Tuesday Tasting: Strippers, OSX and STDs
Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.
Mac Creates Best Platform For Porn
Despite the disparities over the new OSX version, many seem to agree that it's the best UI for viewing porn. A new comic from the Joy of Tech outlines the ins and outs of getting the most out of your Mac. From using Quick Look to glance at desktop cuties or Time Machine to find those deleted photos of an ex-girlfriend, the new interface enhances your intimate photos. OSXXX may soon be a reality at the current pace of porn and technology, but would a Porn Genius Bar really look like something straight out of the '70s?
Progressive Dating Sites Encourage STD Education And Support
STDs are an unfortunate reality to dating and social networking today. A couple of sites are dedicated to shed light on the subject while protecting and respecting online privacy (unlike Facebook's recent fumbles). Two recent examples:
Club462 is taking the bold step of addressing these sensitive topics and incorporating them into the world of mainstream online dating and friendships, through the use of online private and public discussion groups [and] education forums...
PositiveFriends is a network more geared to those living with STDs and the education thereof. By setting up various privacy settings depending on comfort level as well as the ability to blur profile photos so as to remain anonymous, the site lets users cozy up to the service on their own time.
Woman Strips For Weather Station
Okay, okay, she's just digital, but it's always fun to play with pocket-sized gadgets. The Stripping Weather Girl Station isn't exactly turning on any of the gadget blogs (which says a mouthful), but it might be a cute PG-rated gift to put in the stockings this year. It's fairly simple: it gets warm, she strips, it gets hot, she strip, it gets cold, she still wears a mini dress and heels. There were so many clever routes this could have taken. A gadget that could get heterosexual guys hard while advising women what to wear based on the weather would definitely have some kind of a demand.
Tuesday Tasting: Leopard Lust, Facebook And Feel Ups
Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.
Kelly Bares All For Leopard Unboxing
No doubt, by now you've seen all the unboxing and read all the bitching about the recently released Leopard Mac OSX. While we've yet to screw with our system, KellysArcade has seemingly done just that. Stripping down for her system upgrade, Kelly took photos of her Mac fangirl fetish and provided us with quite the fleshy photo album. We can't help but concur with Fleshbot, these might be the sexiest set of unboxing photos we've seen.
Mobile Phones Attempt to Fend Off Feel Ups
With a rise in train riders with wandering fingers, feel ups have become a problem for many female commuters in Japan. The "Anti-Groping Appli" is a mobile phone application that flashes threatening text-based messages and sounds at potential perverts. With messages like "Excuse me, did you just grope me?" "Groping is a crime," and "Shall we head to the police?", the phone attempts to be an anti-social object for women who don't want the "hassle" to be heard. We'd recommend a quick elbow to the gut instead before grabbing for your phone.
Risque Facebook Application Goes IRL
Naughty Gifts is one of the most used applications among Facebook fetishists. Gifts like blue balls, whipped cream and pearl necklaces are given as virtual play things for other profiles.
"The kids of MySpace appeared to be more deviant than their Pottery Barn Facebook counterparts," said the St. Petersburg-born developer, a member of several women's advocacy groups including the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus. "Facebook users, much like Southern senators, kept their naughty sides under wraps and it made sense to make an app to bring out the naughtiness."
Going.com, the creator of the craze, is now taking the toy teasing to a series of IRL parties, from San Francisco to New York. The events are sure to be interesting, as giving ball gags as gifts might be best left for behind glowing screens. [via]
Apple's Leopard Stuck in Captivity
In a move that will disappoint many, Apple has announced the newest iteration of OS X, Leopard, will be delayed up to four months.
..the introduction of the new version of its flagship Macintosh OS X operating system would be delayed as much as four months because of quality issues.
The company previously said the program would ship this spring.
The uncharacteristic schedule slippage is particularly embarrassing for Apple, which is based in Cupertino, Calif., because it had previously poked fun at Microsofts struggles to complete its Vista operating system.
Citing the need for developers to focus on the iPhone as the reason for the delay, Apple might have worried about figures suggesting buyers were holding off purchasing new Macs ahead of the OS update. Now that people know a four month wait is ahead, those credit cards might be coming out this quarter after all.
Is this a sign Apple is stretching itself too thin? The AppleTV system saw a delay earlier this year, and "top secret" features in Leopard are promised but haven't even begun to be seeded to Apple's community of developers for testing. When that finally happens, more delays are a worrying possibility. Now not only is Leopard delayed, but people are asking serious questions about the lack of the annual update to the flagship iLife package, still stalled at '06 with no sigh on '07 on the horizon, as well as the lack of a new version of iWork -- long rumoured to be arriving with a new spreadsheet application. The forays into the living room and cell phone market are exciting, but Apple's hardcore fans already seem to be paying a price for them.