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ortatherox··on Unicode Love Hotel
Duck duck go does a great job when you search for the unicode love hotel! http://cl.ly/3a07430F2i1M1Z1H3u0V
ortatherox··on The Apps are Too Damn Big
When creating iOS apps part of the process of transferring the app resources into the app itself involves compressing the images even further. There are ways to improve this, but at the base line you have it done for you.
ortatherox··on Testflight acquired by Burstly
Apprehensive, I absolutely love testflight. I've used it in every app I've worked on and I think they are an essential part of beta testing apps on iOS. I was looking forwards to using TestFlight live, and have it ready in apps in the store now.

I'm worried that this will dilute testflight, I would've much rather that it becomes a pay for product than be part of an ad network. It's not like they've got much competition, Flurry's analytics are difficult to use, Google Analytics is a hack -which is ok- but it doesn't work offline last time I checked.

ortatherox··on How github was hacked
I'm not a fan of some of the comments about the man posting, you'd think the developer community would be above "you look like frankenstein" and "your english sucks."
ortatherox··on WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor
"The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world." + "Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky" - from the link
ortatherox··on YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed
with google's oauth you wouldn't have to give them access to your account ;)
ortatherox··on Debian Announces Position on Software Patents
and both of which are BSD licensed, which Apple has shown to prefer.
ortatherox··on The iPhone monoculture
Lets not forget that Apple make it easy to develop and test using Webkit on iOS. Grabbing the simulator and testing it at native speeds is only a click or two away from the App Store.

Opera on the other hand seem to get it, by offering a webpage where you can get a feel for how your page will run: http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mini/

If I want to test my website on a blackberry I first have to know which blackberry to test on ( http://cl.ly/3n3x0r0H2C2y0P1O3C3o ) to get the version, I then have to use Windows.

Finally a search for "Samsung Dolfin Emulator", admittedly the first time I've heard of the browser, turned up nothing. I found the dev tools on bada.com, though again, windows only.

ortatherox··on Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail
That was an internal video to try raise morale in Microsoft and get some people switch, it's pretty safe to assume gmail reads your emails as much as their spam filters does. But as well as doing the spam filtering on the results it does ads.
ortatherox··on Chrome 17 preloads autocompleted URLs as you type
Is this a joke? Chrome is known for its seriously agressive update system. Meaning staying on Chrome 16 is nigh on impossible. Not that I really have an opinion on the auto-loading of URLs mind you.
ortatherox··on Fork this project and add fucking awesome songs
Interesting idea, get many people to edit the same JSON file.

I'd imagine you'd need to do a lot of hand merges, because everyone will try edit the same files section though (notably the bottom of the list), which in part ruins the whole "everything is a PR" vibe. Shame, because the idea of talking over changes in the comments and then pulling it in is cool.

ortatherox··on Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
Will the source be available on github for pull requests?
ortatherox··on Support an Open Internet, create your own freedom.txt
Couldn't this be worked into the /w3c/p3p file instead as defined by the W3C in that doc?
ortatherox··on Uploaded.to blocked U.S. visitors as a response to the MegaUpload takedown
It's nothing particularly special

http://cl.ly/2R3G1t3l2Z2O2A0x1u08

ortatherox··on Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI
For the first two you want to look at https://github.com/quarnster/SublimeClang
ortatherox··on An Ad Blocker Opens the Gate, Ever So Slightly
on OSX I use Glimmer Blocker
ortatherox··on Doom 3 source released
git clone https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl.git

and just browse around locally in your favourite editor.

ortatherox··on The Sugru story
I bought some the moment it appeared in boingboing, I still get asked about it now
ortatherox··on EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.
I'd be more worried in the idea that there is no competition in label's market at the largest scale. Supposedly label contracts aren't exactly very artist friendly already, and I can't imagine as an upcoming artist it's going to get any better.

On the otherhand, there are now a million indie labels, and lots of success stories from people using the internet.

ortatherox··on Image Fulgurator: add messages on pictures taken by the others
one of the pictures is him doing it to President Obama!

I think this is a really smart idea, imagine how easy it would be with these things set up to make a kind of ghost tour. That'd be an interesting experience.

ortatherox··on Chrome Web Store have a new look
It looks like they don't have to, my favourite chrome extension Viumium just uses a youtube videos as it's header.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhh...

ortatherox··on Show HN: TouchBase (re-imagining the iPhone calendar)
This looks great!
ortatherox··on Show HN: OSX port of the Light, Efficient Network Simulator (LENS)
That's a beautiful logo you have there. :)
ortatherox··on SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
Yeah, they may be using the XHTML metatag and relying of divs, but that doesn't mean they're not using some more modern tech to get it working. CSS3 fonts are used in the slides for example.

HTML5 is pretty much an umbrella term now and I think this fits neatly into that

ortatherox··on Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
yeah, this entire thing has kinda impressed me, I'm on the lookout for a new ATM, may look into this
ortatherox··on Adobe Launches CSS Regions Prototype
You can try this yourself, it looks pretty good to me. The webkit guys seem pretty impressed.

https://twitter.com/beverloo/status/67946771208343552

ortatherox··on Intel reinvents the transistor as a 3D Tri-Gate
I really enjoyed it, I don't think he was awkwards either, but that he's older and see's this video kinda thingamajig different to us whippersnappers.

I watched it all, and I learnt a lot from it. I'd've not watched a dry/marketing video on a new processor technology.

ortatherox··on An API for European Union legislation
I wonder if this could lead to a http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ for Europe
ortatherox··on IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
You need a Mac, git, and XCode

in terminal type: 'git clone https://github.com/petewarden/iPhoneTracker.git

open that new iPhoneTracker folder, and load up the xcodeproj ( iPhoneTracking.xcodeproj )

in there go to iPhoneTrackingAppDelegate.m on the left sidebar

from that look at line 179 for changing the time inbetween registering, and look at line 149 for the locational precision

with those changed, hit the play button in the top left corner and the app should build and run

ortatherox··on JQuery: Official Plugins - A Change in the Roadmap
Looks like a case of we wanted to have official supported plugins, but keeping the microsoft one's up to date has proved difficult so we're removing the concept. Though our simpler plugins will remain updated.
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