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November 05 2011
Andy Rooney Dies at 92
From his final on-air essay, a month ago:
A writer’s job is to tell the truth. I believe that if all the truth were known about everything in the world, it would be a better place to live.
United and Continental begin in-flight Wi-Fi rollout in 2012
Well, this is great news. Beginning in mid-2012 United and Continental airlines will outfit 300 of their planes with in-flight Wi-Fi in an agreement with Panasonic Avionics Corporation. Panasonic's Ku-band Wi-Fi is special because it will enable both airlines to offer connectivity on international flights, which no other American operator currently has.
While the company expects to have its ...
November 03 2011
David Pogue on Windows Phone 7.5
David Pogue:
Windows Phone 7.5 is gorgeous, classy, satisfying, fast and coherent. The design is intelligent, clean and uncluttered. Never in a million years would you guess that it came from the same company that cooked up the bloated spaghetti that is Windows and Office.
Update: Fixed the link to point to a URL that shouldn’t prompt you to log in to the NYT site.
October 28 2011
Apple Lossless Audio Codec Now Open Source
Apple:
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a ‘magic cookie’ for use with files based on the ISO base media file format (e.g. MP4 and M4A) is included as well.
Apache...
October 27 2011
Sprint says iPhone most network-efficient smartphone and "worth every penny"
October 26 2011
October 22 2011
→ What’s Next for Apple
Matt Mullenweg:
When I walk through Best Buy, which I try to do once every few months, it feels like it’s technology at its worst, the magic of progress used as smoke and mirrors to confuse and dupe consumers rather than make their lives better.
It’s painful for me to see the sad state of consumer electronics. People are so shamelessly ripped off by low-rent retailers to get such low-quality ...
October 21 2011
James Kendrick: ‘After the iPhone 4S, Android Just Feels Wrong’
Long-time Android user James Kendrick:
This realization hit me hard, as I found that as I used the Nexus,a phone I absolutely love, the user experience was jangling mynerves. The inconsistencies in the interface between apps and theoccasional lag doing simple things like scrolling in windows justscreamed at me. I hadn’t really noticed it before, but afterusing the iPhone these things jump out...
October 20 2011
Easily Navigate In and Out of Full Screen Mode in OS X with this Shortcut [Video]
Maybe you love Mac OS X Lion's new full screen mode or maybe you hate it. Either way, you'll be better off knowing this little shortcut because it can get you in and out of full screen mode faster—whether you want to be in it or not.
All you have to do is press Control+Command+F and any full screen app will toggle the way it's displayed. This is much faster ...
How to Disable Internal MacBook Display When External Display Is Attached
Mac OS X Hints:
Before Lion it was possible to run an external display off a laptop and have the internal display disabled, even if you opened the lid. This can be useful for a myriad of reason including energy saving and better wifi reception. With Lion the internal display will always turn on when the lid is opened, even if there is already an external display connected.
I just ran into...
How to Bring Good Design to a Platform
Stupid arrogant iOS and Mac developers. Think they know it all. Google will show them.
What our home pages are really saying (a dialog)
Often when I’m designing I try to imagine a screen interaction as a face-to-face dialog between two people. Specifically, I try to imagine that the person visiting or using the screen is trying to have a conversation with a person representing the website or software the screen is part of. Of course, real-life conversation is by its nature reactive…we can instantly respond to a direct question ...
October 19 2011
∞ Quote of the Day: Brig Gen Al Harethi
October 18 2011
On photographing Steve Jobs
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The portrait of Steve Jobs that has been a fixture on Apple's homepage since his passing is iconic. It tells you just about everything you need to know about the man -- his intensity, determination, intelligence, the fact that this is a great man from whom great ideas spring, and the fact that he's a man you challenge at your own peril. It's the photo that will be on the cover of his...
Daily iPad App: Instapaper 4
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Like to read? Got an iPhone or iPad? You really ought to have Marco Arment's US$4.99 Instapaper, which just got an upgrade to version 4.0. Instapaper's free web service allows you to flag stories to 'Read Later' with a single click, and you can always get your complete reading list via the site. For reading on the go, however, the cached stories in the app are ideal.
The Instapaper app now ...
October 14 2011
Which Is Which?
Reuters reporter Dan Levine, tweeting from the Apple-Samsung hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh yesterday:
Koh just held both tablets above her head, one in each hand, asked Samsung lawyers to identify which was which. Took them a while to do so…
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