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Sunday Highlights:The Melbourne Age reports on Apple and Microsoft both refusing to appear before an Australian governmental inquiry into IT pricing; Forbes questions why Apple's iPad margins are half those for the iPhone; Patently Apple reports on a new audio-sharing network feature for iPhone; in OS X, positive reviews for Mountain Lion continue to pour in.
Saturday Highlights: Rumors of Apple's interest in buying Twitter abound, with coverage by Fortune, CNET and the Bangkok Post; Rob Enderle on why Apple can't sustain Tablet dominance; in Australia, a parliamentary inquiry is notable for the absence of Apple and Microsoft; Tap for Mobile reports on Zuckerberg not wanting a 'Facebook Phone'; the Macalope examines a bad joke; VentureBeat provides a comprehensive review of several iPad cases; the Wall Street Journal reports on the iCrime Wave, with Apple devices being increasingly targeted by thieves; Lifehacker presents the top ten secret features of OS X Mountain Lion; John Moltz and many other writers find the new Apple television commercials not very inspiring.
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News
"Chitika: OS X Mountain Lion sees quick adoption in first 48 hours"?Digital Trends?7/28
"Mountain Lion Roars, Captures 3.2% Share in First 48 Hours"?Chitika?7/27
"Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start"?AllThingsD?7/27
"Mountain Lion now on 3.2 percent of Macs, firm says: According to Chitika, more than 2 million Mac users are now running Apple's newest version of OS X, which came out earlier this week."?CNET News?7/27
"Cat power: Apple's Mountain Lion is quickly marking its territory"?VentureBeat?7/27
"Mountain Lion Penetrates 3.2% of Mac Market in 48 Hour"?The Mac Observer?7/27
"Mac OS X Mountain Lion Already on 3.2 Percent of Macs"?PC Magazine?7/27
"Retina MacBook Pros get Power Nap"?MacNN?7/27
"MDM moves beyond mobile devices into Macs: MobileIron now supports OS X Mountain Lion, a sign of growing adoption of non-Windows devices"?Computerworld?7/27
"New Trojan besieging Apple's MacOS"?V3?7/27
"A Bunch of Updates to Get Ready for Mountain Lion (Safari 6, iWork, Aperture, iTunes etc)"?Mac Amour?7/27
"Hurrah! Wonderful .Mail Email Concept Is Coming To Your Mac"?Cult of Mac?7/27
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Safari 6: Can't connect to server/No setting for default font"?Betalogue?5:55 PM
"Mac 101: Safari 6 in OS X Mountain Lion"?Apple Support?2:28 PM
"Apple updates high quality OS X speech with Voice Update 2.0"?AppleInsider?7/28
"Apple Up-to-Date Program woes continue"?CNET Reviews?7/27
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/We answer questions about 64-bit management and questions surrounding the OS X Mountain Lion release."?CNET Reviews?7/27
"Lotus Notes and OS X Mountain Lion" ["Lotus Notes 8.5.3 has some challenges running on Mountain Lion, which we have documented in IBM technote 159984. IBM has been working with Apple for several months in an effort to address these issues, but unfortunately there was no simple path to resolution prior to Apple's release."]?Ed Brill?7/27
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Server, simplified: A power user's guide to OS X Server/Mountain Lion Server trades power for user-friendliness."?Ars Technica?6:50 PM
"Server, simplified: A power user's guide to OS X Server/Mountain Lion Server trades power for user-friendliness."?Ars Technica?5:56 PM
"In like a lion ...: Apple's Newest Operating System, Os X 10.8 (Aka Mountain Lion) Makes It Easy To Switch Among iPhone, iPad And Your Computer"?Associated Press?7:05 AM
"The best Twitter clients for Mac"?Stemmings?8:10 AM
"How To Do A Clean Install Of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 On Your Mac"?Redmond Pie?7/28
"Top 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion"?Lifehacker?7/28
"Apple Mountain Lion And iOS: Living In Sync/Now that Mountain Lion offers iMessage and iOS-like notifications, is keeping everything in sync really all it's cracked up to be?"?InformationWeek?7/28
"Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition coming to iOS, OS X in September"?The Loop?7/27
"Growl 2 and HardwareGrowler 2 for Mountain Lion Now in Beta"?iClarified?7/27
"Launchbar, Mountain Lion and 1Password"?Macdrifter?7/27
"Chronos Announces Spotlife -- A calendar for your desktop"?Chronos?7/27
"ConceptDraw Office v2 Updated for Mac OS X Mountain Lion"?PRWeb?7/27
"Paragon Software Group Introduces Industry's First NTFS for Mac OS X 10 with Full Support for Apple's New Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion"?Paragon Software?7/27
"Red Giant and CrumplePop Launch Vintage Camera Looks for FCP X"?prMac?7/27
"New Tattoo Font Can Be As Individual As You Are"?prMac?7/27
"Fighting the iCrime Wave: Device theft has exploded. New solutions are on the way. Is the industry doing enough about 'Apple picking'?"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7/28
"Apple Wants Amazon Executive To Testify In Appstore Case"?redOrbit?7/28
"Apple's Black Hat presentation on iOS security disappoints, rehashes old white paper"?9 to 5 Mac?7/27
"How all your iPhone apps could be hacked at once"?CNNMoney?7/27
"Apple U.S. margins for iPad about half of iPhone: filing"?Reuters?7/27
"Apple makes 58% profit from sales of iPhone: iPad sees profit margin of 32%, demonstrates importance of iPhone to Apple's bottom line"?Macworld UK?7/27
"IDC: Samsung and Apple ship almost half of all smartphones, but Korean manufacturer maintains lead"?Engadget?7/27
"Samsung Completely Destroyed Apple In Smartphone Shipments Last Quarter"?Business Insider?7/27
"The Mother of All Design Tablets: I've asked before whether Apple could woo designers over to its iPad--a question that rests partly on whether anyone can figure out how to make a great iPad stylus."?Technology Review?7/27
"Apple's new Barcelona retail store opens tomorrow [Gallery]?9 to 5 Mac?7/27
"Apple Wants Amazon Executive's Testimony in App Store Name Dispute"?The Mac Observer?7/27
"Apple's iOS 6 mapping won't put an end to Waze's days, says its president"?ZDNet?7/27
"Obama outspends Romney on Apple products; Democrat-leaning states have higher iPhone usage; Apple employees donate $15 to Obama for every $1 to Romney"?MacDailyNews?7/27
"Google adds 3D maps and virtual 'tour guide' to iOS"?AFP Relax News?7/27
"Samsung Galaxy S3 search foul-up was a mistake, not Apple"?Crave @ CNET?7/27
"Olympics Test Network As IPhone-Toting Visitors Clog U.K."?Bloomberg?7/27
"Best Buy drops price of the iPhone 4 to $49.99 with plan"?9 to 5 Mac?7/27
"Financial Times: Our Digital Subscribers Now Outnumber Print, And Digital Is Half Of The FT's Revenue"?TechCrunch?7/27
Non-Apple News
"RSA offers simple tips for serious cyber-security ahead of 2012 Olympics"?ZDNet?7/27
"Blizzard patches Diablo III Wizard 'God Mode' exploit"?TG Daily?7/27
"$48 mini Android PC is out in the wild"?TG Daily?7/27
"Nokia Confirms Close Of Last Finnish Handset Factory: 780 Job Cuts To Follow"?TechCrunch?7/27
"French System Lets You Write With Your Eyes"?PC Magazine?7/27
"Google Doodle Celebrates Tonight's Olympic Games Opening Ceremony"?Wired?7/27
"Google Handwrite Pits Mobile Search Against Your Withered Penmanship"?Techland?7/27
"ISPs Poised to Battle Google's 'Fiberhoods'"?PC Magazine?7/27
"Twitter's Opulent New Offices: Exclusive Micro-Tour and Photos"?Wired?7/27
"Twitter Hit With 'Is This You?' Photo Malware"?PC Magazine?7/27
"CEO Turnaround Has Kept Yahoo! in the Headlines and Perception High"?Forbes?7/27
"Chip industry undergoing structural shift, says UMC CEO"?DigiTimes?7/27
"RIM Marketing Head's Secret Weapon: Current BlackBerry Fans"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?7/27
"Ouya game console adds OnLive, outs controller"?CNET News?7/27
"Ahead Of Olympics, Samsung Supports Team Great Britain With Union Jack Galaxy S III"?TechCrunch?7/27
"Smartphones power record Samsung profit of $5.9 billion during Apple lull"?Reuters?7/27
Publications/Podcasts
"eXtensions Podcast #2012 7 -The Bangkok-based eXtensions podcast based on the week's Cassandra columns and whatever else I throw in."?eXtensions?8:10 AM
"TUAW Origin Stories: Model Release"?TUAW?7/27
