Possibly fueled by the same geeky instinct that pushes our kind to build SD card readers for ancient game consoles and port Doom to justabouteverything, YouTube user Napabar recently bridged the 27 year gap between the Macintosh 512k and the iPhone 4S. That’s right, Siri and the Fat Mac are talking. Sort of. Most of the heavy lifting is being done by a pair of intermediary machines, an iMac that’s been configured to run an AppleScript upon receipt of a Siri dictated email, and a bridge computer that passes on the resulting text file to the Mac 512K’s floppy drive. Result? Dictate an email to Siri, get a text file with its contents on the Mac 512k. Old and new technology, talking like old pen-pals. And to think, all it took was two middlemen.
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God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back)By Will Leitch Publisher: ? Harper Number Of Pages: ? 304 Publication Date: ? 2008-02-01 ISBN-10 / ASIN: ? 0061351784 ISBN-13 / [...]
You have to love the accelerated development cycle that spins so fast in the tech industry’s echo chamber. Just as most Americans are starting to get comfortable with this whole “social revolution,” the tech industry has already exhausted every inch of “Social” (and social networking) to the degree that most are now tired of hearing [...]
Mac/iPhone: Swackett is a portmanteau of “sweater, jacket, or coat” and is slang for times when it’s cold enough that you should wear an extra layer. The app that bears the name not only gives you all the routine weather data, but it also displays avatars (Peeps) that display what types of clothing you should [...]
After success in Brazil with an international spinoff of “The Ultimate Fighter,” the UFC will head Down Under, with fighting prospects from the United Kingdom taking on UFC hopefuls from Australia. The new show, called “Smashes,” will cast in London on June 12 and Sydney June 15. According to UFC officials, it’s playing off the [...]
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