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MacBook Air in the kitchen: It slices, it dices!

You've looked at the edge of your MacBook Air and thought, "Dang, that's super slim." A man who writes for a Japanese blog called Mochrom looked at his MacBook Air and thought, "Dang, I can cut vegetables with that."

And so he did. Mochrom gives a step-by-step guide to prepping a meal with a MacBook Air in place of a kitchen knife. You can check out Google's attempt at a translation. He started with mushrooms, known to many chefs as an easy first vegetable for testing out your knife skills.

The MacBook handled the 'shrooms with ease. Emboldened, our culinary hero also whacked through a cabbage and shaved a carrot. Getting a good cut on the cabbage required the more extreme step of opening up the MacBook Air to get a thinner edge.

He had no fear in rubbing raw shrimp all over his laptop during the de-veining process. Scallops quickly surrendered to its chopping prowess.

Here's hoping it got a good cleaning before being pressed back into service as an actual laptop.

As it turns out, there are some things a MacBook Air will not cut through. A real kitchen knife was required for carrots and raw bacon. At least he had the good sense not to stir the stir-fry with the laptop.… Read more

Apple's Cook faces first flap over lost iPhone

Apple CEO Tim Cook may have to deal with his first real crisis if reports about company security officers impersonating cops turn out to be true.

According to SF Weekly, the man at the center of the lost iPhone story said that six officials he thought were San Francisco police officers searched his home in July. SF Weekly reports:

If accurate, his account raises the possibility that Apple security personnel attempting to recover the prototype falsely represented themselves as police officers--a criminal act punishable by up to a year in jail in the state of California--or that SFPD employees colluding with Apple failed to properly report an extensive search of a person's home, car, and computer.

CNET News this week reported that an unreleased version of the iPhone was lost at Cava22, a bar in the Mission District. As ZDNet's Jason O'Grady noted lightning strikes twice given that Apple's iPhone 4 was also lost. This iPhone tale turned into a national story.

Now, a lost test device isn't exactly a crisis for Cook, but the events that follow could become a major headache. According to Sergio Calderón, the man at the center of this week's story, six people wearing badges showed up to look for a lost iPhone that was traced to him via GPS. SF Weekly also reports that these folks said they were from the San Francisco Police Department. … Read more

Apple prepping for surge in iPad demand?

Apple may be eyeing heavy demand for the iPad throughout the rest of the year based on the number of tablets shipped from supplier Foxconn.

By the end of this month, Apple will have received 20 million iPad 2 tablets from Foxconn just for the third quarter, according to a report yesterday from DigiTimes.

That 20 million figure marks a 60 percent increase over the number of iPads that Foxconn shipped to Apple in the second quarter, noted DigiTimes, which added that the tablet orders are expected to provide major growth for Apple over the second half of the year.

In Apple's fiscal third quarter, which ended June 25, the company sold 9.25 million iPads, a gain of 183 percent over the year-ago quarter.

The iPad 2 launched mid-March but quickly sold out as supply was unable to keep up with the initial demand. During Apple's second-quarter earnings call on April 20, then-Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, now CEO, said that the company was trying to ship enough iPads to meet the "staggering" demand but couldn't say when that might happen.… Read more

Gojee: Even the Web can be delicious

There's something about cookbooks that has always amazed me ever since I was a child. Cookbooks have a story-telling quality where the pictures hold as much influence as their complementary textual directions. Have you ever caught yourself staring at a photogenic plate, struggling to imagine what it might taste like or if it was something in your realm of cooking skills? Like a great children's story, visual cookbooks capture the imagination of taste and encourages us recreate what the cook/artist shares before us, without information overload.

Gojee is a Web app that sets out to … Read more

Jobs steps down (Apple Talk Weekly)

This week marked a massive change at Apple, with co-founder Steve Jobs stepping down from his role as CEO. In his place will be Tim Cook, an Apple veteran who was previously the company's chief operating officer.

Jobs had been on medical leave from the company since January, though he had appeared at the unveiling of the iPad 2, as well as at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Jobs' new role at Apple will be as chairman of the company's board.

Jobs has been at the helm of Apple since 1997, following his return to … Read more

Cook given 1 million share bonus as new Apple CEO

Following this week's management change at the very top of Apple, the company's board has awarded new Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with a hefty bonus.

In an SEC filing that was posted to Apple's investor site this afternoon, the company notes that Cook has been given 1 million restricted shares of Apple stock, half of which will be vested in five years time. The rest will be vested in 2021, contingent upon Cook still being at the company:

"In connection with Mr. Cook's appointment as chief executive officer, the board awarded Mr. Cook 1,… Read more

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple (roundup)

Marking the end of an era, Jobs steps down as CEO of the iconic company he co-founded. COO Tim Cook, Jobs' fill-in during three medical leaves, will take over the reins.

Steve Jobs steps down from Apple Jobs bids adieu as CEO of the iconic electronics company he co-founded 35 years ago. He has asked Apple's board to put Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook in his place. Text of resignation letter from Steve Jobs Text of Apple's press release on Jobs' resignation Tim Cook: 'Apple is not going to change' (Posted in Apple Talk by … Read more

What could Apple look like three years from now?

Editor's note: This story was co-written by CNET staffers Donald Bell, Greg Sandoval, Josh Lowensohn, Kent German, and Scott Stein.

Most Apple watchers figure very little will change at Steve Jobs' company over the next few years. There's plenty of product plans in the works and his executive team--with a few exceptions--looks set for the next few years.

The real question is what happens after that, when the plans that will be made without Jobs in Apple's corner office begin to bear fruit, or languish.

The company, which has grown to become the second-most valuable in the … Read more

What will Jobs do as Apple's chairman?

For most companies, the chief executive serves as a quarterback, ensuring the plays are run correctly, while the chairman is the coach, providing the bigger-picture view.

Or, for the geeks out there, the CEO is Luke Skywalker to the chairman's Yoda.

It's unclear what Steve Jobs' role will exactly be as chairman. The Star Wars analogy may be apt in that Jobs could dispense his sagely advice to CEO Tim Cook. Or the chairman position could be the first step to his eventual departure from the company.

The role of chairman has evolved over the past few years, … Read more

Apple CEO Steve Jobs steps down

In an unsurprising but still shocking move, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigns as CEO but remains with the company as chairman. Tim Cook is promoted from chief operating officer to chief executive officer.

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