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Liquidmetal iPhone 5 Concept
With the WWDC just around the corner, the rumor mill is starting its frenzy of wild guesses on what the iPhone 5 might have in store for us. One such rumor suggests that Apple will use Liquidmetal alloys in the upcoming iPhone, making it thinner, lighter and more resistant to impact damage.
Apple purchased worldwide exclusive rights to use Liquidmetal in April of last year, so this rumor is actually plausible. Read more 
Pinstagram combines Instagram & Pinterest
What would happen if two of the digital world’s hottest startups, Pinterest and Instagram, were mashed into one?
Pek Pongpaet and Brandon Leonardo, decided to combine two of the web’s hottest properties as a joke one weekend.
The duo realized a “Pinterest for Instagram” would be the most extreme example, and thus Pinstagram was born.
Helvetica Playing Cards
What happens when the world’s most famous typeface meets one of the world’s most cherished pastimes? Swiss-style awesome design is what. This graphic deck featuring the beloved font will win the hearts (and diamonds and clubs) of design aficionados. Read more
Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Read more
Rebuilding Spotlight’s Index on OS X
After using the Alfred App for sometime I found it not indexing and searching properly. Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.
Solution: rebuild the spotlight index. Downside: I turned it off. What’s going on behind the scenes is actually fairly trivial, and it’s possible to simply do everything via the command line in terminal. Read more
Twitpic founder launches Heello
Twitpic founder Noah Everett announces the launch of Heello today. His second web app project has been in the wings for exactly one year. Twitter has launched its own photo-sharing tool, offering a native version of a feature that until now was mostly the domain of third-party apps like Twitpic and yfrog. This move puts pressure on those third-party apps as a logical choice for photo-sharing that uses Twitter’s API.
I have mashed up an exclusive by Jolie O’Dell and a few of my first experiences with Heello after its unofficial launch day. Read more