David Smith’s InstaBackup app looks like a nice way to grab all your hipstery, filter-laden photos before Facebook sells them to China for a profit.
via @mpanzarino
Category: General Tech
RIM: Android Piracy Issues a ‘Cesspool’
A Million News Users in 12 Hours
Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram:
On Tuesday we launched Instagram for Android, and it’s had a fantastic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infrastructure side) have been all about capacity planning and preparation to get everything in place, but on launch day itself the challenge is to find problems quickly, get to the bottom of them, and roll out fixes ASAP. Here are some tools & techniques we used to tackle problems as they arose.
Country-Style Rap Innovator Looks to Buy RIM
RIM Party Halted After Stabbing
Mark Hattersley at Macworld UK:
BlackBerry’s woes continue after a celebrity party, thrown by the company last night to celebrate BBM, ended in a vicious stabbing that forced police to lock celebrities inside the club and BlackBerry to cancel the event.
Instagram, Don’t Break my Heart
Why can’t they whip up some awesome new filters and charge some money for them?
The End of Internet Innocence?
Moscow-based I-Free and its app Girls Around Me crystallized the online privacy debate this week, and, I suspect, will begin the end of our long era of digital naivete.
I think anyone naive enough to think that the Girls Around Me thing is “the end of Internet innocence” is living under a rock.
OS/2 Turns 25
OS/2 felt so important at first because DOS was still a gussied-up version of the rickety 16-bit software that Microsoft had licensed in 1980 for $10,000 from a tiny company called Seattle Computer Products. Windows, which first appeared in 1985, sat atop DOS and inherited its many flaws, such as the inability to utilize large amounts of memory and an eight-character limit on file names. The whole mess couldn’t utilize memory properly and was prone to frequent crashes. It was just begging to be replaced.
The iOS Text Editor Roundup
The Route 29 Batman
I know this is a few days old, but I just got around to reading it.
Batman is freaking awesome, and, if you’ll excuse me, I need to find a tissue.
What’s in my Menubar
Today, I thought I would share what’s living in my Mac’s menubar these days. I’ll move from left to right.
1. Keyboard Maestro
You can see some of the things I do with this utility over here.
2. Dropbox
I collaborate with a lot of people, and Dropbox is the main way I do it. I have a Pro account with 50 GB of space.
3. TextExpander
If you type the same thing more than twice on your Mac, you’re wasting time if aren’t using this app.
RIM Announces Q4 2012 Earnings
Right before the call, Jim Balsillie (former co-CEO and current Director of the Board), David Yach (CTO) and Jim Rowan (COO) all resigned. The Loop has some highlights from the call:
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Revenue of $4.2 billion, down 19% from the third quarter and down 25% from $5.6 billion in the same quarter of fiscal 2011
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BlackBerry smartphone shipments of 11.1 million in Q4, down 21% from Q3
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500,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets shipped. No number on how many actually sold