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Ah, right, that makes sense. Well then someone should put together a rainbow table of collisions with actual songs, haha.

Are the mp3s going to be in the cloud? Or on my hard drive?

... because it seems like it would be trivial to "spoof" an mp3 for downloading (take a random mp3, perhaps cut to the correct length, add the correct id3 tags and tell iTunes Match to download it).

Gah, motion smoothing. More than once, I've been asked by friends why their brand new huge LCD TV "makes movies look like they're filmed with a handicam." Always the same answer: turn off motion smoothing. It's a silly feature to ship with enabled by default.

Bummer. I love the Slicehost interface... so simple! I hope they retain all the linux tutorials on Slicehost, that's what made me join anywhere. The content in those is pure gold.

Oops, I meant "not that it's worse (less readable) than the left."

"Better" doesn't necessarily mean more readable or understandable. I'm not an expert by any means, but the flow of the text on the right is a bit disconcerting (e.g. spacing of "Regular Classes" - half of typography is negative space), not that it's better than the left. Would recommend reading http://www.webtypography.net/ ... a lot of it won't apply but some of it is very important, and the author does a good job explaining how to implement these principles in CSS. When I first read it, I was amazed by how much thought goes into simply spacing and sizing text.

That's correct, unless the object is autoreleased, in which case the system will get around to deallocating it after the current run loop iterates (provided you're using the default autorelease pool).

You were downvoted for adding a snidey remark to a decent question. Next time just ask the question. Since I'm curious as well, how does Tumblr make money besides themes? Does anyone know their monetization strategy?

I don't think so... isn't the keyboard disabled in Flash fullscreen? Same goes for Silverlight and Java applets.

I used to do the same thing, but a little differently. I used SleepWatcher as well, ( http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/ ), but set it up to run the following script, which uses isightcapture ( http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html ) to do it all in the background:

   NOWDATE=`/bin/date +%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S`
   /usr/local/sbin/isightcapture ~/login_images/$NOWDATE.png
   /usr/bin/scp -o ConnectTimeout=5 ~/login_images/$NOWDATE.png me@myserver.com:~/login_images

Where I have an SSH fingerprint for me@myserver.com installed. This let me back up the images to a server, for convenience and security.

Edited for code formatting.

Using Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.

You may want to download TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) and set font smoothing to "light". Here's a before and after screenshot I just made: http://imgur.com/gOffi

One comment: on your home page, http://embed.ly , you might want to change the font that is used in the blurb "Convert your links into embeddable content..." It's narrow and really strains my eyes to read. It looks like it's meant to be used in a logo or trendy header, about 5x the current size. Just a suggestion

You might be thinking of the movie 21, the MIT blackjack team does exactly this.

It's not an OSX or iOS device, but Apple recently removed the hard drive from the Apple TV.

Yes, and also remove an open overlay whenever you click elsewhere on the map.

Maybe you could turn one on, capture the positions of the dots, and then turn the other on, and somehow guess which one was which when the 3d mesh changes (from motion)?

To be fair not all covers of Wired feature a person. I did a google image search to check though, and ran into this:

http://mrmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/wired.jpg

...which seemed a bit more of a stretch than putting up breasts for the tissue article (albeit this is a back cover).

Are you redirecting based on user-agent string? The iPad reports Mobile Safari in its user-agent:

  Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10

You might want to white-list user-agents containing 'iPad' from the redirect.

Yes that seems a very possible result. Besides, I'm sure Apple already does UX/UI testing of their products as much as possible.

Ah, this might be bad news for http://smokescreen.us

I've been watching them hopefully for a couple months, and it's been looking pretty good (see the demo of Strongbad in js here: http://smokescreen.us/demos/sb45demo.html ), but unless they end up with a better product than the code Adobe rolls out, their program will probably get little use. If it wasn't supposed to be open source, I could suggest he sell it to people with noncurrent versions of CS who didn't want to upgrade, but just wanted the HTML5 export feature.

McDonalds has never made me sick. Just sayin'.

According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_system), most Tire-pressure monitoring systems nowadays use RF as their communication link.

I'm no EE major, but I do like to tinker with stuff like this... Anyone know what would be the best way to 'view' the RF signal? Hook something like this http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Linx-Technologies/RXM-43... up to an oscilloscope?

Edit: This looks pretty useful as well: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ez430-rf2500.h...

I thought this idea had been around forever? I've seen it implemented with turntables before, which adds a nice touch.

Edit: It's been done with legos: http://philohome.com/scan3d/scan3d.htm

Also, check out the MilkScanner, very cool! http://gizmodo.com/266169/lego-milk-scanner

Jeez, I've never seen such ridiculous ads on a legitimate-seeming website.

Too long didn't read/watch, I'd guess.

This literally just happened to me today as well. A client of mine has an app where he posts links from time to time to various sites. Users can then click these links and an in-app browser slides over and loads the page. After I uploaded the app, he posted a link to a story on the L.A. Times website, as well as the WSJ website. Today the app was rejected, and we got a feedback response from Apple:

Thank you for your response and prompt attention to the Trademark issue. Please provide documentation evidencing that you have authorization from Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal to include content from their sites. Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal have previously objected to other applications that feed from their sites, and believes that such features infringe their rights.

I thought about Apple's response for a while, and decided that LAT and WSJ should not have this kind of control over who gets to link to their website. Moreover, it's not like the app scrapes ads off of all their pages... the papers still generate page views and ad revenue, which in the end is what they want, right?

Heh, the commenter was her old Stanford professor, and the link he provided to his website goes to a PDF of his CS249 final exam. Harsh :P

Kilimanjaro called it yesterday :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357578

Wow, I sure could've used sliceapp about a week ago :P Bookmarked!