Harry Marks:
It’s difficult to pull yourself away from the feeling that you need to be posting more and doing everything you can to keep numbers up, but when it comes right down to it, it’s all about who is paying attention to your work, not how many.
Exactly.
When you buy an Android app from the Google app store, they give the app maker your full name, email address and the neighborhood where you live. This occurs without clear warning every single time you buy an app.
If you can’t trust Google’s app store, how can you trust them for anything?
Maybe Eric Schmidt can answer that for us.
Security firm Lookout has detailed a clever new bit of Android Malware lurking in the Google Play store. The good news: unless you’re downloading questionable Russian clone apps, you’re probably not affected. The bad news: that hasn’t kept it from being downloaded a few million times.
Nice going Google.
World-renowned animator and triple-Oscar-winner Richard Williams presents ‘The Animator’s Survival Kit’ for iPad.
Taking the globally bestselling Kit to a whole new dimension, this app provides the underlying principles that every animator needs. Aspiring or professional, digital, classical or stop motion, animators can now engage with Williams and his work like never before. Watch unreleased films or interact with over 100 animated examples — learn from the legend himself.
Dave Addey showed me this app while I was in Dublin for the Ull Conference and it was stunning.
AskingPoint includes “Rating Booster,” the smart rating widget that uses your analytics to ask only your best users to rate your Apps. Proven to increase sales dramatically!
By Developers for Developers.
Patrick Rhone takes you through all the things you’ll need to do if you want to be a consultant. The advice is good for any business really.
This is classic. One headline blares “LG Display Gets Boost from Apple” while another trumpets “Slowdown in Apple orders weighs on LG Display’s first-quarter profit.”
Okay, which one is it?
Philip Elmer-Dewitt takes a look at who’s behind the Apple-bashing. There are certainly others, like the WSJ, but this is a good start.
Paul Kafasis on Boston.
I love this. Photographer Flora Borsi adds herself to historic photos holding a modern item like a smartphone or camera.
I love those commercials, but this line has to be the best.
His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man’s entire body.
The Onion satirizes Tim Cook’s trials as the head of Apple.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer attempted to explain her “no telecommuting” personnel policy that erupted a frenzy on the Internet after it was announced.
Kohler just introduced a $6,000 toilet with built-in Bluetooth receiver, USB port and SD card reader.
Microsoft had a great quarter, but Windows revenues were flat.
Bloggers report that Microsoft may re-add the Start button to Windows 8.
ZDNet has a hands-on look at the absurdly large Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3-inch “phablet.”
Nokia’s sales of its Lumia phone have increased, but not in the United States.
Some lucky Japanese audiences will have the “pleasure” of seeing and smelling Iron Man 3 when it debuts in theaters.
Chromebooks – laptops designed to work with Google’s Chrome OS, don’t make a dent in web usage polls, which suggests that very few people are using them.
Wired takes a look at the Fiat 500e, an EV version of the tiny Italian coupe.
The “Syrian Electronic Army” hacked NPR sites and social media accounts, according to a report.
Every year, we hear from Forbes and others about the people who are the “x richest people in the world”. Have you ever wondered where you might fall on that scale?
The Global Rich List asks users how much their yearly salary adds up to, and then let’s them know what percentage of the world’s richest people they’re in.
You’ll be surprised at how high on the list you are, compared to the vast majority of the world’s population.
Explosions at the end of the Boston Marathon have created casualties and caused fatalities – our thoughts are with the runners, friends, families and spectators affected by the event.
Why Google Fiber is important – and it’s not for the reason you might think.
Dish Network is making a $25.5 billion to buy Sprint before Japanese corporation Softbank can close an acquisition deal.
Bitcoins are in the news. What are they, and why should you care?
Roger Kay offers a biting criticism of Microsoft and Intel.
If you need to do anything with PDFs, you need PDFpen. You can add a signature, make changes to text and images, correct a typo, fill out forms–and that’s only the beginning. Got a scanned document? PDFpen includes OCR so you can convert that scan into text that can be searched, copied, and corrected. Want to remove sensitive info such as tax ID numbers from your PDF before sharing it? PDFpen can perform redaction, removing the stuff you want to keep private.
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KMart’s new ad encourages people to ship their pants. And other stuff.