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Would Someone Please Just Release a Mac OS X Virus Already?
“Because people, the suspense is killing me.” Would Someone Please Just Release a Mac OS X Virus Already?
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iPad UI Conventions photoset
Nice. Fraser Speirs is at it again (see his excellent Future Shock post as well). iPad UI Conventions photoset
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The Little Boy Who Cried Tablet
Reminds me of the time when I was a kid and was late for dinner. It happened to be April Fool’s Day so I thought I would play a prank. I called up my mom and explained that the reason I was late for dinner was that I had fallen, broken my arm and had…
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Land Ho! The New World of computing
@stevenf gets the iPad. Land Ho! The New World of computing
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Japanese web browser preferences
From What Japan Thinks. By no means a definitive sample, but the 31% Firefox marketshare is encouraging. Japanese web browser preferences
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A rare glimpse of the cave of crystals
Mexico’s Cave of Crystals stunned geologists when it was first discovered in 2000. The underground chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found – some of the selenite structures have grown to more than 10m long. Professor Iain Stewart got a rare glimpse of the subterranean spectacle while filming for the new BBC…
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First person Tetris!
First person Tetris!
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Lovely little interview with John Hodgman: famous writer and minor television personality
Back when I was a freelance magazine writer, I wrote a profile of a sculptor. … I was in his studio, and he had a sculpture of, I think, Robert Kennedy. … And we were across the studio, and he said, “How does that look? Life-size?” And I said yes, it seemed life-size. And he…
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The Tech Crunch ‘Apple Backlash’ Myth
Roughly Drafted takes it to the Apple Haterz at TC: “Anyone who can lay out an iPhone along with its recent competitors (never mind those previous generations of lame “iPhone-Killers” they presented in 2007 and again in 2008) and say with a straight face that the only advantage Apple has is its ability to make…
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How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
I agree: delivery by disk image is far too complicated for the lay user. I have to explain this concept nearly every day. Just the fact that there are three different install paradigms for OS X (drag-and-drop, double click to install, and .pkg type installers) should be a signal that something is wrong. How Should…