Dead Island Trailer

post from Daring Fireball on 20 February 2011 06:03:39 PM. © Daring Fireball

Brutal, haunting, moving trailer for the video game Dead Island. (Via Matt Drance.)

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Regarding a Smaller iPhone With the Same Pixel
Count

post from Daring Fireball on 20 February 2011 06:03:39 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jin Kim:

Picture this: a kid in elementary school wielding an iPhone 4.Kinda big if you ask me. If Apple is building a smaller iPhone,it would be for guys and gals with smaller hands. The physicalsize matters, which is exactly the reason Apple would build asmaller iPhone. A smaller screen would force app rewrites? No.What if the smaller iPhone had a pixel format of 480×320? Thesame as the iPhone 3GS, 3G and the original? No rewritingrequired at all. And guess what? Apple would classify it as aRetina Display. Pure genius.

In theory this would work. You could make iPhone screens of any size, so long as the pixel resolution were either 480 × 320 or 960 × 640. But in practice that’s not how the iPhone was designed. It’s a physical artifact, and the size of the display is what’s important. Nor do I think the existing iPhone 4 is uncomfortably big for small hands. Apple might make the area surrounding the display smaller, and surely they’ll continue making the hardware thinner, but I really don’t think we’ll see screen sizes other than 3.5 inches, unless Apple introduces a new size that developers would need to specifically redesign their apps to properly target — and I just don’t see a need for that.

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Marco Arments Theory on Verizon iPhone Sales

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Marco Arment, on the sales figures for Instapaper in the App Store:

The results are fairly obvious: I see huge spikes wheneverthere?s a new iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad released, wheneverthey become available in a major new country, or wheneverthere?s a major reason for people to buy a lot of them (like theholidays).

But he didn’t see a spike for the Verizon iPhone.

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Isaiah Carew: Apples Three Laws of Developers

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From the Department of Funny Because It’s True.

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Thats Two

post from Daring Fireball on 20 February 2011 05:04:08 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ross Miller is leaving Engadget:

As for the reasons why, I won?t get too far into it. The AOL Way isn?t the sole reason, but it?s certainly a catalyst, a symptom of concerns I?ve had for a while. I worry about the long-term viability of what I foresee is the future business model.

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Nokias Value-Engineering Culture

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Adam Greenfield on his tenure at Nokia:

As it happens, the value-engineering mindset that?s so crucial to profitability as a commodity trader is fatal as a purveyor of experiences. Of course you still want to produce your offering for the lowest achievable cost ? but that cost is bound up in intangible, nondeterministic dimensions of design, in ways that are only partially-at-best quantifiable. It?s just not particularly wise to allow engineers to make decisions about things like product and service nomenclature, interface typography and the graphic design of icons: they?re, I daresay, not even neurocognitively equipped to do so. And yet this is what happened when I was at Nokia and, I would imagine, is happening still.

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eCard Express for iPhone - Personal and Business
Greeting Cards

post from prMac on 20 February 2011 01:11:00 PM. © prMac

Bartsoft Inc., has announced eCard Express 1.0.1, the new festive greeting card application for the iPhone. This application enables users to create and customize greeting cards with high quality stickers, frames, and their own photos or images from the iPhone photo library. eCard Express is intuitive, very easy to use, and very efficient at producing high quality cards for many occasions. Create your own ecards library and share them via email, MMS, Facebook and Twitter.

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Wannasoft Studio Offering Blu-ray DVD to MKV
Converter for Mac

Wannasoft Studio, is glad to offer Blu-ray DVD to MKV Converter which is capable of ripping BD/DVD disk and converting M2TS/VOB to MKV HD format. It is able to decipher automatically and support to load any versions of commercial BD and DVDs. Subtitles and language are also able to be streamed from BD/DVD disk into output MKV video files. It provides users with useful editing functions, including set the output effect, trimming clips and cropping video.

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NYT Pours Cold Water on Smaller iPhone Rumors

Miguel Helft and Nick Bilton:

Apple has been exploring ways to broaden the appeal of the iPhoneby making the popular device less expensive and allowing users tocontrol it with voice commands.
But contrary to published reports, Apple is not currentlydeveloping a smaller iPhone, according to people briefed onApple?s plans who requested anonymity because the plans areconfidential.

Translation: Suck it, Yukari Kane, you got it wrong. See, there’s this gentlemen’s agreement where major newspapers like The New York Times and Wall Street Journal will go out of their way not to name each other. “Contrary to published reports”? They know damn where the “small iPhone” rumor came from: the WSJ.

Anyway, a smaller iPhone would be stupid, if by “smaller” you mean a screen that measures less than 3.5 or so inches. The physical size of the UI matters more than anything else.

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Dumadu Releases Air Hockey (Multi-Player) for
iPad Lite 1.0

Dumadu Games Pvt Ltd has released Air Hockey 1.0 an addictive and highly skilled hockey game for iPad. To play Air Hockey you need some quick reflexes, deceptive attacks and solid defense. In this game for iPad you will experience it like a real air hockey game.You can choose one of three levels of difficulty to assess your skills and expertise. You can play this game with your friends by selecting multiplayer mode and determine their speed and intelligence.

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