"The MacJury Enter Their First Impressions of Mountain Lion Into Evidence"?MacVoicesTV?7/27
"Gene Steinberg meets Stephen Baker, of the NPD Group, Daniel Eran Dilger, of Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider, and Nelson Hudes, representing NetTALK.com, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?7/27
"Architosh talks to Francois Levy about Small-Firm BIM"?Architosh?7/27
"The Opinion Cast: The Future of Smart Watches"?Tech.pinions?7/27
"Engadget Podcast 303 - 07.27.2012" ["01:47 - Apple OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 review; 06:51 - Mountain Lion hits the Mac App Store, is one $20 credit card deduction away; 25:50 - Apple announces Q3 2012 earnings: $35 billion revenue, $8.8 billion in net profits"]?Engadget?7/27
"New purported next-generation iPhone parts photos show fully assembled device"?9 to 5 Mac?2:19 PM
"Photos alleged show fully-assembled next-gen iPhone"?AppleInsider?3:09 PM
"Apple's iPhone 5 out... smuggled from factory, pics on internet: Report says shortage of chips could result in delay of launch"?Emirates 24/7?7:48 AM
"Samsung Struggles to Match Apple's Retina Display Quality"?Patently Apple?9:15 AM
"MacBook Pro with Retina display gets Power Nap via firmware update"?The Verge?7/28
"Apple files another patent for wearable computing device"?iDownload Blog?7/28
"Behold, Early iPhone and iPad Prototypes"?TechCrunch?7/27
"Early iPad prototypes surface in Apple v, Samsung"?Electronista?7/27
"iPhone and iPad prototypes reveal Apple design process"?Crave @ CNET?7/27
"iPhone and iPad prototypes show Apple's roads not taken"?TUAW?7/27
"Apple prototypes show iPhone 'inspired by Sony', and kickstand iPad"?Electricpig?7/27
"Apple wants to control everything in your home via NFC"?CNET News?7/27
"Apple's continued interest in heads-up displays may hint at showdown with Google Glass"?The Next Web?7/27
"One dead, four hurt at Apple supplier China plant"?MarketWatch?7/27
"Gas leak hits Apple supplier in Taiwan"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?7/27
"Gas Leak at Apple Supplier's Plant Kills 1"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7/27
"Apple Hires AMD Chip Engineer, 100W USB Coming, SSDs for 2012 MacBook Air, and More"?Low End Mac?7/27
"iPad 68% of Tablet Market, Nexus 7 Gets Lots of Love, IKEA Catalog for iOS, and More"?Low End Mac?7/27
AppleCare/Helps
"MacBook Air SMC Updates 1.5 and 1.6"?TidBITS?7/27
Price Trackers/Deals
"Reflexions For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:40 AM
"Can You Match? For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:40 AM
"Squarescape For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:40 AM
"Burn The Corn For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/28
"Germz For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/28
"Warmongers For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/28
"There are no new item in The US Apple Store, four were restocked , 64 were unchanged, and two were Sold Out."?While Supplies Last?7/28
"Robot Bros For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/27
"Around the World in 80 Days HD (Premium) For iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $4.99), The iPhone Version Is Also Free"?Apple Sliced?7/27
"Escape The Ape For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/27
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7/27
"MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7/27
"Apple refurbs: MacBook Air from $759"?MacNN?7/27
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 26 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?7/27
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:? $1189.00 Delivered
"Breaking Down the Apple-Twitter Investment Rumors"?Yahoo! News?6:46 PM
"Apple debuts three new Mac ads: 'Basically,' 'Labor Day,' and 'Mayday' (with Video)"?MacDailyNews?10:40 AM
"Apple's new adverts are far from genius"?Crave @ CNET?7:48 AM
"Applesauce: All Things Apple ? July 29, 2012"?redOrbit?7:47 AM
"What to Expect From Apple in the Second Half of 2012"?The Motley Fool?7/28
"MacOS KenDensed: MacOS KenDensed: Apple Q3 Earnings & Plugging App Store Holes"?The Mac Observer?7/28
