Jilion’s HTML5 plugin-free video player shows us what a video on the web may look like in a few years time.
Spoiler: it’s a lot better than Flash and uses a lot less CPU.
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Tesco Mobile iPhone Tariffs
December 10, 2009 – 9:56 am
Tesco Mobile have some interesting new tariffs for the iPhone including a stingy 12 month contract at £20/month, and an “unlimited” 24 month contract at £60/month.
Flash CS5 to Build Native iPhone Apps
October 6, 2009 – 8:37 am
Adobe have announced that their upcoming Flash CS5 software will allow developers to export native Apple iPhone apps. It doesn’t look like it can’t use native iPhone UI widgets, so the vast majority of apps will probably be games.
MonoTouch would still be my choice of alternative iPhone developer platform. C# over ActionScript, .NET Framework over [...]
Apple Rejects Healthcare Reform App
September 30, 2009 – 8:37 am
LambdaJive:
iSinglePayer, an iPhone application that advocates for single-payer health care reform was rejected from the App Store by Apple because it is “politically charged.” The application displays charts and bullet points about single-payer health care systems, and it allows users to call members of congress. iSinglePayer even calculates your local congressperson [...]
Vodafone Confirms iPhone in 2010
September 29, 2009 – 11:51 am
Now Vodafone has struck a deal to sell the iPhone:
Vodafone and Apple today confirmed that they have reached agreement to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to the UK and Ireland in early 2010.
Rumours are that the deal was only agreed late last night after the Orange announcement.
Orange to Sell iPhone, Ending O2 Exclusivity
September 28, 2009 – 8:10 am
Orange UK:
Orange UK and Apple have reached an agreement to bring iPhone 3G and 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year.
Not surprising given the recent rumours, and it looks like they’ll have the 3GS too. No indication of pricing, but hopefully more competition means we’ll start seeing more discounts on iPhones.
Mac Installation Experience
September 24, 2009 – 8:12 am
Alexander Limi has an elegant solution to the problem of installing applications on OS X.
I’m surprised there isn’t a consensus on the best approach, so hopefully this will start one.
Chef Keith Floyd Dies
September 15, 2009 – 9:44 am
Keith Floyd has died after a heart attack at the age of 65.
Keith’s one of my favourite celebrity chefs, and his personality will be sadly missed. Ironically, yesterday Channel 4 aired a documentry about Keith Floyd without knowing that he had died. You can watch it on 4oD for the next 30 days.
Fox News: What do Republicans Really Want?
August 21, 2009 – 9:36 am
Fox News Blogger Scott Blakeman hits the nail on the head about why the Republicans are against Obama’s health care reform:
As Republicans, we ask ‘Who says our healthcare system doesn’t work?’ The CEO of AETNA made $24 million last year. It certainly works for him. Sure there’s 47 million Americans who don’t have [...]
Mac Up-To-Date
August 21, 2009 – 8:16 am
UK Apple customers who bought a Mac after June 8th can now buy an upgrade to Snow Leopard for £7.95.
Interestingly, the listing for the upgrade states a shipping date of “by August 28th”.
Pinch Media: iPhone Spyware
August 17, 2009 – 1:21 pm
iPhone Home reports on Pinch Media enabled iPhone apps collecting and sending sensitive data such your location, your gender, and your birthday.
Once the application has stored the data, it will attempt to send this information back to the pinchmedia servers. In most cases this is done every-time you open & close a pinchmedia [...]
Quotes from Another Planet
August 11, 2009 – 7:54 am
Inverstor’s Business Daily gives a great example of why you should fact check everything you post on the web:
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
Stephen Hawking [...]
Planet Calacanis
August 10, 2009 – 9:13 am
Marco Arment dissects Jason Calacanis’ “out of this world” criticisms of Apple:
This, unfortunately, is the fate of Calacanis’ piece: he has some good points, but they’re buried in so much off-base ranting and misplaced frustration that it’s difficult to take any of it seriously.
American’s Unjust Sex Laws
August 10, 2009 – 9:02 am
The Economist again hits the nail on the head, this time about the draconian and harsh sex laws in America that are being emulated in the UK:
Garsh laws often do little to protect the innocent. The police complain that having so many petty sex offenders on registries makes it hard to keep track [...]
Movie Industry Admits It Overstated Piracy on Campus
August 5, 2009 – 1:11 pm
The MPAA overestimated the amount of piracy by campus students by a factor of three.
No wonder public opinion is so against them.
Ninjawords Dictionary: Censored by Apple
August 5, 2009 – 8:03 am
John Gruber from Daring Fireball writes about the ridiculous process Ninjawords had to go through to get their dictionary app approved on the AppStore.
Ninjawords for iPhone suffers one humiliating flaw: it omits all the words deemed “objectionable” by Apple’s App Store reviewers, despite the fact that Ninjawords carries a 17+ rating. [...]
New Campaign for Left 4 Dead
August 4, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Crash Course is a new campaign for Left 4 Dead which will be free for the PC, and cost 560 Microsoft points on the Xbox 360.
It looks like Valve listened to user requests for an attack regeneration timer for infected teammates, and a fairer item spawn system. This should improve public teamwork, and prevent balance [...]
The Edge of Reason
August 4, 2009 – 8:54 am
Simon Parkin has written a very detailed article for Eurogamer on the on-going legal battle between Mobigame and trademark-troll Timothy Langdell over Mobigame’s iPhone game Edge.
The Decline and Fall of the British University
August 3, 2009 – 9:45 am
Ex lecturer Dr Mark Tarver on the declining teaching and research standards in British universities.
In my experience, many degrees are having their acedemic content diluted to be more attractive to potential students. I consider myself lucky to have taken a degree which had compulsary modules on hard-core foundation subjects that I would’ve avioded otherwise.
Ironically, a [...]