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Motorola Droid ads invading mailboxes, too?
Because television and the internet can't be the only media feeling the touch of the Droid's marketing blitz, it looks like promotional mailers are being sent out. No new details or screenshots, but you can't get enough of Motorola / Verizon's Android device anyway, can you? A few more pics past the read link.
Netflix Blu-ray movies showing up cracked and unplayable?
That's the word, with a small but vocal group of subscribers claiming their discs are repeatedly arriving with small cracks on their outer edges. It's unclear what might be to blame, even with the extra coating to prevent scratches on Blu-ray, they could still be susceptible to automated mail processing machines, manufacturing defects or perhaps a spontaneous game of mail Frisbee. The Mars Box blog experienced this issue back in '07 with the disc pictured above, but in the last few months reports seem to be picking up again. It's really too bad those extra costs can't buy tougher packaging like the cardboard slips GameFly uses, but Netflix told Wired the problem is "infinitesimally small" and changing shipping wouldn't be cost effective. We know plenty of you rent your discs, let us know, have you been afflicted?[Via Hacking Netflix]Read - The Mars BoxRead - WiredRead - AVS Forum
Apple recycling information mailer not so green
An Apple Premium reseller in the UK sent us these photos of an Apple recycling information mailer they received: but the mailer itself was sent in a decidedly non-green way. From photos the reseller sent, it appears the mailer consisted of two sheets of standard A4-sized paper. Those sheets of paper were placed inside a large, yellow clasp envelope. That envelope was then placed inside a corrugated cardboard box. The box was then mailed to the UK from Switzerland. While all of these materials are recyclable, it seems like a little bit of a waste to send what could have fit in an everyday DL-sized envelope (that's about the size of a number 10 envelope for us Americans) in ridiculously oversized packaging. Plus, it probably would have saved them a bundle on postage. Apple has been making a concerted effort to reduce its environmental footprint: not only with the program mentioned in this mailer, but for everything from iPhone packaging to how it makes its displays. Surely this isolated incident isn't representative of the company as a whole, but still. Sheesh. %Gallery-30043%
iPhoto Mailer Patcher hack for iPhoto 5
If you aren't happy with the small selection of email clients that iPhoto 4/5 can export to, Hawk Wings has found a handy little applescript by the name of iPhoto Mailer Patcher that can add quite a few clients to the list. Mailsmith, Outlook Express, PowerMail and more can be set as iPhoto's default email client, with one exception: there's some extra work you'll have to go through to get this to work with iPhoto 5. Fortunately, it isn't hard work, so check out the Hawk Wings post for a short how-to. iPhoto 4 users, however, can skip ahead and simply use the applescript as is.
