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The Totally Obvious Title Of: iSettle

But you know who all be winners? Apple and Creative Labs, who claim to have come to an "amicable" $100 million settlement of Creative Labs' claims of patent infringement against the iPod's technique

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It's Gonna Bring You Down.... Huh!

Given lead singer W. Axl Rose's notorious, errr, let's call it "unreliability," when it comes to concert appearances, though, make sure you save your receipt. The site we found this info on cautions

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Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video

Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning

Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us!

Thanks for reading us, everyone, and thanks for voting for us too. We're thrilled to be in such august company as Taqueria Cancun and Green Apple Books (and Baker Beach, which has a

The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft

Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve

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Vloggercon 2006

Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon

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Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0

This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our

SFist Tech Labs: Hot Aluminum Roof

It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant

SFist Tech Labs: If You Can Dodge a Virus, You Can Dodge a Ball

In his FatBits blog on Ars Technica, John Siracusa gives his take on the new ads, one with which we agree. It's a good segue from the "Switch" campaign, no longer encouraging people

SFist Tech Labs: The Revolution Will Be Podcasted

The MacBook Pro has a new 17" model with a faster SuperDrive, an additional USB port, and the FireWire 800 port that's missing from the 15" version. So if you were holding off

SFist Tech Roundup: Drop and Give Me $2500!

For the record, we've now got our shiny new MacBook Pro dual-booting into OS X and Windows XP, and the process worked without a hitch. Once we bought another copy of XP, that

SFist Tech Roundup: Old Friends (and Old News)

Of course, it wouldn't be Apple without that sense of smug self-superiority, so we're glad to see the company got some digs in on the sidebar of its Boot Camp website: accusing Windows

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It's Chappelle's Show, We Just Live In It

Subject: Just overheard on the 6th bus heading downtown At 4th and Market, this average young white guy gets on all excited and calls his friend on his cell. He says, "oh my

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Green Apple Books at Tosca Tomorrow Night

That's right, Wednedsay at 7:30 it's Green Apple Books at Tosca (242 Columbus Avenue, as if you didn't know), with Harmon and Bucky celebrating the publication of Leon's book . Knowing these guys,

SFist Tech Roundup: In Brief

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Vista operating system won't be released until January of next year (link from CNet news.com). Office 2007 is also delayed to come out in tandem with

SFist Tech Labs: Deconstructing a Burgeoning Internet Phenomenon

Apple Fires Employee For Having a Sense of Humor Apple once again shows how it "thinks different" by firing one of its customer service representatives for doing just that! An employee was fired

SFist Tech Labs: Cat Piss & The Man

The story is from the Infinite Loop blog on Ars Technica, complete with dramatic clip art. The human rights violation in question concerns a Dutch MacBook Pro owner who'd posted a Flickr photoset

SFist Tech Labs: Talking Trash and Breaking Promises

Still, while we may be trash-talkers, we're not liars. A while ago, we swore that as soon as Apple released a Mac mini-based TiVo killer, we'd buy one. Luckily for us and our

SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine

Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the

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Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>!

Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away

SFist Tech Labs: Sometimes When We Touch

The rumor that started circulating last week is that Apple's new for-real-no-really-it's-happening-this-time-we-swear video iPod is going to have a larger (3.5-inch) screen that will incorporate a "virtual" click wheel on the screen

SFist Tech Labs: One Billion Bucks in Their Pocket

The reason why we're passing it along? For one thing, they're offering a full 4-year scholarship to a "world-renowned music school" (of Apple's choosing) in the grand prize-winner's name, which is a nice

SFist Tech Labs: Reading Too Much Into iWeb

In our mind, HyperCard was the Macintosh. More because of the philosophy behind it than because of its utility. It was included for free with every Mac. It built a strong user community

SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket

Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you

SFist Tech Labs: Speculate Different

What actually happened was a little less earth-shattering, more a confirmation of what had already been announced. Apple's big push was the release of the first two Intel-based Macs: the iMac and the