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Engadget: Windows Phone 7 Preview
July 19, 2010 – 1:14 pm
I wasn’t convinced the tile UI would work, but seeing it in action has changed my mind.
$1400 in One Day from iAds
July 9, 2010 – 8:48 am
Developer of a basic flashlight app gets almost $1400 from one day of iAds revenue.
Trillian 5 Preview
July 2, 2010 – 8:26 am
My favourite Windows IM app is getting a much needed makeover.
Optimus Popularis
June 30, 2010 – 3:41 pm
New OLED keyboard from Optimus, expected to cost “under $1000″.
Pivot Power Strip
June 30, 2010 – 3:30 pm
Pivot Power is a community-developed power strip that can adapt to bulky plugs and chargers. It looks like a great design, but its a shame there it can’t take UK plugs.
Apple of My Eye
June 29, 2010 – 9:51 am
A short film created entirely with the iPhone 4 camera and iMovie editing app.
Making a Fast and Responsive iPad HTML5 App
June 14, 2010 – 10:31 pm
Thomas Fuchs with some tips from making his Time Zones app.
Resolving the iPhone 4 Resolution
June 14, 2010 – 9:54 am
Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy discusses the science behind Apple’s claim that you can’t you cannot see the individual pixels on the iPhone 4 Retina display.
Apple’s Flawed Typography
June 9, 2010 – 8:30 am
Khoi Vinh: Creating a beautiful display and patting yourself on the back for having good typography is disingenuous, I think. It’s a little like saying a high-definition television set makes for better television shows; an absurd claim at best.
Persona
June 3, 2010 – 3:44 pm
An engaging photo series of people and their daily items, by Jason Travis.
Analysis of Google’s VP8
May 20, 2010 – 10:42 am
From Jason Garrett-Glaser’s analysis of Google’s VP8 (emphasis mine): But first, a comment on the spec itself. AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The spec consists largely of C code copy-pasted from the VP8 source code — up to and including TODOs, “optimizations”, and even C-specific hacks, such as workarounds for the undefined behavior of signed right shift on negative [...]
Sony NEX-5 Review
May 12, 2010 – 9:43 am
The NEX-5 is Sony’s first attempt at a mirror-less camera with interchangeable lenses. A very good attempt too, and its even smaller than my Panasonic GF1 even though it has a bigger sensor and articulated screen.
Another iPhone 4G Leaked
May 12, 2010 – 9:37 am
Another fourth-generation iPhone has fallen into the wrong hands, this time to a Vietnamese forum. They claim a Vietnamese businessman bought it in the US and bought it back to Vietnam. This one seems closer to a production model than the one Gizmodo bought; it has a storage capacity marked on the back, the screws [...]
‘Near-Final’ Windows Phone 7 Screenshots
May 11, 2010 – 8:08 pm
It’s a distinctive look, although not exactly pretty.
Apple iPad UK Pricing
May 7, 2010 – 1:36 pm
iPad pricing in the UK is out. 16GB: £429, 32GB: £499, 64GB: £599. Plus another £100 if you want 3G. Removing UK VAT (at 17.5%) and converting the price to USD at $1.47 per GBP, a UK iPad is slightly more expensive than the equivalent US sold model. Model UK Price US Price Difference 16GB [...]
Kanellos the Greek Protest Dog
May 7, 2010 – 1:14 pm
A dog that has been seen at nearly every demonstration in Athens over the last two years has turned up again during the recent protests against new austerity measures.
weiranzhang.com
May 4, 2010 – 11:41 am
New work website, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
Thoughts on Flash
April 29, 2010 – 1:51 pm
Steve Jobs on Flash: Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from [...]