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Fifty-two weeks of Angry Birds Toons are done and here comes the Best of Angry Birds Toons.
The first Best of Angry Birds Toons episode is “Pig’s Silly Inventions”.
Head over to Toons.tv or your favorite Angry Birds Apps on your favorite device to watch all episodes of Angry Birds Toons.
March 15, Ides of March, 2014.
I’ve got nothing better to do other than a breakfast meeting and appointment at Apple Store Genius Bar. My colleague and I took in a 27-inch iMac for diagnostic and repair. During the diagnostic the Genius who helped us swapped my colleague’s iPhone 5 which had a bad camera; out of warranty. It is nice to know that there are still Apple Store Genius who actually go out of their way to help customers. Well, most of the ones I dealt with in the past 6 months were pain to deal with.
By the way it is almost a Full Moon in the night sky.
From iCANN Announcement:
14 March 2014
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today launched a process to transition the role of the United States Government relating to the Internet’s unique identifiers system.ICANN’s announcement comes on the heels of an historic announcement today by the U.S. Government stating that it is ready to transfer its stewardship of the important Internet technical functions to the global Internet community. The U.S. Government’s current responsibilities to be transitioned include the procedural role of administering changes to the Domain Name System’s (DNS) to the authoritative root zone file – the database containing the lists of names and addresses of all top-level domains – as well as serving as the historic steward of the unique identifiers registries for Domain names, IP addresses, and protocol parameters.
In doing so, the U.S. recognized ICANN’s maturation in becoming an effective multistakeholder organization and requested that ICANN convene the global community to develop the transition process from of the U.S. stewardship to a global community consensus-driven mechanism.
ICANN contract with the US Government is due to expire in September 2015.
One request to whoever be in control of iCANN: Please keep the the Liberty of the Internet.
Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D17 to Developers. This would be the second OS X 10.9.3 seed.
Amazon has increased Prime Membership from $79 to $99 in the US. The price hike was attributed to increase in fuel and transportation cost. Amazon still offers 30-day Prime trial.
Amazon Prime includes:
iOS 7.1 now reminds users they have 15 minutes to make In-App Purchases without having to enter their passwords.
You can now make additional purchases in any app for the next 15 minutes without reentering your password. To change this, tap Settings and go to Restrictions.”
Earlier in January, 2014 Apple agrees to pay $32.5 Millions in refunds with regard to App Store In-App Purchase lawsuit.
Ookla Speedtest.net is now optimized for iPad. It offers an In-App Purchase to permanently remove the advertising; which I did purchase.
What’s New in Version 3.2.0
- Universal app supporting iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (which includes landscape mode)
- Speedometer now adjusts dynamically for high speed connections
- Improved server selection user interface
- Many performance optimizations and bug fixes
In case you don’t know it has one awesome easter egg.
(After a test, swipe down the speedometer. Each swipe will reveal the story.)