"Genius ads: These new ads seemed to have provoked a response not seen since Apple made the menu bar in OS X translucent and initiated Ragnarok."?John Moltz's Very Nice Web Site?7/28
"New Apple ads make Mac owners look inept, foolish"?Digital Trends?7/28
"New Apple 'Genius' Ads: Hit, Miss, or Insulting?"?PC Magazine?7/28
"Apple's new Mac ads face criticism"?Stemmings?7/28
"Apple may buy stake in Twitter in Facebook leverage play, as Tim Cook takes hold"?Beatweek Magazine?7/28
"Rumor: Apple Not Really Considering Hooking Up With Twitter"?AppleBitch?7/28
"Rumor: Apple to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Twitter"?Tapscape?7/28
"Zuckerberg says no Facebook phone, wants deeper iPhone and Android integration"?Tap For Mobile?7/28
"Soulja Boy Takes On The iPad With His Ridiculous Tablet"?TechCrunch?7/27
"iPhone 5 rumor roundup: CNET tracks all the iPhone 5 rumors: from the likely to the crazy: that we've heard so far in 2011 and 2012."?CNET Reviews?7/27
"Apple's Ridiculous Patent"?Forbes?7/27
"Have Smartphone Sales Hit the Saturation Point?"?ReadWriteWeb?7/27
"How Steve Jobs Almost Leaked The Original iPhone's Existence"?Business Insider?7/27
"Samsung says that Apple stole iPhone design from Sony"?Neowin?7/27
"Samsung: 'Apple's proto-iPhone Jony is a Sony phone phoney'"?Register Hardware?7/27
"Long Live The Mac: Why The Mac's Golden Age Is Coming To An End"?Mac 360?7/27
"Has Apple 'Overscrolled' Its Case Against Samsung, And What To Do About Tech Patents?"?Forbes?7/27
"Apple iPhone 5 Vs. Samsung Galaxy S III: What We Know" [Slideshow]?InformationWeek?7/27
"Ad for Apple's Siri gets poison oak wrong, report says"?CNET News?7/27
"Kodak Has Its Moment: Judge Denies Apple's Bid to Move Patent Suit to New Court"?AllThingsD?7/27
"Thanks to iOS 6, MetaWatch outs Strata smartwatch ? Mobile Technology News"?GigaOM?7/27
"Apple Provides Lessons for RIM's BlackBerry Comeback Bid"?Bloomberg?7/27
"IPad Remains Best Used As A Supplement To The Mac"?MacNews?7/27
"The Latest iPhone Leak: Fact Or Fiction?"?App Advice?7/27
"If This Is What The New iPhone Looks Like, Are People Going To Be 'Disappointed'?"?Business Insider?7/27
"Is the iPad Really That Expensive?"?PadGadget?7/27
"Apple Claims Google Warned Samsung About Copying iPad"?Tom's Hardware?7/27
"What Is Apple Up to This Time? Is Apple's AuthenTec deal motivated by patents or to bolster the security on its devices?"?WSJ Blogs?7/27
"Apple Acquires AuthenTec: A Fingerprint as a Key?"?Forbes?7/27
"Apple Pays $356 Million For AuthenTec In Possible Prelude To Mobile Payments"?Forbes?7/27
"Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD: If Apple didn't buy AuthenTec, a cash strapped mobile security player, it's likely another rival would have. Apple's courtship of the enterprise via the bring your own device continues."?ZDNet?7/27
"Apple's AuthenTec Deal: A Shot At Samsung?"?TheStreet?7/27
"Apple scoops up secure fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for?$356M"?GigaOM?7/27
"Who's suing Apple this week? Mobile patent lawsuits round-up/In courts this week: Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft & Motorola"?Macworld UK?7/27
"Apple granted stay on 'Samsung didn't copy us' ads"?SlashGear?7/27
Non-Apple
"YouTube might be the best place to watch the Olympics (if it doesn't break)"?I, Cringely?7/28
"Google+ and 'ghost town' are a contradiction"?BetaNews?7/27
"5 Black Hat Security Lessons For CIOs: Beyond the bearded coders and men in black suits was a trove of security best practices for enterprise IT."?InformationWeek?7/27
"How software can learn a lot from the way nature works"?ZDNet?7/27
"If OEMs aren't committed to Windows, where are they to go?"?ZDNet?7/27
"Widespread outages underline the need for IT backup plans"?V3?7/27
"Top 10 technologies powering the Olympic and Paralympic Games"?V3?7/27
"No slowdown in sight for cyber attacks"?USA Today?7/27
"The week in tech: 5 must-know things"?USA Today?7/27
"No: it isn't you, it's Twitter malware"?TG Daily?7/27
"The best prepaid smartphones: In many ways a cheaper, financially safer alternative to standard pay-by-the-month phones"?Techlicious?7/27
