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The Last Lunar Landing Launch⇢

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Apollo 17, the last of the missions to land men on the moon, began 40 years ago today with the dawning of a man-made sun.

Lifting off just after midnight (EST) on Dec. 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 mission was the final of NASA’s moon-bound manned flights — and the first night launch. The massive, 363-foot tall (111 meters) Saturn V rocket turned night into day as the long flames from its five powerful F–1 engines bathed the dark sky with a brilliant, bright-as-the-sun light that appeared to spectators to slowly climb skyward from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Read and Trust: Openness⇢

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Read and Trust:

“Openness” is a word thrown around quiet a lot, lately. What does it mean and how does it impact us? These are the questions, with their surprising and varied answers, that our writers try to unpack this month.

This month’s contributing members: Stephen Hackett, David Caolo, David Chartier, Randy Murray and Adam King.

This is another great month of writing from R&T. In my article, I explain why I write so much on the Internet about my son and his battle with cancer.

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Behind Twitterrific 5⇢

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The Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry:

We are well aware that people are going to complain about missing features: push notifications and streaming are obvious examples. But so are trends, and video support, and in-line photos, and… well none of that matters. We believe in building opinionated software.

The product you have in your hands is what we wanted and needed it to be. As the tagline on the website says, “A simply beautiful way to tweet.” We achieved that goal.

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Bloomberg Businessweek Interviews Tim Cook⇢

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This whole interview is great, but this bit really jumped out at me. Here’s Tim Cook:

Everybody in our company is responsible to be innovative, whether they’re doing operational work or product work or customer service work. So in terms of the pressure, all of us put a great deal of pressure on ourselves. And yes, part of my job is to be a cheerleader, and getting people to stop for a moment and think about everything that’s been done.

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Alfred 2⇢

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Speaking of Alfred, Vero Pepperrell published this today:

In version 2, Alfred will be even more polished and user-friendly than ever. To achieve this, Andrew has rewritten Alfred from the ground up to make every aspect more efficient, more powerful and more flexible, reusing only around 15% of code from v1. Of course, we’ve also taken great care to ensure existing users would still feel at home with v2.

I’m excited. Alfred is one of the most-used apps on my MacBook Pro.

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The 512 Podcast 041 - The Ones Who Care Have the Tools⇢

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This week, Myke and Stephen discuss the Matias Quiet Pro, then Stephen rants about Apple’s new iMac.

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RSS Sponsor: Igloo Software⇢

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Let’s face it, we’re heading into the worst time of year for getting work done. Everyone is getting ready for [insert holiday of choice here].

It seems like Janice is always out of the office. Bob’s coming in late every day. And if Kelly sings [insert holiday song of choice here] one more time, you’re going to go insane. But you can’t work from home – your shared drive is locked down and your VPN is just. so. slow.

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