracker attack on man
· Is this Britain's drunkest woman? Out-of-control mother, 31, drinks 28 pints a DAY
· 2 Rescued From Water Neck-High in Elevator
· Father punches daughter at 14th birthday party
· Police seek ex in robbery of Big Beaver exotic dancer
· Starbucks chief calls on CEOs to stop political donations, create jobs
· Man caught by police after robbing lifelong friends at gunpoint
· US officials: Gadhafi fires first scud missile in conflict with rebels, hits nothing
· Mayor dumps gift-wrapped 20-tonne boulder on ex-wife’s lawn
· Man travels 1,400 miles for pizza
· Mother of 13-year-old who smashed up shop blames government
· Apple iPad 3 supply schedule canceled
· Netflix “Just for Kids” officially launched
· First AT&T LTE devices to drop next week, No word on the LTE network.
· Is Apple Secretly Installing LTE Equipment In Retail Stores Ahead Of The iPhone 5?
· A USB Vibrator That Gets the Job Done In More Ways than One
· Talking public lavatory with female voice puts men off
August 17, 2011
· Buyers Beware! Mac App Store Purchases Might Not Be What You Expect!
· Navy Bomb Squads Get a Solar Power Makeover
· Apple Wins Major Patent for Integrating Cellular Antennas into MacBook and iMac Keyboards
· Woman stuck in bathtub for over 30 hours, lawsuit charges
· Woodridge man allegedly kills dad with weed trimmer
· "I Don't Doubt It" Is BofA's Response To You Saying They Transferred You To Foot Fetish Phone Line
· Charles Bronson lookalike not allowed to visit notorious prisoner
· TSA investigating firecrackers in Southwest flight
· Logitech announces Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac
· Apple Store is back up
· Logitech’s New Solar-Powered Wireless Keyboard
· Report: Spam is at a two-year high
· Pa. lawmaker suggests spread of STDs 'amongst womenfolk' a side effect of natural gas drilling
· Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
· Woman’s yard sale to pay medical bills gets shut down
· Russian Man Kills Wife With Homemade Missile
· Where's That Radioactive Sulfur Now? Possibly In Your Pants
August 18, 2011
· Mozilla to drop Firefox version number, sparks backlash
· Monkey injures girl in store parking lot in Springfield
· Female lawyer gets Lexus stuck in concrete after attempting rush hour U-turn
· Mum, the bear is eating me: Final terrified phone calls of teen Olga Moskalyova
· Mystery of diseased coral solved: Human feces to blame
· AT&T will only offer unlimited & pay-per-use texting after Aug 21
· Apple Tops Worldwide Mobile PC Shipments in Q2 2011 with iPad Included
· Apple accused of selling refurbs as new products in China
· British Airways testing iPads to enhance customer service
· Apple only major PC builder in Western Europe still growing
· Rain or shine, see the weather in Google Maps
· Apple CEO Steve Jobs has met personally with mega-carrier China Mobile
· Hewlett-Packard plans to spin off its PC business
August 19, 2011
· “woot” Becomes an Official Word
· Evernote Buys Image Sharing App Skitch, Is Offering It For Free
· Paris airport tests 'virtual' boarding agents
· Mystery hearing set for 'West Memphis Three'
· Apple Aiming to Launch New iPad in Early 2012
· Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'
· NBC: Gadhafi making plans for leaving Libya
· Th9 Most Popular Sites On The Web (Right Now), Ranked By Alexa
· Scientists alter chicken DNA to create embryo with 'alligator-like' snout
· Yapping, lack of coins lead thief to return kids, poodle, car
· Florida Friday: Drivers See Baby In Truck Bed, Call Police
· Florida Friday: Woman accused of basil attack during meat flap jailed in PSL incident
· Florida Friday: Bigamy Suspect Doesn't Remember Marrying First Wife
· Florida Friday: Couple charged after nearly 700 cats seized
· Blind man sued for illegally downloading porn
· West Memphis 3 are freed after 18 years behind bars
· Germany: Facebook Like button violates privacy laws
August 20, 2011
· Funeral-crashing snake ready for adoption
· Amputation faked for insurance money
· Best wedding pictures ever...
· Cup Noodles Museum
· Pasco couple fear losing home to foreclosure for paying mortgage too early
August 21, 2011
· Quadriplegic says violent neighbor assaulted him with fish
· Man tries to steal car with no windshield, steering wheel comes off during getaway.
