Apple waited until iOS 5 to add a split keyboard option to the iPad. The new feature meant easier thumb typing in both portrait and landscape and came along with the option to "undock" the keyboard so it could be placed in the middle of the screen. There was also a hidden feature that we weren't aware of until, well, today: "phantom keys." The discovery comes from Finer Things in Tech, which notes that when in split mode you can type Y, H, and B with your left thumb by reaching just across to the dead space adjacent to the T, G, and V. Similarly, reverse those letter combinations to see what you can hit with your right thumb. It may seem like a silly feature, but longtime smartphone users — and especially portrait keyboard aficionados…

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I noticed this in iBooks Author tonight. Instead of “Paste and Match Style” like you’d see in Pages among others, iBooks Author offers “Paste and Retain Style.” Be default, it formats the text on your Mac’s clipboard to match the style on the template. That’s exactly the opposite of what Pages does.

"Paste and Match Style" in Pages

 

"Paste and Retain Style" in iBooks Author

10.7.2 vs. 10.7.3 - Iconzusammenstellung von @marcedwards.
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Und diese merkwürdige Änderung bei Ordnern in der Bookmarkleiste von Safari 5.1.3 darf natürlich auch nicht unerwähnt bleiben. Screenshot von @Cabel und Danke an die Erinnerung @iPhoneblog.

Joseph Pearson, of the e-book startup Bookish:

So we were surprised and delighted by some aspects of the .ibookfile that iBooks Author spits out. Their extensions to EPUB aredone precisely the right way. They’re not done with dollops ofembedded JavaScript — a fact that Baldur Bjarnasen laments.(You can be sure EPUB’s governing body, the IDPF, is lamentingthat too.)

Instead they’ve done it with microformats. […] They’ve said: thisstuff is up to reading software developers to implement. LikeApple. Or Amazon. Or Kobo. Or Booki.sh. What we need to do is givethe ebook authors enough opportunities to customise thefunctionality, not recreate it for every single book.

This is exactly the right stance. We’re thrilled to see this,although it means a whole lot of work for us.

Apple’s approach suggests that they think “write once, run everywhere” is no better a strategy for e-books than it has been for any other sort of software.

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This preoccupation with the past and discomfort with the future is, I believe, the key to understanding the valuation paradox for Apple. I have gone over the conventional metrics of P/E and P/E/G(trailing) that illustrate absurd pricing (updated below). But they don’t help explain the mis-pricing.

A disruptive company is inherently unpredictable. Success and growth are unrewarded because there no understanding of the underlying causes of these phenomena and therefore there is no expectation of repetition.

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This Cycle-Skating video, a sport of 1923, made me smile.

(via the kids should see this)

The Pronunciation Book channel on YouTube shows you how to say various words in American English in a straightforward fashion. Here's how to say Zegna, the men's clothing brand:
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This is not to be confused with the Pronunciation Manual channel, which does the same thing in the same format but much funnier and more incorrect.

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This hint describes how to easily see all the emails in one conversation without having to open them and scroll through.

If you have your emails 'organized by conversation' you will see in the email list in the left column the number of emails in that conversation. You can just click on the email showing in the left-hand column and hit the Command key and the right arrow key. This causes all the emails in that conversation be shown in a drop-down list by date, one on each line, below the latest one. To undo the list, press Command+left arrow.

[crarko adds: This is one of those obvious shortcuts that can hide forever if not mentioned.]
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Strategic pricing helps your brand and helps you to make more money. Issuing a price is like handing out a business card—it’s a great branding tool, but be careful about what it says to your market. Beginning relationships with customers at a high price makes the statement: “we’re good at what we do and we know it.” Fighting with a competitor over a low price says “I’m uncertain about my abilities, so I’ll take what I can get.” Failing to use a considered pricing policy will leave you treading water in a sea of design mediocrity, allowing you to just stay afloat while you sell commodities. Blah.
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People have a problem finding your URL. You post a QR Code. Now they have 2 problems. Or more:

• They see a chunk of robot barf on your poster, and have to realise it isn't a crossword puzzle, but a QR code.
• They need to take a digital photograph of it with their phone. If they have a laptop, even with a camera, this requires physical contortions
• They need an application on their phone that can make sense of a QR code.
• They need a lot of patience as they fiddle with it.
• They need a working network connection to resolve it.

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R&D expenditures on a stand-alone basis, in absolute or relative terms, do not correlate with disruptive growth. Essentially, you cannot buy innovation.

In fact, sometimes it’s nearly free. Most startups spend less on R&D than large companies do on stationery and yet the bulk of wealth creation has come from these tiny companies. The challenge is, in fact, that if you have resources you find ways of spending them (the quaint American cliche of ‘cash burning a hole in your pocket’). The temptation is always there to fund a new initiative which bright people can always envision.

Leadership in innovation is not the courage to spend but to courage to focus.
“Focus is about saying ‘No’. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.”, Steve Jobs (1997)
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Die wichtigste Voraussetzung, bevor man sich irgendwelche Gedanken um die Bedingungen eines Vertriebs im iBookstore macht, ist eine Idee. Ein Buch sollte niemals Selbstzweck sein, ganz egal, wie leicht einem der Zugang zum Markt auch gemacht wird.

Für diese Anleitung gehen wir also davon aus, dass Ihr bereits ein Manuskript habt, oder Euch zumindest eine zündende Idee unter den Nägeln brennt, die unbedingt zu „Papier“ gebracht werden will.

Für alle Autoren, die noch nicht von iBooks Author gehört haben, hier die Kurzfassung: Das kostenlose Programm ist im Grunde eine Art Layout-Programm im Stil der bekannten Größen aus den Häusern Adobe und Quark. Es ist stark auf die Bedürfnisse von Anfängern oder Gelegenheits-Usern ausgelegt, kann aber von Profis auch zu entsprechenden Kunststückchen animiert werden.
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Korean artist Kang Duck-Bong makes PVC pipe sculptures that look like they're moving.

(via colossal)
Tags: art   Kang Duck-Bong

The Bay of Fundy in Eastern Canada has some of the world's greatest tides…at times, high tide is 50+ feet higher than low tide. Here's a time lapse video of those tides in action.

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But that’s not why some of us are so proud of what Apple’s been able to do; it’s much more personal.

When I switched to Apple back in 2002 after the introduction of OS X, it felt like a renegade position. The world was running Windows and anyone bothering with a Mac was by definition an outsider.

We had to deal with incompatibilities of all kind. There was the ridicule of overpriced shiny white plastic. We were somewhere in between the “first they ignore you” and the “then they laugh at you” state of adoption. But for those of us who endured it, the result was not disillusion but a hardening of the resolve.
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Instruction manuals. Build your Lego kit, assemble your Ikea furniture, or convert Optimus Prime from a truck into a robot. Run through the process step by step, seeing exactly how everything moves and goes together. Even user guides for software or hardware, or videogame strategy guides.
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First, two confessions: I am a huge Apple fan. I am typing this on my 27” iMac, which sits under a painting of the old rainbow Apple logo in my home office. I own six Macs (four at home, two at work), my wife and I have iPhones, I have an old iPod I use as a car jukebox, and I have an iPad, an Airport Extreme, an Apple TV, and an Apple TV 2. I’ve been to the Apple campus in Cupertino more than once—and I live in Texas. Heck, I’m wearing an Apple T-shirt as I write this. I’m a drooling Apple fanboi.

I'm also a UNIX-loving geek. My first Linux install was Slackware… from a stack of floppy disks, in 1993. I’m competent enough not to shoot myself in the foot too badly. I have owned and managed Linux machines before, still keep a Linux VM on my Macs, and have root to several Important Linux Servers at work. I’ve run mission-critical systems on Linux for more than one company.
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OS X’s Finder makes it easy to collect your favorite stuff for easy access. Give these shortcuts a try:

• ⌘-T will add the currently selected app or file to the sidebar on the left
• ⌘-⇧-T will add apps to the left side of your Dock, and files to the right side

Note: if you don’t see a sidebar or a toolbar at the top of your Finder window, hit ⌘-⌥-T (View > Hide Toolbar) to show them.

You can also drag just about anything to the toolbar at the top of your Finder window, though I haven’t been able to find a keyboard shortcut for that.
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Story: The other half of the pricing formula is the story the price itself tells. A Prius at $40,000 or a Prius at $10,000 is the same car, but the price becomes a dominant part of the story. You can tell a story of value/cheapness/affordability, or a story of luxury. If you price your product or service near the median, you're telling no story at all with the price, giving you the chance to tell a story about some other element of what you sell.
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In mid-2011, 4D announced the ability for 4D developers to make their qualifying applications available on Apple’s Mac App Store using 4D v12. As underlined in the dedicated App Store section of our Web site, all apps submitted to the Mac App Store must adhere to Apple’s guidelines, which can change at any time.  

Apple has recently announced that as of March 2012, they will be implementing new, more restrictive sandboxing requirements for all software distributed through the Mac App Store. While adding additional burden to developers, this step is intended to ensure that programs distributed through the Mac App Store are safe and stable. 

This change has implications for 4D developers who wish to distribute their apps through this channel – but not necessarily for Mac OS apps that can be obtained otherwise. Apps that do not implement sandboxing will continue to be valid and run on Mac OS X, and can continue to be distributed and purchased by means not involving the Mac App Store. 

At this time, we cannot guarantee that your existing applications will meet the final Apple requirements for the App Store. We will closely follow the new rules from Apple and see how our product meets their requirements. In the meantime, we recommend our customers to focus on the classic distribution channels.

Every effort is really appreciated!

Innenminister Friedrich hat die Neonazi-Datei als wichtigen Meilenstein im Kampf gegen rechte Gewalt bezeichnet. Das ist aber kein Meilenstein, das ist höchstens Schotter, oder Streusalz für die Augen.

Mit Variablen in JavaScript klarzukommen, ist gewöhnungsbedürftig: Der auf Funktionen bezogene Gültigkeitsbereich von Variablen und das Anheben von Variablendeklarationen stiften zumindest anfänglich durchaus Verwirrung. heise Developer erläutert, worauf es bei der Verwendung von Variablen zu achten gilt.

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Click through to see a video of Sencha Animator animations playing in an Apple iBook.
Like everybody else on the US west coast, this morning we woke up in a world where Apple is poised to transform the way we consume textbooks. One of the compelling features of this new and exciting medium is the ability to easily publish interactive books through iBook Author.

iBook Author lets you embed interactive content in your books to create more engaging experiences for learners, and our first thought here at the Sencha HQ was to try using Sencha Animator to create that interactive content.

So after a few minutes of fiddling, we found a fairly straightforward way to embed an Animator project in an iBook.
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My own interest is from the perspective of an independent author with a view to self-publishing books that aren’t necessarily textbooks. As with any Apple application, there’s a strong desire to explore it and a tendency to try very hard to retrofit my actual needs to allow me to use the shiny new application. Thus, this brief article is as much about tempering my own enthusiasm with reason, as it is as attempt to share my thoughts.
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Thomas H. Kee Jr., giving investment advice at MarketWatch:

In the case of Apple, this is happening in front of our eyes, and the risks are therefore very high. Apple has stopped serving their customers well, and unless they start to serve their customers better the company will begin to lose more market share and revenue and earnings projections will come down aggressively.

Most people think Apple’s customers are the end user, but because Apple relies so heavily on third-party resellers like Verizon and Sprint, both of which are feeling margin contraction and negative effects on earnings because of the extremely high cost of iPhones, the real customers are third-party resellers, and Apple is not treating them right. As long as margins and earnings are negatively affected by sales of Apple’s products, those resellers will look for alternatives and eventually they will find them. Nothing could be clearer.

Let me get this straight. Apple entered the phone business five years ago with a strategy completely different than any other handset maker: treating the user as the customer, rather than the carriers. With this strategy, Apple has now captured two thirds of the profit in the handset market. Now, according to Lee, what Apple should do is start acting like all the other handset makers.

Where did they find these guys?

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Professionelle Kaffeesatz-Leser: wirf Hirn vom Himmel!

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The scale of these periods of prosperity is far shorter than the average person’s career. Indeed, the entire time span of the study is 35 years, about the time an average person will be employed. All the companies failed to maintain prosperity over this time frame.
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The implications for company managers and workers is profound. Chances are that the business you work for will not prosper for more than a decade and will reward you for an even shorter period. Similarly, as witnessed by the P/E ratios, investors have  given up on this industry as one with any quality of earnings.
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Thanks to Jeremy Reimer I was able to create the following view into the history of computer platforms.

I  added data from the smartphone industry, Apple and updated the PC industry figures with those from Gartner. Note the log scale.
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Text messaging with PHP using the TextMagic API

If for some reason, you need to send text messages to your clients cell phones, you should definitely have a look to TextMagic. They provide an easy API which allow you to send SMS to cell phones. Please note that the TextMagic service isn’t free.
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DBZversions - a simple app to control different versions of all kinds of 4D-methods.

DBZversions - une application pour contrôler différentes versions de toutes sortes de méthodes 4D.

It looks like the web is being born again, again.
Here are some things I’ve noticed about the web:

1. Designers have realized the need to design for mobile devices and tablets, and they’ve come up with responsive design rather than doing special mobile versions.
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Textures are used in web design to avoid the cold/fake/digital appearance of flat solid colours, to instead add an element of realism and that sense of something real.

I’m a fan of subtle textures. Some people take it too far for my tastes though.

Wistia just announced SuperEmbeds, an dvanced tool for video embedding. Fantastic!
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I’ve been with my bank for a decade. I run my business finances through them, my personal checking account, a savings account, and my home mortgage. About twice a week I get a letter in the mail from them trying to sell me a new credit card or insurance package. Last week I got an application for a debit card rewards program that I am already enrolled in. Alas, as a customer, I’ve been told I cannot opt out of this junk mail.
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Bisher gibt es für die in sämtlichen neuen Macs eingebaute Hochgeschwindigkeitsschnittstelle Thunderbolt nur RAID-Systeme mit mehreren Festplatten; ab Februar bietet Elgato nun auch Einzel-Festplatten an. Die für ihre Fernseh-Tuner bekannte Münchner Firma packt in das kleine graue Gehäuse eine SSD mit 120 oder 240 KByte Kapazität und verlangt dafür 400 respektive 650 Euro. Ein Kabel muss man für 50 Euro bei Apple hinzukaufen.
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dagegen sind die BTO von Apple eingebauten SSDs preiswert!

Belkin's blowing the dust off its Thunderbolt Express Dock at CES and giving us a September 2012 release date for the US. You might recall that we first saw this dock — aka, the port replicator every MacBook Air owner has been waiting for — at IDF in September. One again, we're looking at three USB 2.0 jacks, one Firewire 800, one HDMI, one Gigabit Ethernet, one 3.5-mm audio jack, and a pair of Thunderbolt ports: one for carrying 10Gbps bi-directional data to your Thunderbolt-equipped laptop and the other for daisy-chaining another Thunderbolt device. Sorry, no USB 3.0 this time. Price is high at $299, but at least it's cheaper than the $999 Thunderbolt dock sold by Apple.

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Quick Look is a delightfully simple way to browse the contents of the files on your Mac without launching their parent apps. (Select a file, press the space bar, that's it.) But if you’re looking at, say, a PDF or Word document, Quick Look can frustrate, because it doesn't provide any way to select and copy text; if you find a snippet of text you’d like to copy and paste, you still need to launch the parent app. Unless, that is, you know a secret shared by Keir Thomas
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"mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats.
You've come to this page because you've talked about the"mbox" mailbox format.
This is the Frequently Given Answer to such definite articles.
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more technical information than you ever thought you'd need, to be saved for the time when you have to parse mailbox files. It's a nightmare.

Via O'Reilly

Ever since I found that Snow Leopard switched its file size calculations reported in the Finder from Base 2 to Base 10, I've been eagerly searching the Internet, trying to find a way to keep (or switch) between Base 10 and Base 2.

Download brkirch's switchDiskSizeBase from the author's website.

It's a command line program that works on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion). From various posts I've read about the software, you may need to periodically download a newer version that will work in the event a Software Update breaks the functionality. However, the author appears to actively support it. The software is free and open source, but the author also accepts donation …

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Paste without formatting: I don’t know about you, but I never, ever want to paste something into a fresh document AND carry across its original formatting. To paste without formatting (i.e. as plain text), hold down Shift + Option + Command and hit V. It’s a tricky keyboard combo to master, and I hold down Option + Command with my thumb, and Shift with my pinkie, leaving a finger free to hit V.
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Like with any voodoo, there are die-hard believers. I’m quite certain that I am going to receive email from people who will swear up-and-down that emptying this list of used applications every hour or so keeps their iPhone running better than it would otherwise. Nonsense.
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Sacou o título? Hehehe. Tá, ele não é o título mais original para um post como esse… Mas o material usado por Guy Laramee para fazer as suas esculturas e paisagens, é bem diferente, embora você deva ter em sua casa: livros!


Sehr schöne Idee

Ofmlabs Codecs: Pure JavaScript audio decoding
Ofmlabs is bringing audio decoding to JavaScript with two great pieces of code. The first, named JSMad, was the first proof that JS audio decoding is possible and is a port of libmad, a C based MPEG audio decoder.The second file, ALAC.js is a port of the recently open sourced Apple Lossless decoder to JavaScript. Now it is possible to play MP3 and Apple Lossless even in browsers without native support.
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This hint describes how to connect your free me.com iCloud account with Mail.app on Snow Leopard.

Open Mail and do the following:

• Set a new account (+) (in prefs on Mail.app).
• Set the new account to use IMAP (this is important).
• Set the incoming mail server: imap.mail.me.com.
• Set the outgoing mail server: p04-smtp.mail.me.com.
• Set the user name: yourname@me.com.
• Use the password associated with your AppleID.
• Turn SSL on (port 993).

That should do it.

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Turns out there is a super easy way to export contact info from Address Book to a spreadsheet, if you have Numbers (from iWork).

• Use Address Book to select the individual contacts, or select a complete group.
• Drag the contacts/group to an open sheet in Numbers, a new table will be created with all your contacts.

By default only a few details are shown (last+first name, phone, e-mail address). All the other info is available as well, but hidden. Feel free to hide/unhide the columns you are interested in.

Original source: posted by user Celticfaere.

[crarko adds: Works just great. This didn't work with Excel 2011, which is not too surprising, as the underlying data model is different.]
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That’s the flip side of the problem for Microsoft. They don’t have strong carrier support because the carriers prefer Android, which gives them more control. And they don’t have consumer demand because they were too late. (And, as I’ve said before, I think the “Windows” brand hurts them here. Windows Phone 7 doesn’t sound like a new platform. It sounds like an old one. They should have called it Metro 1.0)

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So I thought a lot, on how to improve the existing, and how to integrate the new features in the best and easier to use possible way.
iSort V4 will be the biggest update since V1, so, please, be a little more patient.

