[Swordmaker]

Looks like a standard Rolodex system to me. . . And obvious as all heck. The going back in time is also taken from old time movie calendar marching backward through time to a specific month or year. . . Prior art.

[Swordmaker]

Apple loses Cover Flow and Time Machine interface patent suit ... PING!

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Apple loses patent suit Ping!

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[SamAdams76]

I recently bought a new car and it has a USB port for an iPod. As soon as I plugged in my iPod, the menu showed up on the screen on my car radio and I was able to navigate my playlists and other music right from the dashboard!

So I loaded up one of my older iPods with 120GB of music and have it permanently stored in the car - I might never need to use the CD player again!

Also, because the iPod is hardwired into the stereo system, the sound is exceptional. Far superior to the wireless FM transmitter solution I had earlier where you had to tune the FM station to something like 88.3MHz and deal with static all the time.

[IncPen]

David Gerlertner holds the unhappy distinction of having been targeted by the unabomber

In 1993, Gelernter was critically injured opening a mailbomb sent by Theodore Kaczynski, who at that time was an unidentified but violent opponent of technology, dubbed by the press as "the Unabomber". He recovered from his injuries but his right hand and eye were permanently damaged. He chronicled the ordeal in his 1997 book Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber.

[antiRepublicrat]

It’s also a completely different purpose. This organizes your life, your current documents by time, kind of like an individual window version of simply clicking the top of the Time column in Windows Explorer. Time Machine is a backup and restore utility that organizes by time.

[Swordmaker]

The level of award has been revealed and is in a FR article over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2601371/posts

[kmiller1k]

I hate Cover Flow==what does it do?? it just gets me frustrated and I have to shake the iPhone back to portrait so I can use the iPod toggles