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 Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.”
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 Over Government Capacity” to the left and above “Infrastructure Services & Economy”? What does that really mean?
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 bulk you’ll find two ideas shining through. All the rest, as Rabbi Hillel said of the Golden Rule, is just commentary. Those two ideas are the “derivative” and the “integral.” Each dominates its own half of the subject, named in their honor as differential and integral calculus.”
Read it here, honest, it’s way better than my last calculus class…
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/change-we-can-believe-in/
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
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 see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are to you, so we’re adding a new layer of information and control. With this new feature, you can now track your recent sessions and you can also sign yourself out remotely.”
Read about it here:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/remote-sign-out-and-info-to-help-you.html
And the details:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/detecting-suspicious-account-activity.html
maps.google.com is the vocabulary for Niemann – some nifty stuff here: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/my-way/
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 this means is that even if NBC is showing “live” coverage of its big events in New York, which is across the continent from Vancouver, it delays them three hours for Seattle, which is less than three hours south of Vancouver.”
UGH, Not that I wanted to watch curling, but trying to find the USA/CANADA hockey game, if I actually knew it was on, and when it might be “aired”, and on “what channel”. What a mess.
Read more here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/02/nbcs_olympic_coverage_manages.html
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 3d iPhone app.
Find them here:
Type this in a terminal then restart the Finder.
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES