Tony

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Apple, Google to testify at Congressional hearing on location tracking (TUAW.com)

Apr 29th 2011 5:37PM So, are they (Congress) also calling the cell carriers to testify? They track your location as well. What about GPS device manufacturers? They all keep a log of your location data. What about services such as Foursquare and Facebook Places? Will they have to testify as well? What about your credit card company. Every time you swipe your credit or debit card, your exact location is tracked. And, if you're getting money from an ATM, not only is the exact location recorded, but your picture, too. So, will ATM operators have to testify? What about...oh, nevermind. It's a witch hunt, so logic doesn't apply.

MacLegion bundle focuses on utility, value (TUAW.com)

Apr 27th 2011 6:11PM Only if you're interested in Contactizer Pro.

Apple could survive on current cash alone until 2018 (TUAW.com)

Apr 27th 2011 4:39PM Interesting strategy.

So, let's say you bought 250 shares of Apple 5 years ago. Let's call it January, 2006. The stock price at that time was $80/share. So, your investment would have been $20,000.

Today, that investment would be worth approximately $87,500.

Now, if instead you had purchased shares of a dividend paying stock, for example - Coca Cola, at $41/share. You'd have about 487 shares. Today, the stock would be worth about $32, 142. But, it also pays a dividend. Using historical data (http://www.dividend.com/historical/stock.php?symbol=KO), you would have made an additional $3,662 in dividends (assuming you didn't re-invest the dividends, in which case your total stock value would be slightly more, but would take too long for me to look up all the historical prices and calculate.)

So, as of today, an investment 5 years ago in Apple would be worth an additional $67,00, while an investment in Coca-Cola, a dividend paying stock, would be worth an additional $15,804.

I'm not saying owning dividend paying stocks is bad, I own several, but not paying dividends as the reason to "never" own Apple stock is just short-sighted.

MacLegion bundle focuses on utility, value (TUAW.com)

Apr 27th 2011 4:15PM If you do screencasts/tutorials and don't already have ScreenFlow, then this is a fantastic deal for that piece alone. SF is by far my favorite screencasting tool.

I've also recently switched to ForkLift as an FTP/SFTP/Webdav client, and it also works as a Finder replacement (yeah for tabs!) I actually prefer it (slightly) to Transmit, and I was previously using CyberDuck at work...wich, for me, was always SLOOOOOOOOW. ForkLift is extremely fast...

Cast of Disney's "Lemonade Mouth" starts flash mob at Apple store (TUAW.com)

Apr 26th 2011 3:49PM Fun flash mob...but one question - when did MC Hammer pants come back in style?

HBO GO app to bring Tony Soprano to your iOS device (TUAW.com)

Apr 19th 2011 3:48PM "Access to HBO GO is limited to customers who subscribe to HBO through a traditional cable television service provider."

DirecTV, one of the supported providers, is not a "traditional cable television service provider". In fact, they're not cable at all.

iPhone 4 rocketing to the top of Flickr's camera list (TUAW.com)

Apr 18th 2011 6:28PM The best camera is the one you have with you...which helps explain why the iPhone 4 is moving up the charts on Flickr.

Clorox ditches BlackBerry, 92 percent of employees replace it with iPhone (TUAW.com)

Apr 8th 2011 5:57PM What you say may or may not be true, but it's missing the point here. The *users* were given the choice. The business had already determined that Android was a viable option, and offered it to their employees alongside an iPhone and a Win7 phone. The employees chose iPhone in overwhelming numbers.

TUAW Giveaway: Scrivener 2.0 (TUAW.com)

Apr 7th 2011 7:11PM Yes, please.

Financial Times hopes to avoid iTunes subscription rules (TUAW.com)

Apr 4th 2011 6:26PM This has nothing to do with the 30% cut. This is about Apple giving the user control over if their info is shared with the publisher. FT wants control over the subscriber data, not opt-in by the user like Apple requires. This is so FT can "market" directly to their users (which is what they say publicly), and very likely so they can sell the info to other marketers (which they would never admit).