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NASA: No Manned Moon Missions "This Lifetime"⇢
Well, that’s depressing.
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Apple:
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On Facebook Home
As rumored, Facebook launched “Facebook Home” today, an Android launcher that promises deep Facebook integration, right on the lock and home screens of Android phones.
(The HTC First was also announced, a Jelly Bean-powered phone on AT&T with Facebook Home built-in. However, the launcher is coming to other device soon.)
Facebook was smart about this. Instead of a skin or a new version of Android, this shouldn’t get Google too riled up. In fact, Facebook Home will be for free, on the Google Play store.
Arrested Development Comes Back May 26⇢
I can’t believe how happy this makes me.
Google Forks Webkit, Introduces Blink⇢
Adam Barth, Chromium software engineer:
Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down the collective pace of innovation - so today, we are introducing Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit.
Huh.
The 512 Podcast 057 - Skufamorpharisms⇢
This week, I discuss the Pebble, writing reviews, the iPad’s third birthday and the rumors around iOS 7 and Mac OS X 10.9, while Myke does something else.
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Moleskine Holds IPO⇢
Om Malik:
If you work in technology and still like to take notes, write, draw and imagine, then you are quite familiar with the Moleskine brand. What was once a cool but obscure brand of notebooks has become a product so ubiquitous that you can find it in swag bags for conferences, and venture capital firms hand them out like candy.
In other words, it is very mainstream and very big. And that is why Moleskine went public today on the Milan Stock Exchange. Its shares were priced at 2.30 euros a share. The company raised 245 million euros, or roughly $314 million. It is valued at roughly $626 million. Moleskin had revenues of 78.1 million euros and a profit of about 18.1 million euros in 2012. The stock jumped 3.9 percent today before falling slightly.
The iPad Turns Three⇢
It is pretty amazing that it’s only been three years since the iPad was introduced. I’m listening to the keynote again this morning.
Old Mac of the Month: The iMac G5
This month’s post is by Jordan Merrick, a freelance writer and web designer who runs Sparsebundle, a UK-based blog about technology, Apple, web design, video games.
This year celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the iMac. You’d think that if we looked over the lineage of the iMac, we’d see a number of major design changes as time went on. But that’s not the case and, in fact, since the introduction of the iMac in 1998 it has had only two major design changes. Sure, it’s had a coat of paint, a change of clothes and it’s gotten bigger whilst losing weight, but the fundamental form factor of the iMac that we see today has been unchanged for almost ten years, a chinned display with (up until recently) a side-mounted optical drive. It’s a form factor that owes its beginnings to the iMac G5.
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Shopster is a new kind of groceries list app that learns what you purchase and where, so it can remind you later on.
Whenever you check an item as purchased, Shopster learns the location where you got it. The next time you look for the same thing, a geofenced alarm will be triggered when you are near the location.
Features: - Autolearning of locations when checking items as purchased. - Geofenced reminders for your products, based on your prior buying history. - In-place editing table, for quick corrections and editions. - Unique ruler to quickly enter the number of items you need to buy. - Smart autocomplete, to assist you entering frequently purchased products, based on your previous history. - Reorder items with a simple tap and hold.