May 2010
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Looking for a Great iPhone Game
I have lots of cool ones - Orbital, Words with Friends, Frenzic, Ramp Champ… but I want something I can get involved in, not just a timewaster.
I had a Game Boy and Pokemon Silver back in the day when it was new enough and I was young enough that it was cool. I am of the opinion that it is still the greatest mobile game ever. Easy to play, lots of ways to make the game your own unique...
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Making Print Look Blurry
The upcoming iPhone will probably have a 320ppi screen. By contrast, 300 dpi is the norm for many printed documents.
When was the last time you noticed the dots when you’ve looked at a magazine, or product label, or something else you read at an arm’s length? Unless you carry a loupe around with you everywhere, the answer is probably “not recently.” The next iPhone...
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My Evil Plan to Save Net Neutrality
In a world where the NSA didn’t tap every phone call made to the eastern United States, I would pose as somebody from an I.S.P. and place a few calls to select congressmen and senators:
Me: “Good day, Congressman. I’m the V.P. of Sales at Comcast. I’m calling to congratulate you for supporting the bill to abolish so-called ‘net neutrality.’”
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Daring Fireball: This Is the Craziest Thing I’ve... →
Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools. Chowdhry says the new version of VS will allow developers to write native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS. And here’s the...
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Firefox Home Coming Soon to the iPhone →
If you’re not like me, and you haven’t completely moved to WebKit-based browsers on every device you use, Firefox Home will be great for browsing on your iPhone. Of course, if iTunes offered Firefox sync instead of restricting to Safari and Internet Explorer, you wouldn’t need it…
For everyone else, it’s probably worth trying just to see how awesome the Awesome Bar...
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What Microsoft (and Apple) Should Really Learn...
Anyone who calls using Windows a hassle-free experience is either a Microsoft PR hack or needs to get his head examined. Possibly both. The same goes for anyone who calls the iPhone hard to figure out.
To install a program on Windows, you have to know where to find it, where to find the file you’ve downloaded, where to find it once it’s installed, and how to use it once you launch...
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Whither Verizon? →
A lot of good points, especially the branding issue. Definitely adding Apple Outsider to my feed reader list.
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Content Entry: Whose Job is it Anyway? →
Some well-written insight into one of the most important parts of web development.
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"F--- those motherf---ers": YouTube/Viacom suit... →
This is worth a few laughs. Proof that so-called “professionals” are often just children in expensive clothes.
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Don't Design for Early Adopters →
Craig Hockenberry explains why geeks are too smart for their own good.
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If I Had a Time Machine...
I would go back to 2005 and do two things:
Somehow scuttle the Adobe-Macromedia deal so Adobe would have some competition today.
Invent Twitter.
The first would give us all real improvements in Adobe Creative Suite. The second would make me insanely rich.
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“
I think I owe you a refund…
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– Logan Cashin, after outlining the issues I was having with the Mighty Mouse that he sold to me
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Going Nuclear
An interesting trend in the blogs lately is to label potential moves that force ugly market transitions as “going nuclear.” An example from Ars Technica:
Google does have a nuclear option: restricting HTML5 usage of YouTube to WebM.
Despite the little voice in my head telling me that this is another stupid gimmick, I approve anyway. Implying that corporations have the literal...
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Google Font API →
The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Font API.
(via sprawsm and brandonmartinez)
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Mission Accomplished!
I finally have my Hackintosh set up in my hotel room that I’ll be staying in for the duration of my internship. It took way too much work because:
The hotel room only lets on 1 device at a time on their Wifi. No wired ethernet.
My Hackintosh only has wired ethernet, no Wifi.
I didn’t want to spend money on a USB Wifi adapter that may or may not work with my Hackintosh rig.
PDANet...
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Soulver 2 →
Alright, just as I’m back to being stuck on Windows (hotel one-device-only wifi access is a pain in the ass!), all the cool apps come out for Mac. Oh, I can’t wait to have enough money for a Macbook Pro.
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“If you’re trying to drive revenue, don’t drive your readers away from your site...”
– Nicole Jones
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Pointer Events & Disabling Current Page Links →
Useful little CSS tip from the home of the most useful little CSS tips!
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Alex Payne - Something New →
Starting today, I’m joining BankSimple as a co-founder, with the role of Chief Product & Technology Officer. In a nutshell, I’m going to make sure we build something that’s simple, beautiful, and works really really well.
Well, I’ve requested an invite. I hope this succeeds!
(via marco)
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HOLY CRAP DON'T USE DISQUS YET WITH ENDURANCE...
It turns out I forgot to make the theme use the Disqus shortname that you write in the Customize menu - it’s currently set to my user account! Needless to say I’m about to post an update to correct this stupid error, but it could take a few days for Tumblr to approve the update.
Until then, please don’t put anything in the Disqus shortname field in your Customize menus.
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Hackintosh Tales
I’ve never had more than $450 to spend on a computer at any one time, so I built myself a Hackintosh tower a year ago. It gave me a way of trying out Mac OS X without really committing to it, but I’ve found my installation to be rock solid. More so than Windows, even.
I just rebooted from Windows 7, which decided for no apparent reason to start spraying noise patterns all over my...
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The Big Web Show: HTML5 with Jeremy Keith →
Just finished listening to this podcast, and this is one of the best explanations of HTML5 that I have heard or read to date.
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Hey, Remember Google Wave?
It’s quite an indication of failure on the part of Google that I can say this without looking like an idiot.
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Understand The Web →
Above all, this article makes you realize that making decent cross-platform applications are all but impossible no matter what you do. My favorite quotes:
If you reach the point of building a browser-based application that you depend on so many proprietary enhancements that your users can only access it using Google Chrome, I think you’ve picked the wrong platform.
I honestly think that...
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Google Expects AdMob Deal to be Scuttled by the... →
I think that’s just wishful thinking on Google’s part, unless iAd flops due to boneheaded pricing. Also, it’s not like they can’t set up a similar system for Android on their own.
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