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That's less a redesign than a cry for help against the input overload social networks provide. I'm glad my social surrounding is relative quiet and for Twitter I only follow a handful of people that don't tell me what they just ate.

Or even better, what if a site could combine all my social feeds, and make sure that I only see the most recent update from a person across all their networks.

I haven't used it but it looks like the author would like http://www.friendfeed.com. Maybe not the best implementation, but a start.

Video calling, over 3G, has been available for a long time now. One of the providers I know here in Austria introduced it sometime around 2003. Nobody uses it, it's going to be interesting if Apple is able to change this but I highly doubt that.

I wonder what happened to the agreement everyone here in Europe had in 2009. Even Apple agreed with the USB-Charger.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10274953-94.html

EDIT: Ah they (all) got time until 2012.

Starting with iOS4 developers have access to a set of APIs. Audio, GPS + 'Location', Push, Phone (think Skype), Worker and probably a few other APIs.

Until now, when the user pressed the home button you were able to write your state to flash if necessary. Now there is another way to 'freeze' your app and keep the state in memory -- at least until iOS4 decides your app won't be needed soon and fully quits it to free memory.

If you use the APIs mentioned above it is possible to continue playing (streaming) music, doing something else during a Skype call or update your location whenever you connect to a new cell tower* . If you need turn-by-turn you get access to constantly ask for GPS, this aside from calling/playing music is the only 'real' multitasking as it continues in the background until you tell it to quit.

The Worker API allows you to complete a task, for example continue uploading that video file to Dropbox. Once it's done the Dropbox app quits (or is frozen in memory as everything else).

Push notifications allow to access a server but it seems as someone else here mentioned the payload is too low, and only accessible as soon as the app is activated.

I can't tell for sure though as I'm not an iPhone developer just following it closely and most of this information comes from the January(?) keynote when iOS4 was introduced.

*Because GPS sucks battery you app gets called whenever you connect to a new cell tower, this according to Apple, should be sufficient for services like Google Latitude where the exact position at any given point isn't that important like it is for turn by turn navigation.

Didn't work on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime for me.

The 3GS does the same thing if the page is big (long?) enough and actually releases content so if you scroll back up it has to be rendered again.

To spare someone else the confusion I just had for a moment: Aaron talks about the WWDC Keynote that kicks off in a few hours

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Vimeo: Right below the description, see: http://imgur.com/yuf4R

Obviously not an automatic fallback but I guess that's because it is still in 'beta'.

Youtube videos with ads won't work, or embedded ones (I think the same goes for embedded vimeo vids)

Visit http://www.youtube.com/html5 and join the beta. It won't work for all videos though and not at all for embedded videos.

Once again linking to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Lustig argues that fructose/HFC/everything-not-glucose messes with our internal sensors to determine whether we've got enough or if we still need a tad more power. As a result we eat too much.

Edit: Aw, hit reply instead of making my own post.

Everything is sold with the same price but a different currency sign. Just replace $ with € and you're done. Games, consoles, hardware...

Example:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47700/?cc=US

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47700/?cc=DE

(I know this isn't true for everything, but it certainly feels that way)

Readable: http://whenwillapple.com/thoughts-on-horses/

I think patents are just the "mine's bigger" for corporations.

In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass* , Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.”

My response was simple. “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration. “And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too.” Steve was silent. - Jonathan Schwartz (http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...)

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/732/ (alt text)

MovieForumz.com sounds shady (and was http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://MovieForumz.com).

I wonder why you'd link to this. Everyone here tries to figure out if you're a hoax or not, linking to a (illegal) sharing site doesn't really help.

> You can use a Macbook in closed-lid mode to use only an external display.

Yes, but this requires an external keyboard, a connected power outlet and putting the system to sleep.

Thanks about the 'detect displays' button, though still the key for switching mirror/extend mode should do that without requiring me to go into settings (or have the menubar item active).

Sometimes I think Apple just jumps out of a moving train. For example it isn't possible to turn off the notebook display and only keep the connected monitor/projector active. Or, if you wake it with the lid closed to turn on the (notebook) display at a later time without disconnecting the external display.

Same with this. I can understand why they do the switching the way they do it, but where is the harm in putting a "Don't use discrete graphics" option in the Energy-Saver menubar drop-down menu? If they believe their customers are that stupid display a dialog box warning them, with the option to never show it again.

If, by space terrorism, you mean that some crazy group tries to shoot down a power grid in space, no. I don't think so. There won't be a 'terror' aspect to it. It's unlikely that 100% of the power will come from this or there to be a major power downtime as a result. So people will just go: "Meh, what are they shooting satellites down for?" They'll be unaffected by it and that's not what terrorism is.

I wonder how hard it is to shoot a rocket into space and hit something up there.

We might have our share of space pirates though – if we don't blow ourselves back to the Stone Age. Me be one of em, Arrr!

From who does the power grid in space need protection from? Aliens who like to bully lesser races around?

I don't see anyone attacking such a power grid. Those capable of doing so could just sent some collectors up themselves and call it a day. The outcome of shooting down such a device would be undesirable for both sides. One loses its power and the other will be frowned upon my the rest of earth.

I almost exclusively use FB on my iPhone (with Location turned off). It's the only way I can parse the stream while staying sane.

Also check out http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ for free fonts for commercial use.

For everyone interested to change their DNS check out http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ For me 8.8.4.4 and others are faster and work better then the one provided by my ISP, at least it feels that way.

I haven't had much of real world experience until recently. I learned coding in school. We started with C then C++ and later C#(.NET) and Java (often in junction with MySQL & Oracle for which we had an extra class also). In between I remember a bit of the ancient arts of COBOL and CICS. I got into Obj-C when I switched to Mac and tried to get my feet wet with something on my own. Though I created nothing in particular with it.

It's just recently that I started working on a real project (C#) and it's been fun so far and I'm eager to finish it and get onto the next thing.

Thank you for the sources!

Thanks for the resources! I agree with regards to hands-on coding. I usually use books to learn the best practices of a certain language and to get a basic understanding. Nothing beats learning something new by solving a real problem.

I'm starting a new project as soon as my current one is finished based on php + javascript. Can anyone suggest good books and/or websites for those two to get started as I never really worked with either of them?

Edit: Apart from the two already mentioned in this thread. (Javascript the definitive guide and javascript the good parts)

There was an IAMA at reddit a while ago from someone who dropped a prototype (of a macbook) in public. You can read it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a8an1/i_was_part_of_th...

The short train scene shown in the video is from http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/

Out of curiosity what are costs of unlimited plans in USA and how hard is it to get those in more rural areas?

Just want to compare it to my current connection which is unlimited traffic, 460KBs down /~60KBs up for €19.99/month. (It also includes a landline which isn't in use - it's the only provider in my area and cheapest offer they have)

Edit: Wording

I found this via DDG, should be the right one http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=503237

Why would there be a need for a publisher? Where is the problem for Microsoft to just host the game on their servers, let people buy it off XBLA, keep a certain percentage of the money and forward the rest to the developers?