February 2012
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Arguments Against Using Facebook Connect as Your... →
Buzz Anderson, commenting on Bijan Sabet’s post:
For the (I suspect rapidly growing) portion of us who only grudgingly maintain any sort of Facebook presence, it’s like asking us to reaffirm our commitment to a religion before being allowed to eat in your restaurant.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, but it’s not the thing that bothers me the most about Facebook-based...
January 2012
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Help Me Settle a Crucial Argument
Do you like black licorice?
December 2011
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I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...
Roger Ebert:
The theater experience. Moviegoers above 30 are weary of noisy fanboys and girls. The annoyance of talkers has been joined by the plague of cell-phone users, whose bright screens are a distraction. Worse, some texting addicts get mad when told they can’t use their cell phones.
Maybe I am getting old, but I can’t stomach the experience anymore. It’s the number...
October 2011
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The Short Order: Richmond →
Newest entry in the GQ Short Order series with the Chef/owner of Comfort, Jason Alley. All these places are a great meal if you live in RVA or are just passing through. The few places I haven’t been to in this article are now officially on my short list.
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Redemption!
For a little background, Shazam Encore pushed an ad to my iPhone using Apple Push Notification services on October 6th. You can catch up here on my back and forth with them on why they really shouldn’t be doing that (and how it’s very much against the rules put forth by Apple.)
This is what Shazam Encore’s notification settings looked like on October 6th, when the offending ad...
Shazam'd! →
Last night, Shazam Encore pushed an ad to my iPhone using Apple Push Notification services. Here’s a little more on why I believe what they did was an abject abuse of iOS development rules and a few interesting things I dug up in the iOS Developer Program License Agreement that backs up my position.
On a side note, this is the first time I’ve ever used Storify to compose a timeline...
September 2011
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No. 5
Here we go again. There’s a rumor circulating that Apple will introduce an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5 at the Fall music event this year. The iPhone 4 has only been out for 14 months and it’s selling like mad, so to me, the idea that we’re going to get an iPhone 5 so early seems very, very unlikely. But wait! Along comes a rumor with leaked case designs behind it (squeal!) Could it...
August 2011
5 posts
“would it have killed you to put the QRcode in this post??”
– Slightly Inconvenienced Tumblr User, 2011
And that was the day that humanity gave up hope. Sweet dreams!
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“Apple just had its best quarter ever. The iPhone, released just four years ago,...”
– MG Siegler
“I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, ‘Jesus, I’m glad that’s...”
– Anthony Bourdain
“The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in...”
– Anthony Bourdain
July 2011
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Multiple APK Support in Android Market
Android Developers Blog:
With multiple APK support, you can now upload multiple versions of an APK for a single product listing, with each one addressing a different subset of your customers. These APKs are complete, independent APKs that share the same package name, but contain code and resources to target different Android platform versions, screen sizes, or GL texture-compression formats....
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Do we want multi-user profiles on our devices?
Bijan Sabet:
As more and more of our devices are able to tweet and offer personalization, we need some sort of way to do multi-user profiles. Sounds straightforward enough but the challenge will be making it beautiful, fast and simple.
This is one of the more exciting areas where I believe we’ll see major innovation in the next 3 to 5 years. But it won’t hinge on entering a...
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June 2011
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Carousel 1.1 →
Mobelux:
We’ve been working hard to make Carousel even better and we’re excited to bring you our first big update!
Search, pinning, gestures, likes and more. It’s like xmas in June for Instagram and Mac fans.
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Bungie's Marathon Officially Coming To iPad
Arnold Kim:
Bungie has posted on their official blog an interview with iOS developer Daniel Blezek who has been working on porting Marathon to the iPad. Blezek has been working on this project for some time but there were initially questions about the legal issue related to distributing Marathon’s original level packs.
Based on notes from the interview, however, it seems that this is now...
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Sofa Acquired by Facebook
John Gruber:
A lot of people were surprised — the Sofa guys do great work but don’t seem to do the sort of things Facebook would be interested in. I don’t think this is the last such design talent acquisition they’re going to make. Facebook is building a serious, world-class design group.
Maybe this is just a design talent acquisition, or perhaps Sofa was doing exactly what Facebook is...
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Carousel Featured In The Mac App Store
mobelux:
It’s been an exciting first month for Carousel but we were genuinely surprised when we launched the Mac App Store last night and saw this:
And just in time for WWDC!
Thanks to everyone who purchased a license through the Mac App Store and the Mobelux Store. It allows us to continue developing apps like Carousel. We can’t wait to show you what we have in store for 1.1!
So proud...
May 2011
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Carousel and Open Source
Carousel (our Instagram desktop app for Mac) was conceived, designed, developed and released in an eight week period between client projects. How did we pull it off? By building to our strengths and utilizing available resources. Carousel is the product of hard work by good people that work at Mobelux and hard work by good people that make open source software.
We proudly implemented these open...
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Introducing Carousel: The Best Way To Experience...
Mobelux:
All of us at Mobelux are huge Instagram fans, and while we love posting photos and checking our feed on the go, we also wanted a way to explore Instagram while we were working throughout the day on our Macs.
So today we’re releasing our first desktop app: Carousel.
Main features.
Beautiful, vintage presentation aesthetic in a minimal desktop footprint.
View your feed, popular...
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Calling all beards
Neighborhoodr Richmond:
“Include your photo/resume, demo reel links and your willingness to grow your hair/beard starting immediately.” That Lincoln film needs your beards, guys.
(thanks, tessshebaylo.)
Steven Spielberg is filming Lincoln in Richmond, VA this Fall and they’re looking for local extras.
Pros:
I’ve got the Civil War-era facial hair covered.
Cons:
I’m...
April 2011
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Airpush
John Gruber:
Sounds like hell on earth.
What John is referring to is Airpush, and yes, it does sound like hell on earth. But the worst thing about a push ad service is that it’s a cure for a symptom, and the Android app market is sick.
Apparently, Android users aren’t spending money. And it’s not their fault. These are people that thought they were the on the bleeding...
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March 2011
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iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing
Matthew Guay (via Brian Chen):
The microwave isn’t easier for every cooking task, and perhaps it takes longer to prepare a complicated meal in a microwave. Perhaps no award winning meal will be created in one, unless it’s a special contest for microwave cooking. But it simplified simple cooking, and consumers around the world saw it as a necessary piece of equipment within in years of it...
Dear Open Letter Writers
Justin Williams:
An open letter on today’s searchable Web is nothing more than a trumped up blog post with a salutation and valediction. Everything on a public facing web site is already open whether it is in the form of a letter, blog post or giant image plastered on the front page of Amazon. By formulating an online writing in the form of an open letter, the writer’s goal is obviously to...
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Chasing Apple
Yonhap News Agency (via Macrumors):
Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile division, said that Apple has presented new challenges for the South Korean company with a thinner mobile gadget that is priced the same as its predecessor.
“We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate,” Lee told Yonhap News Agency. “Apple made it very...
February 2011
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“Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from...”
– Paul Rand
Via Carl MH Barenbrug.
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