September 21st, 2012Top Story This Week's Most Popular Posts: September 15th to 21st This week we upgraded to iOS 6, modernized our retro gadgets, automated all of our downloads, found the best domain name registrars, and more Here's a look back. Everything You Need to Know About iOS 6 iOS 6 is out and ready for download. Here's everything you need to know, from how to update your device(s) to getting started with Apple's latest OS upgrade. More » Cover Your Desktop in Metal with These Wallpapers Simple materials make for attractive hardware, so why not apply those same simple materials to our software? Here are ten great metal-based wallpapers for a simple, distraction-less desktop. More » Top 10 Ways to Modernize Your Old, Retro Gadgets No gadget lasts forever, but that doesn't mean you can't turn it into something else and give your new tech an old school feel. Here are 10 awesome projects for bringing your old, retro gadgets into the future. More » How to Automatically Download Virtually Anything as Soon as It's Available The internet really does have everything, and it's all available for download without lifting a finger. A series of helpful scripts, all installable in a few minutes, can transform your computer into an automatic media downloading machine. More » Five Best Domain Name Registrars We've discussed the best web hosting companies, but if you have a brilliant idea for a web site, you'll also need a domain name to go with it. So when it's time to register that domain name, which domain name registrar do you choose? More » Vertical Storage, Save Shortcuts, and Washing Dishes Readers offer their best tips for storing tea in the office, keeping yourself from saving over your work, and keeping your dishes clean. More » Things I've Quit Doing at My Desk We do all sorts of things at our desks that aren't real work, or affect our ability to produce our best work. We need to start thinking of our desks as workstations. More » Get Paid to Ditch Your Carrier and Buy an iPhone 5 Want an iPhone 5? Willing to leave your carrier? The Apple stock blog Bullish Cross found out that ditching AT&T, paying the early termination fee, selling their old iPhone, and getting a new one from Verizon effectively paid them $173.82. More » You Can't Be Effective When You're Too Smart for Your Own Good Congratulations, smartypants, you've got the highest IQ in the room—too bad it'll make you a pain to work with. If you are one of these people, here is the trick: You can either be smart, or you can be effective. More » The Most (and Least) Common PIN Numbers and Numeric Passwords. Is Yours One of Them? Tech consultancy company DataGenetics has analyzed the popularity of numeric passwords. What they found confirms previous research that most of our four-digit PINs (e.g., for credit and debit cards) are way too predictable. More » Why Spotify and Rdio Aren't Ready to Replace Your Music Library Ever since Spotify and Rdio landed on the scene, people have been lauding them as the future of music-that MP3s are a thing of the past, and a premium streaming account is all you need to get your music fix. More » How to Make Yourself Luckier Like it or not, we're all a little superstitious. It's not necessarily a bad thing-research shows that leaving things to chance and luck can enhance performance, increase productivity, and reduce stress. More » Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony No matter what kind of phone you use, a lot of us are pretty dependent on Google for organizing our lives. Luckily, you can actually get Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Voice, and other services working great with iOS-it just takes a little bit of setup. More »

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September 21st, 2012Top Story The iPhone 5 Is Here: First Impressions (Updating Live) By Sam Biddle Click to view We've got our delicate fingers on the iPhone 5, and we'll be sharing our thoughts, joys, and concerns about Apple's newest wonderphone all day. Let's get started. How it looks This is the best looking phone Apple's ever made—the black model, at least.. In a sense, yes, it's an elongated iPhone 4S. But it's distinct enough to still plant a wow response in you and all the peers you want to impress. The matte aluminum rear panel is a terrific addition, looking far better in person than it ever did it any leak or keynote presentation. It feels wonderful, and should help stop the notoriously shatter-prone phone from being so... shattery. It's another small, cosmetic touch, but the matte siding and accompanying dark buttons are a nice switch-up from the brighter metal bracket around the 4 and 4S. The wider, more prominent speaker holes at the phone's bottom aren't exactly graceful. The matte back doesn't smudge much at all when fondled, but the screen does as much as ever. How it feels Light. Impressively light. The 5's featherweight status might be the most initially impressive thing about it, even beyond new looks—it's just shy of feeling like it's not real. Dangerously close to that, even. Any lighter and this thing would handle like a toy. Light. So light. The 4-inch screen doesn't feel like any sort of ergonomic burden. At all. Reaching to the top of the screen to swipe with your thumb is totally fine. The iPhone 5 is—and this is probably the most important thing you can say about its design—a one-handed phone. That's a great thing. If going dual-thumb is your bag, that's totally fine too, but everything is entirely speedy and capable with the phone in your palm. Vibration feels the exact same. How it works AT&T LTE speeds in New York are fantastic—I was able to download dozens of apps simultaneously without the phone batting an eye. Apps, both Apple native and 3rd party, load appreciably faster, but the new processor isn't yielding anything killer so far. It's certainly not instant. But the difference is there. Apps that haven't been optimized for the new, larger, higher-res display feel cheap. When an app you've been using for possibly a year (or more!) suddenly doesn't fill up the whole screen, it's a bit jarring. Even with no functional difference, it's frustrating to see black