June 2009
64 posts
There, I Fixed It. →
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“The iPhone is our castle, but the App Store is our moat. You’ve got...”
– Fake Steve Jobs
Choking Victim – 500 Channels.
For context.
Construct Your CSS | WYSIWYG Layout Editor,... →
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id Software Bought By Bethesda Parent Company,... →
Kotaku:
Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard… all in one company.
This is an acquisition I can get behind.
“Listen, it takes all I can muster to get along with my brother who I’ve...”
– Michael Lopp
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Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant →
The Wall Street Journal:
Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially.
WatchJoel Johnson:
What if more ’80s toys were turned into Hollywood blockbusters? Spoiler: They wouldn’t be as awesome as this.
Brain Farts →
Craig Hockenberry:
Because it’s not a matter of if you have a brain fart that leads to a critical bug, it’s a matter of when.
A good solution for iPhone devs that need priority status for update reviews.
Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple →
Marco Arment:
One major surprise was when an Apple employee told me that the App Store reviewers are not outsourced: they’re all direct, full-time Apple employees. Many of them work nights and weekends to keep up with the extremely high submission volume, and they’re constantly expanding the staff to keep up with the submission growth.
I was privy to the afore mentioned conversation, and I...
Hostage
I’m stuck in Atlanta after an Airtran royal fuckup. I’ve not slept in 24 hours. My flight is at 6 PM. Everything is kind of fuzzy.
Anyway, all I have now is Tumblr, so post some good stuff today.
Tumblr Noise Meter →
pilnick:
At Jeff Rock’s urging last night, I’ve posted a greasemonkey script that I made a while ago for myself. The basic purpose is to help find the people who post a lot and are filling up your dashboard. I used this to cut out a bunch of the worst offenders and although I only unfollowed a fraction of the people I follow, it made a significant impact on the number of posts I was seeing. It’s...
New MacBook Pro's can boot from SD Cards →
Gizmodo:
Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single, extremely cool trick up its sleeve (slot?): it’s bootable.
Now I really wish I would have waited. Ah well. It’s still a wonderful machine.
Ss demo.
This in-flight WIFI has done wonders for my...
