Polaroids SX-70: The Art and Science of the
Nearly Impossible

post from Daring Fireball on 15 June 2011 11:04:03 PM. © Daring Fireball

Terrific piece by Harry McCracken on Polaroid founder Edwin Land, and the SX-70 camera:

?Don?t undertake a project,? an oft-quoted Land maxim goes,?unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.?The SX-70 was both.

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http://technologizer.com/2011/06/08/polaroid/

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Storyboarding on the iPad

post from Daring Fireball on 15 June 2011 08:03:41 PM. © Daring Fireball

Stu Maschwitz on using the iPad app Penultimate for storyboarding:

I approached the developer, Ben Zotto, about my desire to usePenultimate for storyboarding. The app then offered a selection ofthree paper styles; plain, lined, and graph. Rather thanmyopically suggesting he add storyboarding templates, a ratherniche use case, I suggested that it might be of general interestto his users to allow custom papers. I must not have been the onlyone thinking this, because just this May, Ben released aPenultimate 3.0 with exactly that feature. He even used a filmstoryboard as his example.

Good way to think about making feature requests.

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http://prolost.com/blog/2011/6/15/what-i-do-with-my-ipad-part-1-storyboarding.htm
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Joanna Stern Reviews the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

post from Daring Fireball on 15 June 2011 07:03:39 PM. © Daring Fireball

She gives it high marks for the hardware — display, camera, build quality — but low marks for battery life and third-party app selection. Not much of the review is about software, period. Nor is any sort of answer to “Why buy this instead of an iPad?” proffered.

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Read The Full Article:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/06/15/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-review/

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What We Talk About When We Talk About RSS

post from Daring Fireball on 15 June 2011 06:04:09 PM. © Daring Fireball

Brent Simmons:

People sometimes say that ?RSS is dead,? that it lost toTwitter and Facebook. They don?t always specify what they?retalking about, so I?ll look at each meaning of ?RSS? andfigure out which ones are dead.
And then I?ll play you out with a song.

(By the way, Brent’s new gig, Sepia Labs, launched last week at WWDC.)

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http://inessential.com/2011/06/15/what_we_talk_about_when_we_talk_about_rs

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Next Generation of Android Phones to Lose the
Hardware Buttons

post from Daring Fireball on 15 June 2011 06:04:09 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jonathan S. Geller at BGR with leaked info of the purported next-generation Nexus phone:

The display is said to be a 720p HD ?monster-sized? screen,and it won?t feature physical Android menu buttons below thescreen anymore ? everything will be software-based. More afterthe break.

Those hardware back/home/menu/search buttons were a bad idea from the start.

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http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/15/exclusive-google-nexus-4g-detailed-720p-display-4g-
lte-android-4-0/

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Another Salient Difference

post from Daring Fireball on 15 June 2011 06:04:08 PM. © Daring Fireball

Merlin Mann:

Google: Thanks for looking at 100s of ads you hate.
Apple: Thanks for buying 100s of dollars of stuff you love.

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http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/81018502886064128

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MacBasket Bundle: One Free and 7 More Mac Apps
for 85% Off

post from prMac on 15 June 2011 03:29:00 PM. © prMac

MacBasket launched its latest bundle Wednesday, featuring an unrivalled collection of 7 first-rate Mac apps. What makes this limited-time bundle so unique, is the fact that it includes a number of brand new apps. The 85% saving is complemented by the giveaway of a $20 app to anyone who tweets the promotion; no purchase required. Included in this bundle are; Frenzy, Mail Perspectives, GarageSale, Typinator, Morph Age 4, Disk Drill Pro and Mariner Write.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-26877.htm

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WWDC Wayback Machine: 1999

Mike Silverman found his WWDC 1999 schedule:

Apple was just coming out of their mid-decade tailspin, and newInterim CEO Steve Jobs was presiding over a company on therebound. The iMac was fresh, colorful and awesome, and the stockwas rocketing into the 20s. And yes, there was WWDC sodevelopers could learn about new technologies. Mac OS 8.5 wascoming, and Mac OS X was the future. WWDC itself was held in theSan Jose convention center. It was smaller, less then a fifththe size of today.

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Read The Full Article:
http://www.mikesilverman.com/redletterday/2011/06/wwdc-wayback-machine-1999/

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