bars on a fancy smartphone screen you've just paid extra money for. This is probably the most aggravating thing about the phone's design so far. Most popular apps will be fixed eventually, but old favorites that aren't developed anymore will be stuck in letterboxed purgatory. Camera shutter is definitely faster, but again, the camera app doesn't open instantly. That would have been nice. Still, you can hammer off shots pretty much as fast as you can press the button, with virtually no delay. No appreciable difference in built-in speaker quality or volume. iMessages fly out almost instantly. Thanks, LTE! The screen doesn't look any better than usual in terms of color, contrast, and the like. Just taller. Lightning connector Accessory headaches aside, the new cable is nice. And it truly is tiny. The connector slides in with just the right amount of effort, and the fact that there's no "upside-down" is just good design. Other than that, it's the same old syncing deal as the last cable. It does, however, lack the satisfying click of the old 30 pin connector. But why, why, why couldn't this have been Thunderbolt or USB 3? Apple Maps (Dun Dun DUNNNNN) Yes, it's not as good as Google Maps. That said, we used it (and its turn-by-turn directions) to get from a backwater AT&T store to NYC without any problems whatsoever. And thanks to LTE, the whole route loaded in a snap. Update, Headphone jack on the bottom Part of this is personal preference. But I've found the new headphone jack position is a little annoying. If you pocket the thing cord-up, you can't easily slip it up and, say, adjust the volume. The headphone cord might also interfere with your finger movements a little, unless you choke up higher on the phone. Update, App launch speed: Some apps actually do launch instantaneously. It'll vary from app to app, of course. Update, Panorama mode: It's fast and pretty much flawless. Navigating the pics is fun on the wider screen. Update:, where are the widescreen video apps? I'd love to tell you how good videos look on the widescreen iPhone, but neither Vimeo nor YouTube are optimized yet. C'mon, guys. This letterboxing is a drag. Update, 3D maps: Apple Maps' largely useless 3D terrain feature is much, much smoother on the iPhone 5. Loading the actually imagery is still sluggish, however. Update, EarPods: Yeah, like we said, these are junk. Don't use them. They fit slightly better than the last iteration, but are just as worthless. Update, screen quality: We put the iPhone 5 side by side with an HTC One X—perhaps the best smartphone screen we've ever laid eyeballs on—and it was virtually indistinguishable. The iPhone's display is sharper, of course, owing to its smaller size. Update, call quality: iPhone 5 call quality is improved over the iPhone 4S on GSM and CDMA networks. Just like last year, the CDMA tends to have softer, fuller sounding call audio, while the GSM network is less clearer, but also a bit harsher on the ears. The AT&T iPhone 5 generally sounded better than the Verizon one to people on the other end of the line, and both were markedly improved over the 4S. The one strange thing we encountered during testing is that the Sprint iPhone 4S we tested these phones against still had better noise cancelling. All three more or less performed fine, but understanding what people were saying was easiest on the 4S.

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		Tech Science Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Law International Video Latest Retail Friday, September 21, 2012 Advertisement U.S. markets opened positively, but slowly sold off. First the scoreboard: Dow: 13,579, -17.4, -0.1% S&P 500: 1,460, -0.1, -0.0% NASDAQ: 3,179, +4.0, +0.1% And now the top stories: There was no major economic data, earnings announcements, or major corporate actions to report today. Legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio gave a rare interview to CNBC today.  Among other things, he said that he thought the Federal Reserve's new unlimited quantitative easing policy was a "reasonable plan."  He also warns that should China's growth rate slow to 5 percent, that would be a major problem.  "The fact that they can have 6% growth and think that's depressing and we can have 2% growth and think that that's pretty good is a reflection of the difference in our competitiveness," he said. Dalio also warned about ongoing social tensions and pointed to how Hitler rose to power: "When people—get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the left and the right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown,that becomes very threatening. And for example, Hitler came to power in 1933, which was the depth of the Great Depression because of the social tension between the factions. So I think it very much is dependent on how the people work this through together and worry about the social elements." A Member Of The Federal Reserve Has Delivered A Monster Slam On The Direction Of Fed Policy > In an interesting note to clients today, Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips noted that should we go off the "fiscal cliff," the rich and the poor would get hit hardest by the expiring tax cuts and spending plans. These 44 Companies That Could Get Crushed If The Government Cuts Spending > According to a new report, S&P sees U.S. GDP growth decelerating in the second half of 2012.  They also see a 20 to 25 percent chance of another recession. Apple began selling it's new iPhone 5 today, and people were lining up.  Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster estimates that lines were up 83 percent year-over-year.  See The iPhone 5 Unboxed > Don't Miss: The 19 Best Economists On Wall Street > BI Intelligence, a new subscription research service from Business Insider, provides in-depth insight, data, and analysis of the mobile industry. Access all reports, research updates, presentations, data and chart libraries plus much more with your free trial. Click here to start your subscription>> Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Money Game RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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