Google Chrome: Dear Sophie

post from Daring Fireball on 04 May 2011 08:05:18 PM. © Daring Fireball

Good ad from Google.

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Business Class for News

post from Daring Fireball on 04 May 2011 08:05:18 PM. © Daring Fireball

I love this idea from Oliver Reichenstein: a premium “business class” level for news websites. Stop trying to figure out ways to block the flow of information with paywalls. Allow everyone the same access to the content — in the way that every passenger gets transported from A to B on an airplane — but allow people to pay for a superior experience.

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http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-class-news/

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Another Reason to Encrypt Your iOS Backups

post from Daring Fireball on 04 May 2011 08:05:18 PM. © Daring Fireball

Marco Arment:

You should encrypt your backups, if not for security reasons, fora big convenience gain: encrypted backups will include your emailand Mobile Me passwords so you never need to re-enter them after arestore.

I did not know that.

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http://www.marco.org/2011/04/20/iphone-records-tower-locations

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Gamsu Associates Limited has Released Two New
Scrabble iPhone Apps

post from prMac on 04 May 2011 05:20:00 PM. © prMac

Following from the success of its BMI for Adults iPhone app, Gamsu Associates Limited has released two new Scrabble apps for the iPhone, CHALLENGE! Pro and School Edition. Delays in Scrabble competition play are set to be a thing of the past. No longer need there be long pauses while physical dictionaries are brought to the players' table and then consulted. Nor will there be a need for players to leave their seats to access an online computer elsewhere in the competition hall.

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The Great Ephemeralization

post from Daring Fireball on 04 May 2011 05:05:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

Timothy B. Lee:

For example, a couple of years ago, Google waved a magic wand thattransformed millions of Android phones into sophisticatednavigation devices with turn-by-turn directions. This wasfunctionality that people had previously paid hundreds of dollarsfor in stand-alone devices. Now it?s just another feature thatcomes with every Android phone, and the cost of Android phoneshasn?t gone up. I haven?t checked, but I bet that this wealthcreation was not reflected in GDP statistics. And it?s actuallyworse than that: as people stop buying stand-alone GPS devices,Google?s innovation will actually show up in the statistics as areduction in GDP. […]
But the real lesson here may not be that the American economy isstagnating, but rather that the government is bad at measuringimprovements in our standard of living that come from the softwareindustry.

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Derek K. Millers Last Post

post from Daring Fireball on 04 May 2011 05:05:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

Derek K. Miller:

Here it is. I’m dead, and this is my last post to my blog. Inadvance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from thepunishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish thisprepared message I wrote — the first part of the process ofturning this from an active website to an archive.
If you knew me at all in real life, you probably heard the newsalready from another source, but however you found out, considerthis a confirmation: I was born on June 30, 1969 in Vancouver,Canada, and I died in Burnaby on May 3, 2011, age 41, ofcomplications from stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. We allknew this was coming.

He went down swinging, and with astounding class, dignity, and openness.

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http://www.penmachine.com/2011/05/the-last-post

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Nozbe Todo for Mac Joins the Productivity Package
for GTD Addicts

post from prMac on 04 May 2011 04:30:00 PM. © prMac

Nozbe Todo for Mac is a new desktop application developed by Macoscope, which gives users instant access to their Nozbe web accounts. Along with recently updated Nozbe Todo for iPhone, iPod and iPad, Nozbe Todo for Mac makes a unique and super efficient set of productivity apps that not only helps managing tasks, but actually gets them done. Thanks to Nozbe Todo for Mac, users can get their Nozbe out of their cluttered web browsers and put it into separate app, the place it deserves.

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Zevrix Releases Graphic Inspector 1.7.12,
Improves GIF Image Handling

Zevrix Solutions announces Graphic Inspector 1.7.12, a maintenance update to its quality control solution which checks entire folders of graphic files for potential problems according to specific workflow requirements. The software provides graphic professionals of any trade with the most exhaustive info on multiple images and vector graphics, saving the time and hassle of checking them manually. The new version improves checkup accuracy of GIF files and images with unknown resolution.

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Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3 to Address Location Bugs

Dan Moren:

Firstly, it reduces the amount of the cached location informationto a week?s worth, rather than relying on a size limit, as itpreviously did. Secondly, it no longer backs up the cache to yourMac or PC via iTunes upon syncing, so the information isn?tavailable to anyone with access to your computer. And finally, thecache is now deleted from the device when Location Services aredisabled in iOS?s Settings app.

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http://www.macworld.com/article/159643/2011/05/ios433_location_fixes.html

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Slewpi Makes it Easy to Create Beautiful Music
and Animations Together

Software artist Rumi Humphrey is pleased to announce his new app Slewpi 1.0 for iOS. Slewpi is an amazing new way to explore painting, music, and animation. It's super easy to use, just paint on the screen with one or more fingers and choose different colors and brushes to change the way the strokes look and sound. Slewpi records what you do and plays it back in a loop. Never before has creating music and animation together been so easy.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-25151.htm

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