These are needed. I think I might be leading the Apple sales charts for the number of sets of washed iPhone earbuds that I have had to replace. I'm thinking I'll put an order in for myself, for Father's Day of course.
I thought I'd take a look into the current status of Mozilla Bespin (a browser-based code editor) ... turns out it got renamed to Skywriter and then merged with a similar tool called Ace. Ace in turn is the code editor used by Cloud9 IDE, which as the name suggests, is a cloud-based development environment. It's pretty new (you can't even pay for it yet) but already has good support for node.js applications and github integration. I dusted off my github account and gave it a spin. Aside from a few hiccups, it was pretty responsive.
Nice little bookmarklet to add unique query strings in order to blow through caches when working on a live site. We employ several layers of caching as well as a CDN on most of our live projects.
Can we have iCloud now? Please? This is the most exciting thing to come of the WWDC for me. Can't wait to have a nice, over the air sync between all my devices.
All that hub-bub about Apple gouging app subscriptions? Yeah, Apple seemed to have quietly changed their guidelines and agreements without so much as a "mea culpa".
If you are fan of Bon Iver, go and listen now. If you are going to buy the album, buy from one of the links on NPR, so they get a few pennies on the referral.
You didn't read the new iTunes end user license agreements and terms of service? That's okay, Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss will read it to you.
Today, dozens of companies are overhauling, switching to the new Internet Protocol version 6. SO if the internet seems sluggish or unresponsive today, you now know why.
Previous launched in the US and soon available in most countries, the facial recognition tool will automatically tag and suggest friends to tag in your photos. And, in case you were interested, here's how to turn it off.
Grab a cup of tea and go watch what the future has in store. Sadly, it looks like the future won't be including Steve Jobs for very much longer. Pretty courageous opening though.
This TRON: Legacy interactive experience is a collaboration between Disney Publishing Worldwide and Internet Explorer 9, exploring new ways of story telling using HTML5 and modern web technologies. Using HTML5 Canvas and audio tags, the experience animates a traditional graphic novel to life.
This might be one of the easiest to comprehend timezone interfaces ever. The best part is that you can add in any locations. Bookmark this one if you need to know timezones around the world.
This will mark the first postal strike in 14 years. Canada Post will continue to deliver unemployment and welfare cheques, pensions and other social-assistance cheque – but no other mail or parcels will go through.
To go with my post above, I just realized that ParaType has a an amazing selection of fonts that have been retooled specifically for screen delivery. Check out Schoolbook Web and Baltic Web for a few nice serifs, Pragmatic Web for another really nice sans-serif, and Elina Web for the next time you design up a site about wizards or dragons.
Now that's what I'm talking about! At the D9 conference, Microsoft gave a first look at Windows 8 and it's touch interface, designed for tablets and based on the excellent Windows Phone 7 design.
Playing for Change, the folks who brought us “Stand By Me†a couple of years ago, traveled the world to bring many artists together for a performance of the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter.â€