Louis C.K. recently put out a self-produced comedy album that he sold exclusively from his web site for only $5. The album has sold 200,000 copies, grossing him $1,000,000. He's keeping a bit less than a quarter of that, a quarter is going towards recouping production costs, but the rest is going to charity and for bonuses for his employees.
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If you drop a bunch of neodymium magnets down through a thick-walled copper pipe, an effect called eddy current braking will slow the magnets' fall even though there's no direct magnetic attraction between the copper and the magnets.
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Last week Horace wrote about the apparent “reasonableness” of analyst Apple estimates. He explained how the consensus for Apple’s growth was always deeply pessimistic because its performance could be argued to be anomalous. It was just too good to be true. We reproduce the chart here:
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Is HTML5 one of the keys to publishing's future? Brian Fling (@fling), founder of PinchZoom, thinks so. His company's new publishing platform is called PinchZoom Press, and it's built atop HTML5. In this interview, Brian tells us about what PinchZoom Press can do and why it's an important new entrant in the epublishing space.

Key points from the full video interview (below) include:
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A friend of mine called me today and asked about an app to help him make an app. I recommended AppDesigner, a Mac app made by a good friend of mine. He was so impressed with the app, I figured I’d mention it in case anyone else is looking for a way to make an iPhone app.
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Amazon published this Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 page shortly after its announcement on September 28, 2011. I thought it was just a temporary promo, but it turns out that Amazon is still pushing it heavily.
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Text editor for Windows. Needs more buttons.

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This is the third installment of my must have must have list of tools and utilities as a Mac and iOS developer. A lot can change in twelve months when you work in the technology space. The biggest change for developers in the past twelve months is the completed transition from Xcode 3 to 4 and from iOS 4 to 5. Oh, there may have been a new version of Mac OS X thrown in there for good measure too.
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I strongly encourage releasing reusable portions of your code - it’s the lifeblood of the developer community. Over the years, I’ve put together a set of best practices for releasing open source code, to make life easier partly for yourself but mainly for those who will use your code.
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VMware has released technology previews of the View desktop virtualization client for Mac OS X and Linux, while updating the already existing View clients for iPad and Android.

For businesses, APIs are clearly evolving from a nice-to-have to a must-have. Externalization of back-end functionality so that apps can interact with systems, not just people, has become critical.

As we move into 2012, several API trends are emerging.

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Here's a piece of new functionality with iOS 5 Weather app.

The Weather app doesn't look like it has changed much, but when looking at the forecast for the week, tap and pull down below a day and it will give an hourly forecast.

[crarko adds: Hey, that's pretty cool. I hadn't noticed this before.]
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Fear of Apple is about losing control over the software on our computers. Fear of Google is about losing control over our privacy.

When Apple updated its iBooks e-book application to 1.5, they included some nice new fonts: Ahtelas, Charter, Iowan, and Servavek. With a little work, you can extract these from the application and use them on your Mac.

• If you haven't already, download the free iBooks app from the App Store.
• Locate the application in the Finder. (Select iBooks in iTunes and choose 'Show in Finder' from the File-menu. It will be named 'iBooks 1.5.ipa').
• Make a copy of the file.
• Change the file-extension of the copy from .ipa to .zip.
• Extract the resulting zip-file by double-clicking on it. You will get a folder named iBooks 1.5.
• In this folder open the Payload folder to find the app 'iBooks.'
• Right or control-click on the application to show the contextual menu and choose 'Show Package Content.'
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In an ideal world there would always be a clean way of displaying data supplied by a third party on your site. Two examples would be getting the data in JSON or XML format from a Web Service and having an API to code against. But you don’t always have any of those options.

Sometimes the only way of incorporating data from a third party is by loading it in an iframe element. A few examples are financial reports, e-commerce applications, and ticket booking applications. Using an iframe is not ideal for many reasons, one of which is that it can make multiple sets of scrollbars appear on the page. Not only does it look ugly, it also makes the site less user-friendly. But there is a workaround.

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Imagine it’s late 2005. Apple’s fiscal year just ended and they reported their performance. You’re an analyst whose job includes forecasting the company’s performance for next year. This is a weighty responsibility. Your forecast will be blended with those of your peers and used as a “consensus” average. That consensus for the next year will be used to measure the current value of the shares in a ratio called the forward PEG or Price/Earnings/annual earnings Growth. You are supplying the earnings and hence growth forecast while the market offers a price. As a stock is meant to measure future earnings, your forecast is a crucial and frequently cited figure about whether a stock is priced fairly.
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iOS 5 introduced Private Browsing, which can be set via Settings » Safari.

To tell whether you have Private Browsing turned on when using Safari on an iOS device, the chrome around the browser window will be black. When Private Browsing is turned off, it's the standard bluish-gray.
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It looks like all of those donation requests are paying off. Wikimedia's just released a preview of its new visual editor, which is designed to make it easier for the average user to edit Wiki pages. The new editor hides the mass of square brackets that comprises a WikiCode page, and instead shows an editable preview far closer to the actual look of a page. There's a more accessible toolbar for styling text and adding links, along with a contextual mini-menu which pops up when you select text. Power users can still access the more complex features of the Wikipedia editor, with buttons to the right for WikiCode, JavaScript, and HTML.

The preview's only available in a sandboxed mode for now, giving users the chance to try it out for…

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diese Option hätte ich gerne in 4D

Bis 31.Dez. 2011 gibt es den Sourcecode für 50,- €

Louis C.K.:

The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hourslater, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000,breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today,we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minussome money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000(after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it toyou, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. Theywould have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted videoof limited value, and they would have owned your privateinformation for their own use. They would have withheldinternational availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid$5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch itin Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paidnice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have tojoin anything, and you never have to hear from us again.

Sounds like a success. I watched it the other night and it was great. I hope it continues to sell like hotcakes.

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Pogoplug just announced the new $99 Series 4 miniature server, which lets you put nearly any hard drive or storage device on the web. It's extremely similar to the current Pogoplug Mobile, but adds far more ports: two USB 3.0 ports, an USB 2.0 port, a SD card slot, a 2.5-inch SATA connector that can accept Seagate's GoFlex drives, and an Ethernet port. The setup is fairly simple: after you connect the Pogoplug to your router via Ethernet and add some storage to the device, you're able to access files from a web browser or apps for your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, and stream media to your Xbox 360 or PS3. Pogoplug calls all this the "personal cloud," and it integrates with the 5GB of free storage the company offers to…

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So overall the NEX-7 is an amazing piece of hardware, and although its firmware feels rather cobbled-together, once you have the camera set up to your liking it's a joy to shoot with and delivers excellent results. So despite our reservations about how it fits into the E system as a whole, taken on its own merits the NEX-7 is an exceptional camera, and a worthy winner of our top award.

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So now I’ll reveal the secret to you. To send your users to Mac App Store updates, use this URL:
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gives you unprecedented control of the layout and design of any web document. As browser support only improves, we will see CSS becoming the primary styling system. This is partly because CSS is so light when compared to most JavaScript, AJAX, or image-​​based design systems. And as the support for more transitional features like sliders and gradients find their way into CSS, there may not be a need for anything but CSS in the near future.

The following collection is a one-​​stop-​​shop for CSS. From the official home page of W3C to gradients and button generators — each of these resources has been carefully reviewed and tested. With these tools, you can accomplish any CSS design task that you want using CSS as the primary, if not only, system for implementing the look and feel.
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Dear TextMate,

I wanted to write you this letter after we bumped into each other on the street yesterday. I guess it’s long overdue.

I’m glad you’re doing well, and that you’re going to be at 2.0 soon. I know you always wanted that. You look good, and I’m happy for you.

We didn’t have much time to talk earlier, but like I said I’m doing great. Things are really good. I’m editing with BBEdit now. It’s been almost six years. We’re very happy.

I think I need to talk a bit about what happened, though I guess only you really know.

It hurt me when you just sort of disappeared.

I know the relationship wasn’t really moving forward. BBEdit and I have been through two whole new versions (and lots of point-releases) since… well, you know. Since you just kind of went away. You and I only ever managed a point-five.

I still remember the early days - they were amazing. The bundles, new stuff every week, the syntax highlighting (oh man, the syntax highlighting). Yeah. Those were good times. It wasn’t just me, right?

I was talking to my friends last night; I told them I saw you. They send their best. For what it’s worth, even BBEdit says hi. Not everything they said was positive, of course - but that’s normal. After all, they’re my friends. I actually caught myself defending you and talking you up at one point.

“TextMate looks really good,” I said. “Multiple carets, themes… and even that drawer thing is long gone!” I think I even said that our talk had been just like old times. That was stupid of me, and they told me that. Because they’re my friends.

They also told me the one thing I was ignoring: you dumped me, and it took me a long time to get over it.

I know it wasn’t totally your fault. Mainly you just promised a lot. Too much, in fact. I don’t know what that was about. I’d have been happy to wait for the features. I didn’t have a deadline.

And the money thing. Ugh. That really messed us up. You always insisted on paying, even though I was happy to. I could have supported you; I was glad to help with that. Maybe you could have got to 2.0 sooner. But you didn’t give me the chance. It just all felt a bit one-sided.

I think that in the end you felt trapped by your own promises, and it was easier for you to leave. I get that now. I really do.

I didn’t give up at first, you know. I kept “our” - your - bundles. For a while. Eventually I deleted them. I felt guilty about that. Later, I felt angry at myself for feeling guilty. Much later, I was able to laugh about it.

I think I actually might still have one of your release notes files around here somewhere. It’s not really “yours” anymore, though; it hasn’t been for a long time. It’s just a markdown file.

You mentioned maybe getting together for coffee. I lay awake for a while last night thinking about it, and honestly I don’t think it’s a good idea.

I’m not sure what you’re offering, but I don’t think I can even judge it rationally. I already made all your excuses for you long ago. I can’t even see you for who you are today.

You’re just the editor that went away, and I’ve moved on.

Best wishes,
-Matt

P.S. I can’t believe I actually had to check which letters to capitalise in your name. I used to know it off by heart. I guess that’s a good thing though. All the best.

… If Lion’s autocorrecting a word that you’d prefer it simply leave alone, let it make the correction, then fix the word so that it’s spelled the way you’d prefer again. Next, Control-click (or right-click) on the word in question, and choose Learn Spelling from the contextual menu that appears. From now on, Lion won’t autocorrect that word any longer.
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Tablets may have been hacked into cars before, but we've never seen a major auto manufacturer design one specifically for automobile use — Renault is doing just that with the R-Link. The 7-inch touchscreen device can also be controlled by voice or from steering wheel controls and connects to your smartphone and the cloud simultaneously. Renault doesn't say what OS the R-Link will run, but the car maker is setting up an app store that's supposed to have more than 50 apps available at launch with more to come in the future. Besides the obligatory navigation and media programs, there'll be a "Community-led Parking" app that crowd-sources information to predict when a nearby spot will open up within a three minute window. Renault's…

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Mac OS X makes it easy to take screenshots—images of your screen or objects on it. But even veteran Mac users are often unaware of the many options available for getting the perfect screenshot. Here's a quick look at these underused options.
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PC industry, this is your problem:

However, as soon as you tilt this screen vertically off axis, the problems emerge. Not only do colors start to fade, but whites quickly become a urine-colored yellow. Yes, it’s disgusting any way you look at it or describe it. Those issues aside, the display and the resolution are more than adequate for an entry-level unit
Joanna Stern (The Verge)Samsung Series 7 Chronos Review

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However, we knew there would be sacrifices, and while the Series 7 might come close to closing the gap with the MacBook Pro on performance, it simply isn’t as well-built as Apple’s machine. And that can be seen most notably in the keyboard, touchpad, and the screen quality.
Joanna Stern (The Verge)Samsung Series 7 Chronos Review

The keyboard, touchpad and screen are the computer, in terms of what you’re directly interacting with. So every part you’re going to interface with is notably substandard. Right.

You’d assume that the final rating would duly castigate the manufacturer, but it’s actually 7.8 (presumably out of ten), with this pull-quote:

Samsung has crafted one of the best Windows 7 laptops out there right now
Joanna Stern (The Verge)Samsung Series 7 Chronos Review

You, the PC consumer, simply shouldn’t be putting up this sort of situation. Low expectations permeate the PC press, due to the type of products foisted upon the market for many years. Poorly-integrated plastic boxes (often poor copies of existing products), optimised for cheapness of manufacture and co-branding opportunities, resulting in horribly compromised products for the consumer.

There are certain companies out there who wouldn’t allow a product with even one of those flaws to ever make it to manufacturing. It’s a terrible indictment of the PC industry that even journalists often don’t expect anything better.

In recent years, authors have claimed that many seemingly boring things have changed the world but a particularly strong case can be made for the potato and Charles C. Mann makes it.

The effects of this transformation were so striking that any general history of Europe without an entry in its index for S. tuberosum should be ignored. Hunger was a familiar presence in 17th- and 18th-century Europe. Cities were provisioned reasonably well in most years, their granaries carefully monitored, but country people teetered on a precipice. France, the historian Fernand Braudel once calculated, had 40 nationwide famines between 1500 and 1800, more than one per decade. This appalling figure is an underestimate, he wrote, "because it omits the hundreds and hundreds of local famines." France was not exceptional; England had 17 national and big regional famines between 1523 and 1623. The continent simply could not reliably feed itself.

The potato changed all that. Every year, many farmers left fallow as much as half of their grain land, to rest the soil and fight weeds (which were plowed under in summer). Now smallholders could grow potatoes on the fallow land, controlling weeds by hoeing. Because potatoes were so productive, the effective result, in terms of calories, was to double Europe's food supply.

Mann talks more about the potato in his excellent 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
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Andy Zaky at Bullish Cross wrote a great post on Apple’s valuation, showing the deep discount of Apple’s earnings vs. an average company. It essentially states that Apple’s money is not green.

Felix Salmon took it forward by enumerating a few explanations that might be used for the despondent valuation. None are successful arguments, but that should not be a surprise.

To understand the phenomenon a bit more precisely, I maintain and think about these charts:

This shows Apple’s share price (“P” in blue) and its earnings per share (“E” in green). In addition there are multiples of the earnings in “bands”. The first band is 35xE to 45xE which bounded the price during the period of 2006 through most of 2008. The second band is 15xE to 25xE which bounded the price since then. The data is updated weekly so it is current as of last Friday.

Illustrating it this way shows how the stock is seen as representing different companies at different times. The 2006 era Apple was seen as a high growth, dynamic company. The current Apple is seen as a slow growth, fairly static company.

Note that the price has dropped outside the current band for the first time since the great recession. It is still below 15xE today. Perhaps a new band is forming.

 

The second chart shows the P/E on its own (in blue) but with a second measure where the P/E is divided further by the average trailing twelve months’ growth (P/E/tG). This is a variation on the P/E/G (aka PEG ratio) where instead of (mostly wrongly) estimated future growth I use actual growth history–hence the t for trailing. The P/E/tG is a way to normalize P/E as a function of growth and hence a more appropriate index of value potential.

I added a horizontal line to the chart to show the minimum value P/E/tG reached during the recession (0.17 in January 2009). As you can see, the P/E/tG is now lower than at that time (0.15). It implies a deeper discount for the company’s earnings growth than during the time when the world faced economic contraction.[1]

Note also the trend of that line as it shows a steady linear path toward zero.

Of course, it cannot reach zero unless Apple files for bankruptcy. But until it does file, the line can only reach zero asymptotically as E/tG increases. Which is a relief, I suppose, as it means the rate at which P/E/tG drops will decrease. This implies that as earnings growth persists, the drop in price will have to moderate.

The other threshold to keep an eye out for is when Apple’s share price will reach its cash per share. That’s the point when investors will consider the company to be a net value destroyer. If you performed that analysis in January 2009, and you were accurate about earnings forecasting, the answer would be well before today. See the following chart:

In other words, in January 2009 the stock was trading at a price (<$80/share) below the current cash per share (>$85/share). It took Apple 18 months to grow its cash to reflect the price set on the company. Had the stock not risen then the company would today be trading below book value.

The amazing thing is that today the valuation structure (P/E/tG) is even worse than in it was January 2009. An interesting exercise would be to project how long it would take for the cash to increase to the current share price.[2]

I imagine this time interval should have a name. How about the time to boil: the time for growth pressure to become sufficiently high to exceed disbelief that growth can happen.

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Notes:

1. Note that the low values were placed on the company after the crisis took hold, not as an anticipation of contraction. See the behavior of the index during the summer of 2008 as the credit crisis was unfolding.
2. This analysis is consistent with the analysis that Apple is not valued on earnings or earnings growth but on its balance sheet. The ratio of Price/Cash has been fairly constant but if it breaks down (as it has been–see below) then we need to assume a new dynamic is in place. 

Kaffeesatz-Leserei oder verstehen wollen was passiert?

The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
By Steve Silberman

Graphical interface pioneer Susan Kare, photo by R.J. Muna
Point, click.

The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing feel so natural and effortless to us now, it seems strange to recall navigating in the digital world any other way. Until Apple’s debut of the Macintosh in 1984, however, most of our interactions with computers looked more like this:

How did we get from there to here?

iPad photo by Ben Atkin, under Creative Commons license
The Mac wasn’t the first computer to present the user with a virtual desktop of files and folders instead of a command line and a blinking cursor. …

Microsoft is a stable business. Apple isn’t. The following charts compare the two. The two charts on top show revenues, subdivided into product lines. Microsoft is on the left and Apple on the right. Note that the vertical scales are the same (zero to $30 billion/quarter).

The lower two charts show operating income by division/product line. The left is again Microsoft with the line showing the consolidated income (net of losses). The right chart shows the stacked areas of profit from Apple’s product lines with the yellow line shooing consolidated income. I copied the blue line from the Microsoft chart for a more direct comparison.

Apple continues for the third quarter to have higher operating income and for the fifth quarter maintaining higher revenues.

The following two charts are also another way to view the two companies. As percent of total, how do the product/divisions stack up? The first is Microsoft revenues as percent of total and the second shows the equivalent for Apple.

This comparison I think is most evocative. The stability of Microsoft is contrasted with the dramatic change that Apple is experiencing in the same time frame.

There is a dramatic shift of focus from traditional computers (Mac) to devices. If profit is an indicator of where resources are being allocated, then there is no clearer visualization of the difference between the two companies’ strategies.

