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New York Times Interviews Foxconn Employee
What’s it like to work at Foxconn’s hellish factories? The New York Times interviewed 24 Yuan Yandong, whom describes his technical ten hour nightshift as an assembler of hard drives.
“His task is to help complete 1,600 hard drives — his workshop’s daily quota — and to make sure every one is perfect. Seated in the middle of the assembly line in his black Foxconn sports shirt, cotton slacks and company-mandated white plastic slippers, he waits for the conveyor belt to deliver a partly assembled rectangular hard drive to his station. He places two plastic chips inside the drive’s casing, inserts a device that redirects light in the drive and then fastens four screws with an electric screwdriver before sending the drive down the line. He has exactly one minute to complete the multistep task.”
Geohot Already Working on iPhone 4 Exploit
George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot) confirmed during the “nuit du hack” meeting in Paris that he’s already working on an exploit for the iPhone 4. He said that he posted pictures of his jailbroken iPad way before Spirit released its tool, and now he’s working hard to release its exploit once the new iPhone is released.
How he believes the exploit is gonna work we don’t know, but in the meantime check out the (blurry) video of the meeting after the break.
iOS 4 Now Available For Download [UPDATE: Direct Links and Readme File]
Apple has finally released iOS 4, which is available as a software update in iTunes. The update is free for iPod Touch and iPhone users, but the compatible models are: iPhone 3G (no multitasking), iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and 2nd / 3rd generation iPod Touches.
iAd Applications Now Appearing on App Store
The Apple Store is finally getting some iAds love this morning in a few popular applications you might be familiar with. iLounge reports Avantar developed applications such as OneTap Movies and the Yellow Pages are gleaming with the shiny new banner, although there is one major caveat: iAds don’t officially launch until July 1st, and a test ad or empty banner act as current placeholders.
Could Multitouch Lead to Musculoskeletal Disorders?
If you read MacStories or any other Apple-related blog out there, I guess you’re all big fans of the multitouch technology. You know, that little patented thing that powers your iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macbooks. Gestures, that’s how we interact with our devices nowadays. And now a group of researchers of Arizona State University is telling us that our beloved multitouch might actually lead to musculoskeletal disorders.
Get More out of Delibar with the New Safari Extension
If you’re a heavy user of Delibar, they’ve just released a new Safari Extension that should improve your link sharing abilities ten fold. Have something great you want to share? Then download the new extension from Shiny Frog at their announcement page.
DestroyTwitter 2.0 Going Live Today
Update: Destroy Twitter 2.0 is now live. Check out the new features here.
We’re not hearing too much about Tweetie 2 for the Mac, and even other clients are getting stale as we venture forward in the Twitter verse. We also haven’t heard too much out of DestroyTwitter, but the master of DestroyToday (a quick warning, there is a disturbing image on his blog if you’re squeamish) and related projects is planning to release a big update today that should bring an improved preferences canvas, improved item rendering, and an overhauled account canvas.
DestroyTwitter is a solid Adobe Air client that should be released sometime later today, or as Jonnie Hallman puts it: “It’ll be released between now and 11:59pm EST.”
We’ll likely go hands on this evening and post a review tomorrow morning.
2000 iMac Compared to the iPhone 4
1o years in tech are a huge amount of time. Things change in a few weeks, can you imagine the changes that can happen in 10 years? That’s why a user over at Ars Technica’s forums tried to compare the old iMac (2000) to the current iPhone.
As you can guess, it’s a strange feeling. Take a look at the specs after the break.