July 2009
141 posts
Reality Check: Most People Don't Care About... →
Shared by felix The bad news is that if Apple forces enough developers, and this is serious developers who spend enough time and money on developing apps that they don’t want them arbitrarily…
Jul 31st
Shrink: I will create a WoW guild of shrinks to... →
Shared by felix I predict one of two things, a whole lot of new WoW addicts or a ripe new target for griefing. Maybe 2 of 2 things. A London-based shrink named Dr Richard Graham wants to create an…
Jul 31st
FeedDemon, NetNewsWire to Sync Exclusively with... →
Shared by felix wait… so the netnewswire app for iPhone will sync to google reader at some point soon? This could be gooooood news. Windows/Mac OS X/iPhone: NewsGator—the company behind some…
Jul 31st
Microsoft Admits Its Phones Are Crappy, Vows To... →
Shared by felix Um, I hope that they don’t actually believe that integration with their hardware partners is their primary problem… No more blind cheerleading from Redmond: Microsoft…
Jul 31st
Fed Up, A Popular Mac Developer Quits The iPhone →
Shared by felix Apple and ATT need to back off. Hopefully this wave of defections pushes them in the right direction. By now, you’ve heard the horror stories. Developers put their heart and…
Jul 31st
Brent Simmons: ‘Anatomy of a Feature’ →
Shared by felix sigh “Oh, it’s easy.”  ★ 
Jul 30th
Hootsuite Adopts CoTweet's CoTag/Sig... →
Hootsuite has announced support for microsyntax to support the identity of individuals sharing the same Twitter account. They are calling the convention a ‘sig’, like ‘signature’, as in the email…
Jul 30th
The Three-Day Weekend Experiment →
Shared by felix helllllz yeah. For the past year, all government employees in Utah have had a four-day workweek. The results of the trial run are in, and they look good: the state says it saved…
Jul 30th
I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube video... →
Shared by felix huh (Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog) Last week the world watched in wonder as Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz’s wedding party transformed a familiar and predictable…
Jul 30th
LOL: Jessica Simpson has sparked a race row. →
Shared by felix Wait, they did this on Seinfeld already. Jessica Simpson has outraged the Native American community by using a racial stereotype in an interview. When asked if she would…
Jul 30th
CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL →
Shared by felix He’s the sole admin for domain, irc and funds?? Man. An anonymous reader writes “Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular free “rebuild” of Red Hat’s…
Jul 30th
iPhone Devs: Lite/Free Mobile Apps Really Pay Off →
Shared by felix Duh. Except that Apple should be building this functionality into the SDK itself. This should go hand in hand with these new fangled in app payments. The creator of iCombat…
Jul 30th
Looking Back At The Microsoft Antitrust Suit: Did... →
Shared by felix totally agree. We’ve argued before that the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft was misguided (though, I’ll admit that I was in the camp that thought it made sense at the time,…
Jul 30th
Drowning diver saved by beluga whale →
Shared by felix Amazing. A beluga whale in a Chinese aquarium has rescued a drowning diver by pushing her out of the water. A spokesman for Harbin Polar Land in the country’s north-east…
Jul 30th
Hasta la Vista: The Many Versions of Windows 7... →
Shared by felix See, this is the crazy side of microsoft that doesn’t understand that simplicity is good. Last week, this column laid out the painful, tedious process that awaits Windows XP users…
Jul 30th
Justin Williams: ‘Where Do I Sign Up?’ →
iPhone developer Justin Williams: With the latest app rejection being Google Voice, I am one step closer to selling off my iPhone products and focusing entirely on the Mac once more. I can’t help…
Jul 30th
Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone... →
Shared by felix Apple has long needed to fix this. Sigh. Perhaps this will persuade devs to move to Android and maybe Pre development and give Apple a little scare. Probably not, but who knows?
Jul 29th
Apple adds keywords to App Store additions for... →
Shared by felix Keywords in the app store is juuuust about the least helpful thing Apple could have done to revamp the terrible App Store experience. Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: …
Jul 29th
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Most Important... →
Shared by felix Hard to say, but I think this sounds like a good move for both companies. Much better than any actual m&a crap. Now that the search deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo…
Jul 29th
Yahoo Already Suffering From Microsoft Technology →
Shared by felix Wow. The ink is barely dry on Yahoo’s (YHOO) search partnership with Microsoft (MSFT), but Yahoo is already suffering the effects of pairing with Redmond. We just clicked…
Jul 29th
iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers,... →
Shared by felix Yeah, I’m pretty sure that if too many people jailbreak their iphones, it could actually usher in the apocalypse or ragnarok or something. I mean, but that’d take a lot of…
Jul 29th
Guinness Is Actually Good For You! →
Shared by felix I knew it!! The old ad slogan “Guinness is good for you” may actually be true: a study showed that drinking just over a pint of Guinness at mealtimes may help reduce the…
Jul 29th
X-Power 1 iPhone USB Cord Comes With Built-In... →
Shared by felix This is a really cool idea, the battery looks small, though, I wonder how much (in terms of %) it will actually charge an iPhone. Still, it’s a smart idea, I hope the price is…
Jul 29th
Costumes from Comic-Con →
Shared by felix awesome. 600 Costumes from the 2009 Comic-Con
Jul 29th
Best. Comment. Ever. →
Shared by felix it really is a good post. This is, without a doubt, the best comment ever on TechCrunch. Left by “J” on MG’s latest iPhone rant about the Google Voice debacle. Beautiful.
