(Fast Company)
Turns out Apple doesn't play favorites: Celebrities have just as hard a time getting their hands on Cupertino's hot new devices as we plebes do. I can almost hear them crying into their diamond tumblers and fancy Italian sports cars.
(iPhone in Canada Blog)
Good news, Canadians! Siri can now report the time and the weather in the great white north. There's even a localized voice that ends every sentence in "eh?"
(Ars Technica)
How does a 1080p iTunes video file stack up against a Blu-ray disc? Pretty darn close, it turns out, at least to the untutored eye, though Blu-ray still comes out slightly on top. Really, though, the only sad part of this test is that they had to watch . Twice.
(YouTube)
records his dad using Mac OS X for the first time. Pretty impressive: By the end of the video, he's hacked into the Pentagon and diverted cash to his personal slush fund.
(New York Times)
Encyclopedia Britannica plans to stop producing its print version after 244 years. This is Wikipedia playing the long game, people--a paper version of the site will be on bookshelves just as soon as someone finishes printing it out.
- Adds RAW image compatibility to Aperture 3 and iPhoto '11 for a slew of cameras, including the Canon PowerShot G1 X, Nikon D4, some Panasonic Lumixes, the Samsung NX200, and the Alpha NEX-7 and NEX-VG20 from Sony. Free.