Vat Archive

  • Remember when I was all like “The iPad does Flash?” Yeah. Well. No.

    Remember when I was all like “The iPad does Flash?” Yeah. Well. No.

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Yes, I knew Apple would never add Flash. Yes, I knew it was probably an accident that they showed Flash. But Apple, as we see, does nothing without running it past a vat full of lawyers. That they showed Flash on an iPad running on the NY Times website was clearly a mistake and, more [...]

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  • Leica comes clean, announces the M9 and X1

    Leica comes clean, announces the M9 and X1

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Finally. It seems like there have been a dozen leaks about the Leica M9 and X1 the last couple of weeks, but they are finally announced. It's too bad that the leaks killed all the fun and announced everything already though. The new M9, which should be available this week, features a very similar body as the M8, but now rocks a 18MP full frame CCD sensor along new button placement for quick access to important settings. Plus, it has new micro lens that should help with performance at the edges of the frame and further justify the £4,850 inc VAT ($8,000 USD) price.

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  • Video: Archos 9 tablet looks nice, may cost under $500 this fall

    Video: Archos 9 tablet looks nice, may cost under $500 this fall

    Posted on June 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Ooh la la, here’s video of the Archos 9, straight from a recent Archos event in Paris. The quick and dirty: about three hours battery life, Windows 7, 8.9-inch 1024×600 touchscreen, 80GB hard drive, 1.2 GHz Atom CPU, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, kickstand, onscreen keyboard, and SIM card slot for HSDPA. Charbax from ArchosFans.com speculates that it’ll cost under [...]

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  • Steve could come back to WWDC this Monday

    Steve could come back to WWDC this Monday

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
    A guy who knows a guy at Apple says he saw a guy who drove a guy to work who knows the kids of a guy who works with the guy who works next to the office of the guy who brings fresh ground coffee to the girl who puts water into the coffee-maker for the guy who brings the coffee and single, perfect bearclaw to Steve Jobs' sub-assistant's assistant who works next to Steve Jobs' real assistant's assistant who says he saw Steve Jobs floating (and this refutes Woz's claim that Steve is really healthy) in a huge vat while attached to "cables and other stuff" who says his sister who knows the neighbors of the Jobs family who sometimes when there's a full moon can see through the back window of the Jobs house where they say they saw Steve's holographic representation playing Jenga by controlling a nubile Vietnamese woman named Hoa using a new iTablet/mental control rig told the Wall Street Journal that either Jobs or a robot shaped like Jobs will host the WWDC keynote on Monday.

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