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Steve Jobs on Flash
Nice description of why no Flash on iPhone/Pad by Steve Jobs “Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by [...]
Department of Defense Power Point Graphic – WOW!
Look at this simply AWFUL graphic, from a NY Times article on Powerpoint – “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general Powerpoint, oh how I hate thee… My question is, “Why is [...]
Calculus
Great, simple overview of Calculus by Steven Strogatz on nytimes.com. “Calculus is the mathematics of change. It describes everything from the spread of epidemics to the zigs and zags of a well-thrown curveball. The subject is gargantuan — and so are its textbooks. Many exceed 1,000 pages and work nicely as doorstops. But within that [...]
iPhone 4 SDK bans Flash, Java, Mono…
Apple just slapped Adobe/Flash again http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/08/apples_iphone_4_sdk_license_bans_flash_java_mono_apps.html http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler
iPad + ABC
My favorite guy in the brown truck delivered my iPad this morning and we have been impressed so far. The ABC application works great! Check it out here: http://abc.go.com/site/abc-player-for-ipad or just download it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abc-player/id364191819?mt=8 and of course, you will want to see what is on the inside, so check that out here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-13579_3-10003019.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Gmail Remote Sign In – Detecting Suspicious Activity
We use gmail for our mail over at Not That This, so this new feature looks great. I’m glad they are exposing this stuff From the gmail blog, “Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to [...]
Google Maps by Niemann
maps.google.com is the vocabulary for Niemann – some nifty stuff here: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/my-way/
2010 Winter Olympics on NBC – Fail
what a mess. NPR shares our frustration. And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What [...]
iPhone SDK Alternatives
Besides xCode, here are couple alternate iPhone SDKs. At first glance/installation, Corona makes it dead simple to create flash like games/interactions. It uses a simple LUA scripting language. The Unity 3D for the iPhone is a subset of the larger Unity 3D engine but definitely worth a look if you are building a game or [...]
OS X Tip: Show Full Paths in Finder Windows
Type this in a terminal then restart the Finder. defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES