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Apple held a private memorial on campus shortly after Steve Jobs passed away for their employees. Until tonight we could only read about what happened. But now Apple has posted the video from the memorial service online.

If you want to watch it, you can head over to the Apple website and watch the 80 minute long memorial there. We’re not sure how long the video will last online or if it was ever meant to make its way onto the
Internet, so if you want to watch it, we’d recommend you do it quickly.

You can watch it here.

Tonight, Walter Isaacson, author of the late Steve Jobs’ biography, was on 60 Minutes to talk about his experience interviewing Apple’s co-founder. For those of you who missed it, CBS has posted its two-part interview, which you can view below.

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Quicksilver is back from the dead and is now Lion friendly. Patrick Robertson, Rob McBroom, and Etienne Samson have teamed up to release ß61, a version that is both compatible with Lion and comes with 40 new additions, fixes, and changes. Quicksilver has also added auto-plugins that will update themselves when the application is running, which is pretty awesome.

Other patches include:

• Quicksilver is now 10.6+ (Snow Leopard and above) only
• Fixed the Trigger (null) bug where Objects were not saved to the Catalog
• Closing the command window in the Preferences>Triggers pane no longer causes sporadic behaviour
• Airport Module rewrite for Mac OS X 10.6+ (Snow Leopard and above)
• Current Selection and Finder Selection proxies now works with multiple files
• Bezel Interface displays on all Spaces
• Menu Interface fix for Mac OS X Lion
• Paste as Plain Text Action
• Added the ability for AppleScripts to use indirect (3rd pane) objects
• Renamed the ‘Paste with Clipboard’ Action to simply ‘Paste’
• New Current Document Proxy Object in the UI Access plugin

Get that new hard-drive you’ve been eye-balling as soon as possible because prices are on the rise. Seagate and Western Digital have both warned that flooding in Thailand has begun taking its toll on both companies’ factories, directly and indirectly, limiting their output capabilities.

According to analyst firm ISH iSupply, 25 percent of hard drives come from Thailand. Seagate has stated that they expect the shortage to last multi-quarters.

Timothy Leyden, Western Digital COO, said that “in addition to hard drive production stoppages, the flooding also impacted the company’s assembly test and slider facilities, as well as supply of components from other vendors, and is expected to constrain capacity for several quarters.”

Of course, the shortage will have an influence on more than just competent vendors. Companies such as Apple may have a hard time getting their hands on enough supply to roll out product updates in the future. Tim Cook mentioned on the financial call this week that Apple is anticipating shortages in the near future. Some people are already seeing pricing increases by 25–50 percent. If you’re in the market for a new hard drive, we would recommend that you run out and make a purchase soon. Prices will certainly be on the rise as supply begins to dry up.

Source: CRN

Apple’s been known to sneak functionality into applications by adding basic keyboard shortcuts like holding down the option key to provide alternative information. They’ve done it again in Launchpad. Instead of holding down the mouse button on an application to engage the ability to move or delete applications, all you have to do is press and hold the option key.

It may not save you a lot of time, but it’ll certainly come in handy when you need to delete something quickly and move on. Pushing and releasing the option key will toggle the delete and move functionality on and off again. Push and it’s on. Release and it’s off.

Note: Keep in mind that you can only delete applications that have been purchased in the Mac App Store from Launchpad

If you want to know how Walter Isaccson’s official biography of Steve Jobs reads, you can head on over to the New York Times website and read a review. The two page article focuses a little more on the book and how it reads, as opposed to spilling the beans with spoiler after spoiler.

An excerpt from the New York Times Review:

There are some spoilers, so if you’re in an absolute blog lockdown until the biography is released on Monday, you may want to steer clear. But all in all, the New York Times review reads like a review, not like an organization trying to cash in on page views by spilling the beans to everyone before the book is even released. We recommend giving it a read. It’s a nice preview of what’s in store for us on Monday.

Source: New York Times

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not that far, far away…lived a proud and peaceful Jelly Nation.
Jelly Nation is a land where red, blue, and red-blue Jellies live in harmony. They are being threatened by enemy monsters, so you have to help them survive in this game of defense strategy.

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The original Soul Calibur is about to get some iOS love “soon” according to Carlson Choi, VP of marketing at Namco Bandai. We’re not talking about the new fan dangled Soul Calibur games either; we’re talking about the original 1998 game that was eventually ported to the Dreamcast and then later made an appearance on the Xbox 360′s Xbox Live Marketplace in 2008.

There’s not much to say other than it’s coming “soon”, but as a fan of the original, I’m pretty excited to hear that it’s going to be getting some iOS love in the very near future. Hopefully the game gets a nice little graphics bump along the way.

Source: Joystick