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So true.
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Ryan Cash on Online Newpapers
>Welcome to the Internet – a place where physical pages don’t exist, and there’s no such thing as “no space left”. So true.
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Mad Men on Netflix Instant Streaming
It’s a fantastic show. Now is the time to catch up. Also, Netflix, your instant streaming selection is rather poor — Mad Men makes up for it somewhat, but we both know you can do better.
It’s a fantastic show. Now is the time to catch up. Also, Netflix, your instant streaming selection is rather poor — Mad Men makes up for it somewhat, but we both know you can do better.
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This Is Why Your Newspaper Is Dying
Number 1 and number 7 drive me nuts.
Number 1 and number 7 drive me nuts.
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Why Microsoft Won’t Dump Bing
Bing is integrated everywhere in Microsoft products, so it *is* unlikely that they would fire sale Bing. Though the whole search ‘on your TV with Kinect’ component — that sounds “fun”. ((Also gotta love the 1995 era design on this site.))
Bing is integrated everywhere in Microsoft products, so it *is* unlikely that they would fire sale Bing. Though the whole search ‘on your TV with Kinect’ component — that sounds “fun”. ((Also gotta love the 1995 era design on this site.))
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The B&B Podcast – Episode 20: MacBook Airs
In this episode Shawn and I mostly talk about his new MacBook Air and FileVault. We also touch on some pre-holiday Apple launches and I talk about the degrading quality of our Skype connection — even though as a listener you won’t hear it… Thanks to the fantastic [Fantastical](http://flexibits.com/) for sponsoring.
In this episode Shawn and I mostly talk about his new MacBook Air and FileVault. We also touch on some pre-holiday Apple launches and I talk about the degrading quality of our Skype connection — even though as a listener you won’t hear it…
Thanks to the fantastic [Fantastical](http://flexibits.com/) for sponsoring.
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Face Detection Software and API Land in iOS 5
Mark Gurman: >Apple is not specifically planning to launch an iOS 5 application that relies on their face detection technology, but plans to do something much more important. Open up facial recognition as a public developer API for iOS 5 applications. I bet Apple does use face detection in one of their most prominent apps…
Mark Gurman:
>Apple is not specifically planning to launch an iOS 5 application that relies on their face detection technology, but plans to do something much more important. Open up facial recognition as a public developer API for iOS 5 applications.I bet Apple does use face detection in one of their most prominent apps on the iPhone: the camera. Not so you can tag friends, but so you get that fancy ‘focus on faces’ mode that is popular in point and shoots.
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Transparent Lithium-Ion Batteries Make Sci-Fi Gadgets a Reality
This is cool, but it would be way cooler if they had a green meter on them that made the batteries look like they had liquid in them. Thus you can visually see the battery draining — although this is not as useful as a clear battery. ((This is why I am not in charge…
This is cool, but it would be way cooler if they had a green meter on them that made the batteries look like they had liquid in them. Thus you can visually see the battery draining — although this is not as useful as a clear battery. ((This is why I am not in charge of such decisions.))
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Mac OS X Lion Login Passwords Extracted With Ease
Isn’t it fun when a new version of Mac OS X comes out and you get to learn about all these security companies that you never heard of before? Not really, but Mike Lennon reports on a possible vulnerability in 10.6 and 10.7: >The Mac OS vulnerability relates to user login passwords that are stored…
Isn’t it fun when a new version of Mac OS X comes out and you get to learn about all these security companies that you never heard of before? Not really, but Mike Lennon reports on a possible vulnerability in 10.6 and 10.7:
>The Mac OS vulnerability relates to user login passwords that are stored in the system memory even if the computer is locked or put into a sleep mode. Passware’s software captures live Mac computer memory over FireWire and analyzes it, extracting these passwords, a process that the company says takes just a few minutes–regardless of password strength and use of a FileVault encryption.
So I guess a good defense would be to use a MacBook Air because it doesn’t have FireWire?
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Kobo, WSJ Halt Direct Sales on Apple-Device Apps
By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg And Russell Adams reporting: >In a pair of moves that suggest Apple Inc. is enforcing rules for selling content on its devices, Kobo Inc., the Canadian e-book retailer, and The Wall Street Journal said Sunday they will no longer sell content directly to customers through their apps for Apple devices. [I…
By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg And Russell Adams reporting:
>In a pair of moves that suggest Apple Inc. is enforcing rules for selling content on its devices, Kobo Inc., the Canadian e-book retailer, and The Wall Street Journal said Sunday they will no longer sell content directly to customers through their apps for Apple devices.[I doubt any of this will matter soon.](http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#newsstand)
UPDATE: [Looks like Amazon killed their button to the Kindle Store too](http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/25/amazons-kindle-app-updated-to-remove-direct-kindle-store-links/). Periodicals will likely go the way of the Newsstand as I alluded to above, however book apps like Kobo and Kindle — they will likely have to suffer. Still though it’s better than Apple making iBooks the only ebook reader on iOS.
