Uncategorized

Wade at Panic did an experiment and included an Xcode demo project that you can download.

When you are willing to pay this level attention to detail you can be as great as Apple, and not a moment sooner.

Now police in Colac, west of Melbourne, say faults with Google maps are putting people’s lives at risk along the Great Ocean Road and in the southern Otways.

So it’s not just Apple after all.

Eric Schmidt is talking out of his Schmidthole again.

Squarespace Note helps anyone record their ideas on the fly. Writers, bloggers, and others can use the app to record inspiration and ideas as they happen; notes can be sent via e-mail, or synced with a range of popular services including Squarespace, Evernote, Dropbox, and more.

Until yesterday I thought this app was just another way to interact with the Squarespace Web site, but it’s more than that. It can be used as a notes app. Oh, and if you shake the iPhone when the app is active, it changes from day to night mode.

“After 126 years of printing ink on paper with weekly, biweekly or monthly frequency, Sporting News will officially become a digital brand as of January 1, 2013. … Having spoken with many of our longtime subscribers, we recognize this is not a popular decision among our most loyal fans.”

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough loyal fans to pay the bills. Time to move on.

Movie kiosk rental service Redbox is getting into the streaming video market with a new offering.

Microsoft said it’s expanding production of the Surface tablet and moving up general retail availability.

You have to appreciate the honesty.

We’ve all seen the famous “Earth at Night” composite image showing our planet at night and how much light there still is, sometimes in unexpected places.

Now Google has a new global view of Earth’s city lights that is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite.

With this version of the image, you can even zoom in to get a better (if not necessarily higher resolution ) and closer view.

BuzzFeed’s smear piece on Matthew Inman, creator of the popular webcomic The Oatmeal, backfired. The site is apologizing, but isn’t even doing that right.

Jón Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland, has posted an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, which has generated tons of questions.

It’s always the company that steals shit that thinks everyone should share.

And what the hell is this answer from Page:

I mean, obviously we talk to Apple. We have a big search relationship with Apple, and so on, and we talk to them and so on.

He sounds like Miss South Carolina Teen USA Caitlin Upton talking about “the Iraq.”

Under the whistleblower law, the government can intervene in Mr. Landis’s suit, essentially pursuing the case on its own behalf. According to people with knowledge of the case, the Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Justice have been investigating Mr. Landis’s allegations and continue to weigh whether to join the case.

It’s been a tough year for Lance.

You have to love Field Notes.

Jason Cartwright from Australian site TechAU on people using Apple Maps.

A primate sanctuary in Canada?

The Oatmeal and BuzzFeed are having somewhat of a tussle.

NPR:

It may have something to do with all those Brontosaurus burgers everyone’s favorite modern stone-age family ate, but when you think of a giant dinosaur with a tiny head and long, swooping tail, the Brontosaurus is probably what you’re seeing in your mind.

Well hold on: Scientifically speaking, there’s no such thing as a Brontosaurus.

Why can’t these damn scientists leave our childhoods alone!? Columbus didn’t discover America, Pluto isn’t a planet and now this!

Brian Lam demonstrates how to own your mistake and move on.

Much respect Brian.

We discussed a variety of topics, but the conversation kicked off with our growing disgust with the un-customer centric approach of social networks.

Silverlight.net now redirects to a page on MSDN. Some but not all of the content has been migrated to MSDN, but Microsoft has not bothered to redirect the URLs, so most of the links out there to resources and discussions on Silverlight will dump you to the aforementioned generic page.

That’s one way to end a technology.

Go paperless with Doxie – the tiny and beautifully designed mobile scanner for Mac & iPad. Doxie scans your paper: simply, automatically, and with no computer required. To scan, just push the button and insert your sheet. Doxie scans anywhere with a simple, elegant design that starts at just $149.

Readers of The Loop get free U.S. shipping and Guaranteed Christmas Delivery for all orders placed through December 19th.

Now available: the cordless Doxie One for just $149, and the rechargeable Doxie Go for just $199.

The two companies, competing for dominance of the smartphone market, have partnered after leading two separate groups this summer to buy some of Kodak’s 1,100 imaging patents, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is private.

I’d like to thank Anytune for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop. I’ve tried this app myself and really like it.

Musicians of all kinds use Anytune to learn, transcribe and practice their favorite songs!

Check out Jim’s guitar stylings in a rare solo version of a theme that fans of The Loop should recognize. Something unexpected happened when tuning the track that hints at the source of Jim’s power… You’ll have to watch the video on this page to find out what it might be.

Music Practice Perfected.

The Verge:

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels are a cornerstone of science fiction, but getting into a vast series about, among other things, mathematically predicting the rise and fall of entire civilizations isn’t always easy. In 1973, however, the BBC adapted Foundation into a serial radio drama, capturing the original trilogy in eight hour-long episodes. These are available on the Internet Archive, which means that you can listen to them online or download them in all their slightly scratchy glory.

I first read The Foundation Trilogy as a young teenager and loved them. I come back to re-read them about every decade. I’ve been thinking it’s about time to read them again but maybe I’ll just let the folks at the BBC entertain me this time.