Once a Met, Always a Met

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2011 11:04:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Mike Monteiro:

They still sell beer during the 6th.

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Use Xdownload to Enjoy Entertainment
Uninterruptedly on your iPhone

post from prMac on 08 August 2011 10:56:00 PM. © prMac

David Inc. has announced xDownload 1.0.01, an app for downloading and managing audio, video, and more on your iPhone. Ever been annoyed by halting 3G speed when accessing online video or audio? Hand-tied by browser which doesn't let you save the file when you come across one that you like? xDownload gives you the power to pull all you want into a background downloading queue. It manages the download files so you can enjoy them uninterruptedly and without consuming your 3G data quota.

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Tumult Hype 1.0.4 - Trial Version Available

post from prMac on 08 August 2011 09:00:00 PM. © prMac

Tumult, Inc. today announced Tumult Hype 1.0.4, a trial version availability and direct purchasing of its HTML5 animation builder for Mac OS X. Tumult Hype is a designer-friendly tool enabling users to build beautiful animated and interactive web content using HTML5. It's standard output works on all modern browsers and mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. HTML5 has been widely lauded as the future of the web due to its performance, accessibility, and ability to run on smartphones.

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How Bad Is News Corp.

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2011 08:04:27 PM. © Daring Fireball

Michael Wolff on the state of the Murdoch empire and its Mob-like structure.

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Please Stop Calling Gadgets Sexy

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2011 06:05:04 PM. © Daring Fireball

Mat Honan:

Dear technology journalists of the world: You know how you called that gadget you just reviewed sexy? Tell me, do you intend to fuck it, or do you simply plan to shove it up your ass?

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Mark Cuban on Patent Reform

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2011 04:06:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Mark Cuban:

End all software patents. Don?t make them shorter, eliminate them.
End all process patents. They serve absolutely no purpose.

That’d be a good start.

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Meet an Extensis Expert – Russell Cheung

post from Manage This on 08 August 2011 02:05:19 PM. © Manage This

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DigiTimes: Non-Apple Tablet PC Shipments Expected
to Grow 134 Percent in 2012

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2011 02:05:14 PM. © Daring Fireball

So that’s what it has come to: “non-Apple tablets” as a separate category.

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Danny Sullivan on Google and Copying

Good piece by Danny Sullivan defending Google. But:

Gruber tells us that the Android UI was copied from Apple. Hall says that the idea of a touchscreen smartphone was copied by the iPhone.
Newsflash. As a Windows Mobile user from 2004, I had a touchscreen smartphone that ran apps long before that idea ever punched itself out of Apple. My phone did things that Apple later copied, too, such as the innovative copy-and-paste feature. It was magical.

As a reminder, here’s what Android phones looked like before and after the introduction of the iPhone. Yes, it really did evolve to resemble Windows Mobile circa 2004.

There’s an argument to be made that copying good ideas is not wrong, that copying is how progress is made. That everything is a remix. But you can’t seriously argue that Google doesn’t copy. And I’d say they copy more ideas from others than others copy original ideas from Google. You don’t see many clones of Google Wave.

My recent complaints about Google haven’t really been about copying, in and of itself, though. It’s about Google’s whining and hypocrisy when competitors fight back.

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Back to Childhood with Zepi:Kids HD

OstinGames has introduced Zepi:Kids HD 1.0, the second app of the Zepi game series for the iPad. The app offers all pleasures possible in an iPad game: simple and exiting gameplay, high quality graphics, nice sound effects, user-friendly interface, an easily navigable menu, power-ups, achievements, and Game Center support. Zepi:Kids HD is the reaction based app for kids. iPhone/iPod touch series are Zepi:Classic, Zepi:Ultra, Zepi:Spring, Zepi:Dark, Zepi:Pirates, Zepi:War, Zepi:Kids, Zepi:Free.

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