The #4A525Aholes Flickr Group

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 11:04:22 PM. © Daring Fireball

Best thing you can do with a brand-new DF T-shirt? Add a picture to be the best group on Flickr.

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Ryan Heises Dinner With Android

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 09:04:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ryan Heise, who describes his iPhone as “the best computer I’ve ever owned”, has switched to a Nexus S and is documenting his experience:

So what?s the point? To try to understand the legitimatedifferences between iOS and Android without the inane fanboyishscreaming from either side, and to do this firsthand. I likegadgets, and I?ve spent a decent amount of time with iOS,BlackBerry OS, WP7, and WebOS. But very little with the biggestplayer in the smartphone market. Now, for better or worse, thatwill change.

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New Airport Extreme and Time Capsule

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 08:04:18 PM. © Daring Fireball

Seth Weintraub:

Our sources noted that Airport Express has been plentiful but supplies of TimeCapsule and Airport Extreme have been tightening globally the way products usually do before a refresh.
What we do know is that Apple has been internally testing Time Capsules to cache Software Updates for both Mac and iOS devices. The way we?ve heard it works is that the new Time Capsule learns which devices connect to it via Wi-Fi. It then goes out to Apple?s servers and downloads Software Updates for those products.

There might be something to this. What if this is a way for iOS devices to do software updates without being tethered to a Mac or PC?

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Chris Clarks Month With the Nexus S

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 07:04:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Speaking of iPhone users who tried the Nexus S and documented their experience, Chris Clark spent a month with the Nexus S and wrote about it back in March. I had it in my to-link-to queue but somehow never got around to actually linking it — I think because at the time I still planned to write about my own month spent using a Nexus S.

The truth is, my experience and thoughts almost exactly mirror Clark’s. (The only difference is that Clark likes Android 2.3’s UI for placing the insertion point in text; I do not.) I can’t emphasize how closely Clark’s thoughts on the Nexus S and Android match my own.

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http://releasecandidateone.com/241:my_month_with_the_nexus_s

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Secret Horse-Doping Lab

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 06:03:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Episode 45 of The Talk Show, and it’s a good one:

John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon?s music downloads,Bill Gates and Microsoft, Eric Schmidt, the ASUS Padfone, LogicalPunctuation, Apple?s cash, their WWDC predictions, iOS Twitterintegration, and A View to a Kill.

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Motorola CEO Says Open Android Store Leads to
Quality Issues

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 06:03:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nancy Gohring, IDG News:

Motorola’s CEO blamed the open Android app store for performanceissues on some phones.
Of all the Motorola Android devices that are returned, 70 percentcome back because applications affect performance, Sanjay Jha, CEOof Motorola Mobility, said during a webcast presentation at theBank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology conference onThursday.
Unlike most other mobile app stores, the Android Market is totallyopen, meaning anyone can upload an application to the store. WhileGoogle removes applications that are found to be malicious, thereis no mechanism for ensuring that applications performefficiently.
“For power consumption and CPU use, those apps are not tested.We’re beginning to understand the impact that has,” Jha said.

Take your time.

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ality_issues.html

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My Dinner With Android

post from Daring Fireball on 02 June 2011 06:03:51 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ryan Heise, who describes his iPhone as “the best computer I’ve ever owned”, has switched to a Nexus S and is documenting his experience:

So what?s the point? To try to understand the legitimatedifferences between iOS and Android without the inane fanboyishscreaming from either side, and to do this firsthand. I likegadgets, and I?ve spent a decent amount of time with iOS,BlackBerry OS, WP7, and WebOS. But very little with the biggestplayer in the smartphone market. Now, for better or worse, thatwill change.

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http://dinnerwithandroid.tumblr.com/

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Get a Front Row Seat at TEDxMunich Courtesy of
BoinxTV

Boinx Software gears up to produce the live video stream of one of summer's hottest events - TEDxMunich. On June 7 BoinxTV, the company's award-winning live-video production software, will take at-home viewers straight to the front row of innovation at TEDxMunich. Created in the spirit of ideas worth spreading, the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialog through TED-like experiences and events at the local level.

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WWDC 2011 App

Includes the full schedule and more. Love that the icon is Moscone West. (Note: The app is free but you need to be a WWDC attendee to sign in to the app.) Here’s my favorite search.

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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wwdc/id437129891?mt=8

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Barry Lyndon Blu-ray

Gary Tooze on the just-released Blu-ray edition of Barry Lyndon:

SD was problematic with this title but Blu-ray has ‘turned thecorner’ returning the visuals to the painterly luster of theirtheatrical roots. This is dual-layered with a modest bitrate forthe over 3-hour film framed for this release in 1.78:1. Colorsseem brighter and truer than SD could relate and there is softnessin the scenes that were shot in that manner. This Blu-ray probablylooks as close to Barry Lyndon as we have seen from the digitalmedium. Kubrick fans should rejoice.

It’s gorgeous. I mean, look at this. Just $13.99 at Amazon.

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http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews54/barry_lyndon_blu-ray.htm

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