Being a great designer

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Daniel Eden:

Let me begin by telling you the single most important thing you can do for yourself — recognise your fucking self worth. If you can’t value your own work, then who the hell will?

[Via Michael Mulvey]

Microsoft has no “Plan B” for Surface

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Given Microsoft’s lack of success so far, he was asked if there was an alternative strategy or ‘Plan B’ in reserve.

“It’s less ‘Plan B’ than how you execute on the current plan,” said Klein. “We aim to evolve this generation of Windows to make sure we have the right set of experiences at the right price points for all customers.”

I have a lot of respect for a company that is so confident in its product line that it goes all in. Having a “plan B” means that in some way you aren’t fully committed to the future of the product.

Of course, if you do that, you better be right. In this case, I’m not sure Microsoft is right.

Apple comments on iPhone passcode bug

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Reports of a bug in iOS 6.1 that would allow users to gain access to an iPhone by entering certain keys on the device have come out over the past couple of days. Apple responded on the issue today. […]

iOS 6.1 Passcode bug

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Yesterday, Jailbreak Nation highlighted a bug with iOS 6.1 that allows users to bypass a passcode lock on an iPhone to access the phone function and contacts on the device. While the bug allows only limited access to the device and can require several attempts to achieve the correct timing to exploit, it is gaining significant attention today.

Having this kind of bug in the OS is certainly not good and Apple needs to fix it ASAP. I still don’t understand how do people figure this stuff out?

Hedge funds responsible for Apple stock decline

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Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker’s share price.

Noted stock pickers including Leon Cooperman and Thomas Steyer unloaded billions of dollars of Apple shares between Sept. 30 and Dec. 31, according to disclosure documents filed on Thursday.

Apple files response to shareholder lawsuit

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Apple filed its formal response to the lawsuit initiated by Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn and blasted the complaint as being without merit and nothing less than an attempt to hold shareholders “hostage” by forcing Apple to acquiesce to a specific plan for the issuing of preferred shares that would primarily benefit Greenlight Capital.

This is going to be interesting.

Don’t be evil Google

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Let me make this crystal clear, every App purchase you make on Google Play gives the developer your name, suburb and email address with no indication that this information is actually being transferred.

Perhaps “watch” is the wrong word

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Dave Caolo:

Imagine that Apple isn’t specifically designing a watch, but the next step in its portable devices. Something that does much of what iOS devices do today, only in a novel way, and is smaller than current devices.

Some great thoughts.

Stupid Xbox

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Nat Brown, one of the founders of the Xbox, rails on Microsoft.

This is one crazy-ass analyst

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Cult of Mac put together some of Jefferies analyst Peter Misek’s predictions over the past couple of years. How does this man still have a job?

Another investor sues Apple

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The new lawsuit, filed by an investor from Pennsylvania in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks to block Apple from moving forward with a February 27 shareholder vote on two proxy proposals.

One of the proposals is the same measure Einhorn targeted that would eliminate from the company charter Apple’s ability to issue preferred stock.

FLEXeFX Guitar Pedals

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I met the guy that’s building these during NAMM and I like what he’s doing. Go take a look at his ideas and support the project.

Apple’s rumored TV-related event in March

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Apple is gearing up for a special media event next month related to its television initiative that may deliver the tools developers will need to prepare applications for a formal relaunch of the company’s Apple TV product, analysts for Jefferies Equity Research said Wednesday.

Nope.

Top 10 recognizable guitar riffs

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Pauline France at Fender.com

There are tons of guitar riffs out there, but only a few have become deeply ingrained and ubiquitous in pop culture. Our Top 10 Instantly Recognizable Guitar Riffs all have something in common: They’re the ones you can’t wait to learn how to play; the ones you catch yourself humming; the ones that are revered worldwide by musicians and non-musicians alike.

There are so many riffs to chose from — Pauline picked some good ones.

Stream HBO Go to your TV over AirPlay

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Speaking at our D: Dive Into Media conference on Tuesday, HBO’s Eric Kessler said “effective today we will be enabling AirPlay” for HBO Go.

HBO still say they’re coming to Apple TV.

Another Samsung translation

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While not a main talking point of the interview, [Samsung Executive Vice President David] Eun told All Things D’s Kara Swisher that he saw the seemingly endless legal struggle as “a loss” for innovation in the fast-moving tech industry.

Translation:

We are very upset that Apple is focused on the lawsuits and not releasing more amazing products that we can blatantly steal.

BBEdit 10.5.2

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One of my favorite apps gets updated with some bug fixes.

CSS3 test

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Test your browser. I got two different scores in Safari, although they were close. Chrome scored about nine points higher.

Apple releases iOS 6.1.1

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The update ” fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S.” Check software update on your iPhone.

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