Wired takes a look at the Cult of Newton.
In college, I used an upgraded MessagePad 2000 to take notes in class. I had the official hardware keyboard, and synced it all back to my PowerBook. This article makes me want to pick one up again.
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State of the Science at St. Jude⇢
Impressive work being done here in Memphis.
Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical⇢
“I am the one who knocks. I used to be Kenny G; now I’m hard rock.”
Smart Japanese Bidet Suffers From Shitty Android App⇢
That link goes to The Verge, not The Onion.
Kanye Wants to Buy Graceland⇢
I’m not a big Elvis fan, but as a Memphian, this sums up my thoughts pretty well.
55 Years of NASA⇢
This country did some amazing things when she let her brightest scientists and engineers loose on crazy-ass projects. We should get back to that sort of work.
App Updates and iOS 7⇢
Craig Hockenberry:
Like many of my fellow developers, I am in the middle of an update of an app for iOS 7. As you’d expect, it’s a lot more work than previous versions of iOS. But results are stunning: both David Lanham and I have commented that our shipping version was “feeling old and clunky.”
While cranking along on the update, a couple of thoughts occurred to me: how many other developers were doing the same thing and were they going to commit fully to iOS 7? The depth and breadth of the changes in iOS 7 makes it difficult to support older versions of the OS.
Towers of Power⇢
A gross slideshow of some cool tower Macs.
365 Days⇢
Federico Viticci:
Today, when I remembered that exactly one year ago I was hospitalized for 22 days for a series of treatments to save my life, I tweeted about it. And then I opened Day One.
In the app’s Calendar view, I changed the year to “2012″ and, sure enough, the “August 1, 2012″ entry was there, showing photos of my hospital room; my girlfriend sending a selfie from home; and a note that I wrote about the doctors being “nice”. Bits of life. A combination of old thoughts and visual memories that I still have, in some form, in my brain, but that here, in this app — right now — I can hold and directly look at. It is, indeed, far more powerful than memory alone.
On OS ‘Ten’⇢
Dr. Drang:
On ATP 25, Casey Liss was shamed after asking whether the new Logic Pro X should be pronounced “Logic Pro Ex” or “Logic Pro Ten.” This came a few days after a similar incident on The Prompt when poor Myke Hurley was laughed at for saying “Logic Pro Ex.”1 And there was, I believe, an incident back in January on The Frequency when Haddie Cooke committed the unforgivable sin of saying “Oh Ess Ex” instead of “Oh Ess Ten.”
On the Moto X⇢
Well, it’s here. This seems like a move in the right direction by Motorola, but according to The Verge, the company doesn’t get any special access to Android, despite being owned by Google itself.
(Sadly, the product page isn’t very well-written.)
The Prompt 007 - Senior VP of Selfies⇢
This week, Myke, Federico and I re-visit the Developer Center outage, then talk about Google’s apps on iOS and my Nexus 7. Wrapping up, we move on to discuss tablet usage and some awesome apps.