Question for those who think commoditization is going to to relegate iOS to a Mac-sized niche: where is the $200 Android competitor to the iPod Touch? It’s been a huge hit for three years, and still has no competition.
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Mark Huot: ‘A Real Web Design Framework’
Thoughtful response to Jason Santa Maria’s plea yesterday for a new web design app; in particular, how something like Interface Builder — or at least exactly like IB — wouldn’t work for web pages.
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Adam Lisagor on The Pipeline
Really enjoyed this interview of Adam Lisagor by Dan Benjamin. Funny and very honest.
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★ An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
Back in November, I posted a regex pattern for matching URLs. It seems to have proven quite useful for others, and, even better, based on feedback from those who’ve used it, I’ve since improved it in several ways.
The problem the pattern attempts to solve: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where [...]
The Ins-N-Outs of an in-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s obsessively detailed deconstruction of the In-N-Out Animal Style Double-Double hamburger. Consider it a sequel to his research on perfect McDonald’s-style french fries from a few months ago. (Via Kottke.)
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Japanese Author Ryu Murakami Skirts Publishers With iPad Novel
Yoree Koh:
Ever since the arrival of the slim and snazzy electronic book
devices, the magnates of the traditional publishing industry have
feared the worst: that precious big-name authors might sign
directly with e-book retailers, relegating the old-school
publishers as the dispensable middleman.
Let the nightmare begin. Novelist Ryu Murakami plans to release
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An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings
Great research and analysis from Jeffrey Friedl. Must-read for any Lightroom user.
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The War Logs
Series of articles from The New York Times on material from a WikiLeaks archive of military documents regarding the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
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Ostrich
Free Safari extension Twitter client by Jérôme Gravel-Niquet.
Update: The website is flaking in and out; here’s a cached version in case you need it.
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