January 2010
“In all the brouhaha, I’m surprised that nobody’s pointed to ActiveX...”
– Twitter / siegel
sun.com →
“Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow made his little poster showing what a bunch of...”
– Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
“When saving a file you can press / at the save dialog box to choose from any...”
– OS X Hidden Gems
“Notice anything wrong? They forgot a return; statement right at the end of the...”
– The STM Release Exploit
Countess Bathory Was Right →
Epic title win.
“The Google is now working again.”
– Good for you, Google. Via Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog » Islam Is….
“The iPad is an attractive, thoughtfully designed, deeply cynical thing. It is a...”
– Alex Payne — On the iPad
“That’s why when included in last week’s A-list was a writer-director...”
– Language Log » Spectacular multiple adjunct fronting from Woody Allen
“The new addition to my kit has been, I’m afraid to say, the iPhone 3GS. Like my...”
– Warren Ellis » The Mobile System
“Believe it or not, one of the most valuable features of a tester is providing...”
– Why testers? - Joel on Software
“Developing applications for the iPhone and iPad is expensive, he said, because...”
– Brandon Watson, director of product management in the developer platform at Microsoft. I can only assume that this was meant to be ironic. Daring Fireball Linked List: Microsoft Reaction to iPad
“The iPad’s impact to computing will be huge, and Steven Frank nails why we’re so...”
– I can only speak for myself, but that’s not what makes me uncomfortable. I like how the iPad works. I like that it makes a lot of skills unnecessary.
What I dislike is how Apple locks down the device. There will be no BASIC in the App Store. There will be no HyperCard in the App Store. If I...
“Anne Frank’s adolescent curiosity about sexuality is too much for a...”
– School district pulls Anne Frank’s diary over ‘vagina’ passage | Raw Story
“In that letter you describe Mr. Giger’s ‘initial sense of...”
– Letters of Note: I felt the risk of being overwhelmed by Giger
“When DVD Jon was arrested after breaking the CSS encryption algorithm, he was...”
– Tinkerer’s Sunset [dive into mark]
“But PA Semi’s 150 engineers still delivered on their promises. The sole...”
– Too bad Apple never put that into a PowerBook. Apple inside: the significance of the iPad’s A4 chip | Laptop | iPhone Central | Macworld
“The saving grace, such as it is, is that administration officials know better;...”
– Pretending To Be Stupid - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
“In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the...”
– Or perhaps more than just one degree. stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been…
“The same guys who ate their babies in exchange for rain also went to great...”
– 6 Enlightened Ideas Brought to You by Evil Empires | Cracked.com
Watch(via LiveLeak.com - Urban Skiing)
“I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on...”
– While I agree with the sentiment, I don’t see how the iPad improves this situation. Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock
For some unfathomable reason, I have been... →
I want to make it clear that I did not write the byline above the interview. Which doesn’t mean that I don’t find it both flattering and hilarious.
“Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to...”
– Is it still possible to figure out which links are visited using JS? If so, that might be another way to recognize people without cookies. Panopticlick
“In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was...”
– Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“The Freeciv.net crew has benchmarked their web client, which is a rich web...”
– Slashdot Developers Story | Freeciv As Benchmark of HTML5 Canvas Javascript Performance
“A man in Australia was recently convicted for possessing pornographic images...”
– So if you gave somebody a piece of paper and a pen, he could draw a picture that would be so incredibly evil that you’d have to put him in jail merely for owning the picture he just drew. Simpsons, Powerpuff Girls porn nets jail time for Australian
“The main processor is an ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore with an ARM Mali graphics core,...”
– So iPhone apps presumably run natively on the iPad, not in an emulation environment. Apple A4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Apple is not embarrassed by iPhone OS’s lack of Flash.”
– Jobs actually stopped scrolling with the broken flash thingie in the middle of the screen at one point during the introduction, letting it sit there for a second or two. That’s as good as giving Adobe the finger. Daring Fireball Linked List: Adobe Flash Platform Blog on iPad’s Lack of...
Cocoia Blog » iPad UI Roundup →
thinkdrastic:
lkm:
Wait, there’s Keynote, but no video out?
Incorrect.
I stand corrected. Schiller mentioned this during the introduction of the iPad, but I can’t find it on Apple’s site.
“As Steve Jobs and Apple prepared to announce their new tablet device, activists...”
– Linux Today - The iPad is potentially one of the most important, culture-changing products in history!
“Gerhard Zeiler, Geschäftsführer der RTL Group, hat die Politik aufgefordert,...”
– Und wenn das nächste mal jemand einen erpresserischen Brief per Post schickt stecken wir den Briefträger dafür in den Knast. heise online - RTL-Chef: Provider für Urheberrechtsverstöße zur Verantwortung ziehen
Wait, there’s Keynote, but no video out? Schiller mentioned a video out cable, but it’s not yet on Apple’s site.
“As newspapers struggle to survive and local broadcasts try to find a way to...”
– Slashdot News Story | Does Personalized News Lead To Ignorance?
“The exchange’s filing, released a little over a week ago, has the details of...”
– How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K (via jou)
Piss-poor error prevention; I guess some usability testing was too expensive…more expensive than losing $150K?
(via rock85)
iPad
http://www.apple.com/ipad/
The name is funny, just because everybody and his dog predicted that Apple would never use such a lame name.
This isn’t meant to be a larger iPod touch, it’s meant to be a cheaper MacBook, in that Apple seems to think that you’ll use it in the context you currently use a laptop.
So, is Apple going to allow a Kindle app for that thing?
No...