"The data center you dream of is in the cloud: New high-performance public cloud offerings deliver what IT can't afford to implement in-house"?InfoWorld?7/27
"The easy, low-cost, secure plan for enabling BYOD: A rise in vendor and consultant fearmongering endangers user productivity and IT budgets alike"?InfoWorld?7/27
"What Will the Internet Look Like in 5 Years?"?Forbes?7/27
"BT: Almost every Android device is infected with malware"?ZDNet?7/27
"Google Is Now America's Most Awesome ISP"?Wired?7/27
"Is Google Fiber Key to Cloud Happiness?"?Wired?7/27
"Five Cool Things About Google Fiber (and One Not So Cool Thing)"?Techland?7/27
"Why it's not easy being Mark Zuckerberg"?GigaOM [Free Registration Required]?7/27
"Sight: A Short Film About The Future ? [Video, Nsfw]?RazorianFly?7/27
Humor/Cartoons
"Bill & Melinda Gates: You can't take a photo with an iPad! [Video]?Yahoo! News?7/28
"How To Compose Texts Or iMessages On iPhone With Drawings, Handwriting And Sketches"?Redmond Pie?11:20 AM
"The best Retina wallpapers"?Stemmings?11:18 AM
"Just in time for the Olympics, Time Out releases Time Out London for iPad"?TUAW?7/28
"Ancient Aliens And Other Strange Unsolved Mysteries Comes To iPhone"?MacMegasite?7/28
"A New iOS App Lets You Send Pictures via Sound!"?Cult of Mac?7/28
This image provided by by Mike Cochran shows Neil E. Prescott in an undated photo. Cochran, a friend of Prescott, says the Maryland man accused of threatening to shoot up his workplace is a "gentle giant" who collected weapons and had expressed concerns about break-ins near his apartment complex. Cochran tells The Associated Press on Saturday, July 28, 2012, that he thinks Prescott did not intend for his comments to be taken seriously. Cochran says Prescott was known for having a sarcastic sense of humor. (AP Photo/Mike Cochran)
This image provided by by Mike Cochran shows Neil E. Prescott in an undated photo. Cochran, a friend of Prescott, says the Maryland man accused of threatening to shoot up his workplace is a "gentle giant" who collected weapons and had expressed concerns about break-ins near his apartment complex. Cochran tells The Associated Press on Saturday, July 28, 2012, that he thinks Prescott did not intend for his comments to be taken seriously. Cochran says Prescott was known for having a sarcastic sense of humor. (AP Photo/Mike Cochran)
This undated handout photo provided by the Prince George's, Md. County Police shows weapons found in the possession of a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Prince George's County Police)
Prince George's County, Md. Police Chief Mark Magaw answers questions at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, after a news conference to discuss a suspect who police say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. A Maryland man calling himself "a joker" is accused of threatening to shoot up the business from which he was about to be fired and was wearing a T-shirt that read "Guns don't kill people. I do," when he first talked to officers who arrested him, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Prince George's County, Md. Police Chief Mark Magaw speaks at a news conference at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, to discuss a suspect who police say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. A Maryland man calling himself "a joker" is accused of threatening to shoot up the business from which he was about to be fired and was wearing a T-shirt that read "Guns don't kill people. I do," when he first talked to officers who arrested him, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw listens at left as Deputy Chief Henry Stawinski, with the Bureau of Forensic Science and Intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, to discuss a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? To his friends, Neil E. Prescott was a "gentle giant" ? a physically towering young man with a background in computers and electronics and a sarcastic, even biting, sense of humor that people close to him knew to shrug off as innocuous.
