August 2011
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Mac App Store Speedup →
If the MAS is as slow as a snail in 80 mi head wind for you, maybe you wanna try out this little tip from someone that obviously could figure out something Apple is not able to do in the first place.
That brings me to my next point: use this info at your own risk as I can’t tell you if there are any side effects related to this modification. What makes this even worse: it is a global...
July 2011
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New tumblr API v2 is out there ready to be used... →
It had its issues and its renewal was already overdue. Not sure how fast I am gonna update my tumblr Stack but it looks like there is a benefit out of that … Stay tuned
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“Recent census figures show that Detroit’s overall population shrank by 25...”
– Encouraging data points re. the “creative class” from one of my favorite cities in the U.S.: Detroit, as reported by the New York Times. (via sheuer) … Interesting twist for Detroit, which was once the gravity center of the techno music in the 80th
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Sony NEX Firmware 04 available now
Check out the new Firmware 04 which can be used with all of the Sony NEX devices available so far. It’s good to see that Sony is still treating all cameras equally and does not support just the new generation models … keep on going
June 2011
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Steve Jobs reveals Apple's new spaceship campus,... →
minimalmac:
Because, why would you expect Steve to put less thought into a building that can hold 13,000 people than, say, a washing machine? (Answer: You shouldn’t)
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My Secret Stack Project
Just to let you guys know, I am working on a super secret Stack project that nobody has done before and which moves Stacks and RapidWeaver to a new level. I don’t wanna say more right now, but it’s actually something I already did successfully during the time I was using NetObjects Fusion as a web development environment on Windows. Fusion had components similar to RapidWeaver plugins,...
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“@dcurtis Dustin Curtis
Apple just pissed off: Dropbox, Sparrow, Instapaper,...”
– https://twitter.com/#!/dcurtis/statuses/77804441293688832
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What's the best OSX editor out there?
No, it’s not Coda and it’s not Espresso, not BBEdit or Smultron and of course not Emacs.
After testing those editor over time more or less extensive, it’s TextMate, the most flexible and versatile text editor from Macro Mates.
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Update: Tumblr Stack 2.6
Two releases on the same day :) Just fixed an issue one of the stack users reported a few minutes ago with MP4 videos not playing correctly due to the fact that the tumblr specific player code was not included. It is now :)
As usual, the lastest and greatest stack version can be found here …
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Update: Tumblr Stack 2.5
Here is a quick one right before the start of the new week :)
This is a minor bug fix that focuses on the way photo posts are rendered in the blog. So far the tumblr Stack didn’t consider a click-through url if it was present. This release changes this behavior: when there is a link-through url available, clicking on the photo opens the respective url, if not, a larger version of the photo...
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May 2011
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Apple Testing A5-Powered MacBook Air →
konistehrad:
I wrote on this topic back in November, and I’m pretty damn excited to hear it might be shaping up. The AIR already gets pretty good battery life at five and eight hours for the 11” and 13” models respectively, but the prospect of the system drawing as little as 5 watts (as opposed to 10 or 17 for just the CPU) has the potential to push battery life well past 12 hours.
Now that...
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getaround.com: Disruptive Or Not?
UPDATE: the picture from autoblog.com shows that the folks from getaround.com are actually using the OBD connector to interface with the vehicle. And to be clear, there is no way to engage/disengage the immobilizer this way.
This years TechCrunch Disrupt saw getaround.com as the big winner. The getaround folks gave a very good presentation (3rd video from the top) on how they wanna solve the...
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Sony NEX Firmware 04 to be released June, 3rd →
More details on the new features can be found in this leaked manual …
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Update: Tumblr Stack 2.4
I just release a new version of the tumblr Stack. This release fixes a couple of minor issues that have been present since day one:
video posts will no longer show 3 videos instead of one
using the tweet button the user now has to actually enter a tweet for posts of type quote, photo, video and audio
the stack is no longer using a default value for the tag filter which caused a lot of empty...
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Is Flickr no longer able to innovate? →
timoni:
Is this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/
(I am a designer at Flickr. This post is largely taken from a proposed redesign I sent out last year.)
Virtually every time someone asks if I’ve seen a new photo on Flickr, I first cringe a bit, then reluctantly say no—it’s always no,…
Not that I want to jump onto a new service, but what are good alternatives with a flickr...
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AppleCore Cable Management →
minimalmac:
These look like a really nifty solution to wrangle the tangles. They are pretty reasonably priced too. They come in three sizes ranging from $1.99 to $4.99. I ordered a few.
What a cool brand name :)
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Sony NEX Firmware 04 Being Next Soon →
Good to see that Sony is still updating functionality on the first generation NEX, no committed release date though …
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Scifi manuals IKEA style ... →
via @sheuer
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Are we chasing the wrong guys? →
A different view on the latest PSN security incident …
April 2011
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The webs future UI ...
What you just saw is a Qwiki about Qwiki, a new online service. With the release of the alpha version of Qwiki, I guess we are seeing not just a cool online encyclopedia service, what Qwiki really brings to the table is a new UI for many forthcoming services, a UI we’ve seen so far only in science fiction movies.
