July 2009
45 posts
Dosis facit venemon:
What’s your favorite candy?
Reese’s Pieces.
“Think you’re tough? Try designing & developing production software. It’s...”
– Jeff Rock
Buzz Anderson:
So true.
Update: Since someone seems to have taken issue with this statement, let me add: I don’t think either Jeff or I intended it as a literal comparison of the relative difficulty of triathalons and software development. Shipping a complex app as a lone...
Locked-In, Again
Marco Arment:
Apple thinks reviews can take 8-30 days and web-capable apps need nudity warnings and the management interface can be buggy as shit and they don’t need us to be able to reach them and nobody really needs to take any of this very seriously.
Because it’s working for them. They’re making a killing taking their 30% commission on the 1.5 billion copies of $0.99 top-25 games that...
I'm super-excited about the news behind this link... →
Testing audio with Marc at Havana ‘59.
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A busy day in Tumblr town
Photoset email support after breakfast? Submissions after lunch?!?
Can’t wait to see what you guys have planned for dinner.
API updates au gratin, perhaps? :)
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Zebra
Part Three, Diagnosis
This is the third in a series of posts about Emily’s past few months. Here’s part one and part two.
The hospital stays were starting to blend. I only went home to feed the cats and check the mail and sleep. I became, more or less, an answering machine. Coordinator of information. The more people that knew what was going on the more times I played-back the same non-news....
Regarding tab bars in iPhone apps
Brent Simmons, in response to Justin Williams:
I totally see Justin’s points, and agree most ways, most of the time…But I’ve also found that people who aren’t professional iPhone developers like tab bars. My experience is just mine, of course, and it’s mostly to do with news/photo/video apps. My theory is that, for some people, a tab bar makes an app feel richer, more generous, more...
Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS →
FSJ:
What the fuck is going on inside Google? How much more out of control and undisciplined can this place get? How many new goddamn operating systems are they going to create? They’ve already got Android, and nobody wants it. Now they’re going to make yet another operating system, this time out of a browser that nobody wants. What’s next? A Gmail-based operating system? A...
WatchiChat as art.
Via The Daily What.
Google announces Chrome OS
Google:
So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Runs on ARM and X86. Geared towards netbooks (initially, at least). Now you never have to leave your browser. And can’t.
It’s exactly where Google wants you to be.
Goodbye →
Joel Johnson:
This is my last week at Boing Boing. I’ve several projects that I’ve been dying to do for several years, and as much as working with everyone here is a dream job, there comes a point when you have to take a leap and commit to those ideas.
Sad to see it. I’m a big fan of Joel Johnson’s blogging and I’m sad to see him leave such a great tech blog....
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Photo != Movie
There’s more annoying than when Apple does something with their software that you can’t do. They legitimize it by telling you that they want to get the functionality near-perfect before releasing it for general use. I get that. But when they do something that I really need to be able to do and can’t it’s very frustrating.
Case in point: video. The way you get video from the 3GS is really quite...
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Palin resigns as governor of Alaska →
Brad Woodhouse (Democratic National Committee spokesman):
Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can’t handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down, either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre...
WatchSo. That’s working now.
Quick, get this kid some help
Sorry Tumblrs, you can’t see the videos in the dashboard. Click here to watch
So, for reference:
I’m sure this is already pretty famous, but I’d never seen it. It’s pretty great, right?
Then it gets better (or worse). The same family that decided to cancel his WoW account buys him a new truck for his birthday:
Maybe he snapped because his parents have $150,000...
There, I Fixed It →
In the past twenty-four hours, you guys have blogged, facebook-ed, reddit-ed, and tweeted enough to funnel over a million hits to this site. … The cunning of the human mind when presented with only duct tape and chip clips is nothing short of amazing.
Love this site. Keep’em coming.
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