July 2011
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Not looking at the numbers →
Darren Murph over at Engadget seems to be a real optical drive enthusiast. I noticed it earlier this week when I read his Mac Mini review. He basically hates the new Mac Mini because it lacks an optical drive.
I personally have a Mac Mini from 2007 and can honestly say that I have used the Superdrive that came with it twice in total. Once to rip the DVD of my babtisme and the second time to rip...
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The World's First Emoji Domain →
Hilarious ! But overall pretty useless.
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Playing Monopoly →
Thanks to the patent system, the tech market is looking more like Parker Brothers’ “Monopoly” game every day
It’s kind of sad that we’ve reached the point where every time a tech company passes “Go” in Silicon Valley, they have to sweat over landing on someone’s patented hotel space and cough up billions of dollars if they want to keep...
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Knock-Off of the week: Apple Store →
No Comment. (via TUAW)
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Mind Your MeTweets →
Mike Davidson:
You know how when someone compliments you, the first thing you do is e-mail everyone you know to tell them about the compliment?
Mike makes some valid point against self-promotion re-tweets. It’s something which has been bugging me for a while on Twitter as well. It has lead me to un-follow many services or products I use.
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A Single Ecosystem for PCs, tablets, phones and... →
Nilay Patel reporting for This is my next
Lees went on to say that Microsoft wants to provide “coherence and consistency” across different devices, “particularly with Xbox,” and that the goal isn’t just to share UI
In which world does it make sense to have the same UI as you have on your PC on your tablet, your phone and your TV when all four have different screen sizes, resolutions and...
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App Store Volume Purchasing for Business →
Whether you’re providing apps to two employees or ten thousand, the Volume Purchase Program makes it simple to find, buy, and distribute the apps your business needs.
The Volume Purchase Program also provides a way to purchase custom B2B apps built by third-party developers to meet the unique needs of your business.
The Volume Purchase Program for Business is coming soon to businesses...
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State of Push Part II →
An update from Mark Jardine regarding push notifications for TweetBot. When I bought TweetBot I was fully aware of all of its limitations. Nevertheless I bought it and I’m still very happy with it.
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AppCode: upcoming Objective C IDE by JetBrains →
AppCode is the upcoming Objective C IDE by the same company that does Intelli-J for Java and Resharper for C# and Visual Studio. While at WWDC, Saul tracked down the AppCode team for a short discussion on JetBrains’ plans for AppCode and what you can do to help make AppCode the IDE you want to see.
The Intelli-J IDE for Java is very popular among my fellow developers who do Java. You can...
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Sparrow 1.3 is a major update →
sparrowmail:
Sparrow 1.3 has been submited to the Mac App Store. Our little bird is now fully compatible with Lion OS X and takes advantage of the cool new things Apple brought to the Mac. Here is a quick tour of the new features and improvements you should be able to play with in a few days.
I’m not a fan of the extended sidebar but other then that all awesome improvements. The view...
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Takedown notice for monkey self-portrait →
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Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto Joins Heroku →
Heroku, the leading open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and a salesforce.com company [NYSE: CRM], has announced that Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the free and open source Ruby programming language, will join Heroku as Chief Architect of Ruby
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Taylor Martin switched back to an iPhone →
As much as I love the Android platform, it’s time for a break. In the past year, I’ve owned over 25 Android devices, both tablets and phones. I eat, sleep and breathe Android at the moment, and it’s time to take a step back and diversify. Being on another platform is a welcomed change. Fear not, faithful followers. I still have an Android phone that I will use on a daily...
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Licensing webOS →
Ross Rubin:
That leaves LG. Once touted as Microsoft’s premiere hardware partner for Windows Phone 7, it was left out in the cold when the folks in Redmond signed their blockbuster deal with Nokia. LG has been behind Samsung in both the Android and burgeoning Windows Phone market, and is less of a threat in the laptop and printer market than Samsung. However, like Samsung, LG is a...
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Court approve sale of Nortel patents to consortium... →
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webOS shuffle →
Nilay Patel:
Stephen DeWitt is now the senior vice president of webOS, replacing Jon Rubinstein, who’ll “assume a product innovation role” in HP’s Personal Systems Group, which encompasses webOS. DeWitt will be in charge of everything webOS from engineering to marketing, so this is a major change at the top
Not sure if this is a good thing but time will tell.
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A Walk in the Woods With Mark Zuckerberg →
“He pointed out Apple’s headquarters, then Hewlett-Packard and a number of other big tech companies,” the individual explained. “Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all.”
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Flickr Push API →
The 20,000 ft overview is basically this:
You make an API call to Flickr asking to subscribe to one of several different photo feeds, providing a callback URL in the arguments.
A little verification dance ensues during which we make a request to your callback URL. If you respond appropriately we’re all good and from then on…
Live(-ish) updates are POSTed from Flickr to your callback...
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Collusion →
Interactive visualization of how different websites track your browsing behavior (via @klaaspieter).
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The new iPhone rumor round-up →
Engadget has a nice round-up with all the rumors for the upcoming iPhone.
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Shawn Blanc reviews the TouchPad →
Great very extensive review. I also like his title: “The HP TouchPad 1.0”. This is definitely a long term effort and there is lots more to come.
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A better deal for roaming in the EU →
Neelie Kroes:
Within a Single Market, there is simply no justification for huge mark-ups, just because you’ve crossed an invisible internal border that is supposed to have disappeared. And just because customers have little or no choice in the matter.
For example, people often pay over 2 euros per megabyte of data downloaded when roaming, whereas operators typically charge each...
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It’s a marathon, not a sprint →
Jon Rubenstein:
We still have work to do to make webOS the platform we know it can be, but remember…..it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
In that spirit, Richard Kerris, head of worldwide developer relations for webOS, reminded me yesterday of the first reviews for a product introduced a little over ten years ago:
“…overall the software is sluggish”
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Screeny →
The Simplest Screen Recording App For Your Mac. Ever.
Looks great.
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WatchWordpress for WebOS was just announced.
Looks great! Best of all it’s all open-source.
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Coda for iPad
Stylish iPad Apps:
It’s a mockup but it would definitely be cool if they actually decided to build it. The mockup was not done by Panic. They have however (in my opinion successfully) experimented with productivity apps for iPad already in the form of Prompt. Who said iPad was only for consumption ?
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Likeability →
Shawn Blanc:
From what I have seen and read about the TouchPad and webOS so far, this may be the first likable tablet since the iPad. It’s buggy and has a poor app store like the rest of the other tablets. But what the TouchPad has that the others do not is likability. And that gives me hope that it could be great.