But police say they had no choice but to take it seriously when Prescott threatened to shoot up his workplace and referred to himself as "a joker," comments that raised particular alarm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at a Colorado theater during the latest Batman movie. The man accused in the Colorado shootings dyed his hair reddish-orange, and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said the man called himself the Joker ? a reference to Batman's nemesis.
Prescott was taken into custody early Friday at his apartment in Maryland, where officers found several thousand rounds of ammunition and a cache of about two dozen weapons including semi-automatic rifles and pistols. He was receiving an emergency psychiatric evaluation at a hospital and had not been charged as of Saturday afternoon.
Two friends told The Associated Press Saturday that they couldn't imagine that Prescott, who was in the process of being fired or already had lost his job, intended to be taken seriously when he allegedly told a supervisor: "I'm a joker and I'm gonna load my guns and blow everybody up."
"Neil's the kind of guy who had the ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time and not mean anything by it. So to him, he thinks it's funny. He's kind of a joker," said Wesley Weber, who said his friend, at 6 feet 7 inches, was a "gentle giant" prone to bouts of exaggeration who "talked big but didn't walk the walk."
Prescott is "no stranger to sarcasm regardless of political correctness," and is fond of T-shirts with sarcastic, provocative or even inflammatory remarks, said another friend Mike Cochran. When first approached by officers, police say, Prescott was wearing a shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do."
"The Neil I know made those comments sarcastically in an environment where he felt he could make them without being taken seriously," Cochran said in an email.
Friends say that over the years, Prescott had been interested in hobbies such as computers, electronics and ham radios. His clique of friends would gather several years ago at nighttime parties to play multi-player video games and consume the highly caffeinated Jolt cola, Weber recalled. A sometime disc jockey, he'd also spin house music at Baltimore nightclubs and was the DJ for Cochran's bachelor party in 2005.
In recent years, though, he'd cultivated a passion for collecting firearms. He'd practice his shot at the training range, friends said, and communicate online with fellow gun enthusiasts about the ins and outs of firearm equipment and gun laws. At least some of the firearms recovered from his apartment in Crofton, near Annapolis, appear to have been acquired legally, authorities said.
A search for Neil Prescott on a website that tracks users' online activities led to a profile that appears to be him on mdshooters.com, a website for Maryland gun hobbyists. On it, he trades advice about firearms with technical know-houw and at times conveys concern about break-ins near his apartment and details interactions with the police.
Cochran, who also posts on the site, said he received one message from Prescott last November that said: "Might be sleeping in tomorrow, just had a suspicious male at my door. Notified PD but am gonna be lookin out tonight. Some crazy breakins near me recently."
In March, he provoked a spirited back-and-forth on the site when he complained that two police officers responding to a possible break-in at a nearby apartment "told me never to answer the door on my own property carrying." He said he called a sergeant to complain.
Last week, he was still on the site, talking with fellow users about 30-round magazines and boasting about his night-vision goggles.
"During the power outage i spent lots of time loading mags and mounting lights, when the zombie apocalypse comes i'll be ready," he wrote.
Maryland state court records for Prescott list only a speeding ticket in 2007.
Police say Prescott, an employee of a subcontractor for software and mailroom supplier Pitney Bowes, made the threats during two Monday morning phone conversations with a supervisor. The supervisor, who declined to comment Saturday to a reporter who showed up at his house, said the comments made him fear for his life and that he was aware of Prescott's weapons' cache.