· Two decapitated bodies and scalped heads were dumped outside a Sam’s Club store in Acapulco
· Swedish girl zapped by lightning twice while taking a shower
· Sign Advertises "Explosions in the Sky" on "Sept. 11"
August 22, 2011
· HP to refund money to TouchPad early adopters
· Woman arrested for attempting to sell her 5-year-old son
· Marines In Afghanistan Using Shaving Cream To Mark IED's
· Free iPhone 3GS today only at Best Buy with 2-year contract
· Apple preparing to announce 'absolutely different' Mac?
· HTC will stay committed to Android
· Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity
· While speaking live on television, Gaddafi's son Mohammed attacked and captured by Libyan rebels (Audio)
· Google begins Amazon river Street View project
· D.C. councilmember spent $135,000 for pro sports tickets from a fund used to help the needy
· The Placenta Cookbook
· Apple's Lion drives 26% rise in Mac sales during July
· Evernote updates it's Universal Note Management App for iOS Devices
· Apple offering refurbished iPads for $299 and up
August 23, 2011
· Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision
· Report: Apple's A6 chip to boost speed, battery life in next iPad
· HP to Restock the Touchpad
· Doctor accused of jabbing 13-year-old with screwdriver 100 times
· Nephew's relentless quest leads to WWII pilot's downed plane
· Honorary toilets? You read that right.
· Apple Building Cheaper 8GB iPhone 4, End of September Launch alongside iPhone 5
· Dual-Mode iPhone 5 With Support for CDMA & GSM Networks Appears in App Developer Logs
· HP Touchpad: HP promises to keep them coming until they run out
· USGS: Colorado experiences largest quake in more than 40 years
· Homeowner held burglary suspect at gunpoint for 8 hours
· Woman, 92, Threw Herself In Front Of Salon Gunman In Wales
· Study: 96 Percent Of Humans Would Rather Be Animatronic Bear
· Skiing on Poo Snow Is Perhaps Even Grosser than You Think
· Facebook data collection under fire again
· United Airlines Hands Out 11,000 iPads To Its Fleet Of Pilots
· Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV
· Sprint to Get iPhone 5
· Big US retailers adopting Apple products: Say goodbye to the cash register
August 24, 2011
· Halliburton executive takes a swig of fracking fluid
· Newark Bears donate $2,000 to M.A.D.D. ... on Beer Pong Night
· Man inflamed over amputated penis
· Package of LED light bulbs caused Jacksonville City Hall evacuation
· Facebook tweaks site to clarify who can see what
· Chicago Police to Airbnb Host: No Whites in Black Neighborhoods, Please
· Greek Police Smash Violent Doughnut Ring
· ‘Sex-Crazed Loser’ Crashes Into Adult Store, Steals $800 Vagina
· Martin Luther King memorial made in China
· Spoofed sign warns of 'Rogue Panda on Rampage'
· White men in rural America are more likely to die from doing stupid shit
· Time Warner Cable will pay for your Slingbox, in exchange for love
· Netherlands: Samsung in violation of Apple patents, EU wide ban in place
· Starbucks expands “Pick of the week” to include TV shows and iBooks
· 15 year old teen in Sweden on trial for downloading movies via torrents
· Logitech unveils suction cup joystick for the iPad (video)
· iPad Getting Exclusive 9/11 Memorial App on September 1st
· An iPhone Design Flaw Has Finally Been Uncovered!
