Apple Stores worldwide are shutting down for an hour (10-11 Pacific) today to watch a live stream of a memorial for Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder, company-rescuer, and industry-revolutionizer who died two weeks ago. The memorial will take place at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. more ›

Dear Steve Jobs: we will miss you. more ›

Since they decided not to stream the iPhone 5 unveiling event, we were excitedly refreshing our browsers to find out what the heck all the fuss is about. To be honest, we've been putting off upgrading for some time to catch the new phone instead. Was it worth the wait? more ›

Fortunately, for those intending to put an apple-cinnamon dish on the fall menu, the Washington apple harvest begins in mid-August. Don’t confine apple-cinnamon pairings to dessert menus, though. One savory pairing that works well is apples, cinnamon, and foie gras. Unfortunately, just as the apple has historically symbolized sin, foie gras carries a stigma amongst a certain Seattle group. more ›

Amazon is getting sued for broken Kindles and promises to replace them at no charge. JP Morgan says there will be no new layoffs in Seattle, where it purged WaMu's operations after taking it over several months ago. More UW scientists are cashing in on their lab work and raising venture capital to go into the biofuel business. more ›

Tech Flash got curious about Microsoft's new budget-conscious laptop shopper ad and did a specs comparison with a Mac, but they didn't cover one area that people will pay lots of money for, which is quality and customer service. more ›

You're not the only one without an iPhone; Bill Gates' kids aren't allowed to have Apple products. There's a little less Fresh Mex in your future, too. Chipotle won't be opening at the gargantuan Ballard Blocks after all. For lease signs and stacked tables suggest our beloved Fremont Baja Fresh is closing, and just down the street The Triangle is up for sale, according to Fremont Universe. Fortunately, West Seattle Blog has an uplifting tale of the wayward Alki falcon who lived to fly again. Is there an app for that? more ›

We're high on transit and so is a certain Metro driver who seems to have mistaken route 42 for a rock shop. Dude, you know the 5-0 rides that line. You best conduct business on the 7. It happens to stop near the Columbia City Library, where, the Rainier Valley Post reveals, car prowls are on the rise. It's happening in West Seattle, too, where residents are taking a bite out of crimes. We're ready to fight back ourselves. Someone smashed our car window at Seward Park Monday afternoon. Now we're prowling Craigslist and pawnshops for our stolen laptop. If you see an iBook G4 with the serial number scratched off, buy it--no questions asked--and we'll pay you back, k? more ›

Microsoft's Zune sales plunged $100 million dollars, or 54 percent, this holiday season compared to last. CNET says iPod unit sales were up 3 percent, though Apple's revenue was down 16 percent. more ›

Adobe pink slips started arriving this afternoon, says the Unofficial Apple Weblog. Back in mid-November Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said, "People call this a financial crisis a lot more on the East Coast, but Silicon Valley will emerge stronger and cash flow is not a challenge for us. We have a very strong balance sheet and very deep franchises." So far the Twitter "Black Wednesday" reports are out of California; anyone have news on how this has hit Fremont? more ›

It wasn't just the Dow Jones setting records today; the NASDAQ index had its 3rd largest one-day decline ever by percentage, losing 9% of its value. Among the tech stocks taking a drubbing were locals Microsoft (-8.7%) and Amazon (-10.4%)--though Redmond might enjoy the schadenfreude of knowing that Apple closed down nearly 18%. more ›

Tired of those ridiculously clever Mac vs. PC commercials painting them as out-of-date and incompetent, Microsoft is trying a new ad campaign of their own. A $300 million dollar ad campaign to be exact, with Jerry Seinfeld as the star-power at the helm. We're a PC-owner and we find ourselves nodding knowingly at the Apple ads all the time. So Microsoft and Seinfeld are going to have to come up with something mighty clever to distract from the truth found in those witty Apple ads. The ad campaign debuts on September 4th. We don't suspect it will end our Mac lust. more ›

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"Mac vs. PC" by Etchasketchist, with permission. Cool! more ›

We're doughnut lovers, but we've never been a fan of the light, airy, spun-sugar doughnuts that Krispy Kreme built its empire on. We're devotees of the solid, cakey, embody-the-word-pastry doughnuts hand-forged by Top Pot. more ›

Since there's a "Blogger Lounge" here at MacWorld, we figured we'd use it. What the hell. more ›

In terms of live music, this weekend is rather Friday-heavy. Kick things off early at a free happy hour (5pm) show at Nectar with Siberian and Pseudosix, featuring members of The Decemberists, Dolorean, and The Joggers. Just a taste of what can occur when the Portland supergroup plays: more ›

