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The Biography
I finished Steve Jobs over the weekend, and wanted to share my two biggest impressions:
Steve was broken
I can’t even count how many times Steve is portrayed in the book as crying or breaking down. He would fall apart in meetings, on phone calls and on walks.
Steve often befriended someone, just to use and discard them later. He struggled with the fact he had been adopted and later abandoned his own daughter for a time.
Ungeniused 007 — Spontaneous Human Combustion
In episode 7 of Ungeniused, Myke and I discuss the phenomenon known as “spontaneous human combustion.” It’s a little gory, so this one might not be great for the kids. However, if you love bizarre causes of death, this episode is for you.
Adobe to Cease Work on Mobile Flash
Adobe is all about enabling designers and developers to create the most expressive content possible, regardless of platform or technology. For more than a decade, Flash has enabled the richest content to be created and deployed on the web by reaching beyond what browsers could do. It has repeatedly served as a blueprint for standardizing new technologies in HTML. Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices.
200 Million Minutes
As unassuming as it seems, Angry Birds is an irresistible force. Globally, we log more than 200 million minutes of swine-sniping gameplay every day. We’re hooked.
Russian Mars-Bound Probe Stuck in Earth Orbit
The craft successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 9 November (Moscow time), and separated from its Zenit–2 booster rocket some 11 minutes later. But its engines failed to kick in, and it’s now trapped in Earth’s orbit.
The Russian space agency says that it now has three days to correct the probe’s fault remotely, turn on its engines and break out of Earth’s orbit, before the £105-million craft’s batteries run dry.
Sandboxing is the First Step
Developers are concerned Apple’s limited list of entitlements will make their applications incompatible with the future of the Mac. They have a reason to be concerned. It may not happen in Mac OS 10.8 or even 10.9 but someday soon the filesystem will be gone. Sandboxing is only the first step. The operating system on today’s Macs can already be restored from the net. The applications we use everyday can be already downloaded from the web. And very soon the data we use across all of our computers will be backed up in the cloud. Disk Utilities, Anti-virus software, and filesystem browsers will all be ill relevant. Computers will be more reliable, easier to use, and everything will be downloadable from the internet. Application and not the filesystem are the future of computing. You may not agree with this vision of the future, but mark my words it is coming. The sandbox is only the first step.
My Design Feaster Interview
I’d like to thank Nate over at Design Feaster for interviewing me. Go check it out here.
Unsanity: We’re Still Here
Currently, none of our products are enabled to work on Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”. The core APE component part works, but that’s useless without haxies and it’s disabled because of it. So it’ll be a few weeks or a few months before we get these into beta.
Honestly, I had forgotten these guys were around.
By Simple, I Mean Idiotic
It seems the new in-app EasyPay is as simple as it seems.
Drunk at the Wheel
On the Set of ‘Return of the Jedi’
These photos are amazing. This really makes you realize just how crappy all the CGI in the trilogy really is.
via @mhedge