iSteveCan’t wait for JOBS the Steve Jobs biopic staring Ashton Kutcher – well before that hit the big screen there’s iSteve – the latest project from the site Funny or Die.

According to the article in New York Times, the movie stars Justin Long as Steve Jobs, James Urbaniak as Bill Gates, Michaela Watkins as Melinda Gates and Jorge Garcia from Lost plays Steve Wozniak.

“In true Internet fashion, it’s not based on very thorough research — essentially a cursory look at the Steve Jobs Wikipedia page,” said Ryan Perez, who wrote and directed “iSteve.” “It’s very silly. But it looks at his whole life.”

Funny or Die will release iSteve on 15 April, while the Ashton Kutcher version will come out later in the year after the distributor scrapped its initial opening date of 19 April. Besides these two, there will be one more movie on Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling Jobs biography.

Looks like we’ll see three different Steve Jobs on the big screen this year – which will come closest?

(via ArtsBeat NYTimes)

WhatsAppPopular chat client WhatsApp is aligning their payment model across platform to that similar to how it is implemented for WhatsApp on Android, BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows Phone platforms according to a report on TechCrunch. Currently users on iOS just need to pay an one-time fee of US$0.99 to get access to the app while users on Android for example, gets the first year free but subsequent fee of US$0.99 per year to use the chat network. This change in payment model will begin some time later this year and will apply only to new users.

According to Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s CEO, the rational for this change is just “… to keep things simple,” he explained. He also mentioned that unlike other popular messaging apps in the market, they have no plans to extend WhatsApp onto the desktop.

Are you still using WhatsApp with apps like Line, WeChat and the latest MessageMe entering the market with more features than just text messaging?

(via TechCrunch)

Daring Fireball: Ceding the Crown

John Gruber:

The desire for the “Oh, how the mighty Apple has fallen” narrative is so strong that the narrative is simply being stated as fact, evidence to the contrary be damned. It’s reported as true simply because they want it to be true. They’re declaring “The King is dead; long live the King” not because the king has actually died or abdicated the throne, but because they’re bored with the king and want to write a new coronation story.

Was just thinking about this earlier today

Witnessing History

This image posted at NBC News Photoblog shows how much has changed since the iPhone’s arrival. The top photo taken in 2005 near St. Peter’s where crowds gathered to witness Pope John Paul II’s body being carried into the Basilica for public viewing while the bottom was when Pope Francis made his inaugural appearance on the Vatican balcony yesterday.

For anyone who has ever been to a concert, the photo at bottom, taken Tuesday night as Pope Francis made his inaugural appearance on the Vatican balcony, seems almost ordinary. The two, taken together, reflect a world changing, even as some ancient traditions stay the same.

(via NBC News)

OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.3

Mac OS X Mountain LionApple release an update to OS X Mountain Lion that updates Boot Camp to support Windows 8, fix a bug that crashes app when you type File:/// in any text area and also improved the performance of Safari. You can update via the link above or via the Mac App Store.

For more detail list of updates – please read this Support document.