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A visit to NORAD’s Santa-tracking facility (video)
Author: Angela Stephens
Couple of things in this globe will declare your holiday spirit much faster than viewing a lots around uniformed service individuals cover a room in Christmas wrapping. Additionally on that list, it so takes place, is identifying one of the previously mentioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and visibly plump squirrel who’s anxiously scratching on the door to get in. It’s an oddly Snow White-esque moment that unfolds mins after we established our gear in the conference room of the Leadership Development Center– a dull, unassuming workplace area in the middle of Colorado Springs’ Peterson Air Force Base that works as a training facility for 11 months from the year. But now, in very early December, there’s a change happening, as guys and women in numerous shades of camouflage paper the space with Christmas spirit in record time.
For one month a year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) transforms this location into holiday main for NORAD’s Santa Tracker, a half-century-old program that has come to be a thing of legend– a curious juxtaposition of warfare preparedness and storybook magic. It’s one that, in some way fittingly, is rooted in a mistake– a telephone number misprinted in a 1955 Sears catalog, prompting neighborhood youngsters to call Santa’s “private number.” Those phone calls from excited boys and ladies were transmitted, the legend goes, to the huge red phone in the war space of NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), where quick-thinking Col. Harry Shoup asked his troops to play along. Now, 57 years later on, it’s a large task, as volunteers in military garb and Santa hats respond to phone calls from kids in hundreds of countries.
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Ooma Linx extender makes a visit to the FCC, lets phones go the extra DECT distance
Author: Antonio Pierce
For a VoIP phone business, Ooma has been unusually peaceful since it showed us the HD2 phone at CES this January. Fortunately, an FCC filing found by Dave Zatz has let slip that the business is getting chattier in the near future. As the helpfully delivered hand-operated informs us, a forthcoming Linx adapter will let a typical phone talk to a Telo base station over DECT. The objective is to let Ye Olde Wired Phone in the cellar join the 21st century without having to move the Telo or typically hop through hoops– it’ll also deliver your fax machine onboard, if you’re still hanging on to 1994. We just can’t glean from the clearance merely when the Linx will certainly be ready to shake the dust from our old phones, but with all the documents seemingly in order, the delay isn’t really going to be too long prior to that landline mobile enters the contemporary world.
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A Visit To The Pre-WWDC Mountain Lion Rumor Mill
Author: James Cliff
Rounding up Mountain Lion rumors is actually quite simple. After all, the OS update has been floating around the developer boards for a while now and while there is no Gold Master available, many of the upcoming features are already detailed and fully baked.
Mountain Lion, in short, is Apple’s move to add iOS functionality to the laptop and desktop. A convergence of best-of-breed mobile techniques – notifications, do-not-disturb systems, and signed software – and a strong back end, the new OS aims to scratch a few itches rather than change the way we work in a wholesale manner.
Mountain Lion is an iterative update. Folks looking for touchscreen laptops and other weirdness are probably going to have to wait. However, we do know quite a bit and it’s definitely an update that will make your Mac run a little better and your work a little more efficient. Here are the rumors we’ve heard about Mountain Lion. If you want a bit of insight into what Mountain Lion will do to your computer right now, check this out while you can read MG’s review here.
- Touchscreen Macs are coming soon
- The app will have a 3D mode
Argument:
- Tim Cook has discussed touchscreens before but he hasn’t mentioned anything recently.
- Mountain Lion supports “pull down” notifications and Launchpad is obviously designed for on click app launches.
- It makes sense – a Retina MacBook would allow for much more data and nearly photo-realistic icons and apps. It’s calling out for a little touch and go.
Objection:
- There’s been nothing in the developer talk that has pointed to a touchscreen device on the OS X side at all.
Judgment: Nah. Isn’t going to happen… unless Apple is so wildly devious that they have hidden the features before the launch of new hardware. It’s hard to believe this is the case, but stranger things have happened.
iPhone/iMessage Cross-Compatibility
Rumor:
- iMessage is beta at best, but with a few improvements, it can become a central repository for all your text messages
- Folks have been complaining that they can’t get text messages sent to their iPhones on their desktops.
Argument:
- This is definitely a feature worth adding.
Objection:
- Popular opinion never sways Apple developers.
- Apple could run into carrier limitations on what traffic they’re allowed to carry and send elsewhere.
- A quick search finds even developers frustrated with the lack of this feature.
Judgment: Not good. Although iMessage is buggy at best right now, expect improvements, not overhauls.
Mountain Lion won’t work on old hardware
Rumor:
- If you’re running old Mac Pros or iMacs, you’re sunk: support for pre-2007 hardware is iffy at best.
Argument:
- According to TUAW, Mountain Lion will run on these Macs:
iMac (mid 2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009) - This disqualifies a huge swath of Macs including:
Late 2006 iMacs (iMac5,1, iMac5,2, iMac6,1)
All plastic MacBooks that pre-date the aluminum unibody redesign (MacBook2,1, MacBook3,1, MacBook4,1)
MacBook Pros released prior to June 2007 (MacBookPro2,1, MacBookPro2,2)
The original MacBook Air (MacBookAir1,1)
The Mid-2007 Mac mini (Macmini2,1)
The original Mac Pro and its 8-core 2007 refresh (MacPro1,1, MacPro2,1)
Late 2006 and Early 2008 Xserves (Xserve1,1, Xserve2,1)
Objection:
- My only objection would be that this directly affects my workspace as my MacPro1,1 is going to get the axe.
