Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Apple store boasts the highest traffic of all the Apple stores in the world. The Michigan Avenue store is the second of four stores that Apple has opened in the area. The first Apple store in the greater Chicagoland area was opened in Schaumburg in Woodfield mall. While it was a nice [...]
Alex Salkever thinks that a G5 laptop might be a reality next year: BW Online | December 17, 2003 | A G5 Laptop? Maybe Next Year.
The foul ball that Steve Bartman deflected in game 6 of the LCS is up for auction. The current bid is $22,987. The tragic thing about all this is that Bartman didn’t even end up with the ball.
The proprietors of the three Chicago area Hi Ricky restaurants have closed all three locations. They decided to cash out on the real estate. It’s kind of sad. I’ll miss them. That will put a slight crimp on good affordable lunches in the West Loop. I guess there are a few options left. Here’s a [...]
Ever wonder which dictionary is the best? Well, wonder no more. YiLing Chen-Josephson compares dictionaries: Slate: Word Up – Which dictionary is the best?
Because, as you may know, almost every song and CD is made on a Mac—it’s recorded on a Mac, it’s mixed on a Mac, the artwork’s done on a Mac. Almost every artist I’ve met has an iPod, and most of the music execs now have iPods. And one of the reasons Apple was able [...]
Well, it’s official. The Motorola V600 will be delayed until “some time in the first quarter” according to a Motorola spokesperson. This is the phone I’ve been waiting for. I guess I’ll be waiting a little longer for it, now. Motorola seems to be perpetually late to the game in the cell phone market. Nokia [...]
David Pogue writes about companies that are slowly bilking consumers out of their money by making so called “billing mistakes”. Pogue says, In the end, the idea of a scheme to bilk millions of people by tiny amounts sounds preposterous, even silly. After all, wasn’t that the villain’s master plan in “Superman III”? Hasn’t he [...]
Max Lyons has created a 1 gigapixel digital photo of the Bryce Canyon. The exact dimensions of the image are 40,784 x 26,800 pixels–approximately 1.09 billions pixels! It was created by stitching 196 images together. It’s pretty impressive. I’d like to know what kind of rig he used to take the pictures. He doesn’t get [...]
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