Ordering properties is just one choice you have to make that makes up a complete styling strategy. Naming is a part of it. Sectioning is a part of it. Commenting, indentation, overall file structure… it all makes up a complete CSS style guide.
Michael Mulvey brought up another great point to Marcelo Somers “Linkblog Cancer” post that I linked to yesterday:
If I don’t have a unique perspective to the link in question, I usually won’t link to it. I don’t want to be the noise in the conversation.
That’s a great point. I believe readers are looking for a writer’s perspective. There are lots of places to get the news, but each writer has their own perspective.
Horace Dediu:
What is surprising is that the overall sales volume is not growing. At least for the products catalogued (which exclude the Note) growth for the last four quarters has been: 5%, 34%, 31%, -53%. These are in stark contrast to the iPhone pattern shown in the outline bars behind Samsung’s.
Interesting article from Horace.
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Here is Apple’s Mac mini first released in 2005.
And here is Samsung’s new Chromebox.
It’s been pointed out before, but just another example.
Samsung could face penalties from the U.S. District Court in Northern California after one of its lawyers involved in the patent battle against Apple admitted that she hadn’t file the paperwork necessary to practice law in front of the court.
Samsung’s lawyers haven’t been impressive so far.
Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album.
Gilmour and Roger Waters are incredible.
Documents filed by Samsung lawyers on Thursday reveal that from June 2010 through June 2012 Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue. On the tablet side, the company sold 1.4 million Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices, producing $644 million in revenue.
That doesn’t seem like a lot of sales to me. Maybe most of their sales are international.
The unauthorized access included email addresses associated with Battle.net accounts in all regions, outside of China. Additional information from accounts associated with the North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) was also accessed, including cryptographically scrambled versions of passwords (not actual passwords), the answer to a personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators. It’s important to note that at this time, Blizzard does not believe this information alone is enough to gain access to Battle.net accounts.
At least it wasn’t clear text passwords.
Marcelo Somers:
Our job as independent writers isn’t to be first or even to get the most pageviews. It’s to answer the question of “so what?”. Taken as a whole, our sites should tell a unique story that no one else can, with storylines that develop over time that help bring order to the chaos of what we cover.
Marcelo has a lot of good points in his article. To me blogging is about honesty and personality. I hate reading something that is just bland words with no feeling or conviction. I want to know how the writer feels about the subject they are writing about.
That’s what I try to do. It doesn’t mean that everyone will agree with what I write, and that’s okay, but I am giving you my honest opinion.
Eric Slivka:
But a source has now revealed to MacRumors that Apple’s retail stores have been given authorization to match these discounted prices from approved major retailers and carriers.
I never thought Apple would do that, but good for the consumer that wants to purchase from an Apple retail store.
We’ve seen some pretty spectacular thesis projects by up and coming designers over the years, but never before have any of those projects involved a 6+ month-long road trip through small towns all across Sweden.
Very cool. No money changes hands for his design work, only goods and services that allow him to continue the journey.
Ilya Birman sent this to me today. It’s a sign in Russian, but translated. Clearly people aren’t confused about things. Definitely not.
Mike Beauchamp defines “Benchmarking” and “copying” for Samsung.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it has not considered acquiring Research In Motion or licensing the embattled BlackBerry phone maker’s new mobile operating system.
I don’t know, buying RIM and using the software in its devices might be a good idea for Samsung, especially if it loses the lawsuit that Apple brought against it.
Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider:
Only 16 percent of viewers observing Samsung’s TV commercials realized it was a Samsung product, according to an internal report the company commissioned, and which has been submitted as evidence in its trial with Apple.
According to macProVideo.com’s Founder and CEO, Martin Sitter, “Until now, macProVideo.com has been the place ‘Where Mac Users Learn.’ With the acquisition of AskVideo.com, we have purchased a great brand with over 8 years of experience in online training. AskVideo will become our primary portal for bringing our trademarked NonLinear Educating System™ to the larger world of Windows PC users.”
Huge news in the video training market. I’ve been a user of MacProVideo for years. Good luck to Martin and the gang.
My latest Techpinions column:
Samsung contends that Apple doesn’t own the right to putting a receiver on an icon to indicate that it’s used for making a phone call. Samsung fans also argue that Apple can’t patent a rectangle. These arguments don’t get to the heart of the matter, which is the blatant copying of everything Apple is doing.
Ed Bott:
When Microsoft shipped its Release Preview of Windows 8 in June, it announced that the default browser, Internet Explorer 10, would have the Do Not Track (DNT) signal enabled by default. That action unleashed a heated debate in the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).To the advertising and analytics companies that make up the tracking industry, this issue is an existential one. If the default browser in the world’s most popular operating system is set to disallow tracking, the effect would be profoundly disruptive to companies that live and die by their ability to follow users around the web.
Kudos to Microsoft for doing the right thing.
After Apple introduced evidence that clearly shows how Samsung purposely copied its iPhone, Samsung released the following statement:
“Samsung benchmarks many peer companies,” she said. “In fact, these are typical competitive analyses routinely undertaken by many companies in many industries – including Apple. Samsung stands by its culture of continuous improvement and innovation. We are very proud of the product innovations driven by our more than 50,000 designers and engineers around the world who have made Samsung’s products the products of choice.”
It’s doesn’t say, but I’m guessing the Samsung rep didn’t say that with a straight face.
Another great release from the Pixelmator Team.
Pixelmator 2.1 is a major update introducing several new features and improvements, including the following:
- Retina-Ready: Both Pixelmator’s friendly user interface and its powerful image editing engine are now optimized for the Retina display.
- iCloud: Built right into the app and keeps your Pixelmator work up to date across all your Macs.
- Effects Browser: The best and the most fun way to browse: instantly preview and quickly apply special effects or add color adjustments to images.
- New Effects: Use the new Vintage, Miniaturize, Black and White, Rain, and Snow effects.
- Alignment Guides: Quickly position, align, and evenly distribute objects in your Pixelmator compositions with pinpoint accuracy.
- OS X Mountain Lion Support: Pixelmator takes full advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
Ars Technica:
Google’s search app for iOS is about to become more Siri-like. The app, which already allows users to enter search terms via voice, will soon gain the ability to better understand your intent—that is, what you actually mean with all those extraneous words coming out of your mouth. Google announced on Wednesday that the feature will be available “soon” for iPhone and iPad.
Big advantage of this Google “version” is that it will be available on the iPhone 4.
NPD’s research also revealed that the lion’s share of smartphone-market growth is concentrated in the top two brands. In fact Samsung’s and Apple’s combined smartphone unit sales rose 43 percent between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012, as unit sales for other brands fell 16 percent.According to NPD, the top five smartphone brands, and their market shares, in Q2 were as follows:
- Apple: 31 percent
- Samsung: 24 percent
- HTC: 15 percent
- Motorola: 12 percent
- LG: 6 percent
The Wall Street Journal looks at the case the feds have against Gibson and why they settled.
Sebastian Anthony for ExtremeTech:
In Curiosity’s case, the CPU is a PowerPC 750 (PowerPC G3 in Mac nomenclature) clocked at around 200MHz — which might seem slow, but it’s still hundreds of times faster than, say, the Apollo Guidance Computer used in the first Moon landings.
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Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin has a nice article showing us what Samsung’s phones looked like before and after the iPhone was released in 2007. Surely even the most hardened Apple critic can have no doubt how badly they were ripped off.
The company will take an $8 billion charge in the third quarter related to that $14 billion merger, and including the massive writeoff, HP expects to report a loss of as much as $4.49 per share, or approximately $8.85 billion.