June 2010
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Retina Neuroscientist confirms Apple's Retina... →
It seems that Apple didn’t lie when claiming, the Retina Display, built-into the iPhone 4, has higher resolution than the human eye can resolve:
Dr. Curcio et. al. calculated 77 cycles/degree or .78 arcminutes/cycle of *retinal* resolution. However, this does not take into account the optics of the system which degrade image quality somewhat giving a commonly accepted resolution of 1...
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Oh my, I'm an AppStore addict
Since I sold my iPhone 3GS in anticipation of the iPhone 4 last week, I downloaded six applications, five of which I paid money for. The sixth one was Twitterrific Universal, which I’m going to upgrade to ‘premium’ in App, once I have an iPhone again.
What does that tell you?
For one it tells you that I’m much too trigger happy when it comes to new apps. It also tells you...
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Apple's way of slapping Gizmodo in the face →
… giving its biggest rival early access to a production unit for review.
And a great review it is, Joshua Topolsky really did a great job.
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TUAW writes down MobileMe →
… in favour of free services like GMail and Dropbox. Some of the points made are valid and understandable, some are not.
Accepting everything Lauren Hirsch said, I dare her to try to resolve any problem with Google’s support in less than 30 minutes. Because that is what I get with the MobileMe support chat.
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“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
Adobe predicting 250 Million Flash enabled mobile... →
This number is ambitious beyond reason. I really don’t see that happening, when, as of today, they still haven’t got a working flash player on anything but demo devices.
This is adobe talking out of their asses, big time.
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keep track of newly released extensions for Safari →
Extensions for Safari are cropping up all over the internet. Jonas Wisser set up a Tumblr blog to keep track of them.
You should check out the blog, there are already a few very handy extensions available for download.
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The WWDC 2010 keynote address is up on iTunes →
The WWDC 2010 keynote address is now available in the iTunes podcast section.
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A couple of good reads concerning the new iPhone 4
Apple’s iPhone site
Arstechnica’s hands-on
Jim Dalrymple’s hands-on
Darby Lines’s WWDC keynote round-up
Cisco’s official comment on Apple licensing iOS
Clients From Hell: CEO: ”Hi Michael, we wanted to... →
CEO: ”Hi Michael, we wanted to talk to you in person (over the phone) to resolve the question of payment.”
Me: “OK.”
CEO: ”Let’s forget all of the stuff that has gone on in the past with this project. Let me put {Accountant) on the phone.”
Accountant: ”What we’d like to do is offer to pay…
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Apple's HTML5 and Web Standards website →
If these techniques catch on, Adobe is going to wish they hadn’t started a discussion about Flash’s position as a web standard and just accepted that it isn’t the best means to deliver video on the internet.
Take a look at those demos. It’s amazing what you can do with HTML5 and CSS3, what has only been possible in flash, until now.
via daringfireball and thijsjacobs:
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Marco.org: Microsoft didn't lead the way to the... →
As usual a well written article by Marco Arment, but I don’t completely agree with his conclusions.
Microsoft didn’t lead the way to the smartphone-to-tablet approach, and they didn’t lead the way to the iPad: they led the way down their own path that got them somewhere completely different, irrelevant, and unsuccessful.
In my opinion it’s hard to argue that Microsoft’s and...
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HP CEO says he didn’t buy Palm for smartphones |... →
chartier:
Palm goes out not with a bang, but in HP’s grab for IP. Rest in peace Palm. I was rooting for you.
This is sad news for everybody who was hoping for another financially well endowed competitor in the smartphone business — and the young business of client-host-based tablet computing.
What bugs me, is whether HP is trying to avoid the risks of competing in the smartphone market, or if...
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Steve Jobs will not let the Gizmodo thing slide →
This gives me the impression that Gizmodo’s activities surrounding the 4G iPhone prototype theft, will lead to them getting less to no access to Apple events and will be treated even more coldly by Apple PR than before.
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WatchStraight from the horse’s mouth; the reason why Apple won’t allow external analytics for anything other than advertising. Clue: Violation of privacy policies. Jobs also clarifies that iAds won’t be the only advertising platform allowed on the iPhone.
This video is really worth a watch.
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“I don’t want to see us to descend into a nation of bloggers, myself … we...”
– Steve Jobs at D8 on if the iPad will save the newspaper companies.
Call me a sensationalistic blogger, but I think this was a completely justified jab at Gawker/Gizmodo.