The following is a mix of all products/divisions operating income in one dense line chart (thicker lines are Microsoft divisions, thin lines are Apple products).

Finally, the comparison of operating income of iOS devices vs. consolidated operating income from all of Microsoft’s businesses.

As iOS shifts into its fifth iteration my guess is that Apple will continue its growth trajectory. As Microsoft continues to adapt or protect its businesses from tablets and mobiles, will they grow? If so, how? Microsoft has shown consistency, but that is becoming less and less desirable.

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Several weeks ago we shared an update about the introduction of usage limits to the Google Maps API. Today I’d like to provide additional details about these limits, the types of sites that may be affected, and as promised, equip you with the means for measuring your site’s Maps API usage.

Usage limits and affected sitesUsage limits are being introduced to secure the long term future of the Maps API, while minimising the impact on developers. We have purposefully set the usage limits as high as possible - at 25,000 map loads per day - to minimise the number of affected developers, while ensuring that the service remains viable going forward. Based on current usage, only the top 0.35% of sites will be affected by these limits, meaning that the Google Maps API will remain free for the vast majority of sites.
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The investment thesis is the same today. If anything, it’s even more about betting on products. The iPhone and the iPad make up such a large part of profits that the company seems to be nothing but those two things. So if there is any hint that those products might slow down, the stock is sold off.

What intrigues me about this investment thesis is not whether the signals of growth are interpreted correctly or not, but rather that an investor in Apple in 2006 was considered perfectly rational valuing Apple as an iPod company as much as an investor today is perfectly rational valuing Apple as an iPhone company. Why would anyone buy Apple for any other reason? There is no evidence that Apple can be anything more. Any fund manager positing a different point of view would surely be limiting her credibility.
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So why is Apple not valued as a process company?

I think the answer lies in the lack of understanding or belief in a theory that predictable success in product development is possible. Until and unless an explanation is available that persuades a majority that Apple is as much a hit factory as Pixar then Apple without the products will intrinsically be valued at zero.

The premise in the market is therefore that being innovative is meaningless. Innovations are valuable but there is no such thing as an innovation process. If there was such a thing then we could measure it and put a number of its value. Until then innovation is nothing more than a spin of the roulette wheel.

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Denn genau so funktioniert Kapitalismus! [Jan Ulrich H. auf Google+]

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Topics include Isaacson’s failings as an author and biographer, the technical cluelessness on display in the book, and Steve Jobs, Enemy of Progress.

John Siracusa at its best
Anhören!

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This may seem like a small difference, but it's a seismic shift in the Mac OS X virtualization landscape, and one that could have a major impact for specific 'abandonware' applications on the Mac platform. With the ability to virtualize Snow Leopard easily, VMware users can create a virtual machine that retains the Rosetta code translation stack Apple removed in Lion -- giving those people back the ability to run PowerPC applications. Quicken Deluxe is the most prominent app on the PPC roster, but older versions of Adobe's Creative Suite and QuarkXPress are also up for revitalization in a 10.6 VM.
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In the meantime, if you're still holding off on your Lion upgrade because you've got PowerPC applications that aren't ready (or willing) to make the leap to Intel code, your options just got much more interesting.

Jonathan Rentzsch:

SSDs live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Don’t use one without awesome backups.

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Greg Baker / AP

The foundations of houses destroyed by the March 11 tsunami are seen beside undamaged houses, near Sendai, northeast Japan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Though much of the debris left by the March 11 tsunami has been removed, eight months later there is little sign of rebuilding in communities across northeast Japan.

Tsunami-Archäologie

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:07:40 +0100 Foto tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/aa2ded5b14756c38 Photoblog - Photoblog's Column - Articles and Seeds http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2011/11/18/und-nun-noch-etwas-werbung/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEH4Yum4nN4

und dann geht es endgültig ab ins (hoffentlich) sportliche Wochenende. [ecos blog]

viel Spaß

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:19:03 +0100 Werbung tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e8b61381fd29e536 Der Schockwellenreiter http://www.justbenicestudio.com/studio/websymbols/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29

There are those points in every interactive designer’s career when he becomes fed up with producing the same set of graphics all over again for every website he designs. It could be the social network icons, gallery arrows or any number of his «signature» butterflies for the footer of each of his projects. Similar for interactive developers that have to slice the same GIFs and PNGs each time art-director asks them to.

Until now. We want creative people to spend time on creative things. So we came up with the typeface that includes all frequently used iconographics and symbols. Although, the idea is not hot-baked — Webdings and Windings have been around for quite a time — all of them have a lot of unnecessary and sometimes actually scary symbols.
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]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:53:52 +0100 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash 3AEF5A3F-28B9-4DEB-B0C3-0F89ADED87C5 http://www.markus-falk.com/mobile-frameworks-comparison-chart/

Looking for the right mobile framework? Compare all major mobile frameworks and choose the one that fits best.

viel Arbeit
ville merci

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:24:17 +0100 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash D03E7F66-3DF9-4073-8970-BC2361251006 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2011/11/17/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy/

James Higgs:

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone—perhaps his greatest product presentation—he joked that the iPhone was an iPod with a rotary dialing system on the front. It was deliberately absurd, and the audience duely delivered the anticipated laugh. (I’m reliably informed that an early prototype of the phone actually did feature such an interface.)

But no one laughs when Apple delivers a calendar application for the iPad that tries its hardest to look like a real-word desktop calendar pad, complete with fake leather and “torn” pages.

Richard Gaywood:

My biggest problem with skeuomorphic design is that it creates false UI interaction clues. After reading a novel in iBooks, I once switched to Calendar, and instinctively started dragging the stack of pages on the edges of the screen to flip through the display. This doesn’t work, of course. Neither does dragging at those cutsey little torn edges in the Calendar, in a futile attempt to clean them up—which is precisely what I’d do to the real-world object.

skeuomorphic = Wirklichkeit nachäffen

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:08:31 +0100 Design wie es nicht sein soll tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/24a7ebb7f7d1ed03 Michael Tsai's Weblog http://macdailynews.com/2011/11/16/annie-leibovitzs-camera-buying-advice-apple-iphone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29

Talking with NBC’s Brian Williams, famed photographer Annie Leibovitz tells people who want to know which camera they should buy, Apple’s iPhone:
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Snapshots,
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Photoalbum,
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]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:03:25 +0100 Foto 58B03281-D0EC-4F54-B00C-CD9DE778B733 http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/11/13/how_can_i_help_you.html

Being computer literate means getting asked to help. I'm happy to help. I believe the less you fear your computer, phone, or tablet, the more you'll get out of it, so, absolutely, How I can help you?

However, this free tech support does come at a cost. I have a system for evaluating a problem which is accompanied by colorful inner monologue. The following flowchart explains both the details of how I triage a problem, how I might fix it, and how and why I'm likely to swear while I'm helping.

Download the larger version.

]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:51:39 +0100 Programmieren, Philosophieren tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1eaf82dbfb8c86a8 Rands In Repose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwfYSR7HttA

Android evangelist Tim Bray back on October 20, replying to this suggestion that Android 4.0’s new facial-recognition-to-unlock-phone feature could be fooled by a photo of the phone’s owner:

Nope. Give us some credit.

Today, on YouTube, we can see it being defeated by a photo.

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]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:26:06 +0100 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a2028ea997a7b863 Daring Fireball http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/12/2554848/toshiba-portege-z835-ultrabook-review

In the last couple of weeks, ultrabooks — Intel’s new category of ultrathin and ultralight laptops — have been arriving one by one, each aiming to derail the MacBook Air’s lead with a mix of competitive pricing and new features. But none of them have been successful; each has had its own set of compromises which just haven’t been worth the savings. To recap: the Acer Aspire S3 had a slower hard drive / SSD combo and atrocious keyboard, the Asus Zenbook UX31 had unforgivable trackpad issues, and the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s’ price didn’t undercut the Air enough to excuse its missing SD card slot and lower resolution display.

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nur das Wahre zählt

]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:25:07 +0100 Hardware tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9b31be8438bf1243 The Verge - All Posts http://blog.ted.com/2011/11/12/6-ways-to-save-the-internet-roger-mcnamee-on-ted-com

The next big shift is now, and it’s not what you think. Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. At TEDxSantaCruz, tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet. (Recorded at TEDxSantaCruz, March 2011, in Santa Cruz, California. Duration: 15:30.)

Watch Roger McNamee’s talk on TED.com, where you can rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 1,000+ TEDTalks.

Windows will die, make room …

]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:45:22 +0100 Leben, Internet, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/15483eb9c4f3ccc4 TED | TEDBlog http://kottke.org/11/11/unicode-character-recognition

This is way more fun than I was expecting: you draw a shape and a recognition engine finds Unicode characters with shapes similar to what you drew. (via stellar)

Geil!

]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:22:46 +0100 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/cc5f8e0cf868bdb3 kottke.org http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/artikel/Instant-Post-1371972.html

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Apple nutzt für den Mail-Dienst gängige OpenSource-Software und mit einigem Know-how könnte man dieselbe Konfiguration auch in Eigenregie aufsetzen. Doch dass dafür reichlich Schweiß und Geduld erforderlich sind, zeigt schon ein flüchtiger Blick auf unseren Beitrag "Klärwerk – Mac als Mail-Server mit Spamfilter", in dem wir eben dies vor Jahren vorexerziert hatten, als Apples Server-Software noch rund 500 Euro kostete.
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Lion-Server nutzen

]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:54:05 +0100 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore A4C104CD-63D2-42E1-84BD-81BC87A4C1BC http://www.macworld.com/article/163482/2011/11/share_reminders_with_icloud_add_them_with_siri.html#lsrc.rss_main

While the new Reminders app that Apple built into iOS 5 isn’t as full-featured as some other task management apps in the App Store, it does offer a few clever niceties. Among the app’s best features are its ability to sync to-do lists and share them with other users via iCloud and its tight integration with Siri on the iPhone 4S.

You’d be forgiven, though, if you didn’t know about that second one—the ability to subscribe to and share to-do lists with other folks—because it’s not actually discoverable from within the app itself. Instead, you first need to head over to iCloud.com and log in with your iCloud email account. (If the iCloud website immediately takes you to the Find My iPhone screen when you log in, press the Back button in your browser or click on the small cloud icon near the upper left to get to the main menu of options.)

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]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:54:22 +0100 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen 65DE843E-A013-474A-97FF-EA94E3AB7CC6 http://allthingsd.com/20111109/so-now-what-will-ipad-rivals-say-in-their-commercials/

Ina Fried:

RIM, for its part, says it has licensed Adobe’s source code and plans to continue supporting Flash on the PlayBook.

As Matt Alexander said to me today: “Dying companies working with dead products? It’s like corporate

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]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:02:00 +0100 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7c5e2c4c9b46e458 The Loop http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Swissmiss/~3/McUcgzdqYwk/the-holstee-manifesto-lifecycle-video.html

My friends over at Holstee JUST released this fantastic video which celebrates cyclists through the lens of their manifesto. I got chills watching it. You?

Hast Du zu wenig Zeit?
Dann schau nicht fern!

]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:11:11 +0100 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/36e5d77cbee0f8f2 swissmiss http://comunicadores.info/2011/11/09/qr-code-art/

Com a disseminação dos smartphones pelo mundo, os QR Codes estão se popularizando cada vez mais. Mas o pessoal da agência JESS3 acredita que os códigos não precisam ser monótonos e sem graça, por isso criaram o projeto “QR Code Art”.

 

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sie funktionieren

]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:46:55 +0100 Gut gemacht tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/de4cc194f44d364e Comunicadores | Onde as novidades comunicativas se encontram! http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2548975/microsoft-may-halt-development-work-on-silverlight-after-next-release

It's not just Adobe that's altering its plans when it comes to browser plugins designed to play back rich web media — Microsoft's joining in too. New releases of Silverlight, Redmond's big competitor to Flash Player, are reportedly going to be abandoned after the launch of Silverlight 5, expected later this month. This information comes from multiple sources cited by the usually well-informed Mary Jo Foley. They don't know how long Microsoft will maintain support for Silverlight 5 or if there'll be any service packs, but it does seem like the company will be switching its operational focus to other areas and halting active development of Silverlight.

The move away from Silverlight isn't actually unexpected, as Microsoft had already…

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Silverwas?
Warum hat das nur so lange gedauert?

]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:33:03 +0100 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3bdae58c354ae12c The Verge - All Posts http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/09/adobe-discontinues-development-on-mobile-flash/

ZDNet is reporting that Adobe has announced to its partners that the company has discontinued development on Flash Player for mobile browsers. The news comes roughly a year and a half after the publication of Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" open letter, laying out his thoughts on the use of Flash in mobile devices and explaining why Apple would not support Flash on their mobile devices.
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gut so!

]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:50:10 +0100 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e8a9f6a1e7b934c5 MacRumors http://www.fscklog.com/2011/11/imessage-man-h%C3%BCte-sich-vor-dem-mms-fallback.html

Kann eine über iMessage verschickte Nachricht dem Empfänger nicht zugestellt werden, weil dieser aus beliebigen Gründen gerade keine Push-Nachrichten empfangen kann, dann verschickt iOS 5 die Textnachricht nach einigen Minuten automatisch als althergebrachte SMS. Dies lässt sich verschmerzen solange man einen der Tarife mit einem wilden SMS-Paket besitzt. Zudem signalisiert die Nachrichten-App mit einer grünen Sprechblase, dass die Nachricht kostenpflichtig per SMS übertragen wurde.

Verschickt man allerdings Fotos oder Videos über Apples iMessage-Dienst und der Empfänger kann diese zufällig nicht entgegennehmen (weil beispielsweise sein iPhone aus ist oder er in einem Funkloch steckt), dann fällt iOS 5 automatisch auf MMS zurück und verschickt die Aufnahmen zu einem Stückpreis, der oft bei rund 40 Cent liegt. Fünf in schneller Folge verschickte Fotos kosten dann 2 statt 0 Euro, wenn der eigentlich iMessage-fähige Empfänger gerade eine Datenanbindung vermissen lässt. Die Nachrichten-App signalisiert bei Fotos und Videos den genutzten Übertragungsweg außerdem nicht immer zuverlässig - bei mir zeigte sie nur in wenigen Fällen an, dass das Foto plötzlich als "Textnachricht" (sprich MMS) übertragen anstatt per iMessage.

Die Abhilfe ist einfach und bekannt: Das Unterbinden des SMS-Fallbacks in den Nachrichten-Einstellungen verhindert zugleich den Rückfall auf MMS beim Verschicken von Fotos und Videos. In den Nachrichten-Einstellungen darf man MMS-Messaging dabei ruhig aktiviert lassen, denn sonst lassen sich auch keine MMS-Nachrichten mehr empfangen. Ist MMS deaktiviert, zeigt sich zudem ein störender Bug: Die Kontaktauswahl beim Schreiben einer neuen Textnachricht zeigt dann nämlich keine E-Mail-Adressen an und macht es damit sehr umständlich, an einen anderen iMessage-Nutzer zu schreiben, der Apples Kurznachrichtendienst auf einem iPad, iPod touch oder auch auf seinem iPhone mit einer E-Mail-Adresse statt der Mobilfunknummer nutzt.

Nach dem Deaktivieren des automatischen SMS-Ausweges lassen sich Nachrichten trotzdem noch als SMS übertragen. Schickt man eine iMessage und es erscheint auch nach kurzer Wartezeit noch kein kleines "Zugestellt" darunter, dann kann man die Textblase per Finger gedrückt halten und dann über das Kontextmenü "Als Nachricht senden" auswählen.

]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:04:30 +0100 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d2c7783924292a38 fscklog http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BerndRoethlingshoefer/~3/OyXZeLQf9yI/reverse-graffiti-wenn-putzen-werbung-wird.html

Reverse Graffiti sind doch eine prima Sache. Da werden Mauern, Hauswände oder Straßenbeläge nicht mit Farbe besprüht, sondern mit dem Kärger gereinigt. Und schon kann man Logos oder Slogans in den Dreck sprühen.

Die Idee haben gerade die Stuttgart 21-Befürworter für sich genutzt.

 

Noch mehr Sprühideen auf dieser Seite.

gute Idee

]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:05:13 +0100 Werbung tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0600951c73f2a71e Werbung mit kleinem Budget http://incident57.com/codekit/

CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects. And that's just the first paragraph.
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]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:49:01 +0100 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash B0DF804E-72C4-4AB9-91E6-BFF01C969AF7 http://processingjs.nihongoresources.com/bezierinfo/

Before we begin I'd like to say that all the graphics on the page, except for the Wolfram Alpha images, are interactive graphics, without requiring any special browser plugins. If your browser supports javascript, and the canvas element (sorry IE8 users, you'll have to upgrade to IE9, which supports CANVAS - Get it here,) it will be able to let you use this page, thanks to the most excellent Processing.js project. You will also see rather nicely typeset mathematics, thanks to the equally excellent MathJax library.
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Amazing!
Zum Anfassen und mitmachen

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:15:38 +0100 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash 53289699-70F5-46BA-88C2-587BA8072E7B http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=db4929a4e085f52f07c5ebb927b029bb

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Today’s mystery actually began a few weeks ago, when I updated my Mac Pro from Snow Leopard to Lion (OS X 10.7.2). I had previously upgraded the other two Macs in our house without incident. So I was expecting similar smooth sailing. And, at first, my expectations were met. Lion installed successfully and everything was working perfectly.

It took a few hours before trouble arrived. My Mac began slowing down. I mean really slowing down. At first, it was just a slight lag. But, soon thereafter, everything slowed down to the point where if I clicked to drop down a menu, the menu would not appear for several minutes, if ever. Actions such as opening or closing an application were completely out of the question. I could still move the mouse pointer at a normal pace. It’s just that I couldn’t get it to do anything.

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]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:40:48 +0100 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen 88B3CE8C-E81C-41E6-9150-A21233A75468 http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/11/real-security-in-mac-os-x-requires.html

The Mac needs to be as secure as the iPhone. The good news is Apple already has the tools. The bad news is they are forcing developers to use the wrong ones.
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]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:35:00 +0100 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/ad754e0276139686 Call Me Fishmeal. http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=e9c0372d2a1ca2b49d5b969e856d9934

iCloud's 'Documents in the Cloud' doesn't let you do much except upload iWork files for use with iOS devices. To use those documents on another Mac, you have to download the file using the iCloud web interface.

Poking around in the ~/Library folder, you can find a 'Mobile Documents' folder that is used for syncing iWork documents. But it turns out you are not limited to iWork files if you just want to sync between Macs (i.e. no iOS use).

