Love that iPhone look but hating the on-screen keyboard? Don’t worry, you’re not alone; Ruddy Ugarte was so fed up at smushing his fingers against the touchscreen and ending up with typo-filled emails that he came up with My Touch Keys, a transparent screen protector with cut-outs for the iPhone’s QWERTY keyboard.
Doesn’t “Cherry Hill” sound lovely? It will sound even sweeter for Cherry Hill, New Jersey-based Apple fans this weekend when a new Apple Store opens on Route 38, next to A|X Armani Exchange and Mo.Ao.C Cosmetics (that’s right, a Mac store next to a MAC store). The doors will open at 10:00 AM on Saturday, March 29th. You can get full travel directions here. This will be The Garden State’s 10th Apple Store.
Residents of Philadelphia will also benefit, as this store is about 5 miles away from town (for some reason, Philly itself still lacks an Apple Store).
As usual, we ask any TUAW readers who visit the store to share their stories and/or pictures.
Thanks, Rico!
Written by sixrevisions
If you’re a freelancer or a full-timer looking for additional income, there’s a variety of places you can go to seek for project-based work.
There’s a ton of websites geared specifically for freelance workers, such as All Freelance Directory and Guru.com. Many of these sites do, however, charge you a subscription fee to access their job listings.
Typically, a lot of work comes from referrals, advertising in your local area, or through your website.
But if projects are running thin or you’re seeking to expand your project search, check out these 5 places you might not have considered before.
There’s a ton of sites you can visit to find project-based work, but it’s not efficient to go to each of these places and wade through outdated job listings.
If you want a speedier way, try out Google Advanced Search. You can customize how your search terms are used, extend the number of results per page, and limit the publish dates.
Here’s a few examples you can try (limited to “this week” dates):
So you’re really desperate, right? No one’s going to your website or responding to your local paper ads. No better way to get people to buy your stuff than on eBay.
If sellers can find people willing to buy a Wizards & Dragons musical snow globe (it’s nice, I’m going to get one), there’s a good possibility that you can get some jobs from there.
Here’s some categories you may want to list in:
There’s a recent trend where top blogs are beginning to include a job listing section where readers can post and find jobs. It gives their audience - who probably have the same interests - a chance to meet and collaborate with other like-minded individuals.
Here’s a few job listing sections of some popular weblogs.
To help you find other blogs, here’s Technorati’s Top 100 blogs.
Yes, craigslist isn’t only for finding dirt-cheap furniture and late night hook-up’s (or searching for your soul mate); you can also find web projects listed in your local area, as well as other geographical locations. Since it’s web work, many seekers don’t mind if you work remotely.
Aside from craigslist, check out these other online classifieds:
If you’re a web worker, chances are, you encounter lots of websites everyday.
Almost instinctively, whenever I see a website that I think needs a bit of work, I automatically check out the page source and reach for some Firefox Web Developer extension options like “Display Div Order“, “View CSS” and “View JavaScript“, looking for traces of Frontpage mark-up, or silly JavaScript code that can be harmful to a website’s security.
If you find a website that you think will benefit from a re-design, or if you find flaws that need immediate attention, shoot the administrator a polite email about the issues you find, and include your proposed fixes.
Contact them in a professional way, and they may hire you to remedy the issue. At the very least, you can feel good about not letting a poorly-developed site go on without doing something about it.
And yes, I am aware of the lack of padding on the left side of Six Revisions which affects people with smaller screen resolutions… and I’m doing something about it real soon. So, please, do exclude it from your list of “websites that need work”, thank you much! 
What do you get when you combine 332 iPhones and 2 crooked Apple employees? Felony theft charges, apparently, after a luckless pair of underhanded but enterprising Apple Store workers decided to set up their own iPhone shop using purloined stock from Uncle Steve. Now one is in the slammer, and the other is facing extradition to New Hampshire (from Massachussetts, not from the French Riviera — too bad for him). This all goes to show, crime does not pay — especially when you get caught with $132,000 of hot iPhones.
There is no official word as to what color t-shirts the thieves wore in their day-to-day work, or whether either of them could be reasonably classified as Apple Geniuses.
What do you get when you combine 332 iPhones and 2 crooked Apple employees? Felony theft charges, apparently, after a luckless pair of underhanded but enterprising Apple Store workers decided to set up their own iPhone shop using purloined stock from Uncle Steve. Now one is in the slammer, and the other is facing extradition to New Hampshire (from Massachussetts, not from the French Riviera — too bad for him). This all goes to show, crime does not pay — especially when you get caught with $132,000 of hot iPhones.
There is no official word as to what color t-shirts the thieves wore in their day-to-day work, or whether either of them could be reasonably classified as Apple Geniuses.
ComputerWorld posts that ChangeWave Research has studied satisfaction levels for corporate users of Leopard and Windows Vista. As you might expect, the Leopard users are altogether more satisfied than Vista users — up to 5 times more likely to report that they’re “very satisfied” with their operating system — but you might not have known the following:
Okay, well maybe not. Consult the ComputerWorld article for the (far less amusing) statistical results. One worthwhile number to note: while 7% of respondents said they’d be buying Apple laptops in the next 90 days, a hold-steady from the previous survey, the likelihood of most other laptop purchases went down since the last time they asked. A MacBook Air effect?
ComputerWorld posts that ChangeWave Research has studied satisfaction levels for corporate users of Leopard and Windows Vista. As you might expect, the Leopard users are altogether more satisfied than Vista users — up to 5 times more likely to report that they’re “very satisfied” with their operating system — but you might not have known the following:
Okay, well maybe not. Consult the ComputerWorld article for the (far less amusing) statistical results. One worthwhile number to note: while 7% of respondents said they’d be buying Apple laptops in the next 90 days, a hold-steady from the previous survey, the likelihood of most other laptop purchases went down since the last time they asked. A MacBook Air effect?
Apple have today released an updated version of the iPhone SDK, the package necessary for developers to code sanctioned third-party applications for the cellphone (and its iPod Touch PMP counterpart). Beta 2 is primarily notable for adding Interface Builder, the drag’n’drop GUI development tool which allows, as its name suggests, coders to put together interfaces for their software. According to the SDK readme file, the rest of the changes are generally tweaks in response to known issues, although there are still outstanding problems Apple are yet to address.
It’s just a matter of time until somebody ram-raids an Apple Store, gets caught, and blames Steve Jobs for making products so alluring that they were morally obliged to steal them. Perhaps that should be the defence strategy for a couple of dastards in Salem, MA, who were caught by police after stealing 332 iPhones from the Rockingham Park Apple Store; they’ve apparently been swiping the coveted handsets since last year, and have taken $132,468 worth of stock in total.
Apple have today released an updated version of the iPhone SDK, the package necessary for developers to code sanctioned third-party applications for the cellphone (and its iPod Touch PMP counterpart). Beta 2 is primarily notable for adding Interface Builder, the drag’n’drop GUI development tool which allows, as its name suggests, coders to put together interfaces for their software. According to the SDK readme file, the rest of the changes are generally tweaks in response to known issues, although there are still outstanding problems Apple are yet to address.