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CSS style guide
Ordering properties is just one choice you have to make that makes up a complete styling strategy. Naming is a part of it. Sectioning is a part of it. Commenting, indentation, overall file structure… it all makes up a complete CSS style guide.
Noise in the conversation
Michael Mulvey brought up another great point to Marcelo Somers “Linkblog Cancer” post that I linked to yesterday:
If I don’t have a unique perspective to the link in question, I usually won’t link to it. I don’t want to be the noise in the conversation.
That’s a great point. I believe readers are looking for a writers perspective. There are lots of places to get the news, but each writer has their own perspective.
Samsung’s basis of competition
Horace Dediu:
What is surprising is that the overall sales volume is not growing. At least for the products catalogued (which exclude the Note) growth for the last four quarters has been: 5%, 34%, 31%, -53%. These are in stark contrast to the iPhone pattern shown in the outline bars behind Samsung’s.
Interesting article from Horace.
Harvest
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Samsung definitely didn’t copy this from Apple, nope totally unique
Here is Apple’s Mac mini released in 2005.
And here is Samsung’s Chromebox.
It’s been pointed out before, but just another example.
Samsung could face court penalty because of lawyer
Samsung could face penalties from the U.S. District Court in Northern California after one of its lawyers involved in the patent battle against Apple admitted that she hadn’t file the paperwork necessary to practice law in front of the court.
Samsung’s lawyers haven’t been impressive so far.
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album.
Gilmour and Roger Waters are incredible.
Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, 1.4 million tablets in two years in the U.S.
Documents filed by Samsung lawyers on Thursday reveal that from June 2010 through June 2012 Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue. On the tablet side, the company sold 1.4 million Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices, producing $644 million in revenue.
That doesn’t seem like a lot of sales to me. Maybe most of their sales are international.
Blizzard’s Battle.net gets hacked
The unauthorized access included email addresses associated with Battle.net accounts in all regions, outside of China. Additional information from accounts associated with the North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) was also accessed, including cryptographically scrambled versions of passwords (not actual passwords), the answer to a personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators. It’s important to note that at this time, Blizzard does not believe this information alone is enough to gain access to Battle.net accounts.
At least it wasn’t clear text passwords.
Linkblog cancer
Marcelo Somers:
Our job as independent writers isn’t to be first or even to get the most pageviews. It’s to answer the question of “so what?”. Taken as a whole, our sites should tell a unique story that no one else can, with storylines that develop over time that help bring order to the chaos of what we cover.
Marcelo has a lot of good points in his article. To me blogging is about honesty and personality. I hate reading something that is just bland words with no feeling or conviction. I want to know how the writer feels about the subject they are writing about.
That’s what I try to do. It doesn’t mean everyone agrees with what I write, and that’s okay, but I am giving you my honest opinion.
Apple is now price matching iPhone discounts
Eric Slivka:
But a source has now revealed to MacRumors that Apple’s retail stores have been given authorization to match these discounted prices from approved major retailers and carriers.
I never thought Apple would do that, but good for the consumer that wants to purchase from an Apple retail store.
The Designbuss
We’ve seen some pretty spectacular thesis projects by up and coming designers over the years, but never before have any of those projects involved a 6+ month-long road trip through small towns all across Sweden.
Very cool. No money changes hands for his design work, only goods and services that allow him to continue the journey.
A Samsung iPhone
Ilya Birman sent this to me today. It’s a sign in Russian, but translated. Clearly people aren’t confused about things. Definitely not.
Definitions
Mike Beauchamp defines “Benchmarking” and “copying” for Samsung.
TextMate 2 goes open source
I think Gruber summed it up nicely.
Samsung not interested in RIM
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it has not considered acquiring Research In Motion or licensing the embattled BlackBerry phone maker’s new mobile operating system.
I don’t know, buying RIM and using the software in its devices might be a good idea for Samsung, especially if it loses the lawsuit that Apple brought against it.
TV viewers confused Samsung Galaxy with iPad
Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider:
Only 16 percent of viewers observing Samsung’s TV commercials realized it was a Samsung product, according to an internal report the company commissioned, and which has been submitted as evidence in its trial with Apple.
