The Flag of Equal Marriage

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The Flag of Equal Marriage is an evolving protest flag for equal marriage rights in the US. It includes one star for each state which recognizes and performs same-sex marriages. We want to see the Flag of Equal Marriage with all 50 stars lit up to match the American flag.

The iStack Mac Bundle 3.0

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iStack promotion

I’d like to thank StackSocial for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week. StackSocial exclusively brings you the The iStack Mac Bundle 3.0. 9 incredible Mac apps that will turn your Mac into a monster. These apps are worth $517, but the deal price is only $29.99! The first 5,000 buyers receive an additional app for FREE. Go get it!

iTunes license agreement stipulates you can’t make nuclear weapons

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In your iTunes End User License Agreement:

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

It’s amazing how many things I miss in these license agreements.

BlackBerry 10 not coming to PlayBook

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Today on the quarterly conference call, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins announced that BlackBerry 10 would not be coming to the PlayBook as previously expected. Apparently the performance wasn’t up to snuff, and Heins want the focus back onto core products.

It’s not like there’s enough PlayBook users to bother with anyway.

Mavericks Finder Tags

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Many of the problems with common folder-based hierarchies are solved by the use of tags in the sense that no document has a single location with which it is associated. Instead, tags allow documents to exist in any number of locations based on its specific categorizations.

This is a very good point and one I didn’t bring up in my first look of Mavericks.

Apple rejects iOS app because it uses iCloud

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Justin Esgar built iCloud syncing into SignMyPad so users could access the documents on their iPhone as well.

Nonetheless we were denied for our use of iCloud. Apple’s reasoning was that they will not allow iOS applications to use iCloud to sync “non-user-generated” data between devices. After some lengthy followup, we learned that while using a “drawing application” to create a new piece of art and then saving that file would be considered “user-generated”, using our app to add a signature and content to a PDF and saving it as a new file is not “user-generated”. The exception, of course, being for Apple’s own iOS applications, like those in iWorks. So after a long phone call with Apple that equated to my logical arguments being repeatedly contested with the same sentence from an apparent script (“your app does not follow our guidelines regarding user-generated documents in iCloud”), what was their recommendation for how to get over this hurdle? Use a 3rd party iCloud competitor. Wow.

I don’t get it.

Apple gives labels twice as much as Pandora on iTunes Radio

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During iTunes Radio’s first year, Apple will pay a label 0.13 cents each time a song is played, as well as 15% of net advertising revenue, proportionate to a given label’s share of the music played on iTunes. In the second year, that bumps up to 0.14 cents per listen, plus 19% of ad revenue.

That compares to the 0.12 cents Pandora pays labels per listen on its free service. Apple is also offering music publishers more than twice as much in royalties than Pandora does.

And Pandora is looking to pay less.

Les Paul Postage Stamp

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The Les Paul Foundation submitted formal paperwork requesting a postage stamp for Les Paul. But we need your help. Sign the petition below to show your support for a U.S. stamp issued for Les Paul’s 100th birthday on June 9, 2015. Be a part of our push to convince elected officials that this needs to happen for Les!! Any questions can be sent to [[email protected]](mailto: [email protected]).

People, let’s make this happen.

Amplified: M0nk3y8

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Dan and Jim discuss Jim’s review of OS X Mavericks and they get into the overall design, the iCloud Keychain, iWork, and the Calendar. Later they discuss Windows 8.1 updates and talk about the changes to the Xbox One policies. Afterwards they get into their current favorite acoustic guitars, the therapeutic effects of strumming versus picking, their early experiences learning guitar, and more.

Sponsored by Shopify, Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME6 for 30% off), and Squarespace (use code DANSENTME6 for 10% off).

Six-year-old Metal girl

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If you want to skip the intro, move ahead to 0:43. Then watch this little girl tear it up. Much respect!

One million Android users downloaded adware in the last year

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Adware is the most prevalent app-based mobile threat around the world today. In the past year, Lookout estimates that more than one million American Android users downloaded adware. In fact, 6.5 percent of free apps in Google Play contain adware.

Everything is perfectly fine. Between the malware and adware, every Android user will be infected soon.

iOS 7 and education

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iOS 7 provides powerful new ways to configure and deploy devices across institutions and features to help schools purchase, distribute and manage apps with ease. App Store license management, seamless enrollment in mobile device management (MDM) and single sign on are just some of the capabilities in iOS 7 that make it ideal for education.

First Look: OS X Mavericks

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After Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference ended, Apple supplied me with a 13-inch MacBook Pro and a copy of OS X Mavericks to evaluate and post my thoughts on The Loop. The version of Mavericks I tested was newer than the one released at WWDC, but not as new as the one released on Monday.