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Read Leander Kahney's latest commentary about Apple and Mac News in Wired.com's Cult of Mac Blog, including Mac, Mac Pro, MacBook, iMac, iBook, Mac mini, iPod video, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iTunes, iPhoto, iPhone, Apple TV, OSX, Steve Jobs, and Macworld.
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Macs Used for Roomba Hacks at Maker Faire 2007
Maker Faire is an amazing event held annually in San Mateo, Calif. where people from all over the place come together to show off the crazy hardware hacks and contraptions they've cobbled together. As you might expect, it's not actually...

Maker Faire is an amazing event held annually in San Mateo, Calif. where people from all over the place come together to show off the crazy hardware hacks and contraptions they've cobbled together. As you might expect, it's not actually a Mac-heavy location. If you aren't building your computer from spare parts you found in the neighbor's trash, you're sort of a second-class citizen.
Anyway, I went on Saturday, and met up with Tod Kurt, author of Hacking Roomba and the Todbot blog, who was showing off the latest and greatest in mods to make your robot vacuum cleaner do things it was never designed to, like play a sad sort of vacuum music or even act as a giant spirograph doodler (pic after the jump). Best of all, Tod and his boothmate, from the company he runs, ThingM, were an all-Mac shop. Hacking Roombas is great. Doing it with Macs is even better. It's all very easy over Bluetooth, apparently.

Technorati Tags: makerfaire, roomba

Pete Mortensen
Whose House? Apple's House
I snapped this photo walking home through Union Square the other night. It was a huge Volkswagen outdoor advertisement on a pillar, and someone decided to let the German carmaker know who runs San Francisco. It can only be Apple....

I snapped this photo walking home through Union Square the other night. It was a huge Volkswagen outdoor advertisement on a pillar, and someone decided to let the German carmaker know who runs San Francisco. It can only be Apple.

Technorati Tags: apple, vw, sticker

Pete Mortensen
Readomatic Alpha Release: A Standalone App of Web App of Standalone App
General confusion and ambivalence about the continued value of stand-alone have gone mainstream as of...now. That's because German developer Gernot Poetsch has released an alpha of a new RSS reader he calls Readomatic. What's so weird about this app? Well,...

General confusion and ambivalence about the continued value of stand-alone have gone mainstream as of...now. That's because German developer Gernot Poetsch has released an alpha of a new RSS reader he calls Readomatic. What's so weird about this app? Well, it's a standalone application of Google Reader, which is itself a replacement for a standalone RSS reader. Google Reader's great advantage is that it isn't standalone -- you can use it on any computer connected to the Internet and still have it keep up with all your readings.

We're now in the age of applications that take the limited functionality and GUI of a web app and give it the restricted, non-portable feature set of a standalone app. We're through the looking glass here, people. Still, it looks kinda hot. I'm not going to stop using Vienna, though.

Announcing Readomatic [poetsch.org]

Via digg.

Technorati Tags: rss, software

Pete Mortensen
FCC Says iPhone OK For Public Consumption
Our long, national nightmare is over: The FCC has approved the iPhone, which means that nothing is holding back the miracle device's release other than software issues so titanic that people got pulled off of Leopard development to fix it....

Our long, national nightmare is over: The FCC has approved the iPhone, which means that nothing is holding back the miracle device's release other than software issues so titanic that people got pulled off of Leopard development to fix it. Yep, all hurdles cleared.
At the product's intro, Steve Jobs said he was taking the unusual stance of announcing the iPhone early so that the FCC wouldn't do it for him. So mark this day -- in an alternate universe where Steve doesn't believe in early announcements, even if it means screwing over the FCC, this would be the day that news of the iPhone broke. Can you even imagine how different 2007 would have been without all our wildest iPhone rumors confirmed.
News Flash: Apple iPhone receives FCC approval [AppleInsider]
Via Digg.

Technorati Tags: innovation, iphone

Pete Mortensen
The Saga of a Fake Apple Internal Memo
In case you missed it, the full story of how Engadget came to post a fake Apple internal memo announcing delays of the iPhone to October and Leopard to January is now up at the site. The false news allegedly...

In case you missed it, the full story of how Engadget came to post a fake Apple internal memo announcing delays of the iPhone to October and Leopard to January is now up at the site. The false news allegedly caused Apple to lose $4 billion in market cap in just six minutes.

It's pretty a long and pretty involved tale, but the most interesting piece is this: Someone with access to Apple's internal e-mail systems sent the original memo. Apple sent a second e-mail denying that the first message was real, but it all feels fishy.

After all, we know Apple has started fake rumors in the past just to flush out leakers. Could the Steve now be applying this logic to his own employees?
Regarding yesterday's Apple news [Engadget]

Pete Mortensen