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Don’t get me wrong. The new 5 megapixels sensor of the iPhone 4 is a vast improvement over other iPhone models, but it just doesn’t do the trick for taking some of the detailed, intricate photos some of us enjoy taking. Japanese stargazer Jurilog decided that instead of using a DSLR camera, he wanted to use the iPhone 4 to capture a detailed shot of the moon.

So Jurilog did what any true geek does when technical specs hold you back: He molded the specs to his liking. By attaching Borg’s Pencil Borg and a Vixen LV5mm eyepiece, the iPhone 4 was transformed into a camera capable of picking up every nook and cranny of the moon’s cratered surface. Check out the “moonshot” the phone captured after the jump.

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The BBC’s new Dimensions website uses the size of important places and events in modern and ancient history as well as science, and superimposes the dimensions over any location on planet Earth. Doing so provides some perspective on events and places that most of us (or all of us in some cases) will never get to see first-hand, much like the “If It Was My Home” project did with the BP oil spill.

Head over to BBC Dimensions to put your neighborhood in the middle of some of history’s most memorable moments. Not to mention a few goodies such as the relative size of your region to the moon (pictured above) and the International Space Station (after the jump).

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Updated. Earlier this month Apple opened doors to its newest and largest store in London’s Covent Garden. We thought it was time to give the 10-year-old retail phenomenon a new look. Apple’s retail store sales for their most recent quarter were $2.58 billion. Each store brings in an average of $35.9 million in sales, which continue to rise as visitors continue to stream in.

Update: The Missouri Apple Stores have been added. We apologize for the omission.

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Comb through the streets of Denden town, located in the Nipponbashi district of Osaka, Japan and you might come across something that makes your heart-writhe and your head sing. Super Potato is a gaming and game collectible superstore located in the shopping district of Osaka, and the images I’ve posted speak for themselves.

While it’s square-footage is meager, the contents overflow from the storefront and the treasures inside are among the things you might only get to see once in a lifetime. There are games in this store which sell for around $3000. That’s the rarity we’re talking about with some of these items. So as long as you can keep your wallet on lockdown, you’ll be relatively safe. Hit the jump for more amazing photos.

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While it took several months to obtain the rarer minifigs he needed to create the LEGO Star Wars Space Invaders plaque that now hangs on his wall, Chris McVeigh aka Powerpig finally finished his awesome mash-up creation. Mixing retro gaming with classic sci-fi action, the Star Wars Space Invaders combo smooshes together everything I love about being a geek.

I really love the small touches, like the two rebellion gunners in the lower left corner, posing as the “extra lives.” Besides this project, Powerbig has a wide collection of awesome LEGO and geek photography over on his Flickr. Highly recommended.

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El Ampersand de Möbius: Es un signo et y a la vez una superficie de una sola cara y un solo borde, una banda de Möbius. (Vía Proof).

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Grove Made, una empresa d’EEUU, ha dissenyat aquestes fundes de bambú per l’iPhone 4. Crec que sobren els comentaris. La presentació, el gravat, els acabats, la facilitat d’us… L’Únic dolent, el preu, entre $69 i $89. La part bona, que és pot personalitzar la il·lustració del dors, triar el color del bambú…

Salut i ecologia!

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In the Mesozoic era of social networking — that distant year of 2007 — a new community was poised to take over the web, replacing the aging and visually painful MySpace species. Virb allowed users, who joined by invitation only, to craft and customize extremely elegant and sophisticated personal profiles with all the accoutrements of online social behavior. Photos, videos, messages, etc. MySpace died a natural death. Virb, however, was crushed by the imminent rise of Facebook with a nail in the coffin courtesy of Twitter. Acknowledging that they couldn't compete with Facebook, Virb is re-emerging not as a social tool but as a website-building tool, harnessing the effectiveness of its personalization tools so that photographers can put up a decent portfolio or bands a decent promotional site. The new service also benefits from hosting company Media Temple being the parent company of Virb since 2008. While most companies who didn't succeed at first would be compelled to change names and launch under a different personality, Virb is betting that its name, in good-standing condition with the web world, can handle the complete switch of service and business model.

Our challenge was redesigning a brand already established with a face and reputation as a social network. Virb's direction and mission — to build elegant and easy websites — led us to develop an identity that is simple and strong, keeping longevity in mind. Brands need to be extensible — to grow and be shaped aesthetically in different formats and presentations, but also to retain flexibility in how they are used when delivering a message, purpose or idea.
— Naz Hamid, Principal of Weightshift, on Virb's blog

The old logo was a perfectly acceptable wordmark and could have probably been used in the new Virb, but an effective identity redesign always helps to signal change and that's exactly what this one, by San Francisco-based Weightshift, does. The visual change is pretty obvious: from extended chunkiness to condensed spryness. I'm not sure what the dot of the old one meant, but that has been replaced by a vibrant blue plus sign that adds a nice playful element to the logo, and signifies that Virb + You can make sweet design music together. I like the new logo quite a bit, that specific set of characters looks nice condensed and I like the "dirty" joints, makes it a little imperfect. The "V" on its own looks slightly flimsy and fragile, but I like how it keeps the position of the plus sign from where the "I" would and transforms it into a modifier of sorts. Overall, a nice rebrand, but the new market Virb is entering is already flooded with options, hopefully they can thrive and survive this time around.

