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Apple TV 2 vs Sony PS3

April 20, 2011

ltcompuser wrote up a nice, brief comparison on these two media products: I have a PS3 and an Apple TV2 hooked up to the same TV. The PS3 is used only for games and the occasional Blu-Ray. The rest of the time it’s the ATV. * Netflix interface is better. It crashed on the PS3. [...]

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Apple Print Ads – Blast from the Past

April 18, 2011

Courtesy of Marcin Wichary, Sr. user experience designer, Google:

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The iOS Platform, from a Developer’s Viewpoint

April 16, 2011

@pipequanta, in a comment to Asymco’s post titled “First quarter PC forecast: Windows down 2%, Mac+iPad up 250%“: As an iOS programmer, I’d just like to provide a rebuttal of your points, Stephen: 1. The operating system of all iOS devices is using the Darwin kernel and userland (the POSIX environment), the same as desktop [...]

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The Best MacBook Air User Opinions

April 11, 2011

The user comments in the article “A cloud-centric Mac set-up” gives great feedback on why so many Mac developers and designers are moving from owning a single MacBook or MacBook Pro to an iMac 27″ plus MacBook 13″ setup.

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GarageBand Song on iPad 2

April 11, 2011

Real sweet and all that. Has a little “making of” segment at the end too.

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What Android Fragmentation Means to a Game Developer

April 6, 2011

mogua paints a clear picture: If the source code is open, any standardization can be easily broken. You’ll have people that dig deep into the source code and develop a handset that can dock to a Debian Linux webtop (Motorola Atrix), you’ll also get people that want to push their own theme and add a [...]

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Move to Paperless Board Meetings Delayed Due to iPad 2 Shortages

April 5, 2011

FT.com: “In the UK the only tablet businesses want to view their board papers on right now is the iPad 2,” says Simon Small, Diligent Boardbooks’ managing director for licensing in Europe. “Almost all of large organisations are now requesting their board papers on the iPad. The big problem Apple faces in the short term [...]

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iPad as Digital Whiteboard

April 4, 2011

Fraser Speirs: So, what does iPad + Penultimate + AluPen get you? It gets you a digital whiteboard with infinite pages and undo. The beauty of this is that you get to keep every whiteboard you draw during the lesson. You can flip between whiteboards and go forward and backwards and insert new pages in [...]

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Steve Jobs on Android Fragmentation

April 1, 2011

Looks like Steve Jobs was right, again: While Google has maintained that Android is open, rival Apple and its chief executive, Steve Jobs, have taken issue with Google’s use of the word. In a surprise appearance on his company’s quarterly earnings call last October, Jobs criticized the growing fragmentation of Android, and called Google’s characterization [...]

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Andy Rubin, Vic Gundotra, Eric Schmidt – Shameless, Lying Hypocrites, All Of Them

April 1, 2011

John Gruber, making a point: So here’s the Android bait-and-switch laid bare. Android was “open” only until it became popular and handset makers dependent upon it. Now that Google has the handset makers by the balls, Android is no longer open and Google starts asserting control. … and: “Vic Gundotra’s Paean to Android’s Openness at [...]

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