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‘It Looks Like A Tooth’
On this week’s 512 Podcast, I take Myke through the history of Apple’s stand-alone displays and video connectors.
Current ‘Top Grossing’ Mac Apps
Panic has joined — and topped — Apple and Adobe on the “Top Grossing” list on the Mac App Store:
Seven Inches
Then Apple came out with the iPod mini, which later became the iPod nano, capturing another segment of the market. That release was followed up by the iPod shuffle, again capturing another segment of the market.
It was changes in technologies that allowed these products to be released, but I believe Apple had planned the releases all along.
When you look at a 7-inch iPad, or any other Apple product, don’t look at how it affects its competitors, but rather how it fits into Apple’s product strategy. Doing that will make things a lot clearer.
Writing Vs. Coding
Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter catching your its/it’s issues or reminding you of the rules regarding that or which. Here’s the rub: there is a compiler and it’s fucking brutal. It’s your readers. Your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter. Not only do they care about syntax, but they also want to learn something, and, perhaps, be entertained while all this learning is going down. Success means they keep coming back - failure is a lonely silence. Python is looking pretty sweet now, right?
WebOS Enyo Team Heading to Google
The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS’s HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned. What this means for the future of Open webOS is unclear; Enyo and the developers supporting it are central to HP’s open source strategy for the operating system going forward, and it’s hard to say whether this move will have any effect on the planned late 2012 release for version 1.0.
The Phantom Vibrate
Patrick Thibodeau at Computerworld:
It turns out that the phantom cellphone vibration syndrome is fairly common. Ask around. See if you can find someone who believed the smartphone in their pocket was vibrating but found when they checked, there was nothing new. No call. No text.
There’s a growing body of research on phantom vibrations and many of the other problems associated with technology obsession, all of which is explored by Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in his new book, iDisorder.
NOLA Paper Drops Daily
The Times-Picayune, one of the nation’s oldest newspapers, is dropping its daily circulation after 175 years and plans to issue three printed editions a week starting in the fall. With the change, the newspaper would become the largest metro newspaper in the nation to drop daily circulation in this digital age.
The 17-inch PowerBook G5
Coming soon with liquid cooling!
(If you ever wonder why Apple switched to Intel, it’s because of this.)
App Recommendation: Hosts.prefpane
If you tinker with your hosts file at all, this preference pane is a must-have to make toggling edits on and off easily.
Tweetbot 2.4 Released
This app just keeps getting better.
Comma Mistakes
I know a few bloggers who should read this.