When $300 million dollars is spent on advertisements involving Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates shopping for shoes, it makes me think, “What’s this got to do with Microsoft?” Well, Microsoft wants you to know that it’s more hip than Apple. The two things that make Jerry Seinfeld cool in this video: 1. He’s eating a churro. 2. He showers in ...

I’m super excited about next week’s contest. In the mean time, we’ve got some hot, fresh links for you to browse. Anything is better than being Kwame Kilpatrick. Where’d the radio go? More Apple secrets come out of the shadows What good is a cellphone going to do for a prisoner? Hot Topic fiends will love this light-up Transformers shirt ...

That smug bastard from Digg, Kevin Rose, has shed some light on Apple’s upcoming revision of iTunes, version 8: A new source comes forward w/this info: (this is consistent w/everything I’ve heard) What’s new in iTunes 8 iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends ...

Summer is done. Woe is us! You can’t wear white after Labor Day but at least you can still have your Afternoon Linkage. Real or fake?This is pricelessActually, this looks like Walnut Street right before 17th StreetI have to get one of these Stussy-edition Zippo lightersCommodore 65 is no jokeA pocket kiteThat is what I’d call a backpackStellar seatingGet it ...

Know those arrows in iTunes that appear when you select a song? Yeah, the ones that take you to the iTunes Music Store when you’re trying to change tracks. Kill Apple’s dirty little secret and use this tip from TUAW to get your arrows to redirect to your iTunes Library. Instead of making impulse purchases on DRM-ridden tracks, you’ll end ...

Bet that headline scared you a bit, eh? Now imagine you’re an Apple shareholder and you’re reading Bloomberg, one of the most respected financial journals in the world. Apple is lucky it didn’t lose a quarter of it’s value after Bloomberg ran an obituary for Steve Jobs by accident. The gaffe was reported on last night and although Bloomberg has ...

After that questionable business China pulled by blocking access to iTunes (due to a pro-Tibet album), their Great Firewall engineers discovered that they’re able to selectively block specific albums from users. That’s right, iTunes is now available in China…again.   COMING THIS SUMMER… CHINA: PART 2 Say bye-bye to pro-Tibet albums and anything not communist and say hello to a ...

We just can’t get enough of the goodies that keep showing up in the iPhone App Store. The latest rumored application is the iHologram by David O’Reilly. It creates a holographic-like effect on the iPhone by performing real time adjustments to the image based on rotation, similar to the fake beer app. Seems pretty cool, huh? You’ll be disappointed to ...

Today’s New York Times reports that many colleges are giving away free iPhones or the iPod Touch to their students. Apple hopes to hook new customers with the program and the schools involved hope to improve communications, test educational applications, and allow online research in class. Many professors are concerned that the devices will be a distraction.

Graffiti design company Krink has followed up their paint drip Incase laptop sleeve with a similarly-designed case for the iPhone 3G. Incase sold Krink’s laptop sleeve online, but for now this phone case is just a one-of-a-kind prototype. This case is pretty cool, even though it does set you up to be the punchline of some very dirty jokes. Hypebeast ...