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haribilalic··on Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
Syndicate (https://redalemeden.com/syndicate/) works similarly well for Safari.
haribilalic··on A Business Insider retrospective
Flickr lets you browse and search CC licensed photos. They also let you do the same for the Commons (public photos, such as those from The Library of Congress) and Getty Images.

I figure if someone's searching for a photo to use on their website, particularly a commercial website, they're not going to browse or search all of Flickr and hope the photos they like are CC licensed — they'll go straight to CC licensed content and pick from those.

haribilalic··on Updated iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper
And Instapaper works offline.
haribilalic··on Chevy Volt: Is This Our Future?
Sure, but the insurance excess would only be $0–$2,000.
haribilalic··on The NY Post, the iPad and the web
Atomic Web Browser (http://atomicwebbrowser.com/) can identify itself as IE, Firefox or Desktop Browser and is available on both the iPhone and iPad.
haribilalic··on Osama bin Laden Is Dead
It's easy to imagine that someone like Osama would be hiding in a cave or like Saddam in a "spider hole", but hiding in populated areas isn't uncommon. Karadzic was also hiding in plain sight in Belgrade and Vienna while on the "run". He had, however, adopted a new identity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_prosecution_of_Radov...
haribilalic··on Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage
It is is a lessons learnt.
haribilalic··on Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation
He also does through Readability (http://www.readability.com/). He's an advisor to Readability, Readability's iOS apps are based on the Instapaper iOS apps and Instapaper can be linked with Readability to provide Instapaper activity to Readability so that publishers can be paid. http://www.marco.org/2011/02/01/readabilitys-new-service
haribilalic··on Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation
Instapaper has an API. There are at least five third-party Instapaper clients for Android available in the Marketplace. http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-client-for-Instapaper-on...
haribilalic··on 2-D Glasses
It's sIFR[1]. It was one of the more popular techniques for embedding custom fonts into pages, before CSS-based web fonts. It should degrade gracefully without Flash; it does for me, using ClickToFlash with Safari.

1. http://novemberborn.net/sifr3

haribilalic··on Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees
There are plenty of non-native deciduous trees in Australian cities and suburbs too.
haribilalic··on Front-End Development Best Practice
I've always liked Isobar's standard [1], which is a bit more detailed in some areas, like image formats. A read through HTML5 Boilerplate's [2] documentation is a good introduction to a few best practices too and it makes a good starting.

1. http://na.isobar.com/standards/

2. http://html5boilerplate.com/

haribilalic··on The Future of Social Networks
He's referring to Friend Lists (https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768). If you use Twitter, it's like Twitter's lists.

Facebook's privacy settings are now pretty good. You can make things visible or invisible to everyone, networks, friends of friends, friends, friend lists or individuals and any combination of these things, e.g. a status update visible only to family except my mother.

haribilalic··on Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks
Check out Lingon [1] for a nice front-end to launchd to modify its start-up items. It lets you quickly schedule items, such as bash scripts, in launchd too.

1. http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/ for $4.99 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/ for a free, older version.

haribilalic··on Minecraft generated 5 million euros in March for Mojang
I thought that ease of distribution through things like Steam and the App Store would be the big changer for indie games. I know I wouldn't have bought Peggle and many other indie games if it weren't for Steam.

It doesn't help the big players that a lot of the big games are franchises (what's the difference between Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops?) that are nickle-and-diming players through Xbox Live and PSN. It costs more to buy a few hours of new content in Fallout: New Vegas than it would to buy many indie games.

haribilalic··on Hacker News Guidelines
pg's said in the past that it's okay. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
haribilalic··on Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
Better Facebook (http://betterfacebook.net/) changes a lot of of the look and feel of Facebook, allowing to add, remove or move elements and apply themes.
haribilalic··on 'Virus-eater' discovered in Antarctic lake
Eastern Antarctica is everything from 0° 0′ 0" E to 180° 0′ 0" E. If you take a look at the map of Antarctica on Wikipedia[1], it will be everything to the right of the centre line. So, yes, the Australian Antarctic Territory is the major part of Eastern Antarctica, but it's not the only one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Location_...

haribilalic··on All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011
I don't know about permanently deleted. I'm sure some trace of it will remain somewhere!
haribilalic··on First dump of Anon BofA Documents is up
It's not a valid Gmail address. Gmail usernames are between 6 and 30 characters (excluding periods).
haribilalic··on Instapaper 3.0 is here
I don't think the bookmarklet is going away, but even if Marco did get rid of it, the free API would allow anyone to come along and make a new one.
haribilalic··on A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959
There is a similar treaty that applies to Antarctica. We know how to build bases there (there are over 50 research stations in Antarctica). If the Antarctic Treaty was broken by building a military base, there'd be a precedence for building a military base on the Moon too — once we've figured out how — and breaking the Outer Space Treaty.
haribilalic··on Square responds to Verifone's allegations
It's not Square's defence. It's every merchants'/processors' defence.

I have a card with information stored on a magnetic strip, a smart card, RFID and text. It doesn't matter which of these you use to steal the information, the result is the same.

haribilalic··on A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959
In 1967, the US signed the Outer Space Treaty. Article IV states that the "establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications… …on celestial bodies shall be forbidden".

http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/space1.html

haribilalic··on New net rules set to make cookies crumble
I thought this would be a bad idea at first, because it'd break all those "remember me" check boxes, but a lot of browsers can save usernames and passwords and do a good job at prompting the user about it, so I think it might be entirely possible. The biggest hurdle is that there are a lot more cookies out there than username and password forms.
haribilalic··on Drchrono Is the iPad App That Could Transform Your Doctor’s Office
Drchrono isn't any uglier than what a lot of doctors using now. There's software out there that continues to use the blue and grey DOS style interface.

The hardware is the killer app here. The iPad and other tablets like it are off-the-shelf blank slates that cost less than $1,000 and run all day.

There are already proprietary tablets in the medical world, but they can cost thousands more per unit than the iPad and you're stuck with the software that's already on it.

You can go out and buy an iPad today and have electronic health records, medical imaging viewers, medical references and can move towards paperless environment for under five figures per year.

haribilalic··on Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom
iTunes can "automatically fill free space with songs" on iOS. I don't know if it ranks songs based on rating or plays, but I'm in the same situation as you and it's worked well for me.
haribilalic··on Drchrono Is the iPad App That Could Transform Your Doctor’s Office
I've worked on an iPad app targeted at an entire state's hospitals.

Doctors, particularly specialists that travel, love their iPhones. They love tablets/iPads. You don't need to convince them. You need to convince the accountants, insurers and lawyers.

haribilalic··on How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store
I hate when apps request a review like this. It's worse when they ask repeatedly.
haribilalic··on Fear of Flying: Why the iPad2 isn't even better
The cringely.com didn't give it away? :)
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