Doremisoft Announced PDF to Flash Converter For
Mac 3.1.1

post from prMac on 17 August 2011 11:33:00 PM. © prMac

Doremisoft has announced PDF to Flash Converter For Mac 3.1.1. PDF to Flash Converter for Mac 3.1.1 is a flash flip book creator, to make flash book, flash page flip, flash magazine from PDF files on Mac OS X. Mac PDF to Flash Converter do flash flip book making through converting PDF to SWF flash video format, which assist you to change plain PDF files into dynamic eBook with a few mouse clicks. It allows users to generate HTML pages embedded with Flash flip books or flip magazines.

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Last-Place Aversion

post from Daring Fireball on 17 August 2011 09:03:31 PM. © Daring Fireball

The Economist, on a new study on why the relatively poor often oppose raising taxes on the wealthy:

Instead of opposing redistribution because people expect to makeit to the top of the economic ladder, the authors of the new paperargue that people don?t like to be at the bottom. Oneparadoxical consequence of this ?last-place aversion? is thatsome poor people may be vociferously opposed to the kinds ofpolicies that would actually raise their own income a bit but thatmight also push those who are poorer than them into comparable orhigher positions. The authors ran a series of experiments wherestudents were randomly allotted sums of money, separated by $1,and informed about the ?income distribution? that resulted.They were then given another $2, which they could give either tothe person directly above or below them in the distribution.
In keeping with the notion of ?last-place aversion?, thepeople who were a spot away from the bottom were the most likelyto give the money to the person above them: rewarding the?rich? but ensuring that someone remained poorer thanthemselves.

In short: spite. (Via Aaron Cohen, guest-hosting at Kottke.)

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RIM Still Totally Fucked

post from Daring Fireball on 17 August 2011 06:03:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Zach Epstein, BGR:

T-Mobile subscribers who thought $250 was a tough pill to swallowfor the BlackBerry Bold 9900 will be none too happy with thismorning?s news. T-Mobile on Wednesday finally announced theimminent launch of its Bold 9900 variant, which will becomeavailable on August 31 for a whopping $299.99 with a newtwo-year contract. What?s more, that price is after a $50mail-in rebate, so subscribers looking to nab the latest flagshipout of Waterloo, Ontario will have to part with $350 to do so.

Good luck with that.

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Plans Change

post from Daring Fireball on 17 August 2011 06:03:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

PCWorld, back in January:

Sprint Nextel will sell a WiMax version of the Research InMotion PlayBook tablet beginning this summer, the companiesannounced on Thursday at the International Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas.

Fierce Wireless, this week:

Research in Motion’s PlayBook tablet suffered another blow asSprint Nextel announced it cancelled plans to sell a WiMAX-enabledversion of the device. […]
“It’s an interesting concept, it just hasn’t caught on withbusiness customers,” Paget Alves, president of Sprint’s businessmarkets group, told the Wall Street Journal in explaining Sprint’sdecision not to carry the PlayBook.

Where by “business customers”, Alves means “anyone”.

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Climber Brothers - New addictive game for iPhone
and iPad

post from prMac on 17 August 2011 04:22:00 PM. © prMac

Esquilax Games has introduced Climber Brothers 1.0, for iPhone and iPad. Meet the brothers: Greg and Jeff, two retired climbers with a unique technique and awesome skills. They have already gone for the glory and now they are here for the treasures. They are linked by a rope which helps them move across the mountains by hooking and swinging. With a two-touch gameplay the player has to control two friendly climbers, helping them in getting coins and diamonds through 63 different levels.

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Very, Very Responsive

post from Daring Fireball on 17 August 2011 04:03:08 PM. © Daring Fireball

Dieter Bohn from The Verge, at around the 1:20 mark in his video review of Fusion Garage’s new Grid 10 forked-version-of-Android tablet: “Taking a look at the pinch-to-zoom action, it’s very, very responsive. I’m really impressed with what they’ve managed to do here.”

If my iPad’s pinch-to-zoom were that choppy, I’d take it back to the Apple Store, because I’d know there was something seriously wrong with it.

(Via Marco Arment.)

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WSJ Profile on Google and Motorolas Clashing
Cultures

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Shayndi Raice, writing for the WSJ:

A key difference between the companies stems from Motorola’s focuson hardware and Google’s on software. That helps explain whyGoogle is more able to take risks, Mr. Jha said. If he worked atGoogle and “wrote a little bit of code, and if there are bugs, Ican fix it later,” he said. “When I deliver a phone, I don’t havethat flexibility.”

Like when Motorola promised a tablet with support for 4G networking, shipped it without it, and told users not to worry, someday they’d be required to send the tablet back to Motorola to get it? That sort of flexibility?

The employees — About 20,000 at Motorola Mobility and nearly29,000 at Google — will have to get used to each other. One formerAndroid executive boasted that Google employees has [sic], on average,20 IQ points more than their Motorola counterparts.

Who knows who this unnamed “former Android executive” is, but if that’s even vaguely indicative of the average Google employee’s estimation their Motorola counterparts, get me some popcorn. This is going to be fun.

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Jim Dalrymple on the Tablet Market

Jim Dalrymple:

Some tablet makers and OS developers are trying to convince peoplethat their products are better than the iPad. The fact is, allthey are doing is adding features to Apple?s concept. Anyone cancopy a concept and then add small things to it, but Apple stillowns the original and consumers identify with that. Nobody isbeing fooled.

Cf. today’s aforelinked report on TouchPad sales at Best Buy — and the TouchPad, I say, is clearly the best of the bunch.

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Rick Santorum’s Website Using Pirated Font
Leads to $2 Million Lawsuit

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Some Website: Anemic Sales of HP TouchPad at Best
Buy

Arik Hesseldahl:

According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory.
A second person who has seen Best Buy?s TouchPad sales figures confirmed the results as ?consistent with what I?ve seen,? and went so far as to say that 25,000 sold might be ?charitable.? This source suggested that the 25,000-unit sales number may not account for units that consumers return to stores for a refund.

Sad.

Also, a clear example of the potentially stark differences between “shipped” and “sold”.

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