Cheap-ass guy for the Poor Guy: 07/01/2011

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An obscure Chinese company debuts an obscure smartphone that runs an
obscure Linux-based mobile OS. Seriously. http://t.co/j242kX3

http://twitter.com/#!/wired/status/96694766149967872

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Bye Bye Love

Apple today sent their sub-$1000 MacBook to Apple graveyard. The links for the white MacBooks have vanished from Apple's website and now redirect to the main Mac landing page.

Sorry Steve, the MacBook Air is NOT a replacement option to my 'Knut.' Our Dell Mini10 running Snow Leopard has shown (among other things) that I still like having an optical drive.

see the future clearly

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finder's fee

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BBC iPlayer + iTunes

1. copy the url to the radio station you want
2. open the url in VLC, let it start playing
3. save the playlist as m3u
4. open the playlist in QuickTime 7 Pro, let it start playing
5. in QuickTime 7 Pro, save the stream as .mov
6. open the .mov in iTunes and play it

Even though it lists about 10 minutes in iTunes, it will play the live stream for hours.

Kids & Eating

In fall 2005, a restaurant in Chicago's Andersonville drew national attention when it posted signs that "children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices when coming to A Taste of Heaven."

A Taste of Heaven staff member at the Chicago restaurant said just this Thursday that the two signs remain. "Parents were letting their children run about and they were slamming into the glass of the pastry cases," he said. "It's not much of a problem now."

Hey, ToH is still open! Next time we're in IL, let's go!

Android Reaches 130 Million Devices, +550,000 a day

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Google announced on its second quarter earnings call today that Android is now on some 130 million devices worldwide — a 30 million boost from the the number last announced. Hard to beat that but Apple iOS is on just half a dozen SKUs, so there is that....

Read: Android reaches 130 million devices, growing by 550,000 a day