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This seems important.
This seems terrifying.
That’s because it is.
We’re becoming a nation full of poorly trained human capital that, quite ironically, doesn’t understand the fundamentals of math.
See also: Elizabeth Warren.
So you heard about AirPlay, right? Steve kind of glazed over it a little, but here’s one of the most amazing things about it: it’s actually a rebranded and licensed AirTunes.
That’s right. You don’t have to buy multiple AirPort Express basestations to support multiple speakers anymore. Now you can choose from products by JBL, iHome, Denon and others. That means your receiver can be a selectable source in iTunes, as well as the alarm clock next to your bed.
If you upped the pixel density on a 7-inch iPad (132ppi) to that of a non-Retina iPhone (163 ppi), you get almost the exact same number of pixels. Put it this way: You could double the number of pixels on the current iPad, and still comfortably fit them in a Retina-display, 7-inch iPad. The current iPad’s battery, which constitutes the bulk of it’s weight/size, also lasts much longer than I need. With a smaller display, the loss of any battery space would go unnoticed.
Put me in the camp that thinks a 7-inch iPad is a wonderful idea. But there’s not going to be a Retina Display version any time soon. That would mean the embedded hardware would be pushing nearly the same amount of pixels as the forthcoming 27-inch Cinema Display. It wasn’t all that long ago that we could run a 2048 x 1536 display without a powerhouse video card.
It’s more realistic to expect that the 10 and 7-inch iPads would share the same resolution (1024 x 768). The delta between screen sizes wouldn’t reduce tap targets too dramatically and the display would appear more dense and crisp. It would also have the added bonus of keeping developers from doing more somersaults to support yet another resolution standard, which all of us would appreciate greatly.
poshkitten asked: I'm really confused about how dashboard radio works, so is there somewhere i can go to see how its suppose to work. Thank you :)
There’s a FAQ at the bottom of this page if you’re still having issues:
http://jeffrock.com/dashboardradio
kim asked: The screenshots on the Staff blog of the Android Tumblr app shows Jacob liking a post by you about Last.fm. Is it about scrobbling on the Dashboard? If it is, where is it? Because I cant find it, and I want to like it.
That like had to do with someone asking for Last.fm scrobbling support in the Safari Extension I wrote, Dashboard Radio. The original post it references is here.
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iOS users: when interacting with the switch mechanism, are you a tapper or a swiper?
Jeff, this is for you.
So true. So true.
(R)emember: developers are human, and you will be speaking ill of their child. It’s one thing to say “your kid has a stain on her shirt”; it’s another to remark that she’s no good at math. It takes tact and a solution-focused approach to broach the latter problem.
Great advice for users who not only beta test advance software, but email/review/blog about software at all.
I know it’s frustrating to encounter bugs and crashes. Trust me. Developers sweat it harder than anyone. Just remember, when you tell someone that something they made sucks that there’s a few people on the other end of the line.
We were updating our app’s graphics for the gorgeous screen of iPhone 4 the other day and it was a pain to update all the 163 PNG files we had and not to miss a thing.
So, I’ve come up with a simple Ruby script that checks that for each @1x image you have a properly sized @2x image.
The output it gives is like:
FILES WITHOUT @1x VERSION ============================================ status-new@2x.png FILES WITHOUT @2x VERSION ============================================ Icon-Small.png logo.png message-bubble-left.png message-bubble-right.png no-photo-icon-boy-small.png no-photo-icon-girl-small.png nofriendsbg.png profile-gallery-super-star.png send-button.png share-on-network-bounds-rect.png INVALID IMAGE SIZES DETECTED FOR THE FOLLOWING FILES ================= dashboard-checkin-button-full@2x.png: SIZE IS 506 x 94, EXPECTED 596 x 94You can check it out on GitHub at: http://github.com/eploko/ios-png-check
Hopefully it will make life easier for some of you iPhone developers out there. :)
Via Jamie Pinkham.
dusting asked: Holy wow. Thank you for Tumblr Radio safari extension. Gamechanger. Can there be a way to see a 'playlist' when you click on the '6 of 20' or whatever. Thanks
Glad you’re enjoying it. The playlist feature is on my short list.
Update time!
New in 1.1:
Update in Preferences > Extensions or get the new version here:
About to enjoy Saison du Buff, a collaboration between Dogfish Head, Victory and Stone, thanks to Thomas!
On paper this is the greatest beer ever brewed. I fully intend to find out.
portenkirchner asked: Any way or plan to add Last.fm scrobbling to the Dashboard Radio Safari Extension?
Last.fm does allow scrobbling via API, however, the API is going through a bit of a rewrite at the moment. I’ll probably wait until the new one ships before implementing that functionality.