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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
To quote my friend Christina, WTFlipfloppy? Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Present During Apple's WWDC 2010 Keynote?
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Present During Apple's WWDC 2010 Keynote?
Wednesday May 26, 2010 11:39 PM EST
Written by Arnold KimBarrons reports that one analyst is predicting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be part of Steve Jobs' WWDC Keynote presentation.According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, 7 minutes of Steve Jobs' keynote is allotted for Microsoft. Microsoft will reportedly be talking about their development tool Visual Studio 2010. The new version of Visual Studio will reportedly allow developers to write native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS.
The move would be a big surprise given Apple and Microsoft's competitive history. In addition, the announcement of PC-based development suite for iPhone and Mac OS would be major announcement. At present, developers may only create iPhone and Mac OS applications from within Apple's own Xcode development suite which only runs on Macs.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Fun at the Races
Check my 6 yo daughter's latest blog entry for a funny story of how we spent Saturday afternoon...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tweetie 3.0, now known as Twitter is out: First Look: Twitter for iPhone
Filed under: iPhone, App Review
First Look: Twitter for iPhone
by TJ Luoma (RSS feed) on May 19th 2010 at 1:45PM
It took a little longer than expected, but Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is now available. Mostly it looks exactly the same as Tweetie 2, with the exception of a new icon (shown here).
I was surprised to see that Twitter for iPhone doesn't use OAuth, meaning that we'll be seeing another version before the end of June. The "Services" menu still shows support for Favrd, which has been gone for months, but it also includes several other useful services like Tweet Blocker, Follow Cost, Favstar.fm, Overlapr, and Tweeteorites.
A few noticeable changes in your timeline include inline retweets and location information (where available). If you are not logged in you can see trending topics (although why you would want to see trending topics is another question entirely) and search. There is also support for "Top Tweets" and "Suggested Users," two more features of little practical value.
Read on for more features and tips.
One feature which will surely draw the ire of other Twitter developers is the ability to create a new Twitter account from within the application itself. Like Apple, Twitter seems to have decided that some things third-party developers aren't allowed to do are OK if they're done by insiders.
The biggest visible change for the average user is probably in the search panel. If you have saved searches they will be shown in the search area, and you can search for both topics and names in the same place.
Overall, this is a minor revision; it's nothing close to the difference between Tweetie 1 and Tweetie 2. But at least it's free, although Twitter is expected to start rolling out ads in the future.
Do yourself a favor and go to Settings » Advanced » Mobilizer and turn on the "Instapaper Mobilizer" -- it will reformat web pages within Twitter for better readability on the iPhone. This was possible in Tweetie 2, but setup was a little more complicated.
An iPad version is expected, but no word on when it will be released.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Interesting, though I'm not very spooked by this EFF: Your Browser Has a Fingerprint
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published results from a study of nearly half a million website visitors' browsers and concluded that the settings configurations exposed to sites we visit are close enough to unique to identify repeat visitors with a high degree of accuracy even if cookies are deleted.
Highly granular version numbers of installed plug-ins and seemingly random orders in lists of installed fonts were the primary offenders. The EFF has concluded that the most viable remedy may be consumer pressure applied to software vendors to change these practices. Even if you're not particularly concerned about privacy on this level, the findings are quite interesting.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wal-Mart Planning to Carry iPad 'Later This Year' - aka Wally World aka GhettoMart, guess Apple hit the price point
Wal-Mart Planning to Carry iPad 'Later This Year'
Thursday May 13, 2010 11:00 AM EST
Written by Eric SlivkaBloomberg reports that Wal-Mart is expecting to be able offering the iPad for sale in its stores sometime "later this year", building on the companies existing offerings of the iPhone 3GS and various iPod models.
"We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year," Gary Severson, senior vice president of entertainment for Wal-Mart's U.S. stores, said in a telephone interview. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company isn't prepared to provide specifics on the timing and pricing of the iPad, he said.
Apple declined to comment specifically on the report, noting only that it has not made any announcements on new iPad retail partners since the device was introduced. U.S. distribution is currently limited to Apple's online and retail stores and Best Buy locations offering the Apple "store-within-a-store" concept.Apple has been struggling to keep up with customer demand for the iPad in the United States, even as the company this week began taking pre-orders in nine new countries for delivery later this month. Customers looking to order the iPad in those new countries have already seen Apple burn through its launch quantities, with shipping estimates for new orders being pushed out beyond the May 28th launch date.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
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