May 2011
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Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against... →
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Sony Ericsson to sell Dropbox-powered Android... →
So I’m guessing we won’t be hearing Apple announce they bought Dropbox at WWDC. Still awesome news though. I love dropbox and highly recommend it.
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iWork for iPhone & iPod Touch →
Apple just announced iWork for iPhone & iPod Touch. Best of al it’s a universal binary. So existing owners will be able to use it on iPhone and iPod Touch now to in addition to their iPads. Judging by the fact that WWDC is only days away, I’d say the only reason they announced this now is because there is no more time left during the keynote.
Earlier today Apple already confirmed...
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How to make iCal play nice with Sparrow
It’s no secret I love Sparrow. I’ve been using it since it was in beta and I’m a very happy customer.
Abandoning Apple Mail for a third party e-mail application however does come with it’s quirks. Apple was nice enough to not respect the “Default e-mail reader” setting (which is in Apple Mail itself btw) in many of it’s applications including iCal....
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inPulse →
From the description on their website:
inPulse is the perfect hacker accessory - a fully programmable wireless smartwatch.
And I thought having a iPod Nano as a watch made you a geek.
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PintPay →
I must disappoint some of my readers that might have clicked a link to this blog post thinking this post was about paying with beers, it’s not. It’s about an interesting new payment gateway that offers an easy recurring billing solution for your website. It sets itself apart from services like Chargify and Recurly by initially not requiring a monthly fee until you reach $ 300 a month...
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NFC Breakdown →
Richard Gaywood wrote a nice and clear explanation of what NFC is and why you should care.
I do wonder if this road ends with Apple acquiring Square and integrating the latter’s staff and know-how into whatever NFC plans they have internally.
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Real Life iOS project using TDD Techniques →
Doug Sjoquist:
I am not a TDD expert, nor am I a TDD purist, but I wanted to share my experience and lessons learned while it was fresh. Hopefully this will encourage other developers to add more testing to their development diet.
It’s an interesting read with some good advice and tips for people trying to get started doing TDD with iOS development.
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It's About The Hashbangs →
Dan Webb has an excellent and thorough analysis of why Hash-bangs are a bad idea.
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"I'm a PC guy and I just opened a software... →
Shawn Blanc on Amazon’s new Mac Software Downloads Store:
I love Amazon and shop there all the time. But I’m just saying, this feels like if the “I’m a PC” guy from the commercials had switched to Mac and then opened a software downloads store.
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Microsoft has received five times more income from... →
Horacle Dediu:
Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning.
Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement.
Microsoft is suing other Android phone makers, and it’s looking for $7.50 to $12.50 per device, says...
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❖ Microsoft shows off Windows Phone Mango
This week Microsoft proudly showed of Windows Phone 7’s new release codenamed ‘Mango’. They even posted this really nice introduction video on youtube.
Go watch it. It’s a blast and includes all the usual Microsoft marketing nonsense including the now traditional “IE is faster then every browser on the planet in our in-house produced benchmark”. They compare a...
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What labels love about Apple's upcoming iCloud →
But it’s this subscription model that has the major labels so enthusiastic as it will finally allow them to extort fees for all that pirated audio you may have stumbled upon since Napster was loosed on an unprepared music industry a decade ago.
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Find My iPhone gone wrong →
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Reinventing the Collect Call →
I’ve just received my invite for Vox.io, a new VOIP service which is currently still in beta. Obviously I haven’t had much time to play around with it yet having signed-up only minutes ago. It has already caught my attention in a big way by introducing a feature they call “Quick Call” which is a reincarnation of what used to be known as collect calls.
voxio:
We thought...
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Aerial Photographs of Joplin Before and After the... →
via (Shawn Blanc)
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Dell's new M̶a̶c̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶P̶r̶o̶ XPS 15z →
Engadget reviews Dell’s new Macbook pro XPS 15z and this quote says it all:
But let’s get this out of the way right now: though the XPS 15z most definitely looks like a MacBook Pro and sports similar materials, you’ll wind up disappointed if you’re expecting the same exacting attention to detail. You’re looking at an aluminum and magnesium alloy sandwich here, not...
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Apple to Lodsys: "Fuck off" →
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Hype 1.0 →
Using Hype, you can create beautiful HTML5 web content. Animations and interactive content made with Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.
Their software looks really amazing. It looks that good that it could actually have been made by Apple themselves. Great job. Seems like a bargain for only $29.99 or (€ 23.99) on the Mac App Store.
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When electronics become obsolete →
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Cloudy With a Chance of Music →
Shawn Blanc wrote an excellent piece on the state of cloud music services. My setup is exactly like he describes:
In an ideal world I would always have access to my whole iTunes library from my laptop, Apple TV, iPad, and iPhone. Most people solve this by purchasing a Mac Mini and setting it up as the shared media library for the house. This is a pretty good and clever solution for home media...
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The Noun Project →
A very well designed website with hundreds of internationally recognized symbols. Best of all they are available to download for free.
(via Jason Cotterell)
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf Sale →
The guys over at The Pragmatic Bookshelf are having a 40% off sale on all Rails books. This week only, especially for RailsConf. If you’re not a rails dev that’s ok since some of them are on different topics like CoffeeScript, HTML5 & CSS3 or Javascript. I really love their books and just bought a few more myself.
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Seagate GoFlex Satellite →
Darren Murph over at Engadget wrote a nice review about Seagate’s newly released GoFlex Satellite. This interesting mobile hard-disk comes with a built-in battery and allows you to stream the content of the hard-drive over WiFi to any modern mobile device. Apparently it even comes with a car charger.
Daren Murph
Naturally, things work best on an iOS device, but any tablet / handheld /...
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Dear KPN →
In response to yesterdays news about Dutch telecom provider KPN using DPI to monitor all their customers traffic Alexander wrote an open letter to KPN.
Here is an excerpt in Dutch
Alexander Klöpping:
Je bent een beetje een opa aan het worden, die de steeds sneller draaiende wereld niet meer goed kan bijhouden — krampachtig probeert vast te houden aan het oude. Lange tijd was alles wat je...
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Neven Mrgan: Top Grossest Apps →
mrgan:
The very fact that these are the top grossing apps signals just how good they are at vacuuming money out of pockets. “Games” of this sort make me embarrassed for games as a medium. You can buy a $99.99 dose of fake money in Texas Poker (with no possibility of, uh, winning any money back.) For shame.
I couldn’t agree more.
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How Google controls Android →
Nilay Patel:
It’s also clear that Google places tremendous value on collecting location data, and it acted swiftly when it determined Skyhook’s deal with Motorola might threaten its ability to collect that data. Hell, one of the headings in Google’s summary judgment brief is “Skyhook was not entitled to deprive Google of its contractual right to collect location data on Motorola Android...
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Subtle Patterns →
As they describe themselves:
Tasty, high quality patterns for your next web project
The patterns they offer are awesome and certainly worth a look.
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Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It's possible... →
Jon Stokes:
Apple is looking to get away from using Samsung to fab its A4 and A5 chips, because the Cupertino-based company is currently suing Samsung for allegedly ripping off elements of the iPhone and iPad. The most logical Samsung alternative is TSMC, and Apple probably is looking to source some of its production there, but TSMC is making ARM parts for everyone and their uncle, so there...
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Shawn Blanc on iCloud →
Syncing of 3rd-party app data: Free for everyone with an Apple ID and part of the iOS 5 SDK announced and made available on June 6.