Saturday, September 10, 2011

Is Steve Jobs Dead?



Right now the internet's quaking with speculation about Steve Jobs' possible death—all sparked by a single tweet. But rumors from news desks and people dumping AAPL stock are making us wonder: is this it? We really hope not.
Did an intern fuck up? Did someone tweet something they shouldn't have? We don't know—but we will say it's reminding us a lot of the media rumors that swirled up right before Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer. It's extremely hard to keep the lid on the death of a celebrity—today more than ever, thanks to websites like ours. We realize we're cranking the wheel on the rumor mill by writing this, but we want to settle the question definitively. So we've got our feelers out everywhere, and are trying to either quash this rumor or verify some awful news we've all been dreading. If you know anything, send it our way.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Crossing the border... illegally...

SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT... If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years of hard labor. If you cross the Afghanistan border illegally, you get shot. Two Americans just got eight years for crossing the Iranian border. But if you cross the U.S. border illegally you get a job, a… drivers license, food stamps, a place to live, health care, housing, child benefits, education and a tax free business for 7 years... No our country is in debt...

Thursday, September 1, 2011

T-Mobile G2 gets Gingerbread


Great news T-Mobile G2 owners as today is a magical day for you. That’s right I’m talking about a Gingerbread OTA update that begins today and will rollout over the next few weeks to all G2 owners. This has been a great week for T-Mobile Android owners who are finally seeing a long promised Gingerbread update arrive. Let’s just get right to the meat of this and tell you what’s in store:
  • Android 2.3.3
  • Google Books added
  • Notification color scheme is now black
  • New battery indicator, phone and web icons
  • Color-coded network icon and signal indicator
  • Pressing the power key on a call disables the proximity sensor
  • Wi-Fi calling improvements
  • New SMS and email notification improvements
  • Improvements to sending MMS from the Gallery
If you aren’t willing to wait for the OTA to come to you, you can try and go to it by using the following steps:
  1. Press the MENU key
  2. Tap SETTINGS
  3. Tap ABOUT PHONE
  4. Tap SYSTEM UPDATES
Note this line from the support document which I’m emphasizing in bold capital letters so people are sure to read it:

IMPORTANT: DO NOT CALL T-MOBILE TO RECEIVE THE UPDATE BEFORE SEPTEMBER 1. THE TIMELINE FOR RECEIVING THE OTA CANNOT BE EXPEDITED. T-MOBILE CANNOT MANUALLY PUSH THE SOFTWARE TO CUSTOMERS WHO ASK TO RECEIVE IT. 

Hope you all got that last part!

T-Mobile