30 Years of Apple’s History in Three Minutes

Apple Evolution – Visual History of Apple Products, from the Apple IIe, iMac to the iPhone

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Why you should never fall asleep in elmo’s cellar bar.

GTA IV Leaked Online, Piracy Wins Again

GTA IV, supposedly the biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment, has been leaked on the internet. If you’re one of the lucky ones with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go online with these before they’re supposed to. [Kotaku]

Worst Music Video Featuring iPhone Interface Has the Unfortunate Title of “Smell Yo D*ck”

After nearly a year, the iPhone has finally received its first [Questionably the first, but definitely the worst - Ed.] starring role in a music video. Unfortunately, the video is “Smell Yo Dick”, by sassy rapper Riskay. This is the ultimate manifestation of the downside to being mainstream accessible. What do you think Steve Jobs will say to himself when he watches this unbelievable song’s music video? Will he regret not only catering to Mactards? Will he resent the free advertising in this song? Will he start asking lazy Apple Engineers to get on the ball or smell his dick? Only Steve knows. The video, filled with NSFW language, below.

In the self-explanatory guide to detecting cheaters, the phone is featured in a variety of situations both good (a friend takes pictures of Riskay’s man with another woman) and evil (Riskay’s boyfriend declines her call). By the end, Riskay sends her man’s beloved JesusPhone flying off the balcony, but it’s the phone that gets the last laugh—it still works. [via Jezebel]

Flickr Video Launches – A Unique Experience

Flickr users can now add video clips alongside their photos, a much requested and much anticipated feature that has been promised for over a year.

The product is not a YouTube clone by any means. The Flickr team, led by Director of Product Management Kakul Srivastava, spent considerable time debating the feature set and user experience internally before launch.

The goal is not to have people upload long videos or clips of copyrighted material. To reinforce that, videos can be only 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size (however these limitations may be changed later, Srivastava says).

In a phone prebriefing, I was very critical of the length limitation. But the team then brought me in for a demo and I was sold. The short clips are a perfect compliment to event photos, in my opinion.

Videos are treated the same way as photos and are placed alongside those photos in albums and the main stream. Videos can also be tagged (and geotagged) in the same way as photos.

The video player itself is extremely clean, so videos look like photos on pages that include them. Videos can also be embedded, of course, as we’ve done above.

Another great feature is the ability to play the videos from the thumbnail screens as well as the permanent page for the video.

Flickr video also differentiates itself from YouTube by only allowing pro users upload videos (it costs $25/yr to be a pro user), although both free and pro users can view videos. As with photos, videos can be made public or private. They can also be shared/embedded individually or as part of sets. But like YouTube, Flickr is providing an API for programmers to create services that access videos hosted on Flickr.

Other standard Flickr features are also available for video, such as search by tags and descriptions, uploads directly from camera phones, and various licensing options.

With this launch, video sharing sites that have focused on privately shared videos should be worried. These include Motionbox, Viddyou, and Vimeo, among others.