Right now Qwiki is tapping into sources like Wikipedia to answer search...
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It's not going to stop working ...
Apple next month will reportedly begin manufacturing the first updates to its rejuvenated MacBook Air line as the company looks to maintain the impressive sales momentum generated by the ultra-thin notebooks and limit the market opportunity for would-be competitors hoping to wedge their foot in the door.
That’s how life goes. You buy a brand new Apple device and you know by the time you buy...
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“Everything you read is true. Except when the article covers a topic you actually...”
– @sacca Chris Sacca
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Is that ok with you? Nope!
With all the posts going around about Apple’s weird practice to track location data of their iPhone/iPad users, this one part of the Steve Jobs D8 interview came to my mind, where he specifically refers to location data usage in the context of how Apple handles privacy of data.
I am just wondering if he knew about that specific feature of his products at the time …
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Apple Currency Conversion Chart →
minimalmac:
People who are lucky enough to actually own Apple stock may have paid attention to the fact that Apple released their Second Quarter Results today. In fact, even those not directly benefiting may have gotten word that they now effectively own the US Federal Reserve. You see, the US government no…
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Let it slide, Steve
Here is the story: Apple sues Samsung over the Galaxy Phone and Pad and the Internet is going nuts about Apples stance to do so. How could a company like Apple actually complain about this? To foster that statement a recent blog post even shows how Apple or better Jonathan “Jony” Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design has been “inspired” by Dieter...
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Ubiquitous Computing = Cloud + LBS
It was 1991 when a researcher from PARC, whose name I don’t remember, gave a lecture at my university about something called Ubiquitous Computing.
It was 2 years before I finished university and Smalltalk, Lisp and Prolog where the hottest things in computer science for me so far. But what I heard at this lecture was far more than I could grasp at the time and I always remembered the...
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Get your Air a cushy sleeve ...
Checking out the Apple Store re. MacBook Air sleeves was a great disappointment: ordinary, boring laptop sleeves all over the place.
If you made the same experience, here is a collection of great Air sleeves that are far from being ordinary and all share a perfect fit.
Freiwild Air Sleeve
speck Sleeves
AirMail Manila Envelope
I own the Freiwild Air Sleeve myself and there is no way I would...
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The missing piece →
Web apps are amazing, but launching the browser instead of clicking on an app icon is still kind of awkward. Fluid changes all that by wrapping the web app into a browser. Your web app has never looked better before … and it’s free
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AirPrint Unlimited →
Sure, there are free hacks out there that allows you to enable AirPrint on your Mac, but Printopia is so much more …
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Let's face it, Cisco is just ahead of the market →
I know it’s kind of weird that Cisco is about to kill a still flourishing business that was once an example of an innovative product, but as sad it may seem when looking at it right now, Flip is doomed to fail in a market that is more and more dominated by smart phones that do the same but just better. In the same way you can expect Apple to discontinue its iPod Classic, as there is no...
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Apple hit with class-action suit over iPhone... →
Sounds like another kitten-in-the-microwave case. If you can manage your kids, don’t give them your iPhone in the first place. Period.
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Apple switches to speedier SSDs for new MacBook... →
Toshiba MacBook Air “blade” SSD - iFixit Anandtech notices that Apple’s newer MacBook Air shipments appear to contain Samsung-built SSDs versus Toshiba ones that originally shipped in the MacBook Air. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when Apple made
The lucky guy I am, my Air has the new SSD built-in …
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Scroll Reverser — get in practice for Lion →
pilotmoon:
You might have learned that a certain upcoming version of Mac OS X may have scrolling that is “bass-ackwards”.
That is, when you push up on your trackpad or mouse scroller, the page content moves up too, just like on iOS devices.
I made a very minimal little app that lets you reverse…
Get ready for Lion now!
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Ahead of its time ...
With his Witkar concept, Luud Schimmelpennink was decades ahead of its time. It’s amazing to see what one could already do in the 70’ using only limited technology. What we can say today he had an amazing vision of what’s going to be possible …
Witkar 2.0 might not be too far off :) Stay tuned …
Check out more pics and videos.
Update: we just announced today that...
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43 days later ...
It’s been 43 days since I got my new Air and I guess it’s time for a first resumé of what the Air is like. Well I could easily sum it all up by saying that I am still stunned by the Air, but let me elaborate on that a bit.
It’s kind of funny, but there seems to be a common belief that the MacBook Air is not a full fledged computer resp. laptop. Yea, the Air is thin and light and...
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Why do apps from the same company look worse on... →
android-gripes:
When I use an iPhone and an Android phone at the same time, I often find that apps from the same company look a lot different on these two platforms - the ones on Android usually look much worse.
Here is a couple of examples.
This is what Meebo IM looks on Android, the contact list screen and…
For me this is pretty simple: the Android HMI itself looks not as nice as the...
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Before I forget ...
… let me point you to 2 simple, but very efficient apps from the folks of Hog Bay Software showing that it doesn’t take giga bytes of code to make a difference …
Number 1 is QuickCursor
QuickCursor is a little helper that gives you access to your text editor right from any editing field, be it on a web page or from within other apps. Very convenient to always use your preferred...