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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.
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
5 Tips to Optimize & Speed Up Safari 5
I have recently noticed a slowing factor when it comes to using Safari 5. I decided to look for some hack solutions to see if I could improve the usability of Safari from the point of view, page load speed. After searching the web, I have found an article from sayzlim.net. Hopefully it will help you as much as it has helped me. Let begin… Read more
Apple to Release Mac OS X Lion Through App Store
Apple is taking the best thinking from iPad and bringing it all to the Mac with Mac OS X Lion, available in summer 2011. Apple will make the switch to a new kind of digital distribution for its operating system upgrades by releasing the software first through its new Mac App Store, AppleInsider has learned. Read more