OMG APPLE CAN I PLEASE MERGE MY APPLE ID AND MOBILEME ACCOUNTS FOR ICLOUD [Apple]

By Matt Buchanan Oct 11, 2011 1:25 PM 12,008 49

I'm super excited for iCloud but I'm still wondering what the hell I'm going to do with my two separate Apple ID accounts: my original one, which I made to buy stuff on iTunes—and still use to buy apps—and then the MobileMe account that Apple forced you to make as a separate Apple ID.

I just want it all to work together, dammit, especially since I paid Apple money for all this stuff before they decided to make it free. One account, all my info, all my apps. Just give us a heads up what the hell is happening, or at least the correct way I should set up my iCloud. Should it be my app account, or my MobileMe account? I dunno! (Like this is sort of helpful, I guess, but annoying.) I think my $69 a year bought that much, since sometimes I feel like it didn't buy that much else.

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Someone Please Make This Oreo Crumbs Tea Bag [Desired]

Nabisco needs to include this Oreo crumbs case with every single bag of Oreos. Think about it: all those previously wasted Oreo crumbs bond together to infuse your milk with chocolate-cookie-white-creme-goodness. Oreo crumb milk is the nectar of the gods, people.

Too bad it's not real. The Oreo Crumb Case was a concept made by Miami Ad School students Michael Malz, Jacob Gale, Kelly Saucier, and Michael Grosso. I think someone smarter than me should flip this IRL. They could even sell crushed Oreo packets to go along with it. Who would say no? Joe Brown, my boss, says, "That oreo bag is more important that the iPhone or world peace". I agree. [Ads of the World via The Daily What]

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Companies: Please Stop Calling Things "HD" Because It's Driving Me Completely Insane [Rant]

HD is our decade's extreme. People know the two letters well—and they like them!—because of HDTV. That's fine, because HDTV actually means something: certain, set lines of resolution. But "Swiffer HD Clean"? I feel like screaming blood.

Swiffer makes fine cleaning products. My floors get dusty. Maybe yours do too. Great. They clean up the dust. I like that! And hey, if they want to improve the ability of their floor cleaning stuff to clean floors—attaboy! But calling their new line of rags and whatnot the "HD" series is asinine. Aside from being untruthful (what definition has been increased? Is there an embedded LCD on the mop handle?), and completely incoherent (HOW CAN A CLEANING PRODUCT BE HD?), this kind of terminology abuse makes everyone dumber. It cheapens the word. How cheap? This cheap:

"The new and improved Swiffer Dusters clean better than a dry dust cloth and are coated with Dust-Lock™ Adhesive that combines textured dusting strips with thousands of dust locking fibers to clean better than a regular dry cloth, even in tight and hard to reach places"

It's like I'm seeing clean with brand new eyes!

"Swiffer is going beyond traditional methods to deliver a clean so extraordinary that the definition of clean as we know it has been elevated to the idea of ‘High Definition."

No. NO. Whoever wrote that should be thrown into a bag of mud.

Words have meanings. High definition may be vague, but it does mean something: an increased level of resolution conducive to an appreciable jump in sensory input. Or something along those lines. But it has some technical basis, when used in the video realm.

What's HD about Swiffer? Absolutely nothing. What's HD about Intel HD graphics and audio? Absolutely nothing—nobody would point to these as paragons of computer audio-visuals. HD Radio is one of the biggest frauds ever pushed upon people with ears, a sad stretch by a fading medium to con customers into buying something they don't need.

Companies will try to sell things, because that's what they do. But bandying around the HD label insults and confuses the people who might buy them. Go ahead and use dumb buzzwords—but don't taint words that actually signify something. We need those.

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