Macsome Releases Audio Splitter a Fast Audio
Conversion Tool

post from prMac on 23 February 2011 07:46:00 PM. © prMac

Macsome Inc has announced the release of Macsome Audio Splitter a free and fast audio files splitter, which can split any size audio file in unprotected MP3 or AAC format into several smaller files in a few seconds to fit MP3 players or any music players. The audio file ID tags information will be preserved, and the sound quality will be kept untouched while splitting.

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Store Wars

post from Daring Fireball on 23 February 2011 07:03:37 PM. © Daring Fireball

Kontra:

Put simply, publishers don?t want readers to opt in, becausethey know readers will prefer to opt out. Transparency is not afriend of publishers who for decades made a mint by selling outreaders to advertisers and list brokers. Most readers may not beaware of this, but those who are don?t like it. Publishers knowthat and hate Apple for calling their bluff. If personal infoharvesting isn?t essential for publishers? business model andit is in the interest of readers, then why would they be againstan instant referendum in the form of the opt in button?

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The Overlook Hotel Restaurant Childrens Menu

post from Daring Fireball on 23 February 2011 06:04:21 PM. © Daring Fireball

Speaking of Kubrick-related links culled from Coudal: the children’s menu placemat from The Overlook Hotel.

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Just How Is Apples App Store Subscription Policy
Good for Users

post from Daring Fireball on 23 February 2011 06:04:21 PM. © Daring Fireball

Shane Richmond:

The case for the defence, as usual with Apple, comes from JohnGruber. Greeting the arrival of the subscription plan on hisDaring Fireball blog, Gruber wrote: ?You?ll seldom gowrong betting on Apple doing something that?s good for Apple andgood for its users — no matter what the ramifications foreveryone else.?
I agree that is usually the case but in this instance I can?tsee how the subscription plan is good for users. And if it?s notgood for users then, in the long term, it won?t be good forApple either.

Here’s how I see it as good for users:

In-app subscriptions are easy to sign up for.
In-app subscriptions are easy to unsubscribe from. This is where things start getting way better than the old days. It’s always been in magazines’ and newspapers’ interests to make it easy to sign up for a new subscription. They couldn’t replicate iTunes-style one-click-and-a-password ease, but they could get close. But they never made it easy to unsubscribe later on, because it wasn’t in their interests.
Privacy protection. Publishers only get your personal information if you opt-in. They want that information so they can sell it to junk-mail companies.
The price protection rule — which prohibits publishers from charging iOS App Store users more for in-app subscriptions than they would pay from outside the store — might be a bad deal for publishers, but it’s good for users, because they know they’re getting the best price.

Again, if this subscription policy knocks a bunch of good apps out of the store, sure, that’ll be bad for iOS users. But that hasn’t happened, and clearly, Apple thinks it isn’t going to happen.

(One more note: Richmond, in his headline, calls it “Apple’s iOS Subscription Policy”. I think it’s important to note that it’s Apple’s App Store subscription policy. The App Store is what is closed and controlled by Apple. iOS has MobileSafari, through which anyone can do whatever they want.)

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What Happens After Yahoo Acquires You

post from Daring Fireball on 23 February 2011 05:03:41 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matt Linderman examines the fates of Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming, and MyBlogLog:

Below is a full list of Yahoo?s acquisitions since 2005. Howmany can be described as success stories?

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The Big Picture on the Christchurch Earthquake

post from Daring Fireball on 23 February 2011 05:03:41 PM. © Daring Fireball

Devastation.

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Pencil Revolution Interview With Aaron Draplin

post from Daring Fireball on 23 February 2011 05:03:41 PM. © Daring Fireball

Aaron Draplin:

The more I think about it, the more pencils — on some weirdlevel — represent ?complete freedom.? Freedom from digitalubiquity and predictability. There something cool about how youfeel human when using a pencil. That feeling goes away the back toguys shaping rocks into cutting tools and stuff, I?d reckon.

Part 2 here.

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For Berra and Guidry, It Happens Every Spring

Yogi Berra’s valet during spring training: Ron Guidry. Baseball.

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A Good Demonstration of Light Peak/Thunderbolt

High-performance, multiple protocols — you can see why Apple would like this.

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The End of the IT Department

David Heinemeier Hansson:

The transition won?t happen over night, but it?s long sincebegun. The companies who feel they can do without an official ITdepartment are growing in number and size. It?s entirelypossible to run a 20-man office without ever even considering theneed for a computer called ?server? somewhere.

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