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According to a series of tweets posted earlier today by @chronic on the @chronicwire Twitter account, accessory maker OtterBox has built over 3 million cases for a rumored upcoming “iPhone 4S” device. As seen in the photos posted online, the packaging of one of such cases depicts the “iPhone 4S” name, as well as what

This utility lets you use keyboard shortcuts to place frequently-used text snippets into your documents.

Google is developing a maps application for iPhone and iPad that it’s seeking to finish by the end of the year, according to people involved with the effort who declined to be named.

Apple takes a very wrong turn with its new Google-free iOS 6 Maps app.

Irate at the difficulty and expense of replacing the dead batteries in their iPod, two filmmakers have embarked on an 'anti-advertising' campaign

Ars set out to find just how the improvements to the iPhone 4S camera hardware …

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Overall day one impression: the iPhone is 95 percent amazing, 5 percent maddening. I’m just blown away by how nice it is — very thoughtful UI design and outstanding engineering. It is very fun.

Your iPhone or iPad is about to feel very different

GeoJSON is a geospatial data interchange format based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). It defines several types of JSON objects and the manner in which they are combined to represent data about geographic features, their properties, and their spatial extents. GeoJSON uses a geographic coordinate reference system, World Geodetic System 1984, and units of decimal degrees.

Over the past two months, I’ve run what I consider an interesting experiment with my Twitter and Google+ followers: I’ve asked them what their favorite iPad apps were, and noted down the results. More specifically, back in May I asked my Twitter followers what their “5 must-have” iPad apps were. That question included all the

A restoration of John Regehrs famous quiz on integers in C

It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t— foone🏳️‍⚧️ (@Foone) November 3, 2018

Mr Self Destruct v1 pic.twitter.com/aFloN5VGKI— MG (@_MG_) October 6, 2017

Explains why the year 1900 is treated as a leap year in Excel 2000. This article outlines the behaviors that occur if this specific issue is corrected.

The Emacs editor requires a lot of Lisp code and program state before it can start doing its job. That led Emacs developers to add the "unexec" feature to quickly load all of that at startup, but unexec has always been something of a hack. It employs a fairly ugly (and intrusive) mechanism to do its job. Some non-standard extensions to the GNU C library (Glibc) are required, so a plan to eventually eliminate those extensions was met with some dismay in the Emacs community.

Open a terminal window on your computer—whether Windows, Mac or Linux—and unless you’ve fiddled the defaults, the width is almost always 80 columns. Run a code reformatter like clang-format and same deal…defaults to 80 columns. Why? (1/18) pic.twitter.com/OQLInQDaCo— That Dragon Guy (@PaintYourDragon) February 15, 2022

One of the most impressive hacks I've ever read about has to be the Black Sunday kill. Since the original 2001 Slashdot article I read on this [http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtml] is 99.9% quote, I'm going to do the same. I can see why

Architectural privilege escalation on x86. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole development by creating an account on GitHub.