Swedish McDonald's ads use iPhone to play Pong, get coupons

McDonald's in Europe has been trying a pair of promos leaning on phone technology to lure customers to its stores. One in Stockholm, Pick 'n Play, lets those with at least iPhones control a game of Pong on a giant LCD billboard. The system goes app-free and just uses an optimized web page with HTML5-based location finding to only allow play from those physically close to the ad....

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Quickly get the contents of .webloc or .textClipping files

Here's is a very simple tip for working with .webloc and .textClipping files. Sometimes I drag some selected text to the desktop to create a clipping that I can forget about until later. When the selected text is an actual URL, the clipping becomes a .webloc file instead of a .textClipping file, of course.

I find that I want to quickly get either the contained URL of the .webloc file or the contents of the .textClipping back onto the Clipboard in a hurry. One quick way to do that is the same way I would get the text path of a normal file to my Clipboard. I just begin dragging the .webloc or .textClipping file to the upper right corner of the screen, and sometime before it gets there, I press Command+Spacebar to activate the Spotlight search field.

When I drag the file into the search field, I drop it in there while the cursor displays a green circle with a white plus sign. If it's a .webloc or a .textClipping, the search field instantly displays its contents, whic ...

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New iMac Best in Class

CNET makes the new 27-inch iMac an Editors? Choice (4/5 stars), writing that it ?offers the best performance among current all-in-ones, along with the largest display, the best design, and exciting potential from its Thunderbolt ports.? Citing iMac?s competitive performance and price, CNET concludes that ?for digital media professionals, or others in need of a fast, serious-minded all-in-one with a large display, we can make no other recommendation.?

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Adobe CEO downplays Flash, iOS feud, says Android tablets will dominate iPad

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Thursday that the argument between Apple and his company over the lack of Adobe Flash on iOS is over, while also predicting that tablets running Google's Android will eventually overtake the iPad.

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