Sims DJ iPod Game Review

Ryan's spinning the ones and twos (at least that was the plan) with a review of The Sims DJ for iPod. Will it make you the next star DJ? Well, no, but you'll learn about dance floor lighting, pouring drinks, and buying things. Enjoy the review:

Apple and Adobe, say you're sorry, and shake hands

Apple, I want you to look at Adobe. Adobe, look at Apple. Now both of you have been misbehaving lately. Adobe, there's no need to upset the Apple faithful by claiming there won't be 64bit support in most Adobe apps anytime soon. Apple, shame on you for pinning Safari quits on Adobe (see image above)
Apple: "But he does! Adobe always crashes Safari!"
Adobe: "I do not! You just need to let users disable/enable plugins."

Stop it both of you. Now let's talk about the iPhone for a minute.
Adobe: "I don't wanna!"
Apple: "I'm not allowed to speculate!"

Ok, ok. Adobe, you said you have Flash working on a jailbroken iPhone, right?
Adobe: "Yeah, and we'd release it too, if Apple would let us!"
Apple: "Your app is nothing but a battery-draining, web clogging, poopy head."
Adobe: "Oh yeah, you're just scared people will prefer Flash and it will become a mobile standard just like on the web!"
Apple: "Am not!"
Adobe: "Are too!"
Apple: "People prefer QuickTime anyhow."
Adobe: "Oh yeah, then why do I have an installed base of nearly 98% of all computers?"
Apple: "Oh yeah, well QuickTime powers iTunes, the world's biggest online music store!"
Adobe: "Yeah, and you have to use Photoshop to make the graphics because Aperture's stinky!"
Apple: "Aperture isn't for making graphics, stupid."
Adobe: "Fine. I'll just develop my apps for the PC only!"
Apple: "Fine. and I'll make the iPhone Microsoft Silverlight friendly."
Adobe: "Fin-- oh wait. you don't mean that do you?"
Apple: "No... I guess not. It just came out.

There, now see, you both have something in common. I'm going to go back inside. Why don't you two play in the sandbox for a bit and see if you can come up with a solution...

Both of you, stop it. Seriously.

TDL Live This week: (6/16) Not all iPhone!

If you missed it live last night, here's this week's TDL Live. Adam and Ryan have the roundup of tech news and rumors, and thankfully, it's not just the iPhone.

Also, you may have noticed this isn't our standard video player. We're experimenting with different video hosting companies. Today, it's Viddler.

This Week in Apple Lawsuit History: Flashback to Carl Sagan v. Apple Computer Inc.

            In my attempt at a “retro” blog, I ask you to take a spin in your time machine and see if you remember when Carl Sagan, famed astronomer and scientist, sued famed technology giant, Apple Computer.  It was this week in history that Apple settled with Sagan in 1994 regarding two defamation suits.  The legal battle began when Apple’s internal minds decided to honor Sagan by code-naming the Power Macintosh 7100 after him.  The name was used internally only and therefore posed no problem until Apple released models of the Power Macintosh 7100 code-named as “Cold Fusion” and “Piltdown Man.” 

            When Carl Sagan learned of the names he sued for defamation claiming that the names defamed his character.  A defamation suit with a public figure plaintiff such as Sagan against a public giant like Apple is normally protected by the First Amendment.  Such a case leaves the plaintiff to prove that Apple had knowledge that the information was false and that they advertised the names with reckless disregard of whether or not the names were false.  In this case, Apple won the lawsuit but then changed their Power Macintosh 7100 to an equally defaming internal codename: BHA or “Butt-head Astronomer” 

            The name change lead to the Sagan's second lawsuit against Apple. Sagan again, had to prove that Apple stated the name with knowledge that it was false and that the name was with reckless disregard of whether or not the names were false.  Sagan lost the suit on the grounds that Apple claimed the right to free speech under the First Amendment, which protect big names like Apple from suits of defamation.

            Apple’s last word was when they changed the computer’s internal name to be “LAW,” which is better known as “Lawyers Are Wimps.”  Sagan was again offended by the name and Apple eventually settled in June of 1994. 

Information for this blog found on :

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Did-You-Know-Carl-Sagan-Fought-Apple-87985.shtml

Genius Bar makes a cameo in the new iPhone ad

There it is! No, not the phone... Look at the background... Do those two monitors and logo look familiar?
Thanks for the tip, lanaka.