If you are using iCloud and have the 'Documents & Data' option selected in the preference pane, you can navigate to ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Depending on whether or not you've used iWork and synced documents to iCloud, you may or may not find folders there for each of the iWork applications (e.g. com~apple~numbers).

This doesn't really matter. What is of use is that any files put into the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will automatically upload to iCloud and push to any other Mac you have …

]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:14:00 +0100 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/390243cbaac11399 Mac OS X Hints http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shawnblanc/~3/GYDtnv0erQw/

Matthias McGregor intentionally set up his email address so it would easy to give out over the phone or in person. Clever. It’s like a custom short URL, except this one is for those times when you have to tell someone your email.

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Gute Idee!

]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:11:16 +0100 Attention to detail tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3efdff4947c2d855 Shawn Blanc http://kottke.org/11/11/speedometer-design

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My dad had a bunch of different cars when I was growing up and I remember staring at this particular speedometer for hours…I loved the way the numbers scrunched together in the middle.

ja, schön

]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:10:47 +0100 Design, User-Interface C114E0E1-E6CD-436C-AE53-1F57A7DC4E21 http://www.cnbc.com/id/45078444

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"I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."
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das würde das Übel an der Wurzel packen

]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:34:34 +0100 Politik 5CD6C241-3C04-41A7-94AF-C0EFC312A377 http://mattgemmell.com/2011/11/01/on-off-switches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mattgemmell%2Frss2+%28Matt+Legend+Gemmell+-+RSS2%29

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Here’s a screenshot:

Putting aside the redundant and slightly confusing word “enable” in the label (it’s a horrible word, and it clouds the issue of whether something is actually on or just potentially on according to some other circumstance), this switch obviously controls whether a ‘history’ function is active or not. Here’s the question: would you say that, in the screenshot above, the switch is on or off?

To my eye, it’s currently on. There’s a silvery-grey switch set into a recessed trough, and you can move that switch from side to side to control its state. That’s how those switches work in the real world, and it’s what the appearance implies. And maybe it is on. Probably, even.

The problem is that both its appearance and interaction design confuse the issue.
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]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:30:59 +0100 Design, User-Interface 28DD518B-0355-48DF-88F0-A36E631DC171 http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2011/10/perc_166839/ Tilt is a new Firefox plugin that lets you visualize a website in 3D. Though at first this sounds a bit insane and rather useless, being able to see the depths of various elements is actually really helpful and Tilt lets you edit inline. My mind is a bit blown.

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:24:34 +0100 B5A92CAA-E4F2-4F66-B455-B68D6BA02AB8 http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-spending-big-next-year-on-retail-and-cloud/

Erica Ogg:

Apple is doubling down on its retail and cloud operations. The company says it will spend about $8 billion in capitalexpenditures in 2012, which is almost twice as much as the $3.4billion it spent during fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept.30. Apple doesn’t willingly telegraph its plans, but thanksto its annual filing with the Securities and ExchangeCommission, we get a peek into where the company plans to investits money next year.

That’s a big jump, and that’s interesting. But, if you really want your mind blown, read Horace Dediu’s take on these expenditures, and how they correlate strongly to iOS unit sales. Apple is implicitly forecasting another year of 100 percent iOS unit sale growth in 2012.

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Aktien halten!

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:59:33 +0100 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/43d818dc18f58b03 Daring Fireball http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/31/estimating-samsungs-smartphone-mix/

Samsung no longer reports mobile phone shipments. The company’s phone market performance reporting is limited to the following:

Shipment : High-20%↑YoY (low-20%↑QoQ)

ASP : Slight increase QoQ

As the company did not report volumes or ASP last quarter either, the QoQ (Quarter on Quarter) growth estimates are almost useless. The only fragment that might be useful is the “High-20% YoY” given that they did publish units for Q3 2010: 71.4 million. This leaves the question of what “High-20%” means. Here are some ranges and what the result would be:

• 92.1 million assuming 29% YoY growth
• 91.4 million assuming 28%
• 90.1 million assuming 27%

The “best guess” might be 91.4 million.
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zu den geschätzen Samsung-Zahlen, die die Journaille für die Nachrichten abschrieb

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:44:24 +0100 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5c2d0a7e5418d11b asymco http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Mona Simpson über Steve Jobs.
In Ergänzung zu Walter Isaacson

und dazu
In Defense of Steve Jobs

]]> Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:20:35 +0100 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore 8B36F2C8-7431-42D8-AAEB-EF22470136FA http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/29/1441256/career-advice-dont-call-yourself-a-programmer?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Ian Lamont writes "Patrick McKenzie has written about the do's and don't's of working as a software engineer, and some solid (and often amusing) advice on how to get ahead. One of the first pieces of advice: 'Don't call yourself a programmer: "Programmer" sounds like "anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo." If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired.' Although he runs his own company, he is a cold realist about the possibilities for new college grads in the startup world: 'The high-percentage outcome is you work really hard for the next couple of years, fail ingloriously, and then be jobless and looking to get into another startup.'"]]> Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:02:15 +0200 DDDD, Datenbank, SQL, 4Dtoday C2091C62-BD86-45C9-AA27-E15950803B32 http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones and Nexus One users have fared much, much better than most Android buyers.

I went back and found every Android phone shipped in the United States1 up through the middle of last year. I then tracked down every update that was released for each device - be it a major OS upgrade or a minor support patch - as well as prices and release & discontinuation dates. I compared these dates & versions to the currently shipping version of Android at the time. The resulting picture isn’t pretty - well, not for Android users:

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oder auf deutsch

]]> Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:29:05 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore 9876B0B4-4808-4348-9D05-BBE1E1A84E6F http://ffffound.com/image/68297e04cc695ee9ce391e476395e968a52cb66d

gute Idee

]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:08:19 +0200 Design, User-Interface tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d3167fb88e2a89a1 what consumes me, bud caddell http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2011/10/25/apps-entwickeln-mit-einem-open-book/

Das »Praxisbuch« Apps entwickeln für iPhone und iPad, das auch schon die aktuelle iOS-5.0-Version behandelt, hat Galileo Computing dankenswerterweise in seine Open-Book-Reihe eingestellt. Das heißt, Ihr könnt es dort nicht nur kostenlos lesen, sondern auch als ein Bündel HTML-Files herunterladen (.zip, ca. 24 MB). Das Buch scheint sich zu lohnen. Aus dem Klappentext:

Klaus M. Rodewig und Clemens Wagner geben einen Einblick in die Architektur des iPhones und des iPads und eine Anleitung zum Programmieren eigener Applikationen. Sie zeigen wie man eine App entwickelt, testet, zuverlässig absichert und anschließend im App Store veröffent­licht. Sie beschreiben den gesamten Prozess der App-Entwicklung und bieten zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele. Weitere Themen des Buches sind: eine Einführung in Objective-C und Cocoa, Schnittstellen zum Datenaustausch, Events, Alerts, Datenverwaltung mit Core Data und die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Netzwerkprogrammierung.

Und wer die 515 Seiten dicke Schwarte lieber zwischen zwei Pappedeckel gepresst offline liest, kann sie natürlich auch bei Amazon kaufen. Die Darstellung des Buch-Covers variiert noch leicht zwischen der Darstellung bei Amazon und der Darstellung auf den Verlagsseiten, aber das kommt häufiger vor. Es ist trotzdem das gleiche Buch. [Pressemitteilung Galileo Computing]

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:38:31 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9b9b869f1f092a15 Der Schockwellenreiter http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2011/10/24/sprachrainheith/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAemDwDAZno

Der sächsische Landtagsabgeordnete Miro Jennerjahn (B90/Grüne) in einer Rede zum NPD-Antrag »Deutsch statt ‘Dinglich’« im Rahmen der 42. Sitzung des Sächsischen Landtags am 12. Oktober 2011. Sie sei allen konservativen Sprachpuristen (der NPD-Antrag ist ja nur ein dümmlicher Wurmfortsatz eines weitverbreiteten, konservativen und kulturpessimistischen Gedankenguts) ans Herz gelegt. [Christoph H. per Email.]

ein Spaß

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:27:58 +0200 Politik tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a82414bfd80df8ee Der Schockwellenreiter http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CampaignMonitor/~3/px-QiFDJUmk/

Our passion at Campaign Monitor has always been about making a designer's job easier. This happens in a variety of ways, from our research and advocacy right through to the features we add to our software. While these efforts have come in handy for a lot of you, the truth is, building a great looking and rock-solid email is still incredibly hard. Limited CSS support combined with such a broad range of email clients means that designing an email campaign for a client can actually be an order of magnitude harder than building them a simple web site.

We think that sucks. So we did something about it.

Today, we're excited to unveil a new and super-fast way to roll out simple, beautiful and most importantly, reliable email templates for you and your clients. Here's a brief walkthrough to show you some of the key features.
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]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:15:04 +0200 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d3f8dd691851e457 Campaign Monitor Blog http://mjtsai.com/blog/2011/10/17/iphone-image-adjustments-live-in-aperture/ Joseph Linaschke reports that photo edits made on the iPhone are non-destructive. The photo imports into Aperture as the original image, with the edits translated to Aperture adjustments. This is awesome. I’ve found, though, that Aperture often doesn’t update its Photo Stream unless I turn it off and then on again in the preferences.]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:59:21 +0200 Foto tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0c675f1f5e14913a Michael Tsai's Weblog http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Swissmiss/~3/jpjLWt57pHw/pattern-sheet.html

This Masterpieces Pattern Sheet idea by Mo man Tai had me squeal. I *love* it. Ordering and looking for my hammer…

nageln und fädeln nach Zahlen

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:21:58 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dbc8eb53694c28f2 swissmiss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fastcompany/headlines/~3/h6DEHXKX6sc/the-myth-of-the-average-customer-how-symphonies-stopped-playing-musical-chairs-and-grew-thei

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The so-called "Churn Report" showed that classical music itself was not the problem with declining audiences. The problem was the overall customer experience, and customer expectations were quite different for each group. De-averaging customers requires research and analysis. But the benefits are as clear as a cymbal crash.

]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:36:23 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen 8D8E67D2-2FB0-4F15-9F0E-3D4CF04529BE http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/ios-5-tips-tricks-hidden-features/

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Alternate routes in Maps

Maps.app does the magic itself with this little caveat. After entering direction, the app displays alternate routes. Pick one by tapping on the route name and tap the Start button to go.
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]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:02:30 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore 80143752-0346-44CE-ACEE-76E2C358E1AB http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/finermac/~3/_9M-KFVd0gM/11394412748

You can now hide apps from your Mac App Store Purchased list. These buttons do not delete apps from your Mac, they just help keep your Purchased list tidy. I suspect the buttons are a new addition in 10.7.2, but I could be wrong. Anyone on 10.7.1 or earlier see them?

If you want to restore apps you’ve hidden, go to your account area, click “View Hidden Purchases,” and click the “Unhide” button.

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ja, neu in 10.7.2
Schlechtes User-Interface!

]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:36:30 +0200 Design, User-Interface tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/032ee143fbe8bfbb Finer Things in Mac http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/13/more-media-tablet-hype/

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If Gartner says that the iPad is a “media tablet” that is not a PC they may be wrong. But they are also repeating what the PC industry is saying. So I value Gartner as a reflection of the consensus. If there is a significant gap between Gartner and what I conclude to be reality then there is an interesting opportunity as well as evidence of incumbent ignorance.
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im Nachhinein: Analysten sind Kaffeesatz-Leser

]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:58:11 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1bd03da52c48bb44 asymco http://feeds.benm.at/~r/benm/~3/Xdog6jyDO9c/

Ja wo ist denn der Button auf dem Sperrbildschirm, mit dem die Kamera viel schneller gestartet werden kann, ohne das iPhone zu entriegeln? Das war heute morgen die erste Frage eines Kollegen.

Doppelklick heißt das Zauberwort.

Ist das iPhone im Standby, reicht es mit iOS 5, 2x kurz hintereinander auf den Homebutton zu klicken. Oben wird die Musiksteuerung eingeblendet, unten neben dem Entriegeln-Schieber ist das Kamerasymbol.
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hidden feature?

]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:35:09 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0ff5fdfceaed89eb BenM.at» BenM.at - Österreichs iPhone und iPod touch Blog http://twitter.com/#!/waynestewart Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:34:51 +0200 DDDD, Datenbank, SQL, 4Dtoday 6AA368B8-B8C5-4059-B1CE-6E0298A5B70B http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/awesome-tutorials-to-master-responsive-web-design In a few month, responsive web design has become a very important part of designing and developping a website. Due to the rise of mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones and other smart phones, your website must be easy to read and use in multiple resolution. In this post, I have compiled those awesome tutorials that will help you to master responsive web design.
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]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:38:33 +0200 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash 5AA242D2-6CF0-4A3F-8C2C-346F957B9361 http://saschalobo.com/2011/10/09/bundestrojaner-fuer-mac/

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Besonders stolz sind die zuständigen Behörden auf den nutzerzentrierten Ansatz der Anwendung: “Anders, als man es sonst von staatlicher Software gewohnt ist, haben wir beim Bundestrojaner für den Mac Usability groß geschrieben. Die Nutzer müssen buchstäblich gar nichts tun, um die App zu nutzen.” Die für PC-Nutzer längst selbstverständliche, automatische Ferninstallation im Hintergrund und ohne lästige Rückfragen sei nun auch für die bedeutende und immer größer werdende Zielgruppe der Apple-User verfügbar.
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]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:32:49 +0200 Ernst gemeint F7610454-FE64-4B2D-B202-906E09A40026 http://www.edibleapple.com/2011/10/06/did-apple-quietly-pay-tribute-to-steve-jobs-during-tuesdays-iphone-event/ darüber habe ich mich auch gewundert … ab dem zweiten Mal

]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:44:10 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore B60BAD88-8A1A-463F-9214-B06B04272FD4 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~3/4djvVQrFrmQ/3021-steve-jobs-changed

He changed computers.
He changed software.He changed design.
He changed publishing.
He changed film.
He changed music.
He changed advertising.
He changed retail.
He changed business.

He changed beige.

He changed expectations.
He changed our minds.

He changed you.

“Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

Now what are you going to change?
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]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:10:56 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/314a07515484c8f7 Signal vs. Noise http://dddd.mettre.de/forum_translate.shtml Hier 4D Serverでコンポーネントエラー geht es um ein wichtiges Thema: Fehler mit 4D Server-components!

Ach, Sie können kein japanisch? Pech gehabt! Ich auch nicht, zumindest nicht fließend ;-)

Ich könnte translate.google.com besuchen und mir die Seite übersetzen lassen. Oder den wichtigen Teil kopieren und nur diesen übersetzen lassen. Bin ich viel zu faul für. Die Safari Translate Extension nimmt mir die Arbeit ab.

]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:55:41 +0200 DDDD-Themen 2C794161-498C-4E3C-B085-C2CF3AE9E80D http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2011/10/04/das-erste-handy-der-welt-1922/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILiLaRXHUr0

Dieser Clip aus dem Jahre 1922 zeigt ein Mobiltelephon, das einen Regenschirm als Antenne nutzt und mit einem Hydranten geerdet werden muß. Er ist, wie ich finde, ein wunderschönes Stück Technikgeschichte. [Peter van I. per Email.]

]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:20:36 +0200 Hardware tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/304e949db83dc386 Der Schockwellenreiter http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/the-glory-of-sweep-panorama/?ref=personaltechemail&nl=technology&emc=cta1

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I don’t think Sweep Panorama gets nearly enough press. I don’t think the Sony engineers who perfected it get nearly enough press. Nikon’s motion snapshots may not be an essential new addition to the world of photography, but easy panoramas definitely are. Those are some Sweet Panoramas indeed.

wie meistens: auf den Punkt

]]> Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:13:00 +0200 Foto 93A5E510-4C78-475B-99EA-D8FB4E8BC427 http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/apple/~3/LqZLuMdB3iY/thunderbolt-display-packs-almost-enough-hardware-to-be-an-imac.ars

The gadget fixer-uppers at iFixit took delivery of a Thunderbolt Display—supplies are so constrained that Apple's flagship Chicago location doesn't even have one on display yet—and promptly took it apart in the name of science. What they found inside is basically a 27" iMac sans Intel processor and internal storage.
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ein iMac ohne Intel Prozessor!

]]> chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman) Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:13:35 +0200 Hardware tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/92ff75417e3fcba9 Infinite Loop http://comunicadores.info/2011/09/28/saxsofunny-toda-imagem-tem-um-som/

Essa campanha é antiga, mas é muito criativa. Para promover a produtora de som Saxsofunny, a DM9DDB criou três cartazes com materiais diferenciados que de certa forma tentam reproduzir o som das imagens impresas neles, como trovão, fogueira e máquina de escrever.

Confira o vídeo que mostra eles ‘em funcionamento’:

O conceito “Toda imagem tem um som” completa as peças. Gênio!

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ja, hören und sehen

]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:15:56 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/74a68190ab2045ff Comunicadores | Onde as novidades comunicativas se encontram! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/52Tiger/~3/n4JseiliZKM/

Mac OS X Lion features automatic spell correction out of the box. The way it works is similar to autocorrect in iOS. As you type, Lion notices a misspelled word and offers a correction. To accept it, just keep typing. It sounds great, but in my experience it causes more errors that it fixes. Often times I’m several words ahead of the “correction,” and don’t see it land.

It’s a hassle, and I’ve turned it off. Here’s how.

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click Language and Text
3. Click the Text tab
4. De-select Correct spelling automatically

Now your mistakes will be your own, and not your Mac’s.

Überdenkenswert

]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:55:50 +0200 Lion tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a24324397d75b8d6 52 Tiger http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=497d17f482fd82c315b87c10855b709f

When you want to read your documents on the go, it's awfully convenient to do so in the iOS iBooks app. To get a document onto your iPhone or iPad, save it as a PDF file, drag that file to your iTunes library, and then sync it with your iOS device. Unfortunately, when you do this, you can lose something in the translation, including live links and audio and video files. If you’d like to save a more interactive version of your files and web pages to iBooks, there’s an alternative. Create an ePub version of your document.
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]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:40:20 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen Publishing, eBooks C2E766A7-6BD3-439B-A46E-128E40A4DA82 http://www.asymco.com/2011/09/28/visualizing-the-steve-jobs-era/

On October 4^th, Tim Cook will take the stage at Apple’s fall event. With Steve Jobs’ transition to head the Board of Directors of Apple and after serving as CEO for fourteen years, it is time to take a look at his reign.

