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October 27 2010
Probably the prettiest thing I've ever bought at a drugstore
It's a "blue-ice" cold pack, but the glop is encased in BB-sized plastic spheres so the pack stays flexible when it's frozen. Inspired by a package of frozen peas, apparently (note the name.)
It's a "blue-ice" cold pack, but the glop is encased in BB-sized plastic spheres so the pack stays flexible when it's frozen. Inspired by a package of frozen peas, apparently (note the name.)
June 21 2010
Opt out of iAds tracking
"Apple and its partners use cookies and other technologies in mobile advertising services to control the number of times you see a given ad, deliver ads that relate to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out by accessing the following link on your iOS 4 mobile device.""You may still see the same number of ads as before, but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests."
Opt out of iAds tracking
"Apple and its partners use cookies and other technologies in mobile advertising services to control the number of times you see a given ad, deliver ads that relate to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out by accessing the following link on your iOS 4 mobile device.""You may still see the same number of ads as before, but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests."
June 11 2010
Apple Outsider » Hello, Lua
Apple will allow limited use of interpreted languages in iOS apps."Under the radar of this week’s WWDC news is a small but very significant change to the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. ... These new terms seem to acknowledge that there’s a difference between an app that happens to have non-compiled code, and a meta-platform. It’s a step that should allow for many new possibilities."
June 08 2010
iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations [Daring Fireball]
Some interesting details on the display and camera.June 03 2010
Time for Apple to open up the iPhone | Phones | Mac Word | Macworld
"No, I’m here to say to Apple that while I understand very well the reasons for the company’s walled-garden approach to native iPhone OS apps, the strengths of that approach have now been surpassed by the bad publicity and reputation that Apple and its products are now getting in the market as a whole."May 22 2010
★ Post-I/O Thoughts [Daring Fireball]
great analysis of iphone vs android competition.April 08 2010
What the iPad is Missing (No, it’s not a Camera) [The FontFeed]
Typographic blunders in the iPad's UI, including lack of hyphenation in iBooks and the continued no-show of Lucida Grande (Helvetica is not a good choice for a system font.)March 23 2010
Netflix let the wrong subtitles in, dammit
I was really looking forward to watching "Let The Right One In", but
they sent me the old version with the dumbed-down subtitles. Hopefully
the replacement disc will be newer.
(And yeah, this is really Magnolia VIdeo's fault for trying to save money by doing their own crappy subtitles instead of paying for the original ones. It's a shame this film got picked up by a schlocky horror distributor, just because it has vampires and a few buckets of blood here and there.)
I was really looking forward to watching "Let The Right One In", but
they sent me the old version with the dumbed-down subtitles. Hopefully
the replacement disc will be newer.
(And yeah, this is really Magnolia VIdeo's fault for trying to save money by doing their own crappy subtitles instead of paying for the original ones. It's a shame this film got picked up by a schlocky horror distributor, just because it has vampires and a few buckets of blood here and there.)
March 16 2010
Articles - The Wikipedia App
A really nice looking new Wikipedia client app for iPhone by Sophia Teuschler.February 14 2010
Palm Sounds
A blog about portable synth and sound-making apps for iPhone etc.January 28 2010
"Pretend you’re Apple" [Brent Simmons]
"[Apple has] avoided the bleak future where computers are nothing but web browsers, where user experience is struggling to hit 1995 levels of quality, where all you’re making is a dumb terminal that can show pictures and play video, where you’re back to being the “beleaguered” Apple, whose product is a commodity easily matched, or close enough, by other companies that charge less."January 22 2010
Turning Reiner Knizia’s "Money" into an iPhone Game [Boardgame News]
"I spent the last several months of 2009 working on turning Reiner Knizia’s Money into a fully functional iPhone game. ... I’m going to spend the rest of this article talking about three of the particular problems that I faced adapting a Eurogame for the iPhone environment, focusing on depicting and playing the game."January 15 2010
October 10 2009
Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure -- Windows Mobile 7 Plans For 2009 Leaked
Mitchell Ashley of NetworkWorld predicts certain doom for the iPhone, back in January 2008, as Microsoft leaked ponies-n-unicorns magic photos of Windows Mobile 7 (which has since slipped to late 2010). "iPhone will fail to dominate as so many other Apple products have failed to in the past. The iPhone is certain to fade into history as another cool Apple innovation, that others soon rushed competitive, like-products to market, blowing away any significant lead Apple might have. ... Enjoy the limelight because it won't last long."September 27 2009
Generative Music: an interview with Peter Chilvers
The programmer/musician who collaborated with Brian Eno on the iPhone apps "Bloom" and the new "Trope". "...Anything you play is repeated back at you after a delay. But the length of that delay varies in subtle, but complex ways, and keeps the music interesting and eccentric. It's actually deliberately 'wrong' - you can't play exactly in time with something you've already played, and a few people have mistaken this for a bug. Actually, it was a bug at one point - but Brian liked the effect, and we ended up emphasising it. "Honour they error as a hidden intention" is something of a recurring theme in Brian's work."July 22 2009
iPhone Development Emergency Guide [Matt Legend Gemmell]
"This is an emergency guide to iPhone software development, i.e. a guide for competent developers who haven’t written code for the iPhone platform before, and just want to get started right now."July 12 2009
Blocks for iPhoneOS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.5 [Plausible Labs]
"Blocks are a great addition to Objective-C, but unfortunately, are only available in Mac OS X 10.6. We have a quite a bit of code that could be greatly simplified using blocks, and so I decided to spend some time back-porting block support to iPhoneOS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.5. "The result, Plausible Blocks, provides a drop-in runtime and Xcode compiler for using blocks in your iPhone and Mac OS X 10.5 applications, based on Apple’s Snow Leopard blocks runtime and compiler support."plblocks
"Plausible Blocks (PLBlocks) provides a drop-in runtime and toolchain for using blocks [aka closures] in iPhone 2.2+ and Mac OS X 10.5 applications. Both the runtime and compiler patches are direct backports from Apple's Snow Leopard source releases."July 03 2009
ParseKit - Cocoa Objective-C Framework for parsing, tokenizing and language processing
Mac/iPhone library for string-scanning and writing language parsers. By Todd Ditchendorf, author of Fluid. MIT license.
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