kubi:
… and my point is: never ask to see how the hotdogs are made.
(I imagine there’s only a handful of you who recognize those photos)
I’ve visited Hawaii with those ladies many a time.
Co-founder of Mobelux and the biological father of the Tumblr iPhone app.
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The Real Reason That There’s No Flash On The iPad
Many (if not most) current Flash games, menus, and even video players require a visible mouse pointer. They are coded to rely on the difference between hovering over something (mouseover) vs. actually clicking. This distinction is not rare. It’s pervasive, fundamental to interactive design, and vital to the basic use of Flash content. New Flash content designed just for touchscreens can be done, but people want existing Flash sites to work. All of them—not just some here and there—and in a usable manner. That’s impossible no matter what.
Horn toot: this is the primary reason I’ve been giving folks that ask me why I think there’s no Flash on the iPhone/iPod/iPad.
The interface constructs of touch computing are entirely different from mousing. This is why there will never be Flash on an iPhone OS device. Flash was written for mouse-based interaction. It’s the same reason Mac OS X apps don’t run on the iPhone. Even the holy grail of Flash video content sites, Hulu, requires hover to display video controls.
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Two Dozen Carriers Worldwide Unite Against Apple’s App Store
Two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile and Vodafone, are teaming up to create an “open international applications platform,” which is obviously in direct response to Apple’s success with its own iPhone App Store.
There’s such a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen, but this is more like too many greedy middle managers hovering over the stove.
Look. Developers will learn what they need to learn in order to make the things that they want to create. But I’ll tell you one thing. What I’m not interested in is making AJAX widgets for phones that come free with 2-year contracts. Furthermore, the last thing we need is another mediocre SDK built on frameworks designed by committee.
Best of luck.
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Every time this horrible, contrived design shows itself in a commercial this is what I see.
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svoldal asked: Are you still the main developer of the Tumblr app? If so, great work! Been waiting for an update for a while, though. Haven't you got some fancy new ideas to write into the app?
Thanks! Yes, I’m still the main force behind the iPhone app, but I’m now accompanied by a few excellent engineers: Jamie and Jason at Mobelux. This will allow me to move towards primarily being a designer instead of designing and developing apps (more like 75/25 instead of 50/50).
Don’t worry though; we have a bunch of new Tumblr-based stuff in the works (including an update of the iPhone app) that we can’t wait to show you guys.
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Finally had to break down and mock up an iPad. Unfortunately I had to print it in black and white because I was out of color ink (of course).
But that’s ok. I needed to get a better sense of the size and screen dimensions. This is definitely doing the trick.
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It’s a very strange feeling, holding this box. There’s a little piece of me in every one.
Well, not technically. And you don’t really see it until you download it from the App Store. I mean, there’s totally a picture of it on the box though.
Oh, whatever. The important part is that I have one and you don’t. Ha!
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Please Vote! →
I have an opportunity to intern and see the world,
it only takes a second of your time and means the world to me, (literally!)
thanks!
Voted. Love the video, too.
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Google Apps Dropping Support for IE 6
The Google Apps team:
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
What a wonderful email to start your day with. Well done fellas. The change starts with Google Docs and Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. Hopefully this means that Google will follow through with all of their consumer products. They are one of the few companies that, by doing nothing more that dropping support for a browser, could seriously affect real usage numbers. That is both incredible and frightening.
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My first professional portrait. You have to do these things once you’re famous.
(Photo via Garrett Ross).
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Ha, so that WAS a real magazine!
Is that Franklin I see??
That’s totally my dog Franklin!
Does anyone know what magazine this is?
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]
Here’s some video because the Tumblr app makes it so simple!
Man. You guys are totally getting your money’s worth during this trip.
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