Looking at his performance vs. peer companies from a capital market performance, I have composed the following two charts:

Market capitalization of selected peer companies by calendar quarter in USD million sorted by most recent market capitalization (1997-2011)

Market capitalization as share of combined market capitalization by calendar quarter sorted by most recent market capitalization (1997-2011)

You will note that I included more companies than in previous analysis. The new additions are:

• Compaq (acquired by HP in 2002)
• Palm (acquired by HP in 2010)
• Amazon (a popular request by readers)

I divided this era into three distinct periods:

Restructuring of Apple 1997-2000

In the beginning of 1997, Apple’s market capitalization was lower than almost all of its peers. In absolute terms the market capitalization moved only slightly upwards towards 1999 and the dent in 2000 is significantly lower compared to the market capitalization increase of other companies, first and foremost Microsoft’s. Especially in the early part of this period restructuring and streamlining efforts took precedence. The introduction of iMac in 1998 and the iBook in 1999 set the tone in terms of design, quality and “thinking different” for many years to come.

iTunes era 2001-2006

With a stable core business and healthy profitability, Apple introduced the first iPod in October 2001 complementing the earlier introduced iTunes music player. Two years later, Apple introduced the iTunes Store offering downloadable music for the Mac and Windows operating systems. The venturing into the music and portable music player business and the halo effect for the Mac business is reflected in the market capitalization increasing significantly during the following years surpassing HP and Nokia.

Mobile iOS devices 2007-2011

Market capitalization further increased with the entry into the smart-phone market in 2007. Note that market capitalization of all selected companies combined at that time was as high as in the dot.com era of 2000. But this time Apple accounted for more than 10% of it. From 2008 to 2009 market capitalization of all companies declined severely due to the financial crisis. Rapid recovery followed during 2009 and early 2010. Apple introduced the iPad in March 2010 further fueling its rise to the top, surpassing Microsoft’s capitalization and topping Exxon Mobil as the world’s most valuable listed company.

During the time of Steve Jobs as CEO, Apple’s market capitalization increased on average by 42% every year–an unprecedented track record. According to his own admission, Steve Jobs became CEO when Apple was 90 days away from bankruptcy. He resigned 14 years later after leading Apple to becaming the most valuable listed company in the world. From a value creation point of view, it’s hard to think of a better performance from anyone, ever.

habe ich mit Vergnügen miterlebt!

]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:57:39 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4acb9c1dd4a537ca asymco http://dddd.mettre.de/osx_dock.shtml?from=rss Auf den MacBooks blende ich das Dock hin und wieder aus, um alle Pixel in der Vertikalen nutzen zu können. Andere bevorzugen das Dock links oder rechts am Bildschirmrand und dort ist das Dock meistenteils ausgeblendet. Will ich in meiner 4D-Anwendung die Bildschirmfläche optimal nutzen, muß ich wissen ob und wie sehr das Dock im Weg ist.

]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:47:56 +0200 DDDD-Themen 3E22CB8F-655E-4C5F-87B4-D24834B4318E http://www.zeldman.com/2011/09/26/download-in-the-dumps-aka-killing-me-softly-with-adobe/

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I’ve now lost 30 minutes of work time but Adobe is not done with me. Oh, no. This is where the fun begins.
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]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:51:56 +0200 Design wie es nicht sein soll tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e0d79db0a2205893 Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report http://thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29

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THE GDP of Denmark

Denmark has a powerhouse economy for such a small workforce (2.9 million workers).

At $337 billion, Denmark ranks as the 32nd largest economy in the world (by GDP) and 5th in GDP per capita.

But Apple is bigger!
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Schöne Vergleiche

]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:49:40 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen FE607855-FFFB-492B-892A-8E6C7E174393 http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/20/itwin-allows-you-to-share-files-with-pcs-securely-over-the-web/

iTwin has added official public Mac compatibility to its innovative file sharing USB stick that allows users to transfer or share files across Macs or PCs no matter where they are in the world. After selecting which files to share users can simply plug one half of an iTwin into a Mac and the other into a PC. As long as both computers are connected to the Internet, users can access the files from anywhere in the world, no matter if the PC is in China and the Mac is in Mexico.

Think of the iTwin as you own personal cloud storage solution, without actually storing anything on remote servers. All files remain on the local machines. The files are shared securely over a AES-256 encrypted connection and there is no limit to the amount of files you can share. You can share your entire 4 TB hard drive if you want. And since no files are stored on the iTwin itself, the moment you unplug it from a host computer all your files are only available on the local machines themselves. Best of all, there is only a single upfront cost for the iTwin. There are no subscription fees or paying for additional storage.

The iTwin, now with Snow Leopard and Lion compatibility is available now for US$99.
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ja, die eigene Cloud gehört mir!

]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:23:47 +0200 Hardware tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b143e4cc29f09dc4 The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=e7dbb2c118741eab38edb03066257fbd

It's often useful to know the signal strength of a Bluetooth connection. For instance, my Magic Trackpad becomes much more responsive when it's on the left-hand side of my MacBook Pro, rather than the right. It took me some time to figure this out, and it would have been a lot easier if I could have easily measured the signal strength myself. Until now OS X hasn't given any easy way to show the signal strength.

But 10.7 adds an easy display of the signal strength! Go into System Preferences » Bluetooth. The window show a list of all your connected Bluetooth devices, one per line. Click on a device and then press the Option key, and a bar graph and number will appear on the right showing the current strength. These are displayed and recalculated as long as you hold down the Option key. Like Wi-Fi signal strengths, the number is a negative integer, and numbers closer to zero are better. For instance, -50 indicates a strong connection, while -80 is very weak. …

works, nice

]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:46:07 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/612300aec8caaef5 Mac OS X Hints http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Swissmiss/~3/hiDpl_P7kwc/yes-no.html

I am a big fan of all things Markus Raetz. The fact that he now made a Typographic Illusion Scultpure makes me swoon.

Schön

]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:44:36 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/489493d5a7185afa swissmiss http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=5f7ae4b5e723c77659353c0ad48f3e3c

When Apple added the Reading List feature to Safari I wasn't too impressed as I didn't use any of the applications such as Instapaper before and I still don't. Then I realized their was another use for Reading Lists.

Instead of just using Reading Lists to save, lets say a news article you were reading and couldn't finish, you can use Reading Lists as a way to temporarily bookmark a page without making a true bookmark. Since the Reading List feature just saves the link to the page it can be very useful.

An example is doing research and instead of making bookmarks and folders and what not holding the links to the research and then later having to delete it from your bookmarks just add the links to the Reading List. Since the links will remain in the reading list until you clear it out they won't be added to your bookmarks and when you're finish using them just clicking the 'x' on each one or clicking clear all will remove them, make it easier to manage links to page …

Gute Idee!

]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:13:01 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f15884a6b4dbe77b Mac OS X Hints http://www.asymco.com/2011/09/18/os-turning-circles-questioning-windows-maneuverability/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Asymco+%28asymco%29

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Windows proper actually did not start with what was called “Windows 1.0″. Windows actually started in April 1992 when Windows 3.1 was released. It was the first Windows which was an operating environment onto itself, apart from DOS. It was followed by Windows 95 (which we can call “2″), Windows 98 (“3″), Windows 2000 (“4″), Windows XP (“5″), Windows Vista (“6″), Windows 7 and now Windows 8.

Given this nomenclature and the dates of general availability of said versions, we can derive a measure of the frequency of upgrades. For example Windows “2″ followed about 41 months after “1″ and “3″ took 34 months after “2″. If we continue this for all the versions, and assume “8″ will launch by October next year, we can plot the cycle times of new Windows versions.
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]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:10:27 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen 249AA767-CC7F-4B8E-87A5-E787A36E332C http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/16/apple-thunderbolt-display-with-multiple-monitors/

With the new 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display now shipping to customers, Apple has posted a new support document outlining what can and can not be accomplished with multiple monitors on Thunderbolt-enabled Mac systems.

As far as compatibility, Apple notes that all Thunderbolt-enabled systems with the exception of the MacBook Air can handle two Thunderbolt displays, with a caveat for the 13-inch MacBook Pro being that the computer's internal display will not function if two Thunderbolt displays are connected. The high-end $799 Mac mini with discrete AMD graphics is also capable of running a third display via HDMI.

- MacBook Air (Mid 2011): One Thunderbolt display.

- MacBook Pro (Early 2011): Two Thunderbolt displays. Connecting a second Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) to a 13-inch MacBook Pro will make the screen on the MacBook Pro turn black. This is expected behavior.

- iMac (Mid 2011 and Late 2011): Two Thunderbolt displays. iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) with two Thunderbolt ports supports a total of two Thunderbolt displays regardless of which Thunderbolt port each display is connected to.

- Mac mini (Mid 2011): Two Thunderbolt displays. Mac mini with AMD graphics can support a HDMI compatible device on its HDMI port when using two Thunderbolt displays.

One other note of interest that will be a disappointment for some users is the disclosure that users will not be able to daisy chain a Mini DisplayPort display off an Apple Thunderbolt Display.

Mini DisplayPort displays will not light up if connected to the Thunderbolt port on an Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch).

The revelation is a bit of a surprise, as Mini DisplayPort displays can currently be daisy chained off other Thunderbolt peripherals. Some users had been hoping to reuse their existing Mini DisplayPort displays as part of multiple-monitor setups using the new Thunderbolt display, but will apparently be unable to do so.

Finally, Apple recommends that users daisy chaining the Apple Thunderbolt Display with Thunderbolt storage devices connect the display directly to the computer's Thunderbolt port, with other peripherals daisy chaining off of the display.
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Wieviele Displays an welchem Rechner?
2 mindestens!

]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:49:34 +0200 Hardware tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/aa5f394e66aa0b88 MacRumors http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=8a50b0e20415a673cbb114399c336b40

Ever wonder what's using your internet connection? If you have LittleSnitch you're already there with a nice GUI, but if you're logged on to the system remotely or prefer CLI commands check out 'nettop' in OS X Lion. I noticed this when I was looking for any new network utilities in Lion. This command wasn't there in Snow Leopard or before.

I usually compile and install mtr, ntop, trafshow and other networking tools, but it's not always the safest thing to compile and install executables as root downloaded from the Internet.

Open a Terminal window, and then type nettop.You can also type:

man nettop or nettop --help for more command options.
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]]> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:12:31 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/107cfc12dc0f5e6e Mac OS X Hints http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=daf930a83561c0a9fd80eecaf78d8389

iCal's Debug menu in Lion has a 'Top Sekret' (sic) menu item which allows you to increase the number of days in the Week view up to 28.

You have to turn on the Debug menu in iCal first. This was detailed previously on MacOSXHints for 10.5 and is done with the following Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1

Or you can use Secrets from Blacktree, a System Preferences pane where it's simply a checkbox.

The Debug menu in iCal now features a 'Top Sekret' menu item. And you can alter the number of days in the week view between 7, 14, 21 and 28. You'll likely need a widescreen monitor or two for that.

[crarko adds: This is definitely new in 10.7. To turn the Debug menu off repeat the above command, using 0 instead of 1.]
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sehr schön

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:12:35 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d2839a3e856e4d31 Mac OS X Hints http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/52Tiger/~3/a2s1vlQ-JL4/

You can force Mac OS X’s Quick Look to present a full-screen preview with the Option key. Here’s how. With a Finder window open, hold down the Option key and the Quick Look icon in the menu bar will turn what looks like a “play” button, with a right-facing triangle inside a square. With your file selected, Option-click the icon for a full-screen preview via Quick Look.

If clicking Finder window buttons isn’t your style, just select your file and hold down the Option key will you press the Space Bar. Again, Quick Look will offer a full-screen preview.

I just discovered this behavior this morning and thought I’d share. I tested on both Snow Leopard and Lion, and it worked on each.

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:01:00 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/702d84c5d3fd4ec6 52 Tiger http://dsc.discovery.com/gear-gadgets/boost-your-wifi-signal-using-only-a-beer-can.html ]]> Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:55:06 +0200 Hardware 26E80863-88AF-4D7F-86A3-58A3AB60219A http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=487ec631e828e873c396c41cbdd2b384

In Lion you can customize which preference panels are shown in System Preferences.

Open System Preferences. Click and hold on the 'Show All' button and a list of preferences appears. At the bottom of the list, there is a 'Customize…' item that allows you to hide System Preferences using check boxes. This didn't exist in Snow Leopard.

[crarko adds: Yup, it's there. It's easy to turn visibility off and on, but curiously, it doesn't look like you need to authenticate to make those changes.]
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]]> Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:45:24 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b2bcad4d70e99683 Mac OS X Hints http://dddd.mettre.de/clear_content.shtml?source=rss

do you clear local variables after you're done with them?
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Silly? Paranoid? No harm? Great idea?

]]> Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:00:40 +0200 DDDD-Themen 59C63625-1820-4CC0-B43A-A5988456D55F http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Asymco/~3/8wn4B7Dz7DA/

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We can conclude that Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO, as sad as it may be, has reduced unsystematic risk from the stock and therefore “boosted” the share price performance.

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:04:31 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a1ff849b5c772c6 asymco http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/the-fall-of-canon-and-nikon-the-raise-of-sony-bloomberg/

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Ryosuke Katsura (Mizuho Securities Equity Research analyst) wrote last year that the mirrorless technology: “may be the biggest “paradigm shift” in the SLR industry in six decades”
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Nikon’s mirrorless system will not be a serious NEX competitor (it uses a to small 2,7x crop sensor).
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Canon und Nikon waren zu satt!

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:10:22 +0200 Foto Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3cf6dffe1f57a531 sonyalpharumors http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalPhotographySchool/~3/Drv5RFGIMc4/10-things-i-learnt-from-daily-shooting

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4. The Less Gear you Carry the More Photos you take
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yep

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:55:46 +0200 Foto tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7bda4f80abe41a78 Digital Photography School http://www.iphone-ticker.de/miele-infocontrol-plus-iphone-app-24679/

Ein kleiner IFA-Nachtrag noch, dann haben wir fast alle der sehenswerte Messe-Neuheiten für iPhone und iPad im Kasten. Der Hausgeräte-Hersteller Meile hat uns seine im April angekündigte iPhone-Applikation “InfoControl Plus” (AppStore-Link) im Video präsentiert und den direktzugriff auf Dunstabzugshaube, Kühlschrank und Herd demonstriert.
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ein Anfang!

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:20:30 +0200 Leben, Internet, … 5CDFCD72-509B-46D0-9D1F-09913D1BB7E8 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/finermac/~3/a_iERqWlrI0/9952566364

Previously, the Command-Tab switcher would keep keep rotating the selection if you kept the keys held down on the keyboard, continuously wrapping it to the left edge after hitting the right. In Lion, the selection stop when it reaches the rightmost icon, waiting for you to lift your finger from the Tab key and pressing it again before wrapping to the left and continuing.
This has been done to bring the switcher more in compliance with Fitt’s law and make it easier to reach the last item in the switcher without having to be careful about it.
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]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:02:00 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0e8f11ee48451dcb Finer Things in Mac http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/XV1Si8_czW4/getting-serious-about-your-org-chart.html

Manu's funny brilliance aside, this collection of org charts might help you think hard about why your organization is structured the way it is.

Is it because it was built when geography mattered more than it does now? Is it an artificact of a business that had a factory at its center? Does the org chart you live with every day leverage your best people or does it get in their way?

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]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:47:51 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/cf79a1fcbcf04d60 Seths Blog http://dddd.mettre.de/buttons2011.shtml?source=rss Mal wieder zu Buttons. Nie hat man genug davon und ständig neue Moden.

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:40:16 +0200 DDDD-Themen 6296790A-8AE0-4AE1-8EE8-847A334AE05E http://www.asymco.com/2011/09/07/why-carol-bartz-was-fired/ … we need to be careful in recognizing that the customer is the advertiser, not the user. Like in all advertising business models, the user is the product. …]]> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:23:06 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/86fa0792f1610027 asymco http://feeds.benm.at/~r/benm/~3/Mg_ZtZjE0uk/

Unser Fundstück des Tages befasst sich mit dem Leben des Steve Jobs. Folgende, wirklich liebevoll gestaltete Infografik von Column Five Media gibt dessen wichtigste Stationen und Innovationen innerhalb des Apple-Konzerns wieder. Angefangen bei der Firmengründung im Jahr 1976 und dem allerersten Apple-Rechner bis hin zu den heutigen Produkten wie iPhone, iPad & iCloud, wird hier Geschichte anhand von witzigen Zeichnungen und einigen interessanten Details erzählt. Sehet her und staunet… – die komplette Infografik gibt's per Klick auf das obere Bild!
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]]> Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:53:23 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3e7818c6c66a5b52 BenM.at» BenM.at - Österreichs iPhone und iPod touch Blog http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=d585a41344e0014d3c5381d0e84eba84

Did you know that Lion includes a small utility for monitoring several aspects of your network's Wi-Fi traffic?
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]]> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:56:14 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/95ced11b503482a9 MacCentral http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/

The book "Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes" by Jason Brownlee PhD describes 45 algorithms from the field of Artificial Intelligence. All algorithm descriptions are complete and consistent to ensure that they are accessible, usable and understandable by a wide audience.
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]]> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:23:22 +0200 Programmieren, Philosophieren E0216B95-B05A-4148-AA93-B7E666CCF8DF http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/52Tiger/~3/ojO8CLIfe3o/

I could not look at that cluttered mass of icons and letters all day long.
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yep

]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:02:16 +0200 Design wie es nicht sein soll tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/ca7248415b8ecf11 52 Tiger http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Magic-Trackpad-als-Ziffernblock-1333985.html ]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:01:07 +0200 Hardware 238F56D0-C509-4599-B4D5-7ED70D8F4449 http://praegnanz.de/weblog/bei-aller-cleanness

… eines der nervigeren UI-Probleme des Internet Explorer 9 ist die Tatsache, dass die Adresszeile genauso aussieht wie die Tabs. Und dass sowohl erstes als auch letzteres nicht so aussehen, als ob man da was reinschreiben könnte.

Manchmal hilft so ein Innenschatten oder ein Verlauf ganz beträchtlich, um den Nutzer zu leiten.



Links: Adresszeile, rechts: Tab. Zu ähnlich für zwei Dinge, die komplett unterschiedliche Funktion haben!

