Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Joel Spolsky on Clear:
Now, the TSA doesn’t even trust pilots, who go through the same screening as the rest of us to make sure they’re not bringing something extraordinarily dangerous onto a plane like a 3.5 oz bottle of shampoo. Because, of course, with a little bottle of shampoo, they could ...
Posted in Business |
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Obama is about to sign the curiously-named "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act". Most notably, this act will affect the way tobacco companies can market their products, how the packaging will be designed, and what flavors the products can contain.
It is not the role of government to protect us ...
Posted in Politics |
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
John Biggs has posted an amusingly half-assed review of the iPhone 3G S (very favorable, but with no real thought put into it) over at TechCrunch. The comments are the real joy, however, with users blasting Biggs for writing what amounts to a cheap advertisement for the iPhone. They also rip ...
Posted in Apple |
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Dan Moren prints this quote from a Palm spokesperson Lynn Fox:
“If Apple chooses to disable media sync in a future version of iTunes, it will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience. However, people will have options. They can stay with ...
Posted in Apple, Business |
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
TUAW's Cory Bohon on push notifications for the first-gen iPhone:
One of the most awaited features, push notifications, requires a constant data connection. While the iPhone 3G can handle data and voice simultaneously when using a 3G/HSDPA connection, on EDGE (the cellular data service that the original iPhone uses) you are unable to ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Fuck.
Posted in Movies |
Monday, June 15th, 2009
I may not have attended the conference proper (it's really expensive, and I'm not a developer), but my trip was still filled with interesting lessons. Consider this an addendum to Brent's WWDC Tips.
If you can't afford the sessions, you can still learn at SFMOMA
Go shopping or have tea in the ...
Posted in Apple, Software |
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Four months after moving, and I still haven't even turned the thing on. Finally, Nintendo gives me two good reasons to keep the Wii around.
Super Mario Bros. Wii (multiplayer side-scrolling!)
Super Mario Galaxy 2
The former coming out in time for the holiday season, and the latter coming sometime in 2010.
Posted in Games |