That sure didn't last long, did it? Barely nine months. more ›

Ah, football. We love it. It’s easily our favorite sport to watch as it gets our usual docile selves all fired up and yelling at the television every week. Basketball, even with its fast pace and high scoring, is a bore. And baseball? Baseball is almost as fun to watch as golf or the Lifetime channel. But for all of football’s glory, there remains its biggest upset. Which is that it’s one of those high-testosterone... more ›

Mac released its new Leopard operating system on Friday, and low-tech Seattlest wonders what's up. So we asked Aron Beal, a Web applications developer and genuine Mac nerd, to tell us. more ›

Oh, Apple, Inc. America hates you 'cuz you're beautiful (it's all that plastic surgery!). Seattlest mostly just hates you because you won't let us tinker with your products. You're even getting charged with monopoly, along with AT&T, and Seattlest couldn't have been more smug when we heard about that news. more ›

It’s been five years since soft-rock-but-hard-when-they-want-to-be Brad has released a proper album, and about three years since they’ve played live. Now the local quartet (Shawn Smith, Stone Gossard, Mike Berg and Regan Hagar), one of our favorite bands anywhere, is back in action—they’ve got an album in the works and they’re playing NYC and Seattle this month. more ›

Other than the Apple Cup, Garfield High vs. Franklin High is the best sports rivalry this area has to offer. more ›

There was a time when every urban iPod listener had a choice to make regarding personal speakers. Do you use some pair of headphones from the 80s with the orange foam on them that you found in the spare electronics box in the garage to disguise your identity as an iPod owner? Or do you fly the snowy whites your iPod came with and announce your Apple Cool to everyone on the bus, and damn the mugging risks, this being Seattle after all. Or do you sport the giant cans because you absolutely need to squeeze as much sound performance as you can from a 128 kb-encoded MP3? The question has fallen moot as time, incessant television advertising and the near-ubiquity of iPods themselves have wrung the last vestiges of cachet out of the white cables. Just go with what ya got--Seattlest has a pair of these Sony earbuds that sound ok, but have this terrible cord configuration that was dreamed up by either a moron or a marketing guy hoping to horn in on Apple's headphone branding successes. more ›

Meeting Jesca Hoop before a recent opening-slot gig at the Showbox, we weren't entirely sure what to make of her. With her debut LP not out for two months and only a few songs available streaming on the net, we labored--mistakenly--under the impression that this waifish Jack Mormon who'd spent several years homesteading was really just another singer-songwriter strumming an acoustic guitar. more ›

And in news related to what will fill the iPhones purchased at the U Village Apple Store this week: UW has announced that not only will they not protect students from file-sharing lawsuits, they will hunt them down and club them to death to protect the violated rights-holders. Ok, a shoot-on-sight order isn't in effect yet--for the time being the University of Washington will only serve legal papers to students who use the school's network to download music. more ›

If you can't tell what that picture is supposed to be, it's Seattlest's Nano strapped to the back of Seattlest's phone (which is, itself, an mp3 phone), which is as close to an iPhone as we'll be getting for the time being. Not that we're above a little gadget humping every now and then, but we're going to sit this one out. People with less restraint (or fatter wallets) than Seattlest will soon be lining up, though, at the University Village Apple Store, where we hear there is already an iPhone display set up in preparation for Friday when the things go on sale. Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times wrote yesterday about how professional line sitters aren't really in demand in Seattle like they are in other metro areas, and it seems to be true: we can't find a lot of evidence of line sitting services advertised via Craigslist either. There's this guy, this guy and this guy, but upon further inspection they seem to be the same guy. Looks like he wants $120 to wait in line for you, but this guy will do it for $30. A bloody war is brewing in the seedy world of discount line sitting. more ›

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Since Seattlest loves fake robots and Missed the Boat, we're totally holding hands with this video right now. It's love. Shut the light on your way out, please. more ›

Amazon says it's going to launch an online music store sometime this year and we say it's about time. We've been putting up with iTunes forever now while secretly hoping that someone in town would come up with a competitor. Microsoft has something, but, c'mon, a Microsoft music store? Obviously no. If they'd ever done a thing online we'd have been on the lookout for Starbucks launching a store, but their inexperience in online retail seems to have prevented the coffee maker from inflicting an easy listening media hub upon the world so far. And, oh yeah, Real has something already as well, but we've never tried it. That leaves Amazon, but for no reason at all we kinda figured they'd do it wrong. From what we've read so far they're doing it right. more ›