Thanks to Russel Quadros for first tip.

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Impressionants les cues (o_O) ja veuràs quan obrin la Apple Store oficial

Ahir a mitjanit l’exterior de la botiga d’Orange del Passeig de Gràcia oferia l’aspecte que veieu en el vídeo.

Expectació i alegria entre els que en aconseguien el nou model d’iPhone, seguiment a Twitter en directe i, durant una bona estona, webs caigudes o lentes de les operadores que el venen a casa nostra: Orange, Vodafone i Movistar.

Les trucades al números d’informació comercial de les 3 companyies donen poca o gens informació i molts operadors no saben res del nou aparell.

Mentre Orange va optar per obrir ahir a mitjanit, Vodafone i Movistar els ofereixen en botigues des d’aquest matí, però no es fàcil trobar quins són els punts de venda exactes (enllaçat el cercador de Vodafone. A Movistar no l’hem trobat i Orange està caiguda)

A Twitter podeu seguir comentaris d’usuaris que estan trucant als números d’informació:

Als altres indrets del món, on també es va posar l’iPhone4 a la venda, va existir un cert caos: A Nova Zelanda Vodafone ha estat fortament criticada per manca d’informació fins a darrera hora, i el blog de parla francesa Marc4Ever parla de problemes d’estoc i activacions a França, Suïssa i Canadà.

Aquí teniu unes quantes fotos de la botiga d’Orange al Passeig de Gràcia a Barcelona ahir al vespre, que conjuntament amb el vídeo, són cortesia d’en David Santmartín d’Appleweblog. (Gràcies mossegui!)

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I can’t speak for all babies, but thanks to the blog “Mila’s Daydreams” I can speak for THIS baby. Mila’s momma, Adele, uses her creative blog as her “maternity leave hobby.” Each post is a photograph of a sleeping Mila posed in such a way as to emulate her dreams. Thankfully not Adele’s dreams for her little girl.

“While my baby is taking her nap, I create scene around her and take quick snap photos. I use only few minutes per picture, including creating idea, implementation and editing, ’cause I don’t want to disturb her sleeping and most of my time is for my family.”

Hit the jump for a few of our favorites. Check out Adele’s blog for more.

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TUAWSitting for a portrait with FaceTime on iPhone 4 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

If you like your movies and television shows in color, you owe such modern-day pleasures to Technicolor, the company that created the eponymous color film processes in the early 1920s and gave movies like The Wizard of Oz the ability to show a yellow brick road, where before there would have only been a gray one. Long associated with Hollywood, the name/term/idea of Technicolor went from having the kind of service-specific equity that Google now has in search engines or Kleenex in facial tissues; this past decade however, Technicolor seemed to have gone astray. It was bought by French tech company Thomson in 2001 and the Technicolor name became a simple subsidiary. In a 180-degree-turn-of-events, this past January, Thomson announced that it would change its corporate name to Technicolor and give it back the consumer-facing reign. Today, Technicolor is a machine of technological proportions, providing services in animation, digital effects, production, post-production, and more. Both Thomson and Technicolor have adopted a new logo, designed by Technicolor's Marketing Branding team with advertising agency Gyro:HSR.

The new logo symbolizes a departure from our old heritage to a new dynamic platform that celebrates all of our employees' genius and contributions. It symbolizes how we change people's lives throughout the world with innovative products and services. The new logo reflects the importance of dimension, the entire color spectrum, and key elements of light, movement and sound in a dynamic and balanced composition.
— Press Release after winning "best new logo award by the Business Marketing Association (BMA) of New York City"

For some reason I associated the old logo more with NBC than with Technicolor, as the film reel reminded me of the peacock. But I digress. The new logo is interesting, I don't think it's necessarily great or innovative, but there is an interesting tension to it from the "hanging" strips of color, like paint waiting to spill over. For Fourcolorphobics, this logo is a nightmare, as it only works in full color — a single color version with shades of gray probably looks dumb. From the image above, it looks like there is some rationalization that has to do with "stages," but I wasn't able to find anything on it, so decipher as you will.

The typography is inconspicuous, it doesn't attract too much attention and it doesn't detract, so all things considered, it's fairly good. Most importantly, the new logo allows the company to stand for all kinds of technologies, not just film, which the old logo pigeonholed it into.

Thanks to Jeremy Herlakian for first tip.