Prescott at one point said he wished to see his supervisor's "brain splatter all over the sidewalk," but also acknowledged that he shouldn't be saying such things over the phone, according to an application in support of a search warrant. The threats were then reported to the police, who paid an initial visit to Prescott's apartment on Thursday before taking him into custody Friday morning.
Cochran said he's known Prescott since 2001, when they were colleagues at a technical support outsourcing company. He said Prescott was a network engineer.
"With his skill set and education he would have had no problems finding other work with good pay. Neil did not at any point indicate to me that he had problems with where he was working," Cochran wrote.
Pitney Bowes spokeswoman Carol Wallace said Prescott had not been on any company property in at least four months. It wasn't clear why he was losing his job.
Weber said that while he didn't know the exact context of the threat, he thought it was the kind of comment that is taken more seriously now than it may have been years ago, especially one week after the Colorado shooting.
"We live in a different world now," he said.
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Follow Eric Tucker on Twitter at http://twitter.com/etuckerAP
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Associated Press writer Brian Witte and AP researcher Judith Ausuebel contributed to this report.
Have you ever had an experience in your past when something happened that, at the time, appeared to be the worst thing in the world? And now, looking back, you recognize that you would never be who you are today or where you are in life were it not for that one thing?
Often when we take a big step toward self-improvement ? like starting a new weight loss program, ditching emotional vampires, or pursuing a personal passion ? we suddenly find ourselves facing unexpected challenges. In the latest episode of Fat to Fantabulous, Carla Ferrer encourages viewers to look for the opportunity to reach a higher level of awareness and personal growth.
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Breakthroughs are often preceded by ?breakdowns,? so don?t be hard on yourself, Carla says. Continue practicing the disciplines and rituals that sustain you ?- meditation, prayer, affirmations, exercise -? whatever works for you that is healthy and sound, knowing that if you have a momentary lapse, you?ll pick yourself right back up and start again!
????? - When it comes to matters with the heart, nothing may be better than a love tarot reading. Consulting the Tarot during troubled times will help you gain clarity about what are you doing in your relationship. Visiting terms with all the possibility your relationship is probably not working out can be a painful process.
Love reading shows a number of features, traits, and attributes like; compatibility, soul mates, love matches, love forecast and future love affairs. Love readings also show the past love relationships, affairs, successes and failures. Through these love readings it is possible to discover previously unknown weaknesses and strengths. We could also select online with free streaming tarot reading.
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Even when you get yourself a online tarot card reading you have the 'free will' to alter something that the thing is in a reading. When the tarot card reading reveals that the relationship is not realistic, there are tons of weaknesses and is almost certainly to fail, still there is a possiblity to turn this around.
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????? -Everybody wants to understand who will be his / her true love. Thus its advised that people should follow caution when choosing anyone because it means selecting a partner forever. This will make love tarot reading very important to one's life.
We understand which experts state sony is focused on producing best electronic in the world, which includes making a gamer gaming device which is pretty much most traveled to all over the nation and are still be a trend setter for the game app console on earth.
One is a mobile game console product that was given the name ?PSP??. To discover that the new generation that will be named sony PS Vita, it?s new iteration transferable gaming tool / player the which offers amazing gaming success Gorgeous multitouch 5-inch organic light broadcasting monitor (OLED), The Richest, private and most Engaging mobile gaming side, better network interaction by Wi-Fi functionality (3g and wi-fi linking sold in a supplementary Vita version) and a lot more features which can provide the training of enjoying compact games are entertaining.
Psp vita games is undoubtedly an astonishing multimedia gadget
In addition to formation of the existing technologies produced by sony, ps vita price is naturally a refinement of prior PSP, ps vita price is amazing multimedia gadget is loaded with many frigid has. Referring to the features, this is usually a incredibly uncommon system. But first we?ll see in comparison on the 3DS and how to function as an interactive device altogether (compared to the ipod, phone, etc.). Here are a few of one?s advantages of ps vita price:
Display screen is beautiful. Ps vita possesses a 5-inch OLED display, the screen is incredibly broad which have big quality resolution and is also actually remarkably brilliant. You do not have to fret during my use of it in a shiny home, due to the reason that the maximum brightness, it shuts out a large amount of glare that normally conflict with devices.
