Michael Mulvey:
How about publishers stop making their magazines a big, fucking stack of PNGs and start to use actual text. The kind of text you can select and copy and paste. And look up in in-app dictionaries.
Exactly. Magazine publishers that use giant PNG images just don’t give a shit about their customers.
Tenacious D is back with a new short film.
David Smith:
The current adoption rate hits a significant milestone. It took iOS just 15 days to get the same percentage of users on the latest OS version as are currently on any single version of Android.
And this is what happens when you don’t screw your users with fragmentation.
Ngmoco CEO Neil Young opines about Apple and the future of iOS and entertainment.
The Week:
Apple has no shortage of cash in its vaults, so it’s pretty easy to see why the tech giant is constantly slapped with lawsuits of questionable merit. From disillusioned complaints of Siri’s capabilities to a bizarre sodomy suit filed against late founder Steve Jobs, here, seven of the sillier challenges the Cupertino powerhouse has faced through the years.
Apple gets sued frequently by other entities – Motorola, Samsung, the Australian government, etc – and you’ve all heard about the unfortunate grandmother who broke her nose walking into the glass window of a Long Island Apple Store (she is now suing Apple for $1 million dollars). But that’s not even the oddest lawsuit served against Apple. Did you know that one person sued Apple because he alleged O.J. Simpson had been working as a hit man for Steve Jobs?
Jason Ankeny:
Any discussion what’s hot is inevitably followed by a conversation around what’s not, and that’s Android. Appcelerator reports that 78.6 percent of developers expressed interest in building apps for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) smartphones during the first quarter, down from 83.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and down from around 87 percent a year ago. Given that Android’s market share has continued to explode over the last 12 months, you can’t blame consumer disinterest for developer apathy in the platform; the culprit is–you guessed it–fragmentation.
Can’t blame them.
Written by Macworld’s Lex Friedman, the book covers signing up, upgrading your music library, understanding various iTunes Match settings, getting around the 25,000 song limit, using the service with Apple TV, troubleshooting problems, using it with iOS devices, and plenty more.
Scroll down and watch the video. That’s some meaty tone right there. Beautiful sounding amps.
Good news for Apple, bad news for its competitors.
Around the world, companies have invested time, talent and treasure in social and environmental efforts for a range of complementary reasons. For many companies, cause marketing—the use of social and environmental efforts to build a brand and increase profits—has been a secondary if not primary motivation.
When it comes to acoustic guitars, I only play a Taylor.
This is my favorite audio company. They make the best audio plug-ins on the market today.
Stéphanie Walter:
In this tutorial we are going to create two HTML5 forms that will switch between login and registration using the CSS3 pseudo class :target. We will style it using CSS3 and an icon font. The idea behind this demo is to show the user the login form and provide a link to “switch” to the registration form.
I don’t like the login form much, but the transitions and idea to make it easier for the user are appreciated.
I’m fascinated with these guys. Lots of talent. […]
I wonder if it would work if you were in a plane.
Lex Friedman:
Your new iPad’s battery is fine. Despite some media reports suggesting that Apple’s newest tablet suffers from a pair of battery-related issues, Macworld’s own research concludes that the third-generation iPad’s battery works as designed, and that customers needn’t fear harming the battery by over-charging it.
AmpKit is the ultimate guitar amps, effects and recording app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, now with iPad Retina display graphics and an even greater selection of gear in the Gear Store, including the first full-featured, modern bass amp … Continued
Apple confirms that Tim Cook met with Chinese officials during a trip to China this week.
M.I.C Gadget:
Fu Chunli, a citizen of Qingdao, China, downloaded the 25 billionth app from Apple’s App Store early this month, pushing the mobile software store to a new milestone. The young lady downloaded a free version of Disney’s popular mobile game ‘Where’s my water?’As the winner, she received an iTunes gift card worth 10,000 US dollars. Last week, Apple invited her to the Beijing Apple store to collect her prize.
TIME:
An annual Easter egg hunt attended by hundreds of children has been canceled because of misbehavior last year. Not by the kids, but by the grown-ups.Too many parents determined to see their children get an egg jumped a rope marking the boundaries of the children-only hunt at Bancroft Park last year. The hunt was over in seconds, to the consternation of eggless tots and the rules-abiding parents.
One four year old’s dad is quoted as saying, “You have all these eggs just lying around, and parents helping out. You better believe I’m going to help my kid get one of those eggs. I promised my kid an Easter egg hunt, and I’d want to give him an even edge.”
“An edge”? It’s an Easer egg, not a college scholarship.
There is just too much stupid to mention with this one.
Troy Wolverton for the Mercury News:
My conclusion: For PC users, Windows 8 is a major misstep.
Tim Bajarin:
This is a very important OS for PC vendors and most are betting their companies on it for any future growth. I am just not convinced that it will be a raging success out of the gate without the proper optimized alternate input that matches the touch input that is supposed to be the center of Metro’s real user value.
Windows 8, the new Vista.
Julien’s Auctions is proud to present Property From The Estate of Les Paul. Les Paul not only revolutionized the sound of the electric guitar, but also the technology behind modern day sound recording.
Incredible.
A Microsoft evangelist is making right after an Android Phone user didn’t get his prize after beating a Microsoft Store employee using a Windows Phone in a “Smoked by a Windows Phone” promotion.
Mike Daisey, the stage performer behind “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” finally admitted that he’s a liar.
The new iPad passed an important regulatory hurdle to be sold in China, but Apple’s trademark woes with Proview continue.
This has to be the most amazing sponsor page ever made. The guys at Oomph made this page to promote Sidekick as the sponsor on The Loop this week. (Tip: click on the lightning bolt on the right hand side).
Sidekick is a stealthy little Mac app that automatically updates laptop settings based on where you are. It takes care of annoying tasks so you can focus on what you need to do.
Amazing how many of the products in this video that I’ve owned.
Krystian Kozerawski interviewed Polish Member of Parliament John Godson on how he uses his iPad. The link is translated using Google.