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Smartphones are the new Cigarettes
The Canon PowerShot G1 X
Belkin’s Thunderbolt Dock Unveiled
This looks pretty good, but I can’t pass up a chance to complain about The Verge’s Thomas Ricker writing off Apple’s 27-inch Thunderbolt Display as a “$999 Thunderbolt dock.” Sheesh.
NASA Launches Open Source Projects
NASA:
Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.
via The Verge
A Look Back (And Forward) at Apple Retail
I had forgotten about the cybercafe thing. Yikes.
Vizio Jumping in the PC Game
Chicago & Garamond
I’ve applied some new paint to the site in a few places since the fall. Headers, titles and several other items are now set in Chicago, while body copy is now set in Garamond. These two typefaces helped define the Apple experience for years, and I think they play nicely with the 512 Pixels brand.
Read more about Apple and typefaces here:
- Typography of Apple Inc. - Wikipedia
- List of Apple typefaces - Wikipedia
- Mac OS 7.x, 8.x 9.x: Fonts Included With Major System Releases - Apple Support
In the coming weeks, I hope to have the responsive design finished up (thanks to my pal PJ McCormick) to make reading on an iPad or iPhone more enjoyable.
70Decibels’ Year In Review
This year has been incredible. We launched the network in October, which saw the bundling of the existing shows and the additions of the new ones. We were also contacted by Apple at this time to help us set up our provider page and it’s got us featured in the UK store. This was such a great achievement for us, I had dreamt of this and could not believe it when it happened. We’ve come an awful long way in 12 short months and this fills me with such anticipation and excitement for what we can do in 2012.
I Just Don’t Get CES
People who have worked with — and for — me know this about me:
Half-baked work sold as a complete and acceptable solution will get under my skin every time.
If the person cannot grasp that their work could even be potentially shoddy, and I’m prone to having an aneurism.
I have found over the years that this character trait 1 shows up in all sorts of weird situations. One of the most disconnected one might be tech products and announcements.
The IBM Simon
Besides a mobile phone, the major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touchscreen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with either a unique “predictive” on-screen keyboard or QWERTY keyboard. The Simon had an optional PCMCIA memory card.
A Thousand Mac minis
This might be the coolest setup Shawn Blanc has highlighted on his site.