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‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Icon Set (10)

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Nice set of icons by Mischa McLachlan. ★

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Comments on Comments on Zeldman’s XHTML WTF (7)

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There are a lot of misunderstandings out there regarding HTML 5. ★

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Email Full-Resolution Photos From the iPhone (22)

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Good tip: If you use copy-and-paste instead of the “Email Photo” button in the Camera app, you can email the full-resolution version of the photo. ★

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BradMcGonigle said: This will be my new method of posting photos to flickr. No more flickIt until they do a decent update.

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★ Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora (22)

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To use the HTML 5 <video> tag in Firefox 3.5, you need video files encoded in the Ogg Theora format. Apple doesn’t support this format at all, so you can’t just export Ogg files from QuickTime like you can with H.264/MPEG-4. I spent some time trying to find the best easy way to create Ogg Theora files on Mac OS X, and I think ffmpeg2theora is it. In his “Video for Everybody” article I linked ...

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Getting Pretty Lonely (12)

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Smart essay from Daniel Jalkut on how the GPL discourages participation from many (if not most) developers. ★

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XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5 (54)

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Mitch said: Like I said, HTML 5 is kind of a big deal.
hober said: Yay!
Richard Mondello said: I was a big fan of XHTML, but this is a good thing.

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Apple Retail Stores Can Now Replace Broken iPhone Screens (11)

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Speaking of fixing cracked iPhone screens, Jim Dalrymple reports: The Loop has confirmed that if your iPhone has a broken screen and you take it to an Apple retail relocation, they have the capability to fix it on the spot. The machine, which is located out of customer view in the back of the store, reportedly separates the iPhone from the screen, allowing a new one to be installed. Of course, your screen doesn’t have ...

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Glen Murphy said: Woohoo!
Dylan Bennett said: Joe?
Kerry said: yes! Of course, i just need a new iPhone instead.

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TidBITS iPod & iPhone: How to Replace a Cracked iPhone 3G Screen (15)

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Step-by-step instructions, with photos, from Jeff Carlson. ★

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Brian Newby said: $80 and 4 hours ain't a bad deal.

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Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best Ever Sales Day’ (5)

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MacDailyNews has obtained an internal AT&T memo: On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008’s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours. ★

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Mitch said: Staggering numbers.
pberry said: So, as an AAPL shareholder this is awesome. As an AT&T hater, well...

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Kroc Camen: Video for Everybody (21)

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No-JavaScript HTML 5 markup from Kroc Camen that works across browsers and platforms and requires only two video source files: H.264 and Ogg Theora. (In browsers that don’t support HTML 5’s <video> tag, it falls back on Flash, QuickTime, and Windows Media.) ★

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Cast42 said: HTML5 needs 22 lines of code to implement is a cross browser and backwards compatible way. Welcome to the real world.
Mitch said: HTML 5 is a big deal.

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Ian Hickson on Codecs for the HTML 5 and Tags (32)

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The goal was for there to be at least one standard video codec that would work across all HTML 5 browsers — one format that would work across browsers and platforms with no plugins. But, alas, the result is an impasse. Apple won’t support Ogg Theora, and Mozilla and Opera won’t support H.264. (Google, admirably, is willing to support both in Chrome, but they don’t consider Ogg good enough to use for YouTube.) So there ...

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Alcides Fonseca said: Shit!
Joshua said: Thats too bad. This news only hurts the users.
Casey said: sigh :(
Geoff said: Here we go again...
Craig said: This is the sort of thing that will really delay the widespread adoption of HTML 5 in the mainstream
wpbasti said: Still no clear situation with the video codec support in HTML 5. What's about offering H.264 in Firefox with some kind of extension? Could this help the license issue?
phillip said: hmm

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An Ant, Close Up (26)

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GigaPan: This ant is composed of 400 pictures, and it’s magnified 400x using a scanning electron microscope. The ant was given to us to image by Brian Fisher an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences. The intersection of horrifying and wonderful. ★

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Richard Mondello said: Bio people, rejoice?
Justin Doub said: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Read Our Magazines (11)

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The Pragmatic Programmers’ new free monthly programming magazine, edited by Michael Swaine, former editor of Dr. Dobb’s Journal (and, once upon a time, an excellent columnist for the old MacUser magazine). Available in PDF, mobi, and epub formats. (Via Michael Tsai.) ★

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Zsoltik@ said: Kapcsi?

