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‘Not Something That Can Be Debated’ (2)
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iPhone Application Graveyard (9)
onPeter Hosey is maintaining a directory of apps which were rejected or pulled from the App Store. ★Shared by Alec Peden (22) Clint Ecker (124) Dean (9) Jorge (20) Luke Iannini (4) Preoccupations (54) Scott Granneman (25) Tibor (16) William Couch (32)Contribute comment
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Merriam-Webster’s Entry for ‘Invite’ as a Noun (2)
onI reiterate my earlier plea: Get off my lawn, you damn kids. ★Shared by Clint Ecker (124) Jordan T-H (17)Contribute comment
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Google’s Open Source Patches to Wine (7)
onThis idea deserves a full essay, but for now, consider: In the same way that Apple took Mac OS X and Cocoa and shrunk them to serve as a handheld device OS, I think Google could take Android and grow it to serve as a PC OS. Wine would be to Android what Classic was to Mac OS X. The big win is saying “screw you” to KDE and Gnome and all those crap Linux ...Shared by Coty (50) Dr. Ernie (37) Jon (20) Rick (24) Ryan Christensen (55) SengMing (20) shivanand (23)Contribute comment
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The Pragmatic Studio | iPhone Development Training (3)
onFour-day hands-on workshop in November. Hooray for the death of the NDA. ★Contribute comment
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Daring Fireball: The iPhone 3G (9)
onPt. 1: Macro Let’s just say it up front: the iPhone is the greatest piece of consumer electronics that has ever been made. If I could travel back 20 years and show my then 15-year-old self just one thing the future of today, it would be the iPhone. It is our flying cars. Star Trek-style wireless long-distance voice communicator. The content of every major newspaper and magazine in the world. An encyclopedia. Video games. TV. ...Shared by Cecily (34) David (39) Dr. Ernie (37) janequigley (24) Jonathan (51) Nirav (42) Paul Mayne (13) Preoccupations (54) waxattack (10)Contribute comment
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Video: Microsoft PDC Promo Sung by Boy Band | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (13)
onWhat is wrong with this company? Who authorizes this crap? ★Shared by Alessio Bragadini (10) Alex (21) Dave S (25) dobata (307) gfurry (41) GregEh (12) Jason Bryant (27) jpwain (20) megastep (20) Mike F (671) PMinze (56) Robert Scoble (107) Seth G (34)Explore read four notes
- Alex said: This hurts my soul so much
- Jason Bryant said: Scoble and Gruber both agree.
- Dave S said: Really?? $300 Million well spent guys.
- jpwain said: Y'know, I've just come to expect stuff like this from Microsoft. Released on a regular basis, even.
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One More Bob Staake Link (1)
onEven better video showing how he illustrates with Photoshop 3. ★Shared by Dan (31)Contribute comment
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iPhone Contacts and Maps Fast Start (2)
onTom Insam: Apps on the iPhone can ship a ‘default.png’ in their bundle. When you start the app, it’ll first show this image, then load the rest of the app. The idea is, you can ship a picture of the start state of your app, and it’ll appear to have started very quickly. This is why some apps are unresponsive just after they start — they’re not actually started, you’re just looking at a picture. ...Shared by Casey (35) MrGuff (73)Contribute comment
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Staake Uses Mac OS 9 in Classic, Not System 7 (1)
onHe really does still use Photoshop 3.0, though. ★Shared by Mark R (35)Contribute comment
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Bob Staake New Yorker Covers (3)
onSpeaking of The New Yorker’s endorsement of Barack Obama, here’s the story behind the cover for this week’s issue by Bob Staake. According to Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing, Staake still uses an old version of Adobe Photoshop 3.0 running in Classic. I’m actually less surprised that he uses such old software than I am that he uses Photoshop instead of Illustrator. ★Contribute comment
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iPhone Doubles Pandora Growth (8)
onI think it’s finally starting to hit people that the iPhone is the first mainstream consumer mobile computing platform. ★Shared by Alex (31) Alex Plank (10) chrishawn (26) Eugene (44) Preoccupations (54) Ross (36) Ryan Joseph (38) Sebastian Werner (22)
- Ross said: Gruber: "I think it’s finally starting to hit people that the iPhone is the first mainstream consumer mobile computing platform."
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defaultapp (2)
onNew command-line tool from Keith Alperin: you give it a filename extension, defaultapp tells you which app will open it by default. ★Shared by Jeff Daly (53) Thomas Gideon (2)Contribute comment
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★ In the Background (6)
onI’ve written before about which apps are allowed to run in the background on the iPhone, but I’ve gotten a few emails about it in response to this footnote in my “The Fear” piece last week: Even if Apple were to come to its senses and allow third-party developers to write competing email clients, the built-in Mail app would hold one significant technical advantage, which is that it runs in the background. In fact, background ...
- Sebastian Werner said: Interesting. Always thought the the reloading of tabs is some type of bug in mobile safari.
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SMS Privacy Hole in iPhone Emergency Call Mode (6)
onIncoming SMS messages appear as alerts in emergency call mode even when SMS alerts are turned off and the iPhone is passcode-locked. ★Shared by Adam Maldonado (229) Alex Dumitru (288) Dragos Pirvu (665) J.D. Rucker (463) Jeff (159) Jonathan Bloom (20)Contribute comment
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Good Deal (1)
onPieter Omvlee removed the bitmap image editing feature from his app DrawIt. To compensate his users who were using it, he worked out a deal with Gus Mueller to offer them a license to Acorn. The indie developer community at work. ★Shared by Eugene (44)Contribute comment
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YouTube - David Letterman-Paul Newman-Tribute-Sept-29-2008 (7)
onTouching, inspiring, and funny. I love the bit about their custom-built Volvo station wagons. ★Shared by david beckwith (8) Ed (23) Jeffrey (20) Juan Diego (77) Michael (20) Romain (16) Vinny Carpenter (37)Contribute comment
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BusyBlog: How to sync iCal calendar subscriptions to MobileMe and the iPhone (13)
onYou know how subscription calendars — like holiday and sports schedules — don’t sync from iCal to MobileMe? Here’s how to use BusySync to work around it. Man, I love BusySync. ★Shared by Bob (12) David (14) Ian Hilbert (1) Jeffrey (21) Kye S. (8) Kyle (28) mathowie (2) Muzo (27) Steve Rubel (36) Thomas R. Hall (10) Tom (19) Tom Insam (2) yjsoon (16)
- Steve Rubel said: This works beautifully. I am loving BusySync.
- Muzo said: I've been using this combo nearly since the mobileme launch and it's been rock solid. Highly recommended.
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MSI: Wind Coming to Major Retailer, New Models Coming Soon (12)
onMSI, makers of the popular Wind “netbook”: The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks. ★Shared by Allen Tian (6) Clint Ecker (124) Eugene (44) Jeff (4) Joanna (2) macgeekpro (3) Manan Kakkar (9) MetatronsCube (27) roel (37) Ross (36) Simon (21) Vidar Gundersen (25)Contribute comment
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iphone installation process (5)
onCory Bohon reports that audio quality is good, but echo-y. Update: It’s not the first VOIP app, as I initially stated; Truphone has been out for weeks (but doesn’t support Skype calls). ★Contribute comment