Judgment: Sad but true. I tested an install on my Mac Pro and it wasn’t supported. The trick is the EFI – old machines have a 32-bit EFI while newer models support 64 bits.
Getting rid of the drive ejection message
Rumor:
- They’ll finally fix that darn message.
Argument:
- No real argument for or against, but wouldn’t it be nice?
Objection:
- Well, OS X uses a write cache to store data that’s about to be written to a memory card or drive and unless OS X fundamentally changes the way it handles interstitial updating, don’t bet on it.
Judgment: Yeah, right.
We’re keeping you up to date on everything you should expect from the all-but-announced features to wishlist items. Check out Matt’s rumor round-up on Apple’s Notebook announcements, as well as a forthcoming post on possible OS X features to look forward to. WWDC 2012 is set to be the biggest developer’s conference yet.
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Visit ‘Print Fiction,’ a digital art exhibition for the web
Author: Buck Howard
Graphic designer and artist Michael Alfred Seibert has opened Print Fiction, a temporary exhibition of digital art from a number of well-known artists. Rather than renting a physical space for the exhibition, Seibert used the free game engine Unity to create a virtual gallery floating in 3D space. Print Fiction features work from 17 artists, including Seibert himself, across eight inter-connected “rooms.” Art included in the gallery ranges from flat images to 3D sculpture, and some exhibits include sound. Through creating a virtual gallery, Seibert facilitates the juxtaposition of the separate pieces, as you would find in a traditional art gallery, rather than viewing each as single images on a webpage.
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President Obama test drives a Sphero on Boulder visit
Author: Angela Chin
President Obama was in the Centennial State last night, hyping up an enthusiastic crowd at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Coors Events Center. Of course, he couldn’t help but take some time to check out some some of the local innovation. The President took a few moments out of his busy schedule to play around with the smartphone-controlled Sphero RC ball, declaring “how cool is that,” before demanding that the crowd, “give me some space to drive my ball.” He also tossed out some superlatives like “terrific,” after nearly driving it into a woman’s flip-flop. Now that’s a solid endorsement, if ever we’ve heard one. In all, it didn’t last long — the guy’s got a country to run, after all.
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Rdio inks deal to license UK music, but doesn’t offer up a visit date
Author: Jenny Zhao
One of those other music subscription services has inched towards British shores, announcing a licensing deal with PRS for Music, a not-for-profit organization representing around 85,000 songwriters and music publishers. The San Francisco-made music service has already launched across Europe, the US and Brazil, but still remains out of reach for Brits. While it’s far from a confirmation of intent, the service might have plans to jump across to the land of royalty, Rich Tea biscuits and RPattz pretty soon.
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Rdio inks deal to license UK music, but doesn’t offer up a visit date
Author: Troy Sorbo
One of those other music subscription services has inched towards British shores, announcing a licensing deal with PRS for Music, a not-for-profit organization representing around 85,000 songwriters and music publishers. The San Francisco-made music service has already launched across Europe, the US and Brazil, but still remains out of reach for Brits. While it’s far from a confirmation of intent, the service might have plans to jump across to the land of royalty, Rich Tea biscuits and RPattz pretty soon.
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Where Not To Visit: The US Guide To Dry Counties
Author: Melissa Shroeder
This is a US map depicting alcohol regulations by county. Some might argue it’s the most important map of America since Google Street View, and those people would be 100% correct.
When prohibition lifted almost eighty years ago, many communities (particularly in the Bible Belt) voted to keep alcohol bans in place at the local level. Today, there are still more than 200 “dry” counties nationwide with what most would consider excessively stringent liquor laws. There are even more that remain partially dry (or “moist,” to those familiar with the particulars of prohibition legislation).
Also, apparently it’s incredibly difficult to gather data in Mississippi. “That’s Georgia.” Oh — right. Who knows, maybe they built a giant fence around the state to keep Alabama out. And can you blame them? No. I lived in Alabama for ten years, I get it.
These are the places in America where alcohol is still banned [io9]
Thanks to Arkim, who agrees the best kind of county is a wet one. SOAKING.
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Google+ trending down? Data suggests users only visit the site three times a month
Author: Katie Scott
Despite a rapid product update pace and some pretty famous users, it sounds like Google+ is having a hard time keeping its users engaged. According to data from research firm comScore, Google+ visitors spent an average of three minutes per month on the site between September 2011 and January 2012. However, visitors to Facebook spent six to seven hours each month using the much larger social network. While that sounds like a remarkably wide gulf, some data we obtained from web measurement firm Compete corroborates comScore’s findings — according to Compete, Google+ visitors went to the site less than three times a month and spent about three and a half minutes per visit (on average from July 2011 through January 2012). Facebook…
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Hello Kitty pays a visit to CES 2012: If you want it, we got it in pink
Author: Laura Clark
An electronics show wouldn’t be an electronics show without celebrity endorsements. But there was one icon who had more product tie-ins than anyone else. Yep, Kitty-chan was in attendance and she had plenty of pink paraphernalia to hawk to unsuspecting fans of all things kawaii. We’ve collated together all the gear spotted at CES and fortunately, there was more than just a few phone cases and laptop bags. Merchandise spotted includes Kitty-themed karaoke machines, alarm clocks with mounted laser cannons projectors, cordless phones and more. A brief video tour of some of our favorite surprises is coming soon, but until then, enjoy all that the super-deformed cat had to offer in our gallery below.
Gallery: Hello Kitty at CES 2012
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