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App Store WTF of the Week (App Store Link) (6)

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New iPhone game named “Mariolife”, featuring Mario. What makes it a WTF is that the game is clearly neither from nor licensed by Nintendo. It boggles the mind that this made it into the App Store. Can’t wait for the sequel starring Mickey Mouse. (Thanks to Brian Ford.) Update: Ends up the App Store review team simply doesn’t deal with copyright and trademark verification (with the exception of enforcing Apple’s own trademarks, of course). Any ...

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chbm said: Apple is not so spotless on this one. They do host the infringing material so this screams of DMCA take down. And let's not forget they do take 30% of the loot so there's also a compensation suit in the horizon. Oh if only Apple didn't screen applications!

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Craigslist Map Thingie (Craigslist Apartment Maps for You) (7)

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Genius from Poeks: Craigslist Map Thingie slurps housing listings from Craigslist and plots them on Google Maps, with a panorama view of the property, if available. Update: It’s news to me, but a slew of DF readers emailed to point to Housing Maps, which does something similar. ★

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PC World’s Nationwide 3G Network Testing (14)

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PC World commissioned an extensive nationwide 3G test in the U.S.: The AT&T network’s 13-city average download speed in our tests was 812 kbps. Its average upload speed was 660 kbps. Reliability was an issue in our experience of the AT&T system: Our testers were able to make a connection at a reasonable, uninterrupted speed in only 68 percent of their tests. Reliability is the single most important factor, and AT&T’s network is clearly the ...

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pberry said: Once you get rid of the crappy phone you realize what a crappy underlying service you have...
Dylan Bennett said: What's really pathetic about this is that iPhone subscribers are paying a premium price for their data plan. It's unreal what they pay vs what they get. Seriously. A home cable connection is only like $10 more a month than the data plan iPhone owners pay. AT&T needs to buck up, shell out, and get their network delivering on par with what people are paying for.

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Adobe Shuts Down for a Week (19)

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Uh-oh: Adobe Systems has shut its North American operations for the week as part of a cost-cutting effort that the company said it will repeat at least once more this year. This strategy has never made any sense to me. In a manufacturing business — like an auto factory — I get it. But at a software company, shouldn’t every week be a productive week? And I can only guess that on some, if not ...

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df said: Pretty raw. They have a huge profit, and they ask their employees to reduce their paid vacation by a week. Why not at least let them choose unpaid and have more free time?

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Adobe Shuts Down for a Week (9)

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Uh-oh: Adobe Systems has shut its North American operations for the week as part of a cost-cutting effort that the company said it will repeat at least once more this year. ★

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joshjs said: I suppose if the federal government can shut down for a week, Adobe can. Still, it seems like such a bizarre measure.(In other news, Daring Fireball is a new favorite RSS feed.)
Grork said: Uh oh is indeed the word.Maybe microsoft should buy adobe? :)

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Microsoft’s New Ads for Internet Explorer (15)

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I won't use the browser, but these ads are funny.

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Verdi said: There's a bleepy sound in most of them that's a sfx that ships with Garageband or Soundtrack. Those ads were probably made on a Mac. Also, they're not funny.
Nuno Nunes said: If these are for real someone must have hit their head pretty hard over at Microsoft. The O.M.G.I.G.P. one is especially nasty, wth was going on in their minds?

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Birdfeed - A very nice Twitter client for your iPhone (via feedly) (11)

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Excellent new $5 iPhone Twitter client from Buzz Andersen (with design by Neven Mrgan). I’ve been beta-testing Birdfeed for a long time, and it is truly worth your attention. It looks good and feels smart, and it has some features which, once you get used to them, you can’t believe aren’t in every iPhone Twitter client. Among my favorites: Scroll to the bottom of a list of tweets and Birdfeed will start loading more, from ...

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