Reveal.js will even translate your Markdown to HTML.

“Exclusive” is a way to dupe readers into taking you seriously, into believing that yours is the only page upon which they can devour the freshest and the latest. But that’s a lie. It always has been.

Jonathan Poritsky take a look at the history of the word exclusive.

Apple’s share of the U.S. market rose to 13.6% for the third quarter on the strength of the back-to-school market, which is typically drives Apple’s best performing quarter. The figure allowed Apple to maintain its comfortable hold on the third position in the U.S. market behind HP and Dell and marks Apple’s best performance in recent years in beating out the company’s 12.5% share in the third quarter of 2011.

iPhone, iPad and the Mac. Good news all around for Apple these days (By “these days”, I mean the last decade).

This afternoon my daughter came to me with a problem. She had a PDF file that she needed to search but it wouldn’t find any of the keywords. It looked to me like the file was actually an image that was converted to a PDF, so there were no recognized words in the document, just image data.

After confirming this on Twitter and listening to the many recommendations, I downloaded PDFpen and ran OCR on the document. In under a minute (it was a large document), I was able to search and select all text I wanted.

Thanks Smile Software.

Just picked this up. I’ll have a review later on, but if it’s all that it’s supposed to be, this could be the ultimate delay for guitar players.

Microsoft product manager Petr Bobek has confirmed that the software maker is planning to release native iOS and Android versions of Office 2013 next year.

I’ll tell you this — if Office for iOS is anything like Office for the Surface tablet, it will suck balls. Microsoft has to release a touch-enabled and optimized version for it to be successful.

The Apple iPhone 5, which our Ratings reveal is a standout camera, is no more prone to purple hazing on photos shot into a bright light source than its predecessor or than several Android phones with fine cameras, according to special Consumer Reports tests.

Now maybe all the dumbasses will shut up.

James Brightman for Gamesindustry.biz:

little over a week ago, the folks at PocketGamer.biz discovered an interesting new clause in Apple’s App Review Guidelines, which could indicate Apple’s intent to restrict any app that promotes titles from a different developer. It’s likely that Apple is simply targeting app promotion services, and not game developers themselves, but depending on if/how Apple enforces the new clause, some game makers could have a hard time getting the promotion they need in the App Store. Interestingly, the developers GamesIndustry International chatted with were either not worried about it or were even in favor of Apple’s continual management of the App Store.

An illuminating read.

The biggest problem that Apple would seem to create with this new change is for apps that provide an “App Store” style experience themselves. That creates a problem for “app of the day” style apps and other tools designed to help App Store users discover new software.

In a lengthy response to Gamesindustry.biz, Dave Castelnuovo, co-founder of Bolt Creative, has a balanced look at what’s provoking Apple’s changes, the concerns of developers and hope for a middle ground between the two conflicting perspectives.

Mike Isaac:

Twitter is considering building its own video-hosting technology, according to sources. That means users could upload video directly via the service’s mobile apps, instead of using hosting services like yFrog, TwitVid and Vodpod.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Two new Slingbox models were released last night. I’ve never had one, but I want the 500 model.

In its test run with four teams for the final two weeks of the season, 1,500 e-ticket buyers (12%) chose Passbook delivery.

That’s impressive.

Christie’s announced the auction in August, and at the time the firm expected the Apple 1 to fetch US$127,000. When the auction ended, however, the price hadn’t met the reserve of $80,000, resulting in no sale.

“There will be times when we build specific devices for specific purposes, as we have chosen to do with Xbox and the recently announced Microsoft Surface,” wrote Ballmer.The new approach mimics Apple Inc, whose massively successful iPhone and iPad demonstrated tight integration of high-quality software and hardware and made Windows devices feel clunky in comparison.

Who’s laughing now Ballmer?

John Moltz:

How many times can we sarcastically say “No compromises” before it’s not funny anymore? I know we’re not there yet, I’m just asking for future reference.

I think there will be a lot of disappointed people when these Windows 8 devices are released.

That’s a lot of tracking.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer got a lower bonus than last year’s, partly for flat sales of Windows and his failure to ensure that the company provided a choice of browser to some European customers.

I wonder what they’ll do to him when Windows 8 flops and the Surface sucks balls.

Apple has done a great job of attracting young users with the iPod and keeping them as they grow up and purchase an iPhone.

With the size and weight of a typical single stompbox, the MS-50G includes a thorough lineup of high-quality effects types. It features 47 stompbox effects and 8 amp models. Along with distortion, reverb, modulation and other classic effects, its amp models simulate some of the most prized pieces of live and studio gear.

Picked this up today. Looks really cool, but I’ll post more details after I’ve used it for a bit.

I agree with MG on this one — it wasn’t ready to begin with.

Shawn Blanc in his review of the Hidden Radio, a project he backed on Kickstarter.

Research In Motion is not likely to launch the much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system software until March 2013, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserts in a research note. To date, the company has only said it expects to debut the first BB 10 devices in the calendar first quarter.

Not a single thing is going right at RIM.

Nick Wingfield for the New York Times (via Gamesindustry.biz):

Using this model, Supercell executives say its two games are currently grossing over $500,000 a day, which translates into about $350,000 a day in revenue for Supercell after Apple takes its 30 percent cut on transactions through its iOS App Store.

Supercell’s two games include “Hay Day” and “Clash of Clans.” Clans is the mroe successful title, according to the developer. The games are dependent on in-app purchases in order to make money.

The iPad mini also elicited this comment from the company’s general manager of North America operations:

Mr. Harper says he believes that the growth in the tablet market will be a bad development for dedicated portable game devices from companies like Nintendo and Sony. “That market seems in trouble to me,” he said. “The iPad mini could be one of the final nails in the coffin.”

The game Unmentionables gives Taboo a 21st century makeover and puts the real social back into social gaming.

Taiwan is asking Apple Inc. to blur a map image of its new $1.4 billion early warning radar station that can detect aircraft and missiles coming from as far as western China.

So Maps is good then.

Great news, I can’t wait to get mine.