This sure seems to be a violation of Apple’s terms:
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Oh, wait. This is Gizmodo. They don’t concern themselves with such things.
Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman, on Delicious Library 2:
So Delicious Library 2 would ship with a whole new back- and front-ends—in effect, it was like a whole new product. But Shipley didn’t stop there; instead, DL2 piled on new features, including a whole list of new product categories it could track, like video games, tools, and other items. It also added web exporting with iWeb integration, a companion iPhone app (which was later dropped due to API limitations set by Amazon), library sharing with friends, improved AppleScript support, and more.
The result was that DL2 was a nightmare for some users. Shipley:
So, the big realization with 2.0 is that I tried to do too much. Which is, you know, like being in a job interview and saying your biggest fault is you work too hard. But it turned out to be a big disservice to my customers.
[…]
The decision was, make stuff work or cut it.
And that right there is the hardest thing to do to something you’ve created.
Each time the company does this, I feel a little older.
So very true, Shawn.
A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows.
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The view that Obama is a Muslim is more widespread among his political opponents than among his backers.
Steve Jobs, in this video linked to by All Thing D’s John Paczkowski:
This is a very complicated world. This is a very noisy world and we’re not going to get a chance … to get people to remember much about us. No company is. And so we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us.
Have I ever checked email, read incoming tweets or responded to a text message while behind the wheel of a car? Yes. I’m usually at a stoplight or stuck in motionless traffic when I actually use my phone’s virtual keyboard. That factor might make might my behavior slightly less risky, but it doesn’t make it any less stupid.
While I can imagine either sending or receiving a message so pressing that an action would have to be taken at that very moment, I’ve never actually experienced such a scenario. The urgency that drives me to check Twitter or read an email while in the car is entirely a creation of my own mind.
All of this data can wait until later – and much of it can wait until never.
That’s what I needed to read to push me into finally turning off my Facebook account.
The Big Picture has posted a gallery of photos from Hurricane Katrina damage:
Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h). More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding. Over 1,800 Gulf Coast residents lost their lives then, and damages totaled more than $80 billion – the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Many intangible things were damaged then as well, communities were erased as their neighborhoods washed away, much of historic New Orleans was badly damaged, and frustration and anger remain towards an inadequate immediate response by the U.S. government.
Be sure to check out these Google Earth images of the area, before and after the storm.
Janie Porter at WTSP Channel 10 News in Tampa Bay:
A woman in the Philadelphia area is recovering from “Blackberry thumb” surgery.
The mortgage banker spends 12 hours a day texting clients on her iPhone.
“I’m texted out,” she said.
The constant texting put so much pressure on her hands that the tendons in her thumb became inflamed. She had to undergo surgery to remove the tendons.