Online shopping is wildly convenient if you’re tight on time or live out in the boonies, miles from a mall. But often with convenience, comes compromise– on both quality and tailored fit because it’s hard to tell from a picture, especially of a supermodel, what the clothes really look like and how they will fit on you. Three of today’s hottest fashion start-ups, recommended to me by none other than the founders ofOf A Kind, are defining a niche for themselves by selling custom-made men’s shirts online....

AppleInsider reportsthat Apple partner Best Buy, one of the biggest resellers of Apple’s products, has begun listing five SKU’s for new Macbook notebooks, starting at $1,199 and ranging up to $2,499. The SKU’s were spotted by Engadget, listed within Best Buy’s online Laptop Configuration tool, each one labelled with a “New SKU” and an availability listed as “Coming Soon”. The existence of five new Macbook products would mean Apple was cutting one of its existing configurations, launching five new laptops that would be priced at $1,199, $1,499, $1,799, $2,199 and $2,499....

There has been plenty of indication that HP’s webOS-based tablet is doing poorly in the market, anda new report by AllThingsDbrings further confirmation on the matter. According to its source, Best Buy has only been able to sell about 25,000 of the 270,000 TouchPads it had ordered and is unwilling to pay for the residual inventory. Another source for the publication supports that finding and goes on to say that even the 25,000 number may be generous, because it likely doesn’t take into account the units returned by unhappy customers....

The annualMaker Fairetook place this weekend in New York City, an event created byMake Magazineto “celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset.” The first Maker Faire was held in April 2006 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds with just 6 expositions and workshops featuring over 100 Makers. This was the second World Maker Faire held in New York City at the New York Hall of Science in Queens with hundreds of workshops, dozens of expositions and thousands of human beings from babies to centenarians lined up to spend a weekend in a world mixed of arts, crafts, engineering, music, science and sustainability....

Our friends at Vicerecently posteda cute little project that made@Borissmile, so we’ve recaptured it for you here. The Vice author says that prior to getting a smartphone, he spent a significant amount of his life in the Apple Store checking his emails on their free internet. While in the store, he’d check to see if anyone had left any photos in thePhoto Boothprogram and email the best ones to himself from the Apple Stores in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Toronto, Los Angeles and Leicester....