Cross Gaming Medal aid and discussion for games. The Vita ultimately provides cross gaming results voice dialogue (a common thing the which actually PS3 users are now looking from the beginning).
Inpending of multimedia. Mixed with the good looking tv, multimedia on the go will be splendid. It?s possible to switch over video footages or beats (you may have to alter one straight into the few types Which the Vita finds though), get content near the PSN (Ps System) or torrent of Things via a news middle Laptop or computer or Netflix.
Intense Debut Line-up. There are many sturdy initiate headings and many others in the future.
An amazing hardware. Very amazing central processing unit and GPU to produce a handheld system. This things offers the 3DS graphics away from the water and don t even try Comparing it into the mobile app creation games graphics-wise. Has couple of analogue branches and leaves is a large plus for everyone games. The analog branches and leaves overhang from the structure a tad a little more than the original PSP?s did and therefore are a tiny bit upon the small area.
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If you do in fact make sure the playstation vita is naturally a revision as to the heritage of sony PSP with a lot of much-needed progress. You will see these are:
Of one?s kind, send the psp vita games is designed with the use of a rounded oval contour by having measurement of seven.2-inches from cash to firmly tip. with around three.3-inch top and gauge of 0.73. For that reason it?s the greatest sony mobile ever
Due to body fat, the enlarged sizes are a valuable impact, wherein the kind wi-fi only contemplates 260 kg, 20g more comfortable in comparison to the exclusive, scaled-down PSP 1000. Then when you decide on up you?ll Deal with its clear agility.
The sony appeared to be smart enough to simply design the unit, and has a transparent intent that will be how it is that the device serves as a portable gaming results gamer is considered the wealthiest in the country. That will be by layout involves packaging industry-leading visuals, Hence the 5-inch OLED tv without a doubt the that?s as big like the entire console ended up being the PSP Go.
Inside the table; the eventually left of the tv you will find the quit presenter, the eventually left analogue place, sony Conventional D-Pad to discover that the Home PS. By the right you?ll come by your regular popular Ps circle, square, triangle and Because of icons, 0.3MP front-facing video camera, right talkers, together with the right analogue place and choose icons you?re notably familiar with most Likely already. The entrance of one?s gamer is naturally a smorgasbord of hardware Delights. Vita is paid for by the very best side to side shoulder icons ?? Between the shoulders you?ll find the PS Vita Credit card slot game (which we?ll discuss in a very very present), volume controls, the on / off button as well as a computer to place within a multitude of as-yet negligible peripherals.
The ground of the gamer holds the proprietary USB connector for plug into Playstation 3 and asking for a etc, in addition to Storage device slot game and the earpiece / mic adapter.
And ultimately, the rear of the existing PS Vita is home to the new Contact Pad the back, of those microphone and 0.3MP digicam.
Ps vita price for outstanding intuitive entertainment compact games player
Ps vita price has more attributes versus any preceding mobile gaming results consoles and intentionally created to have the social networking enjoyment and perception in the whole telling of ways. Everyone within this vita playstation game styles have membership to a considerable amount of written content through a rise in Wi fi, this attribute allows each device in order to boost connectivity irrespective of where they depart. (Additional Vita Pattern permits for Wifi and always-on access 3G **).
Plus ps vita price brings great photographs to firmly daily living and enables for a brand new contact obsessed navigational solution with the use of 5-inch multi-touch OLED front display. How to handle along with games and animated images of these guys That They meet by way of a simplistic movement of the tool is provided Their personal fingertips the additional multi-touch protector on its back surface. As well, service providers produced uniquely for Vita will be displayed on Ps Community.
Such products are created help consumers require Their you re playing, along with conversation which have other online players, to new levels. The actuality and the game entire world are faultlessly joined along with front and base video camera enabled augmented the real world. And no less important to complement the good sides of this ps vita price happens to be the presence of extras including:
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