]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:06:57 +0200 Design wie es nicht sein soll tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5da6ab4c408aefe9 praegnanz.de http://dddd.mettre.de/PoM.shtml?from=rss
Ich brauche eigene Präferenzen für meine Anwendung. Solche die nicht in der Struktur (Entwickler-Einstellungen) oder in den Daten (Anwender-Einstellungen) aufgehoben werden sondern auf dem Rechner meines Kunden liegen. Also eine Datei mit einem Namen nach dem Schema de.mettre.prefs.dddd im Preferences-Ordner ~/Library/Preferences auf dem Rechner des Kunden.

]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:03:04 +0200 DDDD-Themen DB146A3B-1396-41FD-8C71-FED06B6D4CC2 http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/frightening-hurricane-irene-destruction-photos Irene war kein Non-Event!
Hier einige Bilder

]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:16:16 +0200 Natur, Umwelt 0EA6B9D9-C0B1-42C5-B558-5B4EB77ED7D9 http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/29/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-9-to-bring-icloud-support/

Apple appears to be preparing a 10.6.9 update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard in order to provide compatibility with the company's upcoming iCloud service. The following notice appeared in one developer's .Mac preference pane in Tiger after he had upgraded his MobileMe account to iCloud.

According to the notice, users will have to upgrade to a minimum of an as-yet unreleased Mac OS X 10.6.9 in order to sync select content via iCloud.

You will no longer be able to sync with this machine because you've upgraded to iCloud.

iCloud requires a computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.9 or later for Contacts, Calendars, and Bookmarks.

Apple so far has only been testing iCloud for OS X Lion with developers, regularly pushing out new builds of OS X 10.7.2, iCloud software and Photo Stream-enabled iPhoto 9.2 as it moves toward a public launch of iCloud.
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]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:15:28 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/096f33fae977953c MacRumors http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html

Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. Here's how you do it:

Fire well-performing CEO Mark Hurd over expense-report irregularities and a juicy sexual-harassment claim that you admit has no merit. Fire four board members, as publicly as possible. Foment a mass exodus of key executives who actually know how to run the giant computer company.

Hire new a CEO from German competitor, SAP, which sells business software, not consumer products. Tell the new CEO, Leo Apotheker, that Mr. Hurd "left H-P in great shape."

Draw public criticism from a major corporate-governance advisory firm, alleging Mr. Apotheker filled board openings with cronies.

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Könnte!

]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:49:25 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen 3CCE1BB6-297B-4E05-BE5B-9C12EC3F0DD3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/TW-jYjPHWjU/a-little-empty.html

I guess this is how a sports fan felt when Joe DiMaggio retired.

Business didn't used to be personal. Now it is.

Computers didn't used to make us smile. Now they do.

We didn't used to care about whether a CEO made one decision or another, or whether or not he was healthy. I do now.

Sure, there was baseball after joltin Joe stopped playing. But it was never quite the same.

Thank you, Steve, for giving us all something to talk about and a way to talk about it with beauty (and fonts). We owe you more than we can say.

adäquat

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:33:51 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d16ad4b47be8e01d Seths Blog http://www.macworld.com/article/161931/2011/08/steve_jobss_fierce_life_and_legacy.html#lsrc.rss_main

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That’s the public face of Jobs’s accomplishments. The story of Jobs goes deeper, with some major low points along the way. His amazingly strong personality also shaped the personality of Apple, for both good and ill. It saw the Mac community through very dark times, and has roused a broader community in Apple’s last decade of near-constant glory.
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Es war klar: dieses Jahr ist es vorbei.
Galen Gruman hatte diesen Artikel schon länger in der Schublade.

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:57:41 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore 3278A968-5557-4386-AB5D-EF0E9B9E5EDF http://sachin.posterous.com/webos-is-better-than-android

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If Apple is the new Microsoft (but with a better product!), WebOS is the new Mac. And Android is Linux. It's the hacker's OS. It's for people who want to tinker, people who enjoy installing plugins and patches. It's for users who recompile their kernel for fun.
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Ist das nicht herrlich auf den Punkt gebracht?

]]> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:44:46 +0200 Design, User-Interface tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/013c9f21fdd05429 Sachin's Posterous http://comunicadores.info/2011/08/23/comercial-mostra-vantagens-de-contratar-pessoas-cegas/

Bem humorado esse comercial criada pela agência Try para a The Norwegian Associaton of the Blind, instituição que luta pelo direito dos deficientes visuais. O vídeo mostra uma das vantagens em se contratar pessoas cegas para a sua empresa.

A campanha ainda conta com mais dois filmes que seguem esse tema:

O que acharam da abordagem?

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Launching a new Web app today comes with a few certainties, and one of them is, “I will be a target for hackers” for sure. So when an app as large and as high profile as Google+ launches, it will surely be one of the top targets for malicious activity. This happened to Facebook the more popular it grew and it still is a favorite platform for malicious activity. I did some analysis of the HTTP traffic between Google+ and the browser and found that Google is off to a good start in regards to browser security. Below are several take-aways:

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What You Shouldn’t Sync

The three biggest apps for which we’ve seen reports about problems are:

• iTunes (the iTunes Music Library.xml file);
• iPhoto (its libraries);
• and Quicken (its data files).

No matter which apps you’re synchronizing via Dropbox, you should be careful to close those files as soon as you’re done with your immediate editing session. That way you won’t inadvertently leave a file open in one place and create file conflicts when you try to open it from another.

F. A. Maulpertsch: Quacksalber auf dem Markt (vor 1785)

Die französische Homöopathiefirma Boiron verdient ihr Geld durch den Verkauf von obskuren Placebos. Das hören die Manager dort aber nicht gerne. Deswegen drohen sie einem italienischen Blogger, der sich über ihre Quacksalberei lustig gemacht hat, mit einer Klage. Für die weiteren Details zitiere auch ich einfach einmal EsoWatch in (fast) voller Länge (da sie so nett darum gebeten haben):
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Über die neuzeitliche Quacksalberei.
Zur Kaffeesatz-Leser braucht Ihr nur die Wirtschaftsweisen zu lesen oder die Börsen-Analysten …

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On a personal note, Larry: fuck you.

Initializr

Starting anew HTML5-based website? Just visit Initializr to get started. Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate with just what you need to start.
→ visit Initializr

HTML5demos

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Es gibt zwei verschiedene Anzeichen dafür, dass es einer Firma schlecht geht. Entweder man hört so gar nichts neues mehr, oder es wird pausenlos über neue Dinge berichtet, die in der Mache sind.

Letzteres trifft zweifelsohne auf Adobe zu. Seit einiger Zeit – lassen wir es zwei Jahre sein – sucht der Konzern sein Heil im hektischen Aktionismus. Dieser ist dadurch geprägt, dass man seine Produktpalette in alle Himmelsrichtungen des webbasierten Publizierend erweitert, dabei jedoch keinerlei verlässliche Aussage trifft, außer: »Wir machen alles mit, wir sind immer dabei. Bitte lasst uns mitspielen, denn wir haben Angst, das nächste große Paradigma zu verpassen!« So sieht kein souveräner Konzern aus.
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ISO has published the country codes for South Sudan. As expected in our blog posting it is SS. The letter codes for Sudan remain the same, whereas the numeric code for Sudan was changed from 736 to 729.

	ISO Alpha-2	ISO Alpha-3	ISO Numeric	US BGN*
Sudan	SD	SDN	729	SU
South Sudan	SS	SSD	728	OD

* US BGN=Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4
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Revolights are a set of thin profile LED rings that you can attach to your bicycle rim to simulate a flashing LED light display so people can see you better on the road when you’re out at night.

They are currently on Kickstarter trying to raise money to go into production. Definitely worth supporting, if you ask me.

revolights. join the revolution. from revolights on Vimeo.

(via doodybrain)

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If the text reads GUID Partition Table, you’re good to go. If it instead reads Master Boot Record or Apple Partition Map, you need to reformat the drive using the GUID partition map. Follow Steps 1 through 4 in this slideshow to do so. (Confusingly, if you don’t reformat the drive, Lion Recovery Disk Assistant won’t complain—it will proceed to create the Recovery HD volume, and it will even tell you it was successful. However, your Mac won’t actually be able to boot from the drive.)

If you’re using a drive that's significantly larger than 1GB, you may also want to partition the drive into at least two partitions: a 1GB volume for Recovery HD and one or more other partitions for general use. If you don’t take this step, the entire drive will be used for Recovery HD, which means a lot of wasted space on larger drives.
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Magnum: Advice for Young Photographers:
6 of Magnum’s biggest professional photographers chimed in to share some valuable advice for photographer like you and I who have a passion for the craft and daydream about one day turning it into a career. My favorite pointers comes from Chris Steele-Perkins.

1. Never think photography is easy. It’s like poetry in that it’s easy enough to make a few rhymes, but that’s not a good poem.
2. Study photography, see what people have achieved, but learn from it – don’t try photographically to be one of those people.
3. Photograph things you really care about, things that really interest you, not things you feel you ought to do.
4. Photograph them in the way you feel is right, not they way you think you ought to.
5. Be open to criticism – it can be really helpful – but stick to your core values
6. Study and theory is useful, but you learn most by doing. Take photographs – lots of them – be depressed by them, take more, hone your skills and get out there in the world and interact.

Mehr eine Lebensweisheit, denn eine für Fotografen.
FF!

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CSS will allow us to do anything no matter how stupid. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.
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The new Airport Extreme and Time Capsule released by Apple in June didn't have an advertised upgrade, outside of a capacity bump on the Time Capsule. However, Brian Klug at AnandTech has written an extraordinarily detailed review of the new devices and found they are notably improved from the prior generation.

Klug notes that the new devices are virtually indistinguishable from their older counterparts, but in detailed testing, they found increased throughput and range.

At the end of the day, the new Airport Extreme dramatically improves throughput in the best case and in a few regions where signal was previously unusable. In the worst case (location 4), performance improves from being essentially unusable to totally fine, and in the case of the 2010MBP goes from not being able to connect at all to pushing 23 Mbps.

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]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:46:44 +0200 Hardware tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/782789617049f3fe MacRumors http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/04/touchpad-399-99-weekend/

Makes me think sales aren’t so hot.

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ja, die Diskrepanz zw. hergestellt und verkauft.

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:11:00 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/eb346abba9d56815 Daring Fireball http://mjtsai.com/blog/2011/08/05/unql/

SQLite creator D. Richard Hipp (via Reddit):

There are several document-oriented databases available today and they are growing in popularity. But all existing document-oriented databases have their own proprietary and incompatible query methods, meaning that it is hard to move an application from one database engine to another. And the query methods that are available tend to be very low-level, meaning that a lot of the query logic that used to be handled automatically by the database engine must now be manually coded into the application by the programmer.

UnQL aims to remedy this situation by providing a common database query language that can be used to access document-oriented databases from multiple vendors. This helps developers write portable applications and avoid database-vendor lock-in. UnQL also strives to provide a very powerful and rich query language that transfers much of the complex algorithm-picking logic back to the database engine, saving lots of code in the application, and lots of developer time and frustration.

CouchDB’s Damien Katz is also involved in UnQL, and Hipp is working on UnQLite. This looks promising.

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:04:39 +0200 DDDD, Datenbank, SQL, 4Dtoday tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/72518b8e7a0f3cd8 Michael Tsai's Weblog http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/subtraction/~3/k1yIPoWKdHs/ghostery

Ghostery is a plug-in available for all major browsers that “gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, Web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.” It allows you to block or allow the many legitimate and not-so-legitimate tracking scripts, img tags and iframes embedded into Web pages of all sorts that are quietly collecting information about your browsing habits, interests and demographic information. I’ve used Ghostery in the past but was pleasantly surprised to see recently that it’s been polished up significantly and made much more user-friendly. It also has a great name. Download it here.
To follow me on Twitter click here.

Benutze ich schon länger, ist gut!

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:56:37 +0200 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a2e5ee8912a93b95 Subtraction http://radiapp.com/ Radi is a Mac app that can produce pretty much any kind of visual content for the web. Images, animations, vector graphics, video clips, realtime visual effects, JavaScript programming...
With Radi, getting your visual ideas on the web is easier than ever. Radi creates web pages that comply to modern standards and can be easily embedded in any kind of site.
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]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:32:44 +0200 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash E0866E67-34F2-4827-8452-41B798CB93E2 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4547/mac-os-x-lion-server-review/1

Mac OS X Server costs 5% of what it cost just three years ago. Whatever your needs and whatever the software’s shortcomings, this is hard to ignore. Leopard Server cost $999 for an unlimited-client license, Snow Leopard Server cost $499, and Lion Server costs $50.
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For that reason, among the descriptions of Lion Server’s features and comparisons with past versions of the software, I’m going to be going a little more in-depth about how to actually configure the services. Hopefully the newbies among you can use these instructions as jumping-off points as you explore the software on your own.
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]]> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:56:47 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore B8E6676B-9F0E-447B-9F86-1FD203725667 http://www.135f2.com/2011/07/268-miles/

… But, unlike years past, where I’d never pull the camera out, I’m now taking reference shots in places I think would be good candidates at times of striking light and weather, and geotagging the images …, which marries the GPS data from my trip to the shots taken along the way. And when I go through my photos at the end of the day, I tag those images taken in interesting places that I’d like to go back to with a ‘revisit’ tag.
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yep, oder mit dem iPhone: dann habe ich Ort und Richtung!

]]> Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:06:51 +0200 Foto 653CB53F-807B-4AA5-9E4A-C32F351CAD49 http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/01/adobe-introduces-edge-1-0-the-html-5-tool-with-an-eye-towards-o/

Adobe's new HTML 5 authoring tool, Edge 1.0, is now available for download. Edge aims to be a "web motion and interaction design tool that allows web designers to bring animation, similar to that created in Flash Professional, to websites using standards likes HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
"While we give Adobe flack for Flash Player's Mac woes, the truth is that the Flash platform successfully brought a higher level of animation and interaction to the web long before HTML 5 was in the picture. When Apple unequivocally said Flash would not be supported on iOS, I knew Adobe (despite some infamous bluster) wouldn't sit idly by and let HTML 5 be a cash cow for other developers.
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Konkurrenz zu Hype?

]]> Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:57:45 +0200 Web, HTML, CSS, RSS, SVG, JavaScript, No Flash http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/01/adobe-introduces-edge-1-0-the-html-5-tool-with-an-eye-towards-o/#comments http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/01/adobe-introduces-edge-1-0-the-html-5-tool-with-an-eye-towards-o/ The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/optimizing_exposure.shtml

Black Cats and White Cats

Let's imagine two cats. A black one and a white one. The black cat is sitting on a pile of coal and the white cat is sitting in a snow bank. You point your camera at the black cat on the pile of coal and take a picture. Now you point your camera at the white cat sitting on the snow bank and take a shot.
What do these look like? Unless you have compensated the exposure they will both look pretty much the same. The black cat and coal will look grey, and the white cat and snow will also look grey.
Why? Because, of course, light meters integrate the light that they see to produce an exposure centered on 18% gray. Zone 5, if you are familiar with the Zone system. This is about the same tonal value as concrete.
Take a picture of a typical scene, one with light tones, dark tones and medium tones, and a light meter or even the nifty 500 segment super-meter in your DSLR will do a pretty good job. But, present it with a gray card, a concrete sidewalk, a black cat on coal or a white cat on snow and the exposures set will all be about the same in appearance.
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The story remains largely unchanged from last quarter: Three companies which captured 11% of the profits before the modern smartphone era started (four years ago!) now capture 84% of the profits. Only one global brand phone vendor selling non-smart voice-oriented feature phones is still profitable however, as we shall see later, the only reason profits still exist for any vendor is due to the strength of their smartphone portfolio.

]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:33:37 +0200 Geld, Aktien, Wirtschaft, kaufen-verkaufen tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c3e75b2a52f230a0 asymco http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/07/mapping_the_dynamic_changes_of_nuclear_radiation_over_germany.html#extended

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But what would be possible if nuclear radiation data of a lot of sensors is aggregated and visualized over time? Marian Steinbach tried such this, and created this amazing video of the measurements taken by over 1750 Geiger counters currently present in Germany.

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Ansehen!

]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:56:58 +0200 Natur, Umwelt Geographie, Karten, GIS 9A303773-EB9C-48C9-963B-9E4DB5C2A3F2 http://dddd.mettre.de/methodenFarben.shtml Die schwarz/weiß-Zeiten sind vorbei, im Foto, im Fernsehen, in der Tageszeitung. Ich kann mir nicht mehr vorstellen, daß ich 4D in schwarz/weiß gescheit programmieren könnte. Das wäre fehlerträchtig.

Ich mag die vorgegebenen Farben des Methoden-Editors nicht. Sind mir zu buntig.

]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:34:53 +0200 DDDD-Themen 03F9B1B7-4B66-4BBA-9870-92602CBC2093 https://twitter.com/#!/Digeratii/status/95281310767128576

There is no step four.

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damit es einen Weg spart, hier das Menü

]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:12:17 +0200 Design, User-Interface tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/2850ef92495b5044 Daring Fireball http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mattgemmell/rss2/~3/MzMpUyRpmb4/network-link-conditioner-in-lion

If you’re a developer of either Mac or iOS apps that use networking, there’s a new feature in the Developer Tools for Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” (read my review of it at The Guardian) which will be useful to you. This brief article describes how it works.

In the Finder, take a look in the Utilities folder (Go menu, Utilities – or press Command Shift U). You should see a folder called “Network Link Conditioner”, which contains a preference pane for System Preferences.

I assume that this folder is installed by the (free) Developer Tools, because I didn’t find it on two other Lion-running Macs which didn’t have the Developer Tools installed. Double-click the prefpane file and authenticate to allow it to be installed. You’ll then see the pane in System Preferences.

You can choose from various different types of network conditions using the Profile popup menu.

You can also add profiles of your own by clicking Manage Profiles, either from scratch or via duplicating an existing profile.

Extremely handy for simulating less than optimal network conditions while testing an app. Just don’t forget to switch it off afterwards!

If you’re interested in more tips about OS X Lion, I’ve been tweeting extensively about it recently; you may want to follow me (@mattgemmell) on Twitter.

]]> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:30:16 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen Lion tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/ea56698fdb1e35d2 Matt Legend Gemmell http://mattgemmell.com/2011/07/24/find-patterns-in-text-on-lion

If you often need to search for certain patterns of text rather than exact, unchanging pieces of text, there’s a new feature in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” (read my review of it at The Guardian) which will be useful to you. This brief article describes how it works.
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Grep, the MacOS-way

]]> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:04:19 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen Lion D4A76743-15CC-4A06-9E08-7D9CB24DCF48 http://www.macminicolo.net/macmini2011 das ist doch was für den Server: klein, leise, schnell.
Der Platz der zweiten Platte ist der beste Platz für eine SSD

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:52:06 +0200 Hardware B5C239CD-6A7B-4B0C-B341-EB8D554AAFE9 http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=8e5b08278cee37c9d49e75e06a5e5b43

The default behavior of Lion is to hide your user Library folder. To get to it Option-click the Go Menu in the Finder and choose Library.

