New Manhattan Apple Store in Full View [Apple]
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/y2-f65MWxrk/new-manhattan-apple-store-in-full-view
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Netbook Hackintosh 10.6.2 Fix Coming In "A Few Weeks," Fallen Netbooks Can Be Revived Now [Hackintosh]
The (main) man behind the NetbookInstaller software, which takes care of enough of the under-the-hood tweaks to make netbook hackintoshing approachable, heard the plaintive cries of his flock, and handed down a decree from on high:
The kernel will be fixed. It'll just take a few weeks.
This certainty, combined with the flip-flopping Atom compatibility in earlier 10.6.2 builds, points to the breakage as an intentional choice, not just some incidental bug. Update: Actually, there's an interesting case to be made the 10.6.2 killed Atom in all builds of the update. Interesting. —Thanks, Eduardo!
Even better, for anyone who dove straight into the 10.6.2 update only to find themselves very suddenly without a working netbook, there's a quick fix: Downgrade your kernel! ! Using th e same instruction set you can do a partial (excluding the kernel) upgrade to 10.6.2, but you're probably just best off waiting until everything is patched up right and proper. [Meklort, MyDellMini]
Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine [Wolfram Alpha]
Wolfram Alpha will still live on as a standalone site, since Microsoft is just licensing their search API for Bing. And to be fair, this is what most people—including us—envisioned for Wolfram Alpha from the start:
I'm aware of the theoretical differences between the two, and I'm sure Wolfram Alpha's creators' blood would boil at the thought, but the engine's most natural home might be as a direct complement to Google, as a tab on their homepage or as a replacement for their modest current nonsearch functions.
Well, uh, almost. Maybe this'll be a good time to give Bing another shot? [CNET]
The Magic of Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Beautifully Visualized [Visualizations]
Designer Christian Swinehart has parsed piles upon piles of Choose Your Own Adventure titles, and rendered them as a series of visualizations, from charts documenting how frequent "catastrophic" endings occur as opposed to "favorable" ones to animated representations of every single permutation of a given book to a full-on digital copy of Zork, which tracks your every move on a visual graph.
Continue browsing the main site, because you have no sense of whimsy/had a horrifying childhood that you'd rather not be reminded of? Click here.
See your favorite childhood books, exploded into animated data sets? Click here. [via MetaFilter]
Apple App Store Approval Process Becomes Slightly Less Inscrutable [IPhone Apps]
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