The World Wide Web 2012 rankings

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Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure.

Nokia Windows 8 tablet

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“We have not announced any tablets, but I think the opportunity is very clear,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told ABC News. “People today increasingly are looking for a common digital experience between their smartphone and tablet, with a PC, and with their gaming platform, and so there’s clearly an opportunity across there. This is something that we’re looking at very closely.”

Not a huge surprise, really. Maybe a bigger surprise that it’s not more of a priority.

Nokia’s new Lumia might not be enough

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Kevin C. Tofel:

Instead, I was left with a key unanswered question from Nokia that directly impacts the company’s future: What did it announce today that will get consumers to switch from an iPhone or Android device? Without a compelling answer to that question, I suspect most new Lumia sales will come from those already using an older Lumia and that won’t generate the growth that Nokia needs to sustain a turnaround.

Smart article by Kevin. To my mind, this is the key point that Nokia may have missed. You have to give consumers a reason to switch and if they didn’t do that, they missed a huge opportunity. With the new iPhone coming soon, it’s hard to imagine that people will go for a Lumina.

Apple says it did not provide data to FBI

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Apple on Wednesday responded to a weird story earlier this week that UDID information was stolen by hackers from an FBI computer. Apple contacted The Loop with some additional information. […]

iPhone market share hits 33.4 percent

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Apple’s iPhone share of U.S. smartphone subscribers bumped upward 2 percentage points from May through July, giving it 33.4 percent of the market, online tracking and analytics firm comScore said Tuesday.

Android grew 1.4 percent to 52.2 percent of the market.

Mayer reviews every new Yahoo hire

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Now, according to a Yahoo executive involved in hiring, Mayer is actually doing it.She literally looks at every serious candidate’s resume.

Much respect to Marissa Mayer. She wants the talent she feels will improve the company and she’s making sure she gets it.

FBI denial

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a denial of responsibility regarding the leak of more than 1,000,000 iOS UDID numbers last night.

Fender Machete guitar amps

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Fender updated it’s line of Machete guitar amps today with a 50 Watt Head, a Combo and two cabinets.

Apple announces special event for September 12

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Check out our live coverage of the event. Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena … Continued

Weather 2x [Sponsor]

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A distinctively different kind of weather app for iPad and iPhone with stunning Retina-quality visuals and a refreshingly fun and touch centric UI.

Weather 2x is the perfect balance of aesthetics, intuitive functionality and the right amount of detail.

Check out the latest version with great new features including iCloud sync, Twitter & E-mail sharing, local weather detection, and images of Jim’s igloo for when it reaches those sub-zero temperatures.

I’ve been using Weather 2x since it first came out and love it.

Mid-sized tablets

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After using his Nexus 7, David Chartier wonders why the 7-inch product category even exists.

HTML5 Boilerplate 4.0

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HTML5 Boilerplate helps you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.

Apple adds Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note to amended complaint

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Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets.

This is a different complaint than the lawsuit Apple just won.

Samsung Galaxy Camera ‘is buggy and slow’

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Nick Barber writing at Macworld:

Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow.

App Store pricing

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App Cubby developer David Barnard posted an interesting piece on pricing apps.

Tweetbot for Mac Beta

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It’s important to realize that with this build you can’t add or reauthorize any accounts. If you delete an account or de-authorize an existing account you will not be able to add it again until the final version comes out.

Amazing that these developers are still trying to improve their apps and Twitter can’t release an update for their piece of shit app.

Thanks Twitter.

The Quebec tax at Vermont restaurants

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But at some local restaurants, the hospitality appears to be wearing thin. At least two eateries admit they allow servers to add an automatic gratuity on the bills of diners who appear to be Québecois. Why? Because Canadians are presumed to be bad tippers. A few local servers even have a nickname for the surcharge: They call it the “Queeb tax.”

It’s not just Vermont. Quebecers are notoriously bad tippers, even in Canada. Slap the tax on them.

OmniFocus nerdery

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Shawn Blanc put together a few tricks he’s come across for OmniFocus users.

Pixelmator 2.1

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

Pixelmator – beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X.