[crarko adds: OK, Apple that's kind of crazy. Holding down the Option key with the Go menu selected causes 'Library' to appear in the list. Releasing it causes it to vanish. The Library folder is the only item that has this behavior.
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]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:16:19 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1634ce76e075fb76 Mac OS X Hints http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars John Siracusa
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In this context, the name Lion starts to take on darker connotations. At the very least, it seems like the end of the big cat branding—after all, where can you go after Lion? Is this process of taking the best from iOS and bringing it back to the Mac platform just the first phase of a complete assimilation? Is Lion the end of the line for Mac OS X itself?
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Lesen!

]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:14:30 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore 610C4D13-92F0-47F5-A467-691BFC99D769 http://mac.finerthingsin.com/post/7849528212/lion-library-folder-visible

OS X Lion hides the ~/Library folder from view in an effort to prevent users from tampering with sensitive files or unwittingly tossing out their precious data. It’s easy to get to your user’s Library folder with a simple Go > Go to Folder command in Finder, then typing ~/Library. But moapp found a Terminal command that can bring your library folder back into focus:

Open the Terminal and type:

chflags nohidden /Users/[username]/Library/

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:28:32 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen A282F7D8-9F30-45DD-8057-D7CEC2D42D6A http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-ten-things-that-bug-me/

It's not that I hate OS X 10.7 Lion. It's an excellent operating system. It's just that there are a bunch of things that make me throw up my hands and say, "What were you thinking, Apple. Are you trying to make the MobileMe Operating System?" Are there no OCD slave-drivers left at Infinite Loop any more making sure that each OS feature is absolutely perfect?

So I'm going to take a few deep breaths. I'm repeating this mantra: "Lion is meant for iOS-to-Mac switchers." There's plenty to love in there, but maybe not as much for veteran Mac users to latch on to.

Now, let's get on to the complaining.
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]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:25:03 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a658e342a038a87b The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://dddd.mettre.de/dbzcalendar.shtml?from=rss Die Kalender-Komponente für MacOSX und 4D V12.

Das Design von Agenda fürs iPhone hat mich überzeugt. So muß eine Komponente den iCal-Kalender in die Datenbank integrieren

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:11:05 +0200 DDDD-Themen 58099691-7DFA-4842-8517-96D0CECCD290 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shawnblanc/~3/XQEI7b74CM8/

Lion is the finest version of Mac OS X to date. It’s the sort of operating system nerds would go stand in line for… if they could. But instead you can download it right now (assuming you haven’t already).

Over the past several months I have been using the early developer previews of Lion. For me, it is not the headline features of Lion that make it such a compelling and noteworthy release. Rather, it is the thousand little refinements that all add up to what is, in my opinion, the most attractive and usable operating system on the planet.

There are some big things in Lion that stand out as the hallmark features — such as Launchpad and Mission Control — but these are not so much features as they are usability enhancements. And to me, that is what Lion is all about: enhancements.

There are a thousand subtle changes that all add up to something fine. Scrollbars have been removed and now only subtly appear when you are actually scrolling. Buttons are now a more classy square shape. Many icons are now monochrome. For the next several months you’ll be stumbling across all sorts of things that look or act better than they did in previous versions of OS X (Dashboard excluded).
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statt selber finden, sich führen lassen.

Doch, Achtung! Kein Rosetta ergo kein 4D 2004 auf Lion.
Noch ein guter Grund auf V12 upzudaten!

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:33:15 +0200 Apple, OSX, Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppStore tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/39c1cd96130c43d2 Shawn Blanc http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2011/07/20/ukulele-und-nasenflote/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-KpTk7ysE

Will Grove-White, Mitglied des berühmten Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain spielt auf diesem Video mit Ukulele und Nasenflöte das berühmte James-Bond-Thema von John Barry und/oder Monty Norman (darüber streiten die Gerichte). Machte meinen Morgen! [Bernd P. per Email.]

Nasenflöte, nee ist das schön

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:26:35 +0200 Lesen, hören, sehen, … tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5d155b2ea8442cb1 Der Schockwellenreiter http://feeds.benm.at/~r/benm/~3/qYFu3Cc5z1Y/

Vor kurzem hatte 9to5mac im Code von iOS-5-Beta-Versionen entdeckt, dass Apple mit dem neuen Mobilstem auch die Herstellung von Panorama-Fotos mit den eingebauten Kameras in iPhone, iPad 2 und iPod Touch 3G möglich macht.

Jetzt sind weitere Hinweise darauf auchgetaucht.
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Dummchen, die Software macht den Unterschied!

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:28:13 +0200 Foto tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/de4397fcee0c9b0f BenM.at» BenM.at - Österreichs iPhone und iPod touch Blog http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110712192105228

Database Events.app (one of the scriptable background apps that appeared in Tiger) is intended to give some basic access to the sqlite3 database system. It has been generally maligned as a not-too-useful app, and in fact I am one of the people who has maligned it that way. But while playing around with it today I discovered that it is actually much more powerful than anyone seems to realize. Thus, a quick hint to clue everyone in.

First, don't set your hopes too high: DE is not a full-featured SQL processor. There are no tables, no meta-structures, not even a built-in sorting system. The database DE makes is just a simple flat list of records with fields, much like single-page spreadsheet. So for instance, you build up a dataset like follows (this creates a database and populates it with random data):
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From the 4th of July you can get your own free Address Book Server running on your network. No need for OS X Server, you don't even need a Mac to host your server. Any old Linux or Windows computer will do as well as most (10.4 onwards) PPC and Intel Macs. With Address Book Server you can synchronise your contacts, events and tasks between networked Macs as well as access the records via the server's web interface.

Each client has a synch services enabled client component installed which synchronises the records with the central server. Access to the server can be made available via the Internet by opening a port on your firewall.
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]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:42:28 +0200 Software, HowTo, Empfehlungen 05038F5B-E28C-44CF-9889-45DCB79006D8 http://dddd.mettre.de/lion2011.shtml
Der Löwe ist nicht das Übel! Wir haben alle gewußt, daß der Tag kommen wird. PowerPCs sind seit 2006 nicht mehr im Mac-Angebot. Das ist 5 Jahre her. Rosetta und damit die Emulation des PowerPC auf Intel-Macs wird für Lion nicht mehr angeboten. Die 2004 ist PowerPC-Code und braucht Rosetta, das ist das Dilemma.

Sie haben einige Möglichkeiten, um 4D 2004 weiter zu betreiben:

• Betriebssystem nicht upzudaten, dann ist mit dem Schneeleoparden Schluss
• aktuelle Macs auf Vorrat zu horten
• auf Windows wechseln führt in die gleiche Sackgasse (lesen Sie die Ankündigung von 4D bis zum Ende)

Alles Umwege die Zeit kosten.

Alles halb so schlimm!
Workshops am 29.7. und 12.8. in Wiesbaden.

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4D hat 4D v11 SQL Release 9 (11.9) zum Download für v11 Anwender zur Verfügung gestellt. Diese Version ist das „Sunset“ Release für die 4D v11 SQL Produktlinie und liefert nochmals viele wichtige Fixes und weitere Stabilitätsverbesserungen.

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It's the latest in a long line of "Are you cool enough to use me?" programming languages, APIs, and toolkits. In that sense, it lands squarely in the tradition of Rails, and Ajax, and Hadoop, and even to some degree iPhone programming and HTML5. Go to a big technical conference, and you'll almost certainly find a few talks on Node.js, although most will fly far over the head of the common mortal programmer.

Dig a little deeper, and you'll hear that Node.js (or, as it's more briefly called by many, simply "Node") is a server-side solution for JavaScript, and in particular, for receiving and responding to HTTP requests. If that doesn't completely boggle your mind, by the time the conversation heats up with discussion of ports, sockets, and threads, you'll tend to glaze over. Is this really JavaScript? In fact, why in the world would anyone want to run JavaScript outside of a browser, let alone the server?

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Mike Elgan, back in February 2009:

Google makes billions of dollars in revenue each fiscal quarter.That money comes about by the same process that all companies use:They sell a product to their customers. Their customers pay moneyfor that product.

Who’s Google’s customer? You? Really? When’s the last time youpaid Google for anything?

Advertisers are Google’s customer. What do they sell toadvertisers? They sell you. Or, at least, they rent you out, orprovide access to you.

He wrote this in the context of the then-new Google Latitude. It seems more apt than ever today.

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Lion allows resizing of windows from any side or corner.

Holding shift while doing this increases the width and height by the same amount. Holding option causes it to scale from the center of the window instead of the opposite corner or side.
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Luis von Ahn, the man who brought the world CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA unveiled his newest and most innovative project to date: Duolingo. How can you translate the entire internet and do it for free? Duolingo will be a revolutionary product in which millions of internet users from around the world will work together to translate the internet and learn a new language at the same time. All for free.
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Clayton Miller:

Microsoft’s Metro UI owns the square. Apple has a corner on theroundrect, from the Springboard launcher to the iPhone hardwareitself. Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI,found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully. Palm hasused the circle from the early days of PalmOS, and in WebOS, HPcontinues the tradition with care (one might even note that bothPalm and HP structure their wordmarks around the circle).

Great observation.

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in der Tat!
Strapaziert ist schnell.

Manu Cornet drew these Org Charts of some of the biggest tech companies. Made me smile.

I am delighted about Chris Anderson’s launch of the Email Charter. We’re drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence the charter:

10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral

1. Respect Recipients’ Time
This is the fundamental rule. As the message sender, the onus is on YOU to minimize the time your email will take to process. Even if it means taking more time at your end before sending.

2. Short or Slow is not Rude
Let’s mutually agree to cut each other some slack. Given the email load we’re all facing, it’s OK if replies take a while coming and if they don’t give detailed responses to all your questions. No one wants to come over as brusque, so please don’t take it personally. We just want our lives back!

3. Celebrate Clarity
Start with a subject line that clearly labels the topic, and maybe includes a status category [Info], [Action], [Time Sens] [Low Priority]. Use crisp, muddle-free sentences. If the email has to be longer than five sentences, make sure the first provides the basic reason for writing. Avoid strange fonts and colors.

4. Quash Open-Ended Questions
It is asking a lot to send someone an email with four long paragraphs of turgid text followed by “Thoughts?”. Even well-intended-but-open questions like “How can I help?” may not be that helpful. Email generosity requires simplifying, easy-to-answer questions. “Can I help best by a) calling b) visiting or c) staying right out of it?!”

5. Slash Surplus cc’s
cc’s are like mating bunnies. For every recipient you add, you are dramatically multiplying total response time. Not to be done lightly! When there are multiple recipients, please don’t default to ‘Reply All’. Maybe you only need to cc a couple of people on the original thread. Or none.
6. Tighten the Thread
Some emails depend for their meaning on context. Which means it’s usually right to include the thread being responded to. But it’s rare that a thread should extend to more than 3 emails. Before sending, cut what’s not relevant. Or consider making a phone call instead.

7. Attack Attachments
Don’t use graphics files as logos or signatures that appear as attachments. Time is wasted trying to see if there’s something to open. Even worse is sending text as an attachment when it could have been included in the body of the email.

8. Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR
If your email message can be expressed in half a dozen words, just put it in the subject line, followed by EOM (= End of Message). This saves the recipient having to actually open the message. Ending a note with “No need to respond” or NNTR, is a wonderful act of generosity. Many acronyms confuse as much as help, but these two are golden and deserve wide adoption.

9. Cut Contentless Responses
You don’t need to reply to every email, especially not those that are themselves clear responses. An email saying “Thanks for your note. I’m in.” does not need you to reply “Great.” That just cost someone another 30 seconds.

10. Disconnect!
If we all agreed to spend less time doing email, we’d all get less email! Consider calendaring half-days at work where you can’t go online. Or a commitment to email-free weekends. Or an ‘auto-response’ that references this charter. And don’t forget to smell the roses.

visit emailcharter.org

If memorizing our guide to CSS support is making you go cross-eyed, then meet Fractal, a web app for validating your CSS code across 24 of the most popular email clients. It's also very easy to use and understand - simply pop in your HTML email code and get Fractal to work on generating a CSS compatibility report, flagging the CSS styles are either unsupported, or partially supported therein. What's better, Fractal also backs up most flagged code with suggested fixes, plus you can also contribute your own.

Sheer simplicity aside, what we love about Fractal is how very useful it is for both beginner and old-hat HTML email coders alike. For folks making that uneasy transition from web to email, it's a great way to get accustomed to what works in most email clients and what doesn't. For the rest, it picks up subtle issues that are likely to crop up during consequent design and spam tests, such as borders not appearing in Lotus Notes and even the odd CSS typo.

Finally, Fractal relies on contributions from designers like you, so if you would like to submit your own CSS quirks, code fixes or suggestions as to how the app can be improved, get in touch with the Fractal team. A big thanks to Abs Farah for actively working on this important project - we're certain you will find it to be just as useful for validating your HTML email code as we have.

I love these videos.

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MicroJS

Need a piece of code quickly? MicroJS is a brand new site which aim to provide JavaScript code snippet for most common tasks: Ajax, Json, DOM, Object-Oriented JavaScript, and more. A true gold mine to have in your bookmarks!
Visit http://microjs.com/

Diva.js

Diva is a Javascript frontend for viewing documents, designed to work with digital libraries to present multi-page documents as a single, continuous item. It is designed to work with a IIPImage server and will be an awesome tool for those working on library or bookstore websites. A demo is available here if you want to have a look.
Visit http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/diva/

Bookmarklet Generator

As you can guess, this tool is a bookmarklet generator: Simply paste your regular JavaScript code, press the button and you’ll get a bookmarklet – ready to be installed on your browser bar.
Visit http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/

jQAPI

Like any other jQuery developers, I spend a large amount of time digging in the documentation. jQAPI is a website which provides the jQuery documentation in a more user-friendly way, so it is now my reference site when I need any jQuery help.
Visit http://jqapi.com

heatmap.js

Day after day, JavaScript continues to surprise me with its endless possibilities: For example, heatmap.js allows you to generate web heatmaps with the html5canvas element based on your data. Easy and efficient!
Visit http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/

Respond.js

Remember my article about adaptable layouts with CSS3 media queries? Respond.js is a small script that allow you to use CSS3 media queries on browsers that do not support it yet (Yes IE, we’re looking at you…).
Visit https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond/blob/master/respond.min.js

Modernizr

Modernizr is a script that helps older browsers to work almost as good as newest ones, so you can build modern applications that will work on IE6 and 7. Your clients will love it, that’s guaranteed.
Visit http://www.modernizr.com/

YepNope

YepNope aim is pretty simple: It answers yep, or nope. For example, ask YepNope is Modernizr is loaded. If yes, ask YepNope to do this, and if not, ask YepNope to do that. That’s simple as that, and very useful in many cases.
Visit http://yepnopejs.com/

Ligature.js

Ligature.js is, unsurprisingly, a script that adds pretty ligatures to any kind of text. A must-have for all typography lovers out here!
Visit http://code.google.com/p/ligature-js/

FitText.js

FitText is a very interesting tool, that allows the automatic resizing of a text regarding the size of its parent element. Just have a look to the website and resize your browser: The text will fit. Another very interesting tool for modern websites and applications!
Visit http://fittextjs.com/

Here are Orwell's rules, edited:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. You don't need cliches.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. Avoid long words.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active. Write in the now.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. When in doubt, say it clearly.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. Better to be interesting than to follow these rules.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid.

Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Orwell was on the right track. Just say it. Say it clearly. Say it now. Say it without fear of being criticized and say it without being boring.

If the goal is no feedback, then say nothing. Don't write the memo.

If the goal is to communicate, then say what you mean.

My best tip is this: buy a cheap digital recorder. Say what you want to say, as if the person you seek to persuade is standing there, listening. Then type that up. Simplify. Send.

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor

Even by the standards of web software, the Google App Engine team moves pretty quickly, with a new version every 6 weeks or so. (I learned how fast they go when I was writing App Engine technical docs and trying to keep up with what the engineers were creating.) This week, the team launched App Engine 1.5.1, with a nice collection of new features, including support in the SDK for testing the High Replication Datastore, an API to use ProtoRPC from Python, and support for user presence in the Channel API. You can see the complete list and more details in the App Engine Blog.

Nature does new releases too, although it usually takes a lot longer to add new features and fix bugs. Can the current version of humans sense a magnetic field? Scientists in Massachusetts found indirect clues by replacing a fly protein with a human one. In a study, the human cryptochrome protein restored the fly’s ability to respond to a magnetic field. Not only is that pretty cool, that BBC Science News page has an awesome picture of a fly.

Finally, if you have a few minutes this weekend, check out this nifty video that takes an original and fun look at multiplication.

Fridaygram posts are lighter than our usual fare. They're designed for your Friday afternoon and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds.

Kaffee

GitHub, probably the best-known hub for both public and private repositories, is now available for the Mac in the form or a handy management application.

The Mac version will hunt for repositories already on your machine, then allow you to manage them. You can view commit history, make changes, automatic updates and more. It also tracks all of your GitHub repositories and can clone them to your machine.

GitHub for Mac is a free download and requires OS X 10.6 or higher. We will have a full review of GitHub for Mac later this week.

GitHub for Mac now available originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SHORT++ from Adi Marom on Vimeo.

SHORT++ explores the possibility of making height an interactive variable that can be modified in real-time and how it would reshape interaction between people. The interactive robotic shoes are being activated by an iPhone application. Designed by Adi Marom.

What follows in a thought experiment: what if the new Resume feature in OS X Lion made it ridiculously easier to have a portable home directory?

For those not familiar with Resume, it allows you to "restart your Mac and return to what you were doing — with all your apps in the exact places you left them". Presumably, this would also work the same way if you logged out and back in.

So here's the thought experiment. Imagine you had a 13" MacBook Air, which as a development machine isn't that great when compared to a super fast desktop, but it's still pretty good and you like to use it in coffee shops. Now imagine that Air also had a Thunderbolt port on it and you could use the SSD on the Air as a home directory for your account on the desktop machine.

At your house you are working on the Air where you're using Safari and you have an untitled TextEdit file open with some text selected. You quickly log out, close the Air, plug that into your desktop machine (via Thunderbolt), log in and up comes Safari and TextEdit with your untitled document all ready to go- even with the text you had selected. You open up Acorn to do a little bit of image editing as well. All your data is still sitting on the Air.