Jul 29th
Blue Sports Drink Dye Might Be Good For Your Spine... →
Shared by felix I can’t believe it’s blue #1, when everyone knows that yellow #5 is the king of colors. Turns out some mysterious chemical additives may not be all bad. The sports drink and…
Jul 29th
What the Hell Did Jackie Chan Just Make Me Watch?... →
Shared by felix what. in. the. hell? Dear god. Jackie Chan. On a Segway. Punching computer viruses. While wearing a helmet that says Kaspersky. I can only process this logically as…
Jul 28th
Somali Pirate talks about how to negotiate ransom,... →
Shared by felix There’s a lot of crazy in here and crazy sad. WIRED contributing editor Scott Carney interviewed a Somali pirate for his story in Wired about pirate economics, and…
Jul 28th
"Coder Girl" -- the new Web sensation →
Shared by felix heh. Much love to K-Squared for this link. I must say, I hate rap music, but I really like this video. Partly because the coder girl is using a Mac. And mostly, I think,…
Jul 28th
Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's... →
Shared by felix ouch. Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google’s 5% stake worth $283 million  — Time Warner on Monday said that it bought back…
Jul 28th
Apple Rejects Another Google iPhone App →
Shared by felix this sucks. Yet another uncomfortable admission Google (GOOG) has to make about its relationship with Apple: Google said for the second time in a week that it had…
Jul 28th
Apple’s Tablet Is The Kindle In Technicolor (With... →
Shared by felix Taking aside battery life of the tablet how much is it going to weigh? This is a big factor if they think it’s going to compete with the Kindle for e-readers. Assuming that Apple…
Jul 27th
NYC ‘Bird Racers’ Are Told To Assimilate or Die →
Shared by felix Wow. People really will find anything to bet on. The feds are not down with bird racing. According to the Associated Press, the “unusual event” held at Phil “Scooter”…
Jul 27th
Why Apple can not build a Subnotebook at the... →
Shared by felix This is crazy. If true, I guess if that damn Tablet is a reality, it won’t be full OSX. Abstract: Apple can not support small high-resolution screens, because MacOS is…
Jul 27th
Vanity Fair Copy-Edits Sarah Palin’s Resignation... →
Shared by felix I like when they leave in “my administration’s work speaks for itself” and cross out the rest of the graf. :) Not mockery — it’s an honest attempt to clean up the prose of a very…
Jul 27th
Dobromir Hadzhiev: Massive Compilation of Designer... →
Shared by felix a bunch useful stuff in here (via Dobromir) Dobromir Hadzhiev Massive Compilation of Designer Tools - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009…
Jul 27th
10 Ways Google Is Trying To Kill Microsoft →
Shared by felix While I think it is an interesting tech fight, it’s kinda like a sissy slap fight when compared to Apple’s fight with pretty much everyone in every industry. Perhaps the…
Jul 27th
Coolness: Amazon’s Acquisitions and Investments,... →
Shared by felix This is awesome. Amazon has long been the stealth acquirer of the tech world. How awesome is this? All credit goes to MeetTheBoss for creating this visualization…
Jul 27th
Are Apple And The Music Labels Mixing Holiday... →
Shared by felix I still don’t understand apple’s take on a tablet, unless this is somehow the magical evolution of AppleTV, I don’t see a tablet being a consumer success. An interesting…
Jul 27th
Google Android 2.0, Codenamed “Donut” Now... →
Shared by felix I admit Android is ticking along much faster than I had thought it would. Much faster. If you’re a Google Android developer, or just an overzealous device user, you’ll be…
Jul 26th
Palm Pre drops to $99 at Best Buy →
Shared by felix doesn’t bode overly well. Palm needs to hurry up with that whole gaming angle. Interesting — just a couple days after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told a conference that “it’s…
Jul 26th
Cookies Anyone? The http kind, that is →
Shared by felix does anyone really have a beef with cookies anymore? The last time this was an issue was when Doubleclick ruled the advertising world. Nine years ago — a lifetime in Internet…
Jul 24th
Google, HTML5 and Standards →
Shared by felix Thank god xhtml2 is dead. While there were lots of trumpets and elephants accompanying recent announcement of Google Wave, one of the things that could have slipped by was their…
Jul 24th
Palm Plays Cat And Mouse With Apple With WebOS 1.1 →
Shared by felix Wow! Go Palm, although I fear this is going to end badly. Or maybe it will end with Apple having to open up iTunes. Huh. By David Ponce Palm recently updated it’s…
Jul 24th
webOS v1.1 Update Released →
Shared by felix Brings new NFL app?? Um. Is this the beginning of crapware on smartphones? Palm has just released webOS version 1.1.0. The system update for the Palm Pre is available…
Jul 24th
NPD: Apple Has 91 Percent of Market for $1,000+... →
Shared by felix The other interesting fact would be some stats on the size of the $1k+ market as a whole. Is it growing, shrinking… etc. Joe Wilcox on Apple’s growing domination of the premium…
Jul 23rd
Death From Above to Mosquitos: Spraying Starts... →
Shared by felix thank god doesn’t seem to be hitting the bk. Don’t you love the smell of larvicide in the morning? To pre-emptively combat West Nile virus and eradicate mosquito larvae…
Jul 23rd
Google Helps You Understand Recursion →
Shared by felix heh. Google uses the “did you mean” feature, which normally corrects misspellings, to illustrate a nerdy joke: defining the word “recursion” using “see recursion” and pointing to…
Jul 23rd
Microsoft Courts Disgruntled iPhone App Developers →
Shared by felix Will the most successful company actually be the one that helps devs make money? Or the company where devs have the possibility to actually make money? Just saying. …
Jul 23rd
Woah, People Really Don’t Like IE6 →
Shared by felix Oh IE6 hate, you’re the best. Fight on, people. Fight on. People, especially web developers and designers, tend to have a profound dislike of Internet Explorer 6. That’s not…
Jul 23rd