June 2010
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What, you want a protocol now?
bananacasts:
I opined a few months ago that printing from iOS won’t happen until we see some bare bones protocol to print a PDF (easily generated by iOS as it is in MacOS) with some additional instructions for thinks like ink usage, etc. I doubt we’ll see anything like this until adoption of iOS devices — namely, iPads — reaches a critical mass to prompt the rather aloof printer makers to work...
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“We drive 20% less than cities of comparable size, and because we don’t...”
– Holy shit: a politician making a rational economic argument about a polarizing environmental issue. Maybe I should move to Portland.
Self-reblog bookmarklet updated
Remember this thing I made? Turns out there was a bug: if your blog had Descriptive URLs — the feature where Tumblr appends five or six words to each post URL so you can tell which is which — turned off, it wouldn’t recognize that you were on a post page.
Well, that’s fixed now. Thanks to distantheartbeats for spotting it.
To update your copy, delete the bookmarklet the same way...
Unbelievable
My mom is in town, and she brought with her a TomTom GPS navigator thing. It’s about twice the size of an iPhone and cost several hundred dollars. She’s leaving tomorrow, so she asked me to help her program it to direct her to the airport.
The touch screen on this thing is nearly impossible to use, but never mind. After a few tries I figured out how to find the airport in its list of...
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Background Audio in iOS 4.0 →
A post I wrote for the Rogue Amoeba company blog, about an update to Airfoil Speakers Touch that I’ve been working on.
“Don’t make them give an email address. Don’t pre-check the ‘subscribe to...”
– Matt Gemmell, Your App’s Website Sucks
Bullseye, Matt. Bullseye.
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“I’m not in the ‘sudoers’ file of her heart.”
– Jon Deal.
Ugh. So sorry, buddy.
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On multitasking, sparkle ponies, and saving state
In an article for TUAW called Multitasking in iOS 4 is not a magical sparkle pony, TJ Luoma gives a pretty good overview of some of the multitasking features available in the new OS and why they might not satisfy all users’ needs without extra effort from developers.
In rebuttal to TJ’s piece, Benjamin Mayo writes:
In previous versions of iOS, state-saving was the sole...
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Karma
This isn’t news anymore, but in case you missed it, here are some of the striking new hardware features of the iPhone 4 which Steve Jobs revealed in Monday’s WWDC keynote:
The screen resolution is double that of all prior iPhone and iPod touch models: 960x640 pixels.
The screen is made from a material called “aluminosilicate glass” which is 30 times more...
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Drop-crotch pants?
I hadn’t heard the term until Liana tooted about them, so I went to Google Images, and I… I just… fuck, look at this:
This is not fashion, or even clothing. This is despair.
This is the baked-on gunk that’s stuck to the saucepan from the time the phone rang and you forgot you were making Spaghettios but the pan’s still fine otherwise so rather than washing the...