Eventually it's time to head to the office. You log out from your desktop, unplug the Air and bring it with you. When you get to your work computer you plug the Air into your desktop machine, log in (once again, with your home directory on the MacBook Air via Thunderbolt) and continue working exactly where you left off. Except, maybe Acorn isn't installed on this machine? But that's easy enough- you just open up the App Store, click a couple of buttons, and Acorn is installed. You're working again with very little fuss.

Something similar to this has been possible for a long time using networked home directories. But the network is slow and unreliable while SSDs and Thunderbolt are super fast. We just have to wait for Thunderbolt enabled Airs and desktops.

At any rate, I think it's a neat idea and it might catch on for a certain class of users.

How books are made, circa 1947
A video from 1947 showing how books are made.(thx, damien)

Ich habe mich lange Zeit gesträubt, im großen HTML5-Videoplayer-Vergleich einen Sieger zu küren, doch eigentlich war es die ganze Zeit klar: Es ist MediaElement.js von John Der

Der Player hat vier entscheidende Vorteile:

• Er wird aktiv weiterentwickelt. John ist sehr engagiert und antwortet im github auf Bug Reports
• Er ist übersichtlich aber erschöpfend dokumentiert
• Er beherrscht sowohl Video als auch Audio
• Er bietet eine extrem clevere Verschmelzung von nativem HTML5 und Flash-Fallback.

Letzteres ist eine weitere Erläuterung wert: MediaElement.js nimmt die offizielle HTML5-JavaScript-API-Befehle zum Manipulieren der Player-Eigenschaften und leitet sie gewissermaßen an den dafür präparierten Flashplayer weiter. Es ist also für den Anwender ganz egal, ob sich der Browser gerade nativ um das Abspielen der Videos kümmert oder bereits an Flash übergeben hat – die API zum Steuern des Planers bleibt exakt gleich! Der Vorteil hierbei: Die (natürlich immer noch notwendige) SWF-Playerdatei besteht im Grunde nur aus einer einfachen Projektionsfläche, an die diverse Event-Listener geklebt wurden, die auf die nativen JavaScript-Befehle hören, welche zum Steuern des Planers verwendet werden. Somit braucht man als Webdesigner beim Skinnen des Planers nur mit CSS zu hantieren, denn auch das Flash-Fallback wird über die selben HTML-Elemente und JavaScript gesteuert! (Das gilt übrigens sogar für Silverlight, wenn man das unbedingt möchte …)

Darüber hinaus versteht sich der Player sogar auf RTMP-Flash-Streams, beherrscht unter Mac OS X echtes Vollbild, kann sowohl Kapitelmarken als auch Untertitel anzeigen, und letztere sogar in mehreren Sprachen ausgeben. Die automatische Übersetzung über die Google Transite API wird allerdings in Kürze kaputt gehen, aber das liegt natürlich an Google …

Ich habe in der letzten Woche ein sehr hübsches Projekt mit MediaElement.js umgesetzt und war zu jeder Zeit äußerst zufrieden mit dem Player. Well done, John!

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He explained that I should start working on a project as soon as it was assigned. An hour or so would do fine, he told me. He told me to come back to the project every day for at least a little bit and make progress on it slowly over time. (…)

He explained that once your brain starts working on a problem, it doesn’t stop. If you get your mind wrapped around a problem with a fair bit of time left to solve it, the brain will solve the problem subconsciously over time and one day you’ll sit down to do some more work on it and the answer will be right in front of you.

(…)

The above quote is from Fred Wilson‘s father’s day post about a lesson his dad taught him.

Email charter? Once you've decided to send email here is your charter: 1. Be clear. 2. Be brief. 3. Be kind. Done

I fully agree with the Fab.com copy-writer: This mammoth crochet-knit sculpture of a life-sized lion’s head is a witty, whimsical commentary on the sport of hunting and taxidermy’s trophy exhibitionism.

How fun would this be in a kid’s room? (Even though, it might cause nightmares)

Valentin Ruhry had the brilliant idea to take 5,000 orange rocker switches you normally see in power strips and transform them into a blank canvas. Oh, the possibilities! #want

(thank you Rusty)

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Lion can troubleshoot and reinstall without a CD
The next time you need to repair your disk or restore your computer from a backup, you won’t need to search for an external boot disk, those old restore CDs, a FireWire cable, or anything, really. In Lion, your computer will have its very own restore partition pre-installed.
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5. Share your screen with others

Though the Screen Sharing application has been around since the 2007 Leopard update, it becomes even more powerful in Lion. If your remote computer has multiple user accounts, you can now log in remotely from one account while someone else, logged into their own user account, continues to use the Mac in-house. You won’t disturb their interactions; they won’t notice yours. If you don’t have a user account for that computer, you now have the option of logging in with your Apple ID; the person on the other end can authorize you for access, and you’ll be able to connect to the remote desktop as if you were using a local user account.

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Here’s a question I asked iconic Swiss Designer Jost Hochuli at last night’s AIGA event:

Me: “What’s your definition of work?”
Jost Hochuli: “70% pleasure!”

Peter Langenhahn will take hundreds of photos at a sporting event and stitch them together to make a single time-compressed panorama of the event's action, like this image of every foul committed during a soccer match. Here's a short video showing how he does it.

See also Peter Funch's composite NYC street scenes. (via petapixel)
Tags: Peter Langenhahn   photography

What makes a gadget great? You might argue that it’s determined at least in part by how many lives the product in question touches. Back in 2005, when I helped choose a list of the fifty greatest gadgets of the past fifty years, we ranked the Sony Walkman as #1 and Apple’s iPod as #2. Fabulous gizmos both; I suspect, however, that they wouldn’t have topped the list if they hadn’t been bestsellers of epic proportions.
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OK, I'm sorry if I have been stuck on the theme of website creation lately, but the TUAW inboxes have been inundated with emails from readers who are concerned about the probable demise of iWeb.

One of our readers, Mickey, wrote to say that "I'm a former Mac user who was forced to switch to PC and has since come back to the Mac. In the interim, however, I have created a personal webpage (mostly for family). I've got hosting and a domain and all that, and I have coded it in Microsoft FrontPage. The way I see it, I have two options 1) use Boot Camp or VMWare Fusion to continue writing the webpage in FrontPage or 2) find a Mac program that might be at least relatively amenable to importing the HTML code from FrontPage."

Mickey wanted to redesign his website in iWeb, but had concerns about the future viability of the app. For that reason, and the fact that being able to edit his existing website on the Mac would keep him from having to do a complete reboot of the site, I figured he needed a Mac replacement for FrontPage -- a Windows application that has been abandoned by Microsoft.

I've compiled a list of ten possible candidates to replace FrontPage with lovely Mac goodness. FrontPage was one of the first WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) website tools that allowed you to design a page by moving elements around while it handled writing the HTML code behind the scenes. If you're looking into a way to move to Mac but still need to keep up a website that you originally created in the dreaded Land of Windows, then you'll find this list of Mac HTML editors to be very useful.

1) Panic Coda (http://www.panic.com). Coda probably has a lot more sophistication than most casual website designers need, but it will read existing HTML files and let you also add CSS style sheets. There's a free trial download available on the Panic website. Update: Several astute commenters pointed out that Coda is not a WYSIWYG editor. Instead, it's a full-powered text and code editor with the ability to display a preview of your edited work.

2) Kompozer (http://www.kompozer.net). This is a branch of the abandoned Nvu Open Source HTML editor that has been updated fairly regularly and is free. Never used it, so I can't vouch for it. The screenshot below is for the Windows version, but the user interface for the Mac edition is similar.

3) Flux (http://theescapers.com). Flux (£69.95) is a fairly powerful CSS / Javascript / HTML editor, with a free trial download. Once again, I've never used it -- but if you want to update your site into HTML5 goodness for the future, it's probably a good way to go. Potential Flux users shouldn't be worried if they don't know much about CSS, as the application is a wonderful way to get your feet wet in terms of style sheets. There's a very thorough Quick Start Guide available for download as well.

4) W3C Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html) If you want a tool that will let you both browse and author web pages, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has a freebie editor available for download. For former FrontPage users, this app seems appropriately low-key and quite simple to use.

5) Mozilla SeaMonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/) Made by the folks who created Firefox, SeaMonkey is not only an HTML editor, but has a lot of built-in Internet tools including a web feed reader, IRC chat client, etc. Update: The most recent version of SeaMonkey was delivered only five days ago.

6) Adobe Contribute (http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute.html) Back in the early 2000s, I had several sites that had been developed in FrontPage and needed to be maintained. Macromedia Contribute was a powerful tool, although sometimes frustrating. It's $199, and might be a bit of overkill for many casual users in terms of price and capability.

7) Freeway Express (http://www.softpress.com/products/freewayexpress/) Freeway Express is a wonderful Mac HTML editor with a surprisingly complete feature set. It's $69 for this low-end version, or you can upgrade to the even more powerful Freeway Pro ($229) if you need more capabilty. Trial versions of each are available for download.

8) Adobe Dreamweaver (http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html) This is the design tool for professionals. It has a steep learning curve and an equally steep price tag ($399), but for a top-of-the-line web design package, Dreamweaver is the choice.

9) Quanta Gold (http://www.thekompany.com/products/quanta/) Considering that the web page for this app shows that it is now "Mac OS X ready", it looks like it hasn't been updated for a long, long time. There is a free demo version available for download, and the price if you decide to buy it is $39.95.

10) BlueGriffon (http://www.bluegriffon.org/) A free WYSIWYG content editor based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Free is always good!

Update: Before anyone asks where RapidWeaver and Sandvox are, note that although they do have the capability to edit RAW HTML, they're both predominantly used to design new websites from scratch using built-in templates and then maintain those sites. Those two solutions were covered in my previous post, "Ten ways to replace iWeb and MobileMe hosting."

Also, you may wish to look at several other editors, some of which aren't really WYSIWYG, but are favorites of some of the bloggers here at TUAW:

Hype sells for $29.99 in the Mac App Store and is an amazing HTML5 WYSIWYG editor. Created by two ex-Apple engineers, it's gaining rave reviews and can be used to create animated websites.

HyperEdit ($9.99) is another package from the Hype developers. It's a code and text editor in the same vein as Coda. Very similar to HyperEdit is Taco HTML Edit ($24.99), which has a component library that can add amazing features to an HTML document.

MacRabbit's Espresso was a huge miss on my part. It's also a code editor more than a true WYSIWYG tool, and it's available from the MacRabbit website for $79.99.

As usual, if you have a favorite Mac WYSIWYG HTML editor and wish to let other readers in on your personal choice, leave a comment below. Good luck, Mickey!

Ten WYSIWYG HTML editors for Mac OS X (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here's an unintentionally amusing and decidedly sweet video of an older couple, Rita and Frank, trying to photograph themselves with their computer, referred to in the video description as "their new Mac." According to YouTube, the couple wants to take a photo commemorating Frank's 84th birthday, which they'll then share with friends.

As they wait in vain for the image to be snapped, they somehow managed to unknowingly shoot a video of the proceedings. We can only assume they're using a Flash-capture web app of some sort, as Photo Booth doesn't count down from 15. Of course, that's a guess.

If you ask me, the result is much sweeter and far more charming than the photo could have been. Happy birthday, Frank!

[Via Gizmodo]

Webcam antics with Rita and Frank originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Chuck Close

(via quote vadis)
zustimmend

Dear Leica,
The Leica M9 is now 18 months old. I have used it extensively for 18 months, and with some great results from a variety of great lenses, as I show in my Guide and Review of the Leica M9.

I have invested in not a few of the best Leica M lenses, on the assumption that Leica would put some serious effort into a future M camera that would make shooting M glass more productive and more reflective of the lens potential— and bring “M” into the digital age beyond just a dated sensor and a lousy LCD and 80 year frame line technology. I did not invest in the M9, I invested in the lenses.
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Kyodo News via AP

In this combo of two photos, a ship swept away by tsunami sits amid debris-covered residential area March 12, 2011, left, while the ship stays in the same position in the area getting cleaned up June 3, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan marks three months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami Saturday, June 11.

Related content:

• Japan: After the Wave: Follow msnbc.com reporter Miranda Leitsinger and multimedia producer Jim Seida's reports on Japanese tsunami recovery as they meet survivors and share personal experiences from a ravaged land on World Blog and Facebook.

Precisando de algumas dicas para que a sua criatividade fique ou se mantenha ainda mais afiada? Segue 29 sugestões…

E então? Acrescentaria mais alguma (ou algumas?)

This Friday's Reporters' Roundtable is on a topic that vexes us all: why are end user license agreements and terms of service so long and convoluted? To get ourselves in the mood for this show, we asked CNET fan (and Academy Award winner) Richard Dreyfuss if he'd help us out by doing a dramatic read of the Apple EULA. He said yes. So, without further ado, we present to you,
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I've long looked at JavaScript as a second-class citizen in the programming world. Early on, it was the source of numerous security problems; it was a nice bit of glue to patch together HTML applications with a bit of styling, but nobody would use it for serious code; and so forth. Java, Ruby, Python, they were the languages for doing real work.
But my attitude toward JavaScript has changed completely in the past few years. JavaScript has "grown up." I'm sure there are many JavaScript developers who would take issue with that judgement, and argue that JavaScript has been a capable, mature, and under-appreciated language all along. They may be right, though you can write any program in any complete programming language, including awful things like BASIC. What makes a language useful is some combination of the language's expressiveness and the libraries and tools available. JavaScript clearly passed the expressiveness barrier a long time ago, even if the ceremony required for creating objects is distasteful. But recently, we've seen some extremely important game-changers: jQuery, JSON, Node.js, and HTML5. JavaScript may have been a perfectly adequate language in the past, but these changes (and a few others that I'll point out) have made JavaScript a language that is essential for every developer to know. If there's one language you need to learn in the next year, it's JavaScript.
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If you have a hard time remembering all the hacks needed to make your HTML email designs look consistent across the major email clients, then here's good news. There's now an HTML Email Boilerplate available that features time-saving CSS, detailed explanations and links to resources such as Campaign Monitor blog posts (which provided inspiration for much of the code). Or in the Boilerplate's own words:
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David McCandless made a data visualization comparing the Atlantic Ocean fishing stocks in 1900 and in 2000. It’s a literal jawdropper…here’s just a little bit of it:

That’s not just depleted…the fish are just gone. Click through for the full craziness. (via @daveg)

Cult of Mac reports that it has received information indicating that revamped versions of Apple's Time Capsule wireless router/hard drive combination will serve as the hub for iCloud data syncing, with data stored directly on the device rather than on Apple's servers.

Our source didn't have any information about the hardware, but detailed how the Home Folder access system works. Files saved on your computer are backed up instantly to Time Capsule, which makes them available to remote Macs and iOS devices.

If you make any changes on any computer, those changes are updated through iCloud and stored on your Time Capsule. The Time Capsule archives and serves up your files even when your computers are off. When you get home and fire up your desktop computer or laptop, the files are automatically synced across your devices.

This service will also allow you to upload photos and videos from your iPhone or iPad to your Time Capsule. The media will be stored on the device and be made available for other devices to sync. iCloud is the "conduit" through which everything moves, the source said.

"Your computer gets backed up to Time Capsule anyways," said the source. "Now it'll serve up your content when you want it, where you want it, right there on your iOS device."

The source reports that this implementation of a local iCloud is "fully baked" and ready for deployment in future versions of Mac OS X and iOS, although there has been no hint of the functionality in developer seeds of Mac OS X Lion seen thus far. It is also unclear how such a system would integrate with the iCloud music streaming service, as a number of reports in the mainstream media suggested more of a true cloud-based system for that aspect of things, with Apple able to scan users' iTunes libraries and simply provide streaming access to those tracks from any device connected to the user's iCloud.

As noted by MyService, Apple's idea of a local cloud network dates back twenty years, with Steve Jobs having detailed some of the advantages of such a setup during a Q&A session at WWDC in 1997. (Discussion begins at around 13:10 mark.)

Cult of Mac's claims harken back to a report from The Loop's Jim Dalrymple back in mid-February in which he claimed that cloud-based strategy for a revamped MobileMe would in fact be focused on streaming data from users' machines rather hosting it directly on Apple's servers. A local cloud stored on a Time Capsule device would seem to be a middle-of-the-road solution offering much of what Dalrymple proposed while avoiding the need to keep a source computer awake and running for the service to function.

We'll certainly be learning more about iCloud tomorrow as Steve Jobs takes the stage for the keynote at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference at 10:00 AM Pacific Time / 1:00 PM Eastern Time. MacRumors will be providing live coverage of the keynote via MacRumorsLive and Twitter.

Two NYC subway trains dancing down the tunnels...what a charming little video.

(via ★leela)
Tags: NYC   subway   video

Chase Jarvis has a new gearhead video, he shows ten different camera formats he is using, all lined-up in a table in front of him. Spoiler alert: It's not as digital as you may have thought, just two DSLRs and the Fuji X100! You can also find the video embedded below...
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Phil Plait:

You may also wish to note what other things are categorized asGroup 2B possible carcinogens, including gasoline, pickledvegetables, and (GASP!) coffee.

My opinion here is that while a link between cell phones and braincancer cannot be ruled out, without a strong correlation and anumerical statement about the odds, it seems very unlikely to methat such a connection is something to worry about. I’m far moreworried about the dingus in traffic in front of me gabbing to hisfriend on his phone and causing an accident than I am about megetting brain cancer from my own.

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These two videos show step by step how to modify the NEX-5 with a wired shutter release. I go through taking apart the NEX-5, performing the mod, putting it back together and finalizing the assembly. This mod should only be done by qualified electronic folks who have worked with cameras this complex in the past. Please watch both videos in full before starting this mod. The start of the second video shows the soldering parts if you want to see if you have enough skills for that first.
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Meike Richters Einführungs-Vortrag über »Creative Commons — Lizenzen für das Internet-Zeitalter«, gehalten an der Universität Hamburg. Knapp 50 Minuten, die sich lohnen. [Netzpolitik.org]
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A simpler solution might be to use an app like BusyCal to do the syncing for you, or even just use a service that's already in the cloud like Google Calendar (which is what I actually do). But if you're already tied to iCal, either because you've got a calendar on there or just because you like the app, following those steps should help you get sharing to anyone up and running.
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Das folgende, auf einer Hochzeit aufgenommen Foto wird Ihnen präsentiert von der griechisch-orthodoxen Glaubensgemeinschaft.

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ben for BENM.AT, 2011.