Gizmodo developers and bloggers conference update!

And i'm in!
Chatting with a technician, a consultant, a teacher and a designer.

Should be an interesting night

Thanks giz


-Zac

artist installing flash drives in walls. modern day dead drop.

Aram Bartholl , an artist from NYC has created quite a modern, communal artform.
his latest work, "dead drop" features him installing usb flash drives (not sure of size) into walls around NYC.

The idea is that people would walk up to a dead drop and drop their selected files onto the usb allowing others to look though their life. Shame it's only USB 2.0

"Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and ‘How to make your own dead drop’ manual coming soon!"

check out the video:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/16620712


-zac

Bendigo bank

Bendigo bank, a bunch of dicks.
That is all


-Zac

You’re A Judge, Not A Technitian

It's okay, i have come to accept that some older generations can have dificulty understanding new technologies. But when it's your job to implement rulings that can not be wavered, you should at lease understand the difference between IOS and Windows

Looks like Northern Calfornia district judge James Ware doesn’t. In NVIDIA’s class-action settlement (in which owners of Apple, HP and Dell notebook running NVIDIA graphics hardware had malfunctioned), he just ruled that replacing faulty MacBook Pros running GeForce 8400M and 8600M graphics cards with sub-$US500, entry-level Compaq CQ-56′s would be acceptable which, of course, it isn’t. They run on entirely different operating systems.

thanks to giz for the story.

-zac

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mugshots: this could be you

sherrif joe arpaio has been using his police stations website as a place to display the worst of the worst mugshots of offenders arrested in his county.

check it out over at http://www.mcso.org/Mugshot/

iPhone 4 white is thicker than original black model

Phil shneider, apples vice president of marketing has openly denied that the white iPhone is thicker than the original.
And who's to say he's not right! I mean, come on people, where is the hands on proof of this. Why would apple make the same phone, just in a different color, thicker?



The answer? because they had to.
Despite mr. Shneider's denial issues, apple's white phone 4 is 2mm thicker than its brother due to light filtering and solar radiation.
You heard me correctly. Due to it's high levels of pure whiteness, (highly technical term) the white iPhone 4 can't deflect uv rays like the black model can, meaning that the sun (without the extra thick front and back) would cook the iPhone's innards like a microwave. Think of it as an albino iPhone.

Thanks to engadget for the image


-Zac

Location:South pole

Iphone 5 may not be coming till 2012!!!

You herd right. Looking back on apples past and the fact that apple have begun rolling out the iphone 4s to developers which includes the larger screen and the a5 chip quakes me believe that we will not be seeing an iPhone 5 for another year






Having said that the iPhone 4s or 4gs SHOULD have a bigger screen, the A5 chipset (for up to 10x faster image and video processing)

It is also rumored to feature a metal back as another option to the traditional white and black.
That's if apple can even produce a white version of it within the first ten months of release.

Also, due to the launch of the recent white iPhone the launch date of the iPhone 4s will most likely be pushed back to September.

But don't fret, the larger screened iPhone '4s' ('4gs') is coming. Until then, enjoy angry birds and bookworm on your normal sized, boring 3.5 inch phone and iPod touch

-Zac

Location:Mars