Jalopnik:
Ever wondered what happened to the mall in The Blues Brothers after Jake, Elwood, and all those cops drove right through it? They actually left it just the way it was, but that’s only the start of the Dixie Square Mall’s decline.
One of the most iconic car chases ever filmed.
Notness is a modern, fast and easy to use Multiple Sclerosis diary App for iPhone and iPod Touch. Noteness is tailored to the requirements of a MS-Diary and goes without unnecessary gimmicks.
The app was written by Martin Hartl, a 21-year-old from Germany, who suffers from MS.
Gotta love The Macalope.
These people are pathetic.
I’d like to thank the fine folks at AskingPoint for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.
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.
All you need is Heineken.
A really funny post about Google Glass.
Seriously, one stunning revelation after another.
Experiment: text your parents “got 2 grams for $40” then right after “Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you” Then tweet pic of their response.
Holy shit, I giggled my ass off.
AltWWDC is an alternative conference for Apple developers and designers, held alongside Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, California. This free 5-day event takes place June 10-14, 2013 and includes talks, lunch, and co-working space, available first-come, first-serve every day. Confirmed speakers are Mike Lee, Victor Agreda, Jr., Brett Terpstra, Brent Simmons, Saul Mora, and Steve “Scotty” Scott.
You have to love developers and the things they do for the community.
Jim and Dan discuss the Úll conference, Apple’s Q2 earnings, secret new products, the iWatch, the Mac Pro, the iMac’s missed opportunity, the WWDC announcement (and the hidden meanings in the image), how to attend WWDC, the state of Windows, and more.
A meticulously illustrated catalog of 100 landmark cameras, culled from over a century of photographic history, depicting both professional and consumer models and tracing photography’s history from the first models to today’s digital wonders.
Apple on Wednesday posted “A Decade of iTunes” celebrating the 10th anniversary of iTunes and the achievements of the music and videos that came to the store. I must say, the timeline format that Apple chose for this feature is really great. It’s like a walk through memory lane for me.
Ian Betteridge:
Gewirtz may be a brilliant example of anti-journalism, but he’s really just a symptom of how low technology journalism has sunk, and how the average pageview-hungry “anti-journalist” treats readers with contempt.
Ian is a long time journalist with a lot of respect in the industry, including mine.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt posted a story about Samsung paying people to talk shit about Apple, then this happened.
These have to be some of the scariest pictures I’ve ever seen.
Elliot Hannon:
If we cared more about the journalism than news theater we’d all be watching PBS. But no one’s talking about NewsHour. There are no meltdowns. The circus, itself, becomes the point — the reason to watch. Youtube videos go viral precisely because they are unexpected, unvarnished — embarrassing. This is CNN.
And there you have it folks. He’s exactly right.
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.