iPad Minis Worth $1.9 Million Stolen from New York Airport, FBI Makes Arrests

The iPad Mini may have not generated queues in front of Apple stores, but it did generate a passion big enough to make people steal it… in huge quantities. Just days ago we found out that $1.9 million worth of iPad Minis were stolen from the JFK airport in New York and the FBI announced today that they’ve made an arrest.

Airport worker Renel Rene Richardson supposedly assisted during the heist, serving as a lookout with two other accomplices. They loaded pallets of iPad Minis using forklifts and Richardson was arrested after other employees claimed he asked questions about the iPad Mini shipment and forklifts ahead of the robbery. The FBI is searching Long Island for the truck containing the stolen iPad Mini units. The problem here is that the iPads haven’t been registered with Find My iPad just yet, so they’re hard to track down.

The funny thing is that this morning dozens of new iPad Minis suddenly showed up for sale in Long Island. Expect further arrests to go down and the iPad Mini heist to get a popularity boost. Frankly speaking, thieves would have been better off stealing iPhone 5 units, since they’re pricier, more compact and… more wanted by the public.

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RetroUI Pro Makes Windows 8 More Usable, Adds a Start Menu (Video)

You had your share of Windows RT in our review here and now it appears that you will actually be able to customize your experience, thanks to a utility called RetroUI. People feel overwhelmed when they use Windows 8 for the first time, so they may want their Start button back and maybe some extra menus and options.

That’s what the free utility called Classic Shell is for, bringing the Start button to Windows 8, but we’re here to cover a related piece of software called RetroU. Thinix is the company behind the software, allowing users to login directly into the classic Windows desktop and skip the Metro features. RetroUI Is available for download here and costs $5 for a license that can be used on 3 PCs. The new Start menu actually looks nice and you can even resize windows of apps and have a taskbar ready when you need it.

The taskbar stays visible when you’re in the app and there’s even the red X on the upper right corner to close down apps in the old fashioned way. Of course you can make the app full screen and use standard gestures in Windows 8. You can even drag and drop stuff in the start menu and fill it with shortcuts and apps. Pretty cool, right?

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