I can’t review Diet Coda — as I said, I wouldn’t be able to fully understand its functionalities and judge its (possible) shortcomings when compared to the (also coming today) Coda 2. But I can recognize software crafted with care and attention to detail. Diet Coda immediately stands out as one of those apps where pixels aren’t just there to fill the screen — they’re the epitome of design enhanced for function.
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HP To Lay Off 27,000
Earlier last week, rumors hinted that the HP would lay off 10,000 to 15,000 employees, but today the company revealed that 27,000 of HP’s 349,600 employees will be cut by the end of 2014. According to Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard CFO Cathie Lesjak said no unit of the company will be spared cuts, but the enterprise services group will take the hardest hit.
It’s a post-PC world…
Oh, Digitimes...
Harry Mccracken got an email from Digitimes’ deputy managing editor, after criticizing the publication last week. In it, the editor (Joseph Chen) writes:
Digitimes has indeed reported much on Apple, and many of the products that we said would be launched have never been launched, or have had their launches delayed. But that does not mean that we were crying wolf or passing along gossip. In fact, Apple have a lot of its R&D projects and ideas tried out at its supply chain partners in Asia. Many of the prototypes created by the supply chain partners will never make it to the market after Apple’s assessments. This is one of the major reasons why a lot of the information we have disclosed has been seen by others as inaccurate, but is still valuable to our reader base in the supply chain. We understand the risks behind the kind of reporting we have been doing.
Drafts 1.2 Released
One of my favorite iOS utilities just got updated.
The new version adds sharing text to Facebook, Evernote and OmniFocus’ notes field. I’m already loving the new additions.
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‘Click Vegetables’
As pointed out by rabbis and attendees, the ultra-Orthodox community has weathered a similar storm before. There was a generation that adopted TV with little question, before it was recognized as a potential evil. The rabbis convened, and decided that it was a detriment, and almost any Hasid worth his salt these days doesn’t even own a TV.
The hope is that the rally this weekend could spark a similar shift, encouraging the faithful to shun the internet except when entirely necessary. But that’s really the whole problem: there’s no necessity to TV, but the internet is already considered much more than a modern convenience. It’s needed for work, to pay bills, to communicate, and to look up knowledge that someday won’t even be found in paper alternatives. Can it be truly avoided?
Fusion Ads + The Syndicate
As a member of both networks, I’m excited about this announcement.
To read more about advertising here at 512 Pixels, go here.
Who Uses Digitimes as a Source?
Alex Heath, in a story titled, “Digitimes: We’re Sorry We Get All Our Apple Rumors Wrong” at Cult of Mac:
Digitimes has been one of the main sources of Apple rumors over the last several years, but anyone who follows Apple will tell you that the Taiwanese publication is more often wrong than right.
Heath wasn’t kidding when he said “main source.” A quick Google site search returned over 3,200 results for “Digitimes + rumor” on Cult of Mac.
In Which Bloggers Do Math
First, at 1136 × 640, you get a diagonal of 1,303.877 pixels after applying the Pythagorean theorem. There are no such thing as fractional pixels, but what I’m talking about here are pixels as a unit of length, equal to 1/326 inch. Divide 1,303.877 by 326 and you get 3.9996 inches. Boom, a “4-inch” display. I’m sure if Apple instead went to 1152 pixels in height — which works out to 4.042 inches — they’d still just call it a “4-inch” display, for the sake of neatness, but it’s at least somewhat interesting that 1136 is the closest they could get to precisely 4.0 inches.
On Readlists
With Readlists you are essentially publicly sharing an eBook that contains a writer’s content — content that was never granted permission to be redistributed. In Instapaper (as far as I know) you can’t grab an article list from another user and package an eBook that you can then download.
Readlists is a service to allow people to completely avoid reading a content producers site, allowing them to repackage and redistribute their content all without permission.
On the Motorola/Google Deal
This is Google’s first and biggest opportunity to make cool, real, physical things that could change the way people live. That sounds annoyingly optimistic, but it’s true. It is fun to laugh a little at Google’s glasses project, self-driving cars, or whatever. But try telling me with a straight face that your iPhone hasn’t changed your life. Many very smart, creative people work at Google, and I’d love to see them try some interesting things and really go for it in a way that Motorola would never have done before.
16:9
Interesting … very interesting.