· Riot inciter Johnny Melfah loses anonymity after court ruling
August 25, 2011
· Apple CEO Steve Jobs resigns
· Steve Jobs’s Resignation Letter to Apple
· Tim Cook: The genius behind Steve
· US Marines Serving In Afghanistan Warned Not To Fart So Audibly
· NOM Speaker Blames East Coast Earthquake on Gays
· Woman Deemed Too Drunk For Bikini Wax, Attacks Employee with Towel
· 7-foot-tall pot plant found in Ohio
· These Apple Execs Will Run The Show Now That Steve Jobs Is Gone
· Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's Nazi ties 'went deeper'
August 26, 2011
· Tampa Bay Buccaneers replace playbooks with iPads
· Linux is 20 years old today
· The Biggest Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet
· Tim Cook to Apple Employees: Apple is Not Going to Change
· iPhones to find common ground with dogs, knows owner by voice alone
· RadioShack Offers Free iPhone 3GS + price cuts iPhone 4 from August 27th to September 3rd
· Comex, the Hacker Behind JailbreakMe.com, Hired as Apple Intern
· Downgrade OS X Lion To Snow Leopard [Video How-To] @ Cult of Mac
· Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan Resigns After Backlash Over Handling of Earthquake
· Giant 3 foot long rat killed by pitchfork
· Yankees smash record three grand slams
· Verizon Wireless most reliable carrier, says J.D. Power
· Apple CEO Tim Cook: A look at his biggest hurdles ahead
· Florida Friday: Woman 'encouraged husband to have sex with 12-year-old girl so that she would get pregnant and they could claim more benefits'
· Florida Friday: Police: Arrested man had mop, bucket — but no pants
· Florida Friday: Changing image in Jensen Beach couple's piling starts to look like Jesus
· Florida Friday: Clearwater fines Scientology $413,500
· Florida Friday: Plantation rejects sidelining religion in holiday display
· Florida Friday and MajorGeek local: Accused nude dude in Vero Beach says he's 'just out here helping people'
· Florida Friday: Deputies: Shortchanged in drug deal, man calls 911
· Apple's MacBook Air draws long lines, stock-outs in Hong Kong debut
· Hurricane Irene Tracking Map
· A new way to detect secret nuclear tests: GPS
· Phishers targeting Apple customers and iCloud upgraders
· Florida Friday: Mets Star Wants Judge To Cloak Sex Case Records
· YouTube Downloader Site Sued By World’s Biggest Music Labels
· Apple apparently abandoning 99-cent TV show rentals in Apple TV, iTunes
August 27, 2011
· Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021
· Governor Chris Christie to Idiots: Get The Hell Off The Beach
· The 10 Stupidest Ways To Die in a Hurricane
· Sewage-powered hydrogen fueling station opens in CA
· King Arthur's round table may have been found by archaeologists in Scotland
· Gibson Guitar raided but lips zipped
· America's Dumbest Criminals - Hoquiam, Washington Edition
· Man tears out another man’s tracheotomy tube at Godsmack concert
August 28, 2011
· Running a 21km Apple Logo as a Tribute to Steve Jobs
· Best Buy in Howell, NJ charges $40.56. for a case of Dasani water
· Giant candy bar causes scare on Tacoma Narrows Bridge
· Glenn Beck: Hurricane Irene is a 'blessing'
· Body & Mind Patient Dies of Smoke Inhalation After Being Abandoned on Operating Table During Hospital Fire
· Bait car stolen, Sacramento police nab 10-year-old girl
· Accused shoplifter gives herself away by stopping to fill out raffle ticket before leaving store
· Growing Obesity Tab May Rise to $66 Billion a Year
· 76 Apple Tips @ Mac OS Compatible
August 29, 2011
· First-Grader Faces In-School Suspension for Growing Hair Long to Donate to Cancer Victims
· Man killed in Hurricane Irene-related death when tree falls on his tent
· Lion exposes Macs to major LDAP vulnerability
· Dell launches a VMware-based cloud; Azure next
· Hackers acquire Google certificate, could hijack Gmail accounts
· In just three weeks, Facebook pays out $40K to hackers
· Snow Leopard To Get Basic iCloud Compatibility with 10.6.9
· Playboy Club to reopen in Chicago
August 30, 2011
· New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home
· US government infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhoea as part of study
· Man, 78, charged with attempted murder after high-speed chase with siblings
· 2 girls in pajamas take stolen goat for a walk
· Men accused of stealing $60,000 in toilet paper, plastic utensils
· North Texas Juror Tried To ‘Friend’ Defendant
· World's only turbine-powered Batmobile up for sale on eBay
· HP will continue supporting the TouchPad
August 31, 2011
· You Can Only Have A Maximum Of 25K Songs Or 250 Gigabytes Of Music In iTunes Match
· Apple wants its 3G MacBook prototype back
· Cops: Mother blames ghost for hatchet killings
· Police: Man in domestic dispute decapitates self
· James Bond wins $6.5 million in lottery
· Another human foot washes ashore in B.C.
· Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spying on Sex Chats
· German city of Bonn has tax meters for prostitutes
· Rumor: Apple plans to roll out remote web diagnostic for iOS devices
· Shrine of Apple website lists every single Apple product
September 1, 2011
· Apple has made available a seventh beta release of iOS 5 to developers, focusing on bug fixes and improvements. The update is available alongside a new Xcode 4.2 Preview 7, iTunes 10.5 beta 7, and App
· Apple begins selling refurbished iPad 2s
· Apple loses another prototype iPhone
· Replica of Disney-Pixar 'Up' house for sale in Utah
· MacBook Air Used By Tribe in the Amazon Rainforest
· Skype now works with any home phone
· Hackers may have stolen more than 200 SSL certificates