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Quote of the Day: Mike Elgan
“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees” — Mike Elgan
“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees” -
Google
Robert Scoble relaying a conversation he had with Google VP Vic Gundotra about some of the problems Google+ has right now: >He says it isn’t about real names. He says he isn’t using his legal name here. He says, instead, it is about having common names and removing people who spell their names in weird…
Robert Scoble relaying a conversation he had with Google VP Vic Gundotra about some of the problems Google+ has right now:
>He says it isn’t about real names. He says he isn’t using his legal name here. He says, instead, it is about having common names and removing people who spell their names in weird ways, like using upside-down characters, or who are using obviously fake names, like “god” or worse.I find that hard to believe. They allowed whatever name people wanted to use for email addresses — suddenly now they want them to be “real”? I forget, do advertisers like to be able to link data with real names? ((Actually I didn’t forget. They do.))
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[SPONSOR] Brew Review
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Brew Review is an iPhone app that helps you rate and track the beers you taste in your own personal beer journal. Ratings are made from a hand picked list of qualities, so it’s easy to capture the details you want to remember, such as the flavors and aromas or the intensity of the hops and malt that you taste in your beer.
With Brew Review, whether you’re new to the world of beer, or a seasoned pro with a wealth of beer knowledge, you’ll never forget the beers you enjoy, and more importantly, why you enjoyed them.
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Why Google Cares if You Use Your Real Name
Dave Winer on why Google cares if you use a *real* name for Google Plus: >And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms. It’s about the greenbacks…
Dave Winer on why Google cares if you use a *real* name for Google Plus:
>And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.It’s about the greenbacks…
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When Statistics Are Not Helpful
Dave Cameron, perhaps my favorite baseball writer, informing readers of his diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia: >Statistics can be powerful, useful tools, and at times, they can be critical to understanding what to do. Other times, though, they’re useless, and so, for this situation, I say screw the data; I choose hope instead. Thoughts and…
Dave Cameron, perhaps my favorite baseball writer, informing readers of his diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia:
>Statistics can be powerful, useful tools, and at times, they can be critical to understanding what to do. Other times, though, they’re useless, and so, for this situation, I say screw the data; I choose hope instead.
Thoughts and prayers with you Dave.
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What’s Going on With the Wall Street Journal and Apple?
There is certainly something going on between the two lately. Whether Murdoch is pulling the strings or not, we can only speculate. It’s sad that in my eyes the WSJ is slowly losing credibility. It’s fine to report news and speculation — that’s the medias job (self-appointed as it may be) — but the timing…
There is certainly something going on between the two lately. Whether Murdoch is pulling the strings or not, we can only speculate. It’s sad that in my eyes the WSJ is slowly losing credibility.
It’s fine to report news and speculation — that’s the medias job (self-appointed as it may be) — but the timing of these reports and the type of reports they were is what concerns me.
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Microsoft’s Online Business for the Year: Over $2.5 Billion …Lost
Mg Siegler: >And then there is the biggest number of all. For the year, the Online Services Division lost .557 billion. He also notes that the division has been losing money for 6 years now and that the losses have been getting worse not better. He also notes: >Don’t overlook another crazy stat: Microsoft was…
Mg Siegler:
>And then there is the biggest number of all. For the year, the Online Services Division lost .557 billion.
He also notes that the division has been losing money for 6 years now and that the losses have been getting worse not better.
He also notes:
>Don’t overlook another crazy stat: Microsoft was able to decrease general and administrative expenses by 60 percent for the year, and still lost more than ever.
That’s crazy. It’s time to cut your losses and walk away Microsoft.
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AnandTech on FileVault Performance
AnandTech does a nice job of breaking down the performance hits you get with FileVault. They note a 20-30% hit in performance, but I am hear to tell you that I haven’t noticed any such slow downs and some of their tests seem a bit unrealistic to me. Their tests are things that an average…
AnandTech does a nice job of breaking down the performance hits you get with FileVault. They note a 20-30% hit in performance, but I am hear to tell you that I haven’t noticed any such slow downs and some of their tests seem a bit unrealistic to me.
Their tests are things that an average to above-average user are likely never to do. ((Unless average users open 42 reply email windows at once. I don’t think I reply to that many emails in a day.))
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Palimpsest for iPad
My thanks to Palimpsest for sponsoring the RSS feed for this week, be sure that thank them too by checking out the app. If you are a fan of long-form articles then this is the app for you. Palimpsest is a very interesting take on reading — it’s not an app that you curate, it’s an…
My thanks to Palimpsest for sponsoring the RSS feed for this week, be sure that thank them too by checking out the app.
If you are a fan of long-form articles then this is the app for you. Palimpsest is a very interesting take on reading — it’s not an app that you curate, it’s an app of excellently curated long reads.
This is an app for readers. I *am* a reader.