Kim-Mai Cutler:
Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones and tablets for every app they ship!
What a bunch of shit to make your developers go through.
Carroll Hall Shelby, the Texan who created the famous Shelby Cobra and uncounted other high-performance machines that turned the auto world on its ear, and made it a whole lot more fun for 50 years, died in Dallas Thursday night at age 89. He had been hospitalized for pneumonia.
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Reuters:
Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, has renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report, just days before the company’s record initial public offering.The offering could leave Saverin – who once owned 5 percent of the company – with a hefty capital-gains tax bill.
That’s convenient.
The hit game Astronut is now available on the iPad for a $1.99, with a nifty remote control function for the free iPhone version built in.
You know it’s a slow day when the media is picking up on the fact that Siri is using WolframAlpha’s search to return a query for the “best smartphone ever” as the Nokia Lumia 900 4G. Here are a couple … Continued
Federico Viticci:
A few minutes ago, developer Steve Troughton-Smith tweeted a photo showing a “beta” login page for iCloud.com, Apple’s suite of web applications to access iCloud services like Mail and Calendar. The photo showed Apple’s icon-based navigation for iCloud.com, with the addition of Reminders and Notes icons in what appears to be an internal version of iCloud.com carrying future features.
With iCloud being at the center of Mountain Lion and iOS, this shouldn’t be a big surprise.
You can choose to manage your ringer by time-of-day or your current location. By time-of-day, set the ringer “Off” and ringer “On” times using a selection wheel and press Start. By location, just tap Start and choose the desired “Ringer-Off Zone” size. That’s it. RingMindMe does the rest. No account set-up required. RingMindMe does not override your ringer/silence switch. It just reminds you to change your ringer/silence switch based on the time-of-day or your current location.
I’ve had this happen to me a number of times. Simple, yet intuitive, the way an app should be.
Yoni Heisler writing for NetworkWorld:
On May 1, Apple filed a motion in the Northern District of California alleging that Samsung intentionally destroyed documents it was obligated to hand over as part of the discovery process, an act referred to as “spoilation of evidence” in the legal parlance.
Not good Samsung. Maybe RIM is heading up Samsung’s legal team.
Mark Gurman:
While Apple has always had full control of the actual iOS Maps application design, the backend has belonged to Google. That will change with iOS 6 thanks to their purchases of Placebase, C3 Technologies, and Poly9; acquisitions that Apple has used to create a complete mapping database. Now that the application is fully in-house, it is being renamed to simply “Maps.”
Makes sense.
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Robert Wright:
Because at some point over the past year he had clicked a button without reading the fine print and thus had entered the world of “frictionless sharing.” In this world, if you’re on a website that permits frictionless sharing (theatlantic.com doesn’t), every time you click on a headline, the site can report this behavior to your Facebook friends.
Things like this are just creepy.
I laughed at Marco Arment’s response to this commenter.
Paul Kafasis: This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, a wreck perhaps best known for introducing the phrase “Oh, the humanity” to our lexicon. While chatting with my pal Marco a while back, I realized I knew … Continued
Adobe:
We’re pleased to announce that Lightroom 4 is now available via the Mac App Store in North America.The Mac App Store offering is the same product offered on Adobe.com in terms of features and functionality but has been modified to comply with Mac App Store requirements. There are a few important pieces of information you should be aware of.
It’s $149.00, same price as if you buy it at Adobe.com but there’s no upgrade price if you own previous versions of Lightroom (there is if you buy it from Adobe.com). The Mac App Store version is for Mac OS X only – the version you buy from Adobe.com is Mac and Windows. The Mac App Store version can only be updated thru the Mac App Store. Adobe says that means they could update it on their web site but it may not happen at the same time, or at all, on the Mac App Store.
There’s more.
Adobe says there is no guarantee that upgrade pricing will be available to Mac App Store Lightroom 4 customers when Lightroom 5 and future versions of Lightroom are released and that Lightroom 4 is available only on the Mac App Store in North America.
Remind me again what the advantages of the Mac App Store are, Adobe?
Drafts is the quick, easy way to capture and share ideas on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Very clean interface with support for Markdown, TextExpander, Twitter and other services.
David Sparks’ new MacSparky field guide will help you develop a paperless workflow.
Tomb Raider: Underworld is coming to the Mac at the end of the month.
My latest article on TechPinions looks at RIMs latest failed marketing campaign, “WAKE UP.”
Analyst Michael Pachter recently took offense to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lax dress code. CNet’s Jim Kerstetter says good for Zuck.
Foxconn said it and Apple will split the costs of improving labor conditions at its Chinese factories where Apple products are made.
One of my favorite apps of all time.
Jacqui Cheng for ArsTechnica:
“We went through scores of names, but the one that I hit on early on was the iMac,” Segall said. “Steve didn’t like any of our names, including the iMac, and said, ‘if you can’t beat MacMan, that’s what it’s gonna be.’ We came up with a few more names and came back, but still brought back some of our old favorites. At that point, Steve said, ‘well I don’t hate it this week, but I still don’t like it.”
Fascinating.
These pages describe a personal journey – my attempt to recreate the Marshall 50 watt 1987 head I owned in the early seventies. I was a tube geek even back then, and carefully hand-drew a schematic while I owned it.
If you go the last page, you can hear how it sounds. Very impressive.
Brett Terpstra:
There are a few great Markdown text editors available, and more being worked on right now. I want to put a list of features out there that I think any true Markdown editor should include. Some of these are implemented in one editor or another, but nothing has brought it all together (aside from TextMate with all of my customizations, and even that lacks some of the polish mentioned below).
Om Malik:
Facebook says it is launching an app store that will allow people to get access to social apps on the network, without much heavy lifting. The company made the announcement in a blog post today. The company is hoping that the new app store will make it easy for apps to be discovered on the platform.
Oh great, just what we need.
This Week Myke And Terry Are Joined By Jim Dalrymple and they discuss WWDC and Apple’s upcoming plans as well as Jim’s Mac and iOS Set-Up.
Apple on Wednesday released Safari 5.1.7, an update to its Web browser. One of the new security features is that Safari will automatically disable old versions of Adobe’s Flash Player. […]
10.7.4 is out, and it fixes a problem with FileVault, Apple’s data encryption technology.