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Spotify Premium pricing UK £9.99 US £6.19 ($9.99, converted using google)

The UK price is over 50% more than the US price. As someone who's been subscribing to Spotify Premium in the UK for over a year, this feels like quite a slap in the face.

Even easier is Marco Arment's suggestion of using a standard 6x10 bubble envelope.

http://www.marco.org/1131994352

I'm in the UK and recently had a .ca domain name deleted by the registrar after owning it for 3 years. The registrar had been acting as a 'local presence agent' to bypass the requirements that .ca domains be registered by a Canadian citizen or business, of which I am neither. Apparently something changed and they received an official notice from the regulatory authority for .ca domains (CIRA) asking them to stop providing this service.

Luckily nothing really became of the domain, so it wasn't a big deal.

Absolutely, but it's just one piece of a bigger SEO puzzle. The more pieces you figure out, the higher you'll rank.

I really just wanted to point out that the article wasn't 'Proof of how important website titles are for SEO', as there are other elements on that page that could have been just as responsible for the ranking.

That exact phrase is also in the first paragraph, the page heading, and in the url. The conclusion that it's the page title that has caused it to rank so well doesn't seem accurate. If anything I'd say that it's a combination of the exact phrase being in all 4 places.

He sounds frustrated because he's not a master of CSS. Like most things, this takes a lot of time and practice, and whining about how UI DESIGN IN HTML IS IMPOSSIBLE really doesn't help. After years of working with CSS I tend to go straight from pencil sketches to HTML/CSS mockups, and find it a fairly straightforward and pleasurable way to work.

I also can't help but give a CSS tip to the author. Please don't exploit browser bugs to trick IE in to doing things; use conditional comments instead which will let you cleanly put all of the IE junk in a separate stylesheet.

That is actually pretty cool, and impressive that it's the exact same code.

Near the end of the video he says "There's no other technology available that lets you do this.". I'm not sure how accurate that is. I see no reason why this game couldn't have been made in html/javascript to run on all of those platforms from one codebase.

Could you do it with Mono too?

i'm guessing he's on a 15" macbook pro which is (typically) 1440px wide. i'm on the same, and the image isn't quite wide enough to fill the browser. no big deal.

looks great though, and am quite tempted to give it a go. just to need to find a good pic to use.

That seems unlikely. iOS games require you to touch things, which usually means you need to look at the touch screen rather than your TV.

I suppose the games that use a virtual d-pad style control system might work, but that hardly seems to be enough of a reason to do it.

Unfortunately Apple's new TV rental service doesn't seem to extend to the UK. It's a shame, as at £99 I was very happy to buy one until I realised how much less content we're getting compared to the US.

I assume the site is pulling this data from Amazon, and therefore the list of ebook releases is limited to those released for Kindle.

Great idea, and this is definitely something i could see myself using.

I'm wondering though, what's the big advantage over me just posting on Facebook 'anyone want to see inception tonight?'? Does it just help me to manage the responses?

This is what I was told when I requested a refund. I have only had the need to make one refund request, so I can't say whether it is true.

The most interesting thing was that they don't do anything to take the app back. I received a refund, but still have the app on my phone. In fact I think it's even been updated since without a problem.

Here's a snippet from the email from Apple support.

"I have reversed the charge for the accidental purchase you reported. Please note that the iTunes Store Terms of Sale state that all sales are final, so this is a one-time exception."

I only seem able to reproduce it on the latest Safari for OS X. Even Safari for Windows doesn't do it. Weird.

I followed your link to your previous site, Kroomsa, and it proceeded to repeatedly open the site in a new browser window. I was forced to kill Safari, at which point it had 129 windows open. Not cool.

Woz is fairly well known as a philanthropist, and has been since the early 80s. I'd guess that he just hasn't drawn the same level of press attention that the Microsoft billionaires have. I'm also quite sure that he has nowhere near as much cash as them, despite how well Apple are doing now, they've had much harder times than MS.

I've no idea about Jobs though. His personal life has always been very secretive, and I would imagine any involvement with charity would be just as secretive.

I think most Mac users (okay, i'm generalising) have become used to their software looking good. There are already many editors for OS X that have simple, elegant interfaces and that follow Mac interface guidelines. e.g. Textmate, Coda, Espresso, even Xcode and MacVim to a point.

In my opinion Ultraedit for Mac is ugly and looks like what it is, a port of some Windows software. I'm sure it's a fantastically powerful editor and this might seem shallow, but this is enough to stop me from using it. If I'm going to stare at an interface all day it needs to be visually pleasing.

This has bothered me for years. Everything just looks so chunky and inelegant. The difference really hits home if you compare Rhythmbox and iTunes (OS X version, not Windows) side by side. Rhythmbox just appears to be wasting so much space.

Arguing that it makes the interface cleaner might seem correct in theory, but in practice it really doesn't seem to hold true. Especially when you compare to OS X, which has an extremely clean interface without any over padding of elements.

Google's image search is a very different beast to their text search. It isn't continually updated in the same way, instead they seem to do an update every month or so. It's 1 month since wwdc when images of iphone 4 appeared, so it's possible that they just haven't done an update in that time.

'custom search feature, social networking/profile features'. These terms are so broad in their scope that it's really not possible for anyone here to estimate with any accuracy the time/cost it would take to implement them.

If you actually do have a detailed spec then I'd recommend that you simply approach a web dev shop/freelancer and see what they say. Explaining the details of what you require is the only way that you're going to get an accurate answer. You may even want to tell them what your budget is up front so that they can be realistic and let you know what's possible for that money. We've all dealt with clients that have very tight budgets, so it's certainly not an unusual request.

Stating that Apple 'gives nothing away for free' is quite hyperbolic. Apple certainly contribute to open source in more ways than you're giving them credit.

See http://www.macosforge.org/ for some examples.

His hints at what's to come from Apple are certainly getting less subtle, and I think he might have given away a bit too much this time.

The ppi of the iphone display is already higher than the ipad, so why double the resolution? That one doesn't make much sense to me.