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The iPad was designed by people with taste, passion and opinions. It’s an expression in minimalism and the missing features are a testament to Apple’s philosophy just as much as the features they chose to include. No camera, no USB ports, no Flash, no multitasking (yet), no widescreen ratio, no keyboard. What it does do it does extremely well.
Apple designers are curators. It’s their job to say no, and they did, and many people bitched and moaned but they still sold an iPad every 3 seconds for the first 60 days.
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I was wondering what would fill the void in my viewing schedule left by the departure of LOST. Although the videos are nearly a year old, there’s still a treasure trove of information to be gained from them.
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Notes"Jobs not only built and then rebuilt his company around some very strong opinions about digital life, but he’s willing to defend them in public. Vigorously. Bluntly. At two in the morning on a weekend."The preface to Gawker writer Ryan Tate’s email exchange with Steve Jobs (via nikf)
Amazing stuff. Even more so when you consider who this “journalist” works for and what they’ve done to Apple in recent weeks.
For the record, anyone that thinks that all the Flash content on the web would “just work” on mobile devices (iPhones, iPads, iPods, etc.) is naive beyond belief. Even if a Flash player existed on those devices, a majority of that content is so resource intensive (both in memory and in CPU) it would still require a considerable amount of porting effort.
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NotesThis is just the sort of advertising I shudder with joy to see Apple doing. It takes us out of Crate and Barrel and puts us everywhere else.
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WWDC 2010 sells out in about a week. Wow.
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2010: The year I finally made it to WWDC
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Notes"Currently, Apple’s stock is at an all time high. A share today is worth over 40 times its value seven years ago. So, how much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product?"Kyle Conroy’s Personal Blog and Portfolio - Should I have bought that Apple Product?
Whoa. Apple’s rise over the past decade has been truly incredible. Checkout Kyle’s site to put it all in perspective.
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Viewing books on the iPad using the iBook app is an absolute joy. So much so, that I’m currently on a quest to convert the 20 or so programming books I own from PDF to ePub.
Major kudos to Andy & Dave over at The Pragmatic Bookshelf for supporting ePub (and .mobi) from the get go. I was able to download ePub versions of my books in about 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go nearly as smoothly when it came to the ebooks purchased through O’Reilly and Apress. O’Reilly claims to support ePub, but of the half dozen O’Reilly books I own, only one of the books has this listed as an option. Apress takes things one step further in the wrong direction by password protecting all their ebooks (boo!).
What I’ve tried thus far:
- Calibre: it worked, but it took up over 100% CPU just to launch the app (?!) and the ePub I got out of it contained no images and the formatting was rubbish.
- Epub2Go: was able to convert a PDF containing < 20 pages just fine. All book conversions failed. Currently offline probably because it’s getting as much traffic as apple.com at the moment.
Dear Intarweb, can you help a guy out?
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The lunchbag for the rest of us.
Hey check it out: rsmallbone draws on his kids’ lunches too. His stuff is excellent!
This is why tumblr needs a “Like this to INFINITY” button!
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"The App Store app/fan page was created by Apple and Virtue, a social media company, and allows Facebook users to browse the App Store’s 170,000+ apps from right in Facebook. When Facebook users find an app they like, they simply click the “Get App” button and are taken to the App Store in iTunes. The App Store Facebook page first launched a little over two weeks ago."
Apple App Store app launches on Facebook
Wow. This is big news. Big.
