Duncan Davidson got his hands on the new Sony RX1 and gives his first impressions.

Sounds like a chance to help out.

This is exactly why Peter, Shawn and I do our best to bring fresh links and articles. We aren’t focused on pageviews, but rather posting things that interest us. Of course, the hope is that they’ll interest you as well.

My thought is that if we continue to provide articles worth reading, you will come back. So far, that has proven to be true.

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

Much respect Brian.

The latest version of the Android operating system has been called one of the most bug-ridden releases since Honeycomb, although it has also been recognized as the safest version yet.

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Google’s app verification service was found to identify malicious apps only 15.32% of the time, compared to various anti-virus programs that varied from 51% to 100% accuracy.

You have to love progress at Google.

Well, there you go.

Emerald, a vivid verdant green, enhances our sense of well-being further by inspiring insight as well as promoting balance and harmony.

I like purple. They should have chosen purple.

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.

Great interview.

She helped Microsoft plug Windows Phone 8 when it was released just over a month ago. She must have dumped that thing like a hot potato as soon as she got off the stage.

Update: Chris Millar pointed out that the photo of Alba was taken in August, but posted by People today.

What a great looking game. It uses iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, AirPlay and it’s good for the whole family. It doesn’t get much better than that.

A good article for those considering a CMS tool. I’ve thought for a while now that WordPress is getting too big to be a simple blogging tool. I’ve been wondering about the benefits of Movable Type, a tool that I used many years ago. After all, MT does power Daring Fireball and Kottke.org.

Alex Saretzky took a shot at redesigning the Notification Center for Mac and iOS. I really like some of his ideas. Tip: Click on the iPhone to play the movie and click on the links to see animations of his ideas.

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Eric Slivka:

The new store will cover three levels and has been reported to encompass approximately 20,000 square feet of space, with the facade including 30-foot tall glass windows currently covered by the curtain graphics. Playing upon the large facade, Apple’s tagline for the premiere is “An opening you simply can’t miss.”

Wow.

I love the detail that goes into these designs. The shadows and buttons — just great.

I love Zakk’s playing.

Michael Lopp has a great article on using photo filters and what to look for when taking a photo with your iPhone.

Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple vice president, opines on the state of television and what’s to be made by Tim Cook’s recent comments in an NBC interview about television being “an area of intense interest” for Apple.

There aren’t any really pithy quotes I can pull from here, but Gassée makes some excellent points in his essay, including an analysis of the Apple TV (the real one, the black box you can buy today) and its impact on Apple’s bottom line, and its potential role in Apple’s ecosystem.

Well worth a read, as are most of Gassée’s “Monday Note” blog posts.

Mildura Police are urging motorists to be careful when relying on the mapping system on the Apple i-phones operating on the iOS 6 system after a number of motorists were directed off the beaten track in recent weeks.

Local Police have been called to assist distressed motorists who have become stranded within the Murray-Sunset National Park after following directions on their Apple i-phone.

My parents are heading to Australia on vacation in January for more than a month. They will be driving around the country, but I’ll have to recommend they purchase a different mapping system. This is just terrible.

Alexa’s boyfriend got an iPad for Christmas from his mother. Well, that’s not quite true. His mother ordered one iPad, and had it shipped to him. What arrived on their doorstep was a very large and heavy box that was big enough to hold five iPads. Because it did.

Thanks Best Buy.

Jenni Sparks:

Here is the hand drawn map of New York that I’ve been working on for what seems like FOREVER! Thanks to New York for being a great city and surviving Hurricane Sandy.

I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler so I’m always amazed at this kind of hand drawing. I was disappointed to not see the Bronx and Yankee Stadium (among other places) in this print but even without them, she still captured an incredible level of detail.

Jason Snell for Macworld:

Now, even on the iPad’s screen I’m a decently fast typist. (The iPad mini, not so much, at least not yet.) I certainly can type on an iPad much faster than I can write with a pen on paper. But it’s nowhere close to my speed on a MacBook keyboard. Using the iPad slowed me down and got me to think about what I was writing in a way that using my trusty MacBook Air never would.

I’m no Oliver Sacks, but I’d wager that I’m just not taking more time to choose my words, but I’m actually using different parts of my brain when I write this way. And not only does the actual act of writing feel different, but the end result feels different to me too.

Like Jason, I’m an iPad early adopter. I got mine the same day they came out in 2010. I’ve found a very different use case for it than my Mac – I use it more as an information appliance and a gaming system, but when it comes to writing, something I do practically every day, I use the Mac.

One of the first things I noticed when I got my iPad was how different the writing experience was from a Mac or PC. Quite frankly, I’ve never cottoned to it – without exception, any writing longer than brief e-mails or tweets and other social media posts still end up being done on my computer.

So it’s interesting to read about his experience and compare it to my own. I have to give Jason credit for trying to understand why iPad writing is so different than keyboard writing. For me, it was simply an exercise in frustration that I gave up on, perhaps sooner than I should have.

Matt Macari for The Verge:

The internet was abuzz yesterday with reports that Apple’s infamous “bounce-back” patent, US 7,469,381, was “tentatively invalidated” by the US Patent Office. That’s one of the patents Samsung was found to infringe, and any action by the USPTO will have major consequences. Unfortunately, all those reports were extremely premature —patents can’t be “tentatively invalid,” just like people can’t be “tentatively dead.”

Great explanation of what’s going on and the process involved.

The goal is to release the camera filters in an application update in time for the holiday season, these sources say.

I’d rather see Twitter release the grip on developer’s balls.

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.