Brent Simmons:
This isn’t about being a hardcore low-level developer or some crap like that.
Good follow-up too.
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Archive > February 2010
Rivet
My thanks to The Little App Factory for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Rivet. Rivet lets you stream your movies, photos, and music from your Mac to your Xbox 360 or PS3. It integrates with iTunes and iPhoto (and Aperture); changes and additions on your Mac are instantly visible on your console.
This [...]
★ Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga
I love this whole unfolding future-of-Flash saga because it’s a wonderful mix of politics and technology. It’s complex and multivariate, but not too complex to get a handle on the basic gist. It occurred to me this week, after both reading and writing quite a bit regarding Flash Player’s performance issues, that the whole performance [...]
‘Let It Beep’
Terrific interview with Jim Reekes, creator of the Mac startup sound. Starts out in Dutch, but the interview is in English. (Via Keith Lang.)
Update: One More Thing’s complete one-hour interview with Reekes is now on YouTube.
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Mark Lamster on Las Vegas’s CityCenter
I was there the week after Macworld Expo. Crystals (the high-end shopping mall) is a disaster inside; it feels like a maze. Aria is nice; its casino has an intriguing modern decor. Vdara seemed like a billion-dollar empty tower. CityCenter as a whole strikes me as a fundamentally bad idea — a massive complex in [...]
Nexus One From an iPhone Developer’s Perspective
Jeff LaMarche on the Nexus One:
To make matters worse, the sensors on the Nexus One for the four
hardware buttons are not exactly aligned with the silkscreened
icons. You have to tap noticeably above the button to get it to
register. That was very frustrating for me until someone (from
Google [...]
iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store, the world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store.
‘Mandrake, Have You Ever Seen a Commie Drink a Glass of Water? Vodka, That’s What They Drink. Never Water.’
Dr. Strangelove is out on Blu-ray and it’s magnificent. (Buy it from Amazon and I’ll get a kickback.)
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