The Buffalo Dualie takes two of the most ubiquitous items around — namely iPod and HDD docks — and does the inevitable by splicing them into one device. You should already be familiar with it from our CES coverage, but just to refresh your memory this is a dual-purpose docking station, accepting hard drives and iDevices of most colors and creeds. It comes bundled with a swish-looking 500GB storage drive, and we hear Buffalo is pretty cheerful about satisfying Apple’s stringent Read the full story

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I know it’s frustrating when your phone is borked, but telling an Apple Store staffer that you’re “so mad I could pop a 9mm at it”—before revealing you actually have areal 9mm concealed—probably won’t help matters.

But that’s what a man allegedly did yesterday at the Apple Store in Cincinnati’s Kenwood mall. According to reports, the man continued, “I’ll do it right now. Look!”, and opened the right side of his shirt to show a black 9mm handgun.

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Porn stars Sunny Leone and Aria Giovanni just got full Apple approval to distribute free apps via iTunes, mostly by promising not to show any naughty bits. There are pics, videos and some kind of blog, but it’s apparently all strictly PG-13. (Insert joke about something to do with your left hand while your right… oh nevermind.)

[PC World; iTunes link]

Pictures after break……….

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Apple may be redesigning its retail stores to include dedicated iPhone areas for activation and support, according to MacRumors.

The activation zones will reportedly be staffed by a new category of retail store employee called “iPhone Experts”, who will be denoted by unique name badges and t-shirts. With the move, Apple is clearly looking to streamline the iPhone purchasing experience for customers and provide a dedicated iPhone point of contact within the crowded retail store setting, particularly for new customers whose first experience with Apple products may be the iPhone.
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Forget Megan’s Law, those Apple Geniuses are pretty darn good at catching pedophiles. A Connecticut man was arrested after an Apple Genius found pictures of naked 10- to 13-year-old girls in “explicit” poses on his G5 desktop’s hard drive.

Ah, the irony that Raymond Miller went into his local Stamford Town Center Apple Store because he was having issues with image files on his computer. The Genius found the suggestive images and called on one of the police officers stationed in the mall. Miller was

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The good news is that there were plenty of Genius Bar employees around to inform the Atlanta Apple Store that its warranty was out of date.

[Gizmodo]

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