MacProVideo acquires AskVideo
According to macProVideo.com’s Founder and CEO, Martin Sitter, “Until now, macProVideo.com has been the place ‘Where Mac Users Learn.’ With the acquisition of AskVideo.com, we have purchased a great brand with over 8 years of experience in online training. AskVideo will become our primary portal for bringing our trademarked NonLinear Educating System™ to the larger world of Windows PC users.”
Huge news in the video training market. I’ve been a user of MacProVideo for years. Good luck to Martin and the gang.
Benchmarking your peers
My latest Techpinions column:
Samsung contends that Apple doesn’t own the right to putting a receiver on an icon to indicate that it’s used for making a phone call. Samsung fans also argue that Apple can’t patent a rectangle. These arguments don’t get to the heart of the matter, which is the blatant copying of everything Apple is doing.
Microsoft standing up for what’s right
Ed Bott:
When Microsoft shipped its Release Preview of Windows 8 in June, it announced that the default browser, Internet Explorer 10, would have the Do Not Track (DNT) signal enabled by default. That action unleashed a heated debate in the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).To the advertising and analytics companies that make up the tracking industry, this issue is an existential one. If the default browser in the world’s most popular operating system is set to disallow tracking, the effect would be profoundly disruptive to companies that live and die by their ability to follow users around the web.
Kudos to Microsoft for doing the right thing.
Samsung issues statement on copying Apple
After Apple introduced evidence that clearly shows how Samsung purposely copied its iPhone, Samsung released the following statement:
“Samsung benchmarks many peer companies,” she said. “In fact, these are typical competitive analyses routinely undertaken by many companies in many industries – including Apple. Samsung stands by its culture of continuous improvement and innovation. We are very proud of the product innovations driven by our more than 50,000 designers and engineers around the world who have made Samsung’s products the products of choice.”
It’s doesn’t say, but I’m guessing the Samsung rep didn’t say that with a straight face.
Pixelmator 2.1 available on Mac App Store
Another great release from the Pixelmator Team.
Pixelmator 2.1 is a major update introducing several new features and improvements, including the following:* Retina-Ready: Both Pixelmator’s friendly user interface and its powerful image editing engine are now optimized for the Retina display. * iCloud: Built right into the app and keeps your Pixelmator work up to date across all your Macs. * Effects Browser: The best and the most fun way to browse: instantly preview and quickly apply special effects or add color adjustments to images. * New Effects: Use the new Vintage, Miniaturize, Black and White, Rain, and Snow effects. * Alignment Guides: Quickly position, align, and evenly distribute objects in your Pixelmator compositions with pinpoint accuracy. * OS X Mountain Lion Support: Pixelmator takes full advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
Apple beats out Samsung as the top smartphone maker
NPD’s research also revealed that the lion’s share of smartphone-market growth is concentrated in the top two brands. In fact Samsung’s and Apple’s combined smartphone unit sales rose 43 percent between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012, as unit sales for other brands fell 16 percent.According to NPD, the top five smartphone brands, and their market shares, in Q2 were as follows:* Apple: 31 percent * Samsung: 24 percent * HTC: 15 percent * Motorola: 12 percent * LG: 6 percent
The Gibson Assault
The Wall Street Journal looks at the case the feds have against Gibson and why they settled.
Mars Curiosity made with PowerPC chip
Sebastian Anthony for ExtremeTech:
In Curiosity’s case, the CPU is a PowerPC 750 (PowerPC G3 in Mac nomenclature) clocked at around 200MHz — which might seem slow, but it’s still hundreds of times faster than, say, the Apollo Guidance Computer used in the first Moon landings.
My response to those that say Samsung is innocent
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Amplified 19: I’m In a Mood
Jim Dalrymple and Dan Benjamin talk about Apple’s motivations for suing Samsung, Mat Honan’s hacked life and Amazon and Apple’s security flaws (and remedies), the new Apple iPad advertisement, exotic wood, and more.Sponsored by Flixel, Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME8 for 10% off), and Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off).
Samsung phones before and after the iPhone
Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin has a nice article showing us what Samsung’s phones looked like before and after the iPhone was released. Surely the most hardened Apple critic can have no doubt how badly they were ripped off.
HP expects almost $9 billion Q3 loss
The company will take an $8 billion charge in the third quarter related to that $14 billion merger, and including the massive writeoff, HP expects to report a loss of as much as $4.49 per share, or approximately $8.85 billion.