NYCAviation:
Airline pilots will use one of three techniques when landing in a crosswind.
While the writer is a pilot who may think these kinds of landings are “not as scary as they seem”, I can tell him that, as a passenger, they can be terrifying. Still, it’s interesting to read about them and know pilots train for them.
Apple has released an update fixing the SSL encryption issue for both Mavericks and Mountain Lion. In addition, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 also:
You can download the updates using Software Update on your Mac. More information on Mavericks 10.9.2 and Security Update 2014-001 for Mountain Lion can be found on Apple’s Web site.
So many things I didn’t know.
Gestrument is a powerful tool for the professional musician but also an intuitive app for the beginner. Gestrument lets you delve into the “musical DNA” of a genre, artist or song. With full control over all musical parameters you can play and compose music with just the swipe of your finger.
Visit www.gestrument.com to see Gestrument perform music by Meshuggah, Richard Devine, Claude Debussy or see keyboard wizard Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater demo his own preset.
Apart from our artist we have videos and presets showing how to play for instance Dubstep, Cool Jazz, String Quartet and Indian Raga – all with just the swipe of your finger.
Gestrument is developed by contemporary classical composer Jesper Nordin and software developer Jonatan Liljedahl – Kymatica (the developer behind AudioShare, Sector, AUFX, NordBeat, BitWiz and many more iOS music apps).
If you have any questions at all, read this article on Macworld. Dan Moren, Dan Miller and
Serenity Caldwell did a great job answering common questions.
Fantastic article by Daniel Eran Dilger.
The Atlantic:
I want to tell you about the controversy the Bell System’s embrace of numeracy provoked—how resentful some people became when their familiar method of making phone calls was taken from them. I want to tell you about why the change was necessary, and how it still informs our conception of phone calls and text messages. I want to tell you about the future of the phone number.
Interesting article if only for the tidbit about why New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit got their respective area codes.
We shouldn’t really be surprised with any of this, but how are we supposed to move forward when things like this are in place?
Steve Kovach got some time with the S5.
Netflix has agreed to pay one of the largest broadband providers in the United States Comcast Corp for faster speeds, throwing open the possibility that more content companies will have to shell out for better service.
This seems to set a bad precedent. Maybe I don’t see the bigger picture, but I’m uneasy about this going forward.
ReSound LiNX offers a superior sound experience, setting new standards for hearing aid performance.
This Made for iPhone hearing aid provides direct sound streaming, personalized to your every need.
Mic Wright:
The reasons I make these comparisons between me – a writer-turned-CEO who is hoping to upgrade his pot to piss in – and Zuckerberg – one of the visionary founders of his generation – is to ask this question: why do so many pundits presume that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know what he’s doing? This is a guy who persuaded a group of some of the Valley’s most respected investors to back him, a guy who managed to navigate law suits and scaling issues to build a company that is now one of the big four tech companies beside Google, Apple and Microsoft.
This is exactly what pisses me off when people talking about Apple. Analysts and pundits always think they know better than Tim Cook. If that’s true, why aren’t they running a billion dollar company? The answer is simple—they aren’t qualified.
An ebook for iPad and OS X, designed to help you learn CSS transitions and animations through interactive examples.
This is a kickstarter project by Vicki Murley, who spent more than 10 years at Apple working on the Safari web browser and as the Safari Technologies Evangelist.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Steve Jobs and everything he did in his life, so I wanted to put together an issue of The Loop Magazine dedicated to Steve and his accomplishments. What better day to publish it than on Steve’s birthday.
I gathered together people that worked with Steve and those that were influenced by his extraordinary life. Former Apple executive, Richard Kerris, tells of introducing Jobs to The Rolling Stones to show off iTunes before it was released to the public; Don Melton, head of Safari at Apple, tells of a number of interactions with Jobs; Industry analyst, Tim Bajarin, recounts how he watched Steve grow into the showman we all saw on stage; Actor Matthew Modine played John Scully in the recently released “Jobs” movie and talks about that experience; Matt Gemmell believes we’ve all met Steve through his work; and Jonathan Zufi talks about why he set out to photograph as many Apple products as he could to publish “Iconic,” a design book about Apple.
You can download The Loop Magazine from the App Store on your iPhone or iPad.
Someone on Reddit dug this up. Seems so very right. Heh.
I don’t subscribe to many newsletters, but Dave Pell’s Next Draft is definitely worth it. The newsletter is free and a great daily read.
The Air Force is replacing 5,000 of its BlackBerry devices with Apple smartphones, in a broader move to eradicate the legacy devices in favor of more modern commercial technologies.
I wonder if the BlackBerry CEO will yell at the US military like he did with the CEO of T-Mobile.
Mashable:
The 2014 American International Toy Fair this week ushered in a collection of the hottest toys due out this year — from a Siri-like teddy bear and an augmented reality bedtime stories to a board game that teaches coding to pre-schoolers — but scattered within the shiny and new is the bizarre and wacky.
Gotta feel bad for today’s kids. Some of these toys are really lame.
Explore the majesty of nature in breath-taking 3D with Professor Brian Cox as your personal tour guide.
This is such an amazing app. Interesting note: This is built on the same platform that powers The Loop Magazine. The same developers built both apps.
This struck me as a meeting of opposites, the Ministry of Silly Walks meets the straight-laced Harvard Business Review. Interesting interview.
Wow, this is great.
Remember the negative film about Samsung I mentioned the other day—now Samsung is trying to get newspaper coverage of the film killed too.
With more than 120 million smartphones sold in the U.S. in 2013, Apple’s iPhone accounted for nearly half of those, taking a 45 percent share in its home market last year, new data released by the NPD Group on Thursday reveals.
Samsung had 26%.
Om is a good friend and I’ll really miss his writing.
Benedict Evans has some interesting thoughts on Google. Of note: this is one of the only articles I’ve read on Google lately without using the word “creepy.”
It’s Willie. What else needs to be said.
Advertising isn’t just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data, upgrading the servers that hold all the data and making sure it’s all being logged and collated and sliced and packaged and shipped out… And at the end of the day the result of it all is a slightly different advertising banner in your browser or on your mobile screen.
Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product.
Why do I think Facebook doesn’t share these views.
Screens is a screen sharing VNC client for the iPhone and iPad. I’ve been using it since it was first released and love it.
Two separate sources have told me that’s how much Google (GOOG) offered to purchase WhatsApp. The bid did not come with promise of a board seat, unlike the Facebook agreement.
I’m not surprised.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk today confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg that his company “had conversations” with Apple. Musk went on to say that he could not comment on whether the conversations had revolved around any kind of acquisition, but he did confirm that at the current time, an acquisition of Tesla seems “very unlikely.”
The fact the two companies talked means nothing—they could have been talking about iOS integration instead of an acquisition. However, if Apple were going to get into the car business, Tesla would be the perfect partner. They are cool, environmentally friendly, and they care about design and the user.