April 2010
27 posts
AT&T normalizes that pesky "month" unit of time
AT&T 3G Data Plans for Apple iPad defines “month” as 30 days, effectively raising the rates from what was advertised. i.e. their $30/month plan implies $360/year, but AT&T is really charging you $30 for 30 days, so a year will cost you $365 ($366 in 2012). Those sneaky bastards! That’s it, I’m returning my iPad tomorrow.
What you can learn from Panic's approach to email... →
I was pretty impressed when I saw this message on my iPhone the other day. There’s good stuff in this behind-the-scenes look, for those of you who send bulk HTML email.
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way - Microsoft was supposed to be the evil...”
– Jon Stewart Slams Apple Over Its Handling of Gizmodo Case
“For the first time, marketers spent more in 2009 on Internet advertising than in...”
– Drilling Down - Internet Eclipses Magazines in Ad Revenue in 2009 - NYTimes.com
“Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal is not...”
– Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com
“Internally called 16X, the next-generation Mazda rotary will again be a...”
– Mazda Sticks with the Rotary Engine, While Audi Adopts It. Way cool!
“In looking back on how we got here, the business press assumes a tone of rueful...”
– How Could 9,000 Business Reporters Blow It? (via Kaiser Fung)
“Responding to reader input, we are changing Web site to website. This appears on...”
– AP. Duly noted.
The Rocket Experience § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM →
More insightful than other writeups I’ve seen about Obama’s recently announced change in NASA’s direction.
Free Software
If I google “Free Software” with Google’s “Personalized Web Search” disabled, then the first hit is for the FSF (as God intended). But if I google it with PWS enabled, then the first hit is for… download.cnet.com. WTF? Google, you should know me better than that.
“H.264 has been taken up almost ubiquitously, with Mozilla holding out on...”
– Ajaxian » Google to open source On2 VP8 codec at Google I/O?. If you think this is even remotely “religious”, then you haven’t tried to understand Free software, and making snarky comments about it just makes you look like an idiot.
Designