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Compilation of Samsung’s dirty tricks
Scroll down to see the list.
eleMount iPhone and iPad pedestal
I’d like to thank eleMount for sponsoring The Loops RSS feed this week.
eleMount – This universal mount raises the bar, allowing gadgets (smartphone and tablets) to be placed on a premium pedestal that matches their beautiful design and quality. One of the most user friendly mounts ever designed, eleMount sticks to any flat surface and doesn’t care if you prefer Apple or Android or like to keep your case on. eleMount works just as you’d expect. No suction cups, no locks, no instruction manual. You only need one hand to mount your device. This premium, high quality mount is CNC machined, carved from the finest solid aluminum and complements a sleek, minimalistic style. After all, shouldn’t your spectacularly designed device rest on an equally eye-catching pedestal?
Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation
The result is a collection of more than 150,000 photos, some 3,500 of which Mr. Zufi displays on a website and more than 650 of which he has curated into a new 326-page coffee-table-sized book. “Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation,” is self-published and available at www.iconicbook.com.
I’m very proud to say that along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, I also contributed a foreword for this book. It is truly an amazing publication. You can also watch a video interview with Zufi on WSJ.
Apple sweating the details with its new headquarters
Apple is even hand-selecting oak trees to plant. That’s detail oriented.
Transport Tycoon on iOS
31x Limited has announced the release of Transport Tycoon, the first mobile version of the classic PC game. The game’s been completely redesigned for the mobile experience, though it retains many of the classic elements that made Transport Tycoon such a beloved hit.
Good news for iOS gaming.
The .com button on the iOS 7 keyboard
You may have noticed that the .com button is missing from the iOS 7 keyboard. Kirk McElhearn found out that it’s still there.
The horror! The horror!
Fraser Speirs offers a voice of reason about kids supposedly “hacking” their iPads in Los Angeles.
RiffRumble Metal song contest
Sonoma Wire Works is holding its annual RiffRumble competition and are giving away thousands of dollars in prizes. This time the RiffRumble theme is Metal and I will be judging the top five songs, after public voting has been completed.
Mercedes’ driverless research car
Personally, I trust Mercedes more than Google.
Janis Joplin quote
Great quote. I actually stopped and thought about this one for a few minutes.
Great looking chair design
I love this. Expensive, but you pay for great design.
The state of cheating in Android benchmarks
Anand Lal Shimpi and Brian Klug uncover just how bad companies are cheating in benchmark tests. Personally, I’m shocked that such reputable companies would do this. What’s next, are they going to rip off Apple’s UI?
Lodsys blinks
Lodsys decided over the weekend to dismiss its case against Kaspersky with prejudice. Instead of facing a jury, Lodsys will slink away instead. It was an unconditional surrender.
Good.
Galaxy Note 3 “tiny screen mode”
Isn’t this like admitting you’ve gone too far?
The beauty of the M7 chip
Scott Buscemi:
For pre-iPhone 5s devices, ARGUS usually drains about 20-30% of battery life per day while running in the background. The app continually checks for motion and calculates the distance and number of steps using the accelerometer and GPS. With the M7, however, the app does not need to be running in order to keep track of the number of steps – all of that data is tracked by the M7. As such, ARGUS no longer takes up any battery power while running in the background and the stated battery life from Apple – 10 hours 3G talk time, 250 hours of standby – will stay exactly the same.
This is just huge.
iCloud storage limits
Sam Radford talks about Apple’s 5GB of iCloud storage space and how the company has to increase the limit. I agree with Sam. Years ago 5GB was a lot of space, but if Apple wants users to utilize iCloud and all of its services, they are going to have to increase the limits.
The scumbags at Samsung are at it again
Remember back in July when Anand Lal Shimpi and Brian Klug at AnandTech caught Samsung cheating on benchmark tests by making the CPU on the Galaxy S4 run higher when it detected benchmark apps? That was terrible, right—but they got caught and probably wouldn’t do it again.[…]
Pedometer app uses iPhone’s new M7 chip
If you were wondering how to use the information collected by the M7 chip on the new iPhone, you can download a new app from David Smith that turns your iPhone into virtual Pedometer.
Native Instruments Maschine Studio
MASCHINE STUDIO is the flagship music production system for tactile, creative beatmaking with an acclaimed sound library.
Motorhead “Ace of Spades” Lego
LEMMY!
Delta pilots fought against Microsoft Surface
“We fought hard for iPad,” a pilot working for the airline told AppleInsider. He described the Delta deal as being about money, travel contracts, and Delta’s Information Technology staff historically being “in bed” with Microsoft.
Why would Delta want to listen to the people actually using the devices at 30,000 feet in the air.
CSS Regions
CSS Regions allow you to flow content into a series of containers on a single page. It’s the equivalent of linking text boxes in an application like InDesign. It makes possible some layouts that were previously only possible by blurring the line between data and styles.
Apple hires Nike’s Fuel Band designer
Good hire for Apple.
BFD3
This is an impressive looking upgrade for one of the best drum samplers on the market.
Greg Pierce on updating Drafts for iOS 7
Developer Greg Pierce talks to Charles Perry and Joe Cieplinski about updating his popular app, Drafts, to iOS 7.
eleMount iPhone and iPad pedestal [Sponsor]
eleMount – This universal mount raises the bar, allowing gadgets (smartphone and tablets) to be placed on a premium pedestal that matches their beautiful design and quality. One of the most user friendly mounts ever designed, eleMount sticks to any flat surface and doesn’t care if you prefer Apple or Android or like to keep your case on. eleMount works just as you’d expect. No suction cups, no locks, no instruction manual. You only need one hand to mount your device. This premium, high quality mount is CNC machined, carved from the finest solid aluminum and complements a sleek, minimalistic style. After all, shouldn’t your spectacularly designed device rest on an equally eye-catching pedestal?
Delta will give pilots the Surface 2
Delta will distribute Microsoft Surface 2 tablets to its pilots and not Nokia’s “Sirius” tablet as originally planned. The move comes in the wake of a deal to distribute Nokia Lumia 820 smart phones to nearly 19,000 flight attendants.
Note to self: Never fly Delta.
The Loop Magazine Issue 11: Bad Songs
In this issue, Philip Michaels takes a humorous look at bad songs from otherwise great artists; Michael T. Rose looks at raising children in the modern day of TV; Marcus Mendes wonders why people aren’t as fanatic about what guitars people play as they are about what gadget you use; Chris Domico surveys friends and family to see what they do for backups; and Matt Dusenbury gives us a guide to coffee shop co-working.
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