As a developer who owns an Xbox 360 and iOS devices, I can tell you this article is 100% right. Either Apple or the nascent Ouya are going to scoop up the 'connected living experience', despite Microsoft having years of leadtime and foundation to work off of.
Desktopper is a collection of desctop wallpapers that can integrate to Dropbox account to have your favourite wallpapers automatically sync to your hard drive!
For those of you that follow world news, the latest Pope is resigning from the position for life job he has. Nothing concrete, but it sounds like health issues will prevent him from touring and as any band will tell you, no tours no money.
Meanwhile here in Winnipeg we have been shoveling snow daily for about 3 months. Lots of snow this year, yet we don't seem to have the media coverage the East Coast is getting.
An editorial by legendary Disney comic artist Don Rosa, on why he quit the industry. Must reading for every sort of comicbook fan and for every sort of creative professional.
No one believed me that this game existed. A game where you had to "avoid" groupies, shifty managers and gig somethings. A game where you had to pilot each member of the band to Journey's spaceship before they ran out of money. It was real. It was in glorious Atari midi. And my brother and I used to see who could play the longest. Glorious!
Randy Edmunds at Adobe suggests adding text-wrap: balance; to CSS. The demo page includes a JavaScript implementation for those who can't wait for browsers to implement this feature.
It is getting past time that big companies start reining in their lawyers; any legal standing they gain gets completely undercut by the resulting bad public relations from their vocal fans online :/
Personal Audio LLC claims to hold a 2012 patent on a “system for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence"... or, as they refer to it, the "podcasting patent".
Michael Dell and Silver Lake finalize a $24.4 billion acquisition, moving the PC firm out of the public market. Maybe this will give the company the room it needs to make some great products in the future.
A reminder that not all solutions fit all problems. After all, most modern smartphones and tablets were designed with the capability to use the "real" internet.
A short animated feature by Storycorps. "On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space. But first, he was a kid with big dreams in Lake City, South Carolina."
People are reporting that if you type in "File:///" (sans quotes) in almost any Mountain Lion app, you can crash that app... something I can confirm; I had to restart my web browser twice trying to post this item to our blog.