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Have you ever been sitting on a “pile of cash”? How long did it take you to decide what to do with it? Psh. It doesn’t matter. You never had 97 Billion dollars in reserves, like technology conglomerate and design masters Apple. Yep, you heard it right. building for cheap, and selling for what a lot consider high has made Apple this unbelievable amount of cash reserve. You really need to think Scrooge McDuck’s money bin.
This is quite a bog deal in the technology, and sales/retail industry in general. Tomorrow morning, bright and early there’s a press conference at 8:00 AM central time that you can listen in on, where Apple CEO Tim Cook, and their CFO Peter Oppenheimer will discuss what they’re gonna do with this big fat bag of cash. Acquiring companies or technology? Passing it out among stockholders? Donating to worthy causes? It has all been speculated, but nothing will be sure until the phone conference. Are you interested in hearing from the mouth of the men themselves where the greenbacks are going? Here’s the info you need to listen in:
The live phone press conference starts at 8am central time/6am pacific.9am eastern. Call (877) 616-0063 toll-free or (719) 219-0041 local. Conference code is #592016. What? You’re too lazy for that? There will be a phone conference “replay” at 10am central time/12pm eastern time, and 8am pacific time at (877) 616-0063 toll-free and (719) 219-0041 local. Punch in 6274937 to listen in on the rebroadcast of the call. Stay tuned for the innovating, and probably surprising decisions!
March 7th, 2012, San Francisco, California Held this year’s Apple press conference, and the rumors that were swirling for weeks prior again turned out to carry a lot of truth. The new iPad was introduced by CEO Tim Cook to the world today, with some expected changes/updates. The tride-and-true glass and aluminum housing with the 9.5 by 7.31 inch screen is still here, but now only 0.37 inches thick. To give you an idea of the thickness, it’s thinner than a compact disc case. All the buttons are where they have been, and still has the 30-pin connector on the bottom.
What really gives you an eye-gasm is the 2048 x 1536 Apple Retina display, which blasts away other tablet and laptop resolution to dust. (You may even be disappointed by your computer screen after a few minutes on the new iPad.) Bluetooth 4.0 with claims of one-touch pair and what’s been said to be battery improvements. The front-faced camera stays the same, and the rear camera steps up to 1080p video recording, and illumination.
A5X Processor now drives the iPad, bringing the faster dual-core to the wafer-thin tablet, and because of the crazy resolution of the Retina display, a quad-core graphics processor. What we’re looking at as the biggest update for the new Pad, is the 4G capability now for those specific models, which will be able to operate on the networks of Verizon Wireless, and/or AT&T. Yes, you heard me. That 21 MB per second HSDPA+ or LTE with Apple power.
Still no card storage, universal connection ports, and the still refusing decision to exclude Adobe Flash support are the dings against this new iPad, but it seems that Apple always tries to take attention away from the constants flubs with these things that every other company provides on their hardware. We understand Apple, that you want to set yourselves apart from the rest, but c’monnn. Here’s the price breakdown:
WI-FI only tablets
16GB/$499.00
32GB/$599.00
64GB/$699.00
WI-FI and 4G provided by Verizon or AT&T
16GB/$629.00
32GB/$729.00
64GB/$829.00
The new iPad come out on March 16th, 2012. Set up your tents.
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Turn Your iPod Touch Into an iPhone with its Plastic Packaging
We’ve shown you the software you need to turn your iPod touch into an iPhone, and reader Kevin has taken it a step further, modding the iPod’s packing materials to turn it into a “phone” you can hold up to your ear.
I’m using VOIP on my iPod touch, but I was annoyed by the mic attachments available for my 3rd generation iPod, like this one. I bought 3 of them and they were all defective. Plus, even if the mic worked you have to change your “speaker out” settings each time you use it, which would be a pain if you used it often. That’s what drove me to think of this mod: with a bit of tweaking, you can turn the plastic packaging from an iPod touch into a phone-like device you hold up to your ear. Even with the earbuds near your ear (and not in them) its plenty loud enough. Here’s how to do it.
The inner tray from the 3G iPod Touch packaging has rather sharp corners (and edges), so the first step is to round the four corners on the back surface of the tray to 1/4″ radius or larger. Next, on the same surface, create two grooves spaced 3/4″ from each other in the end of the tray that has a recess for the power button. The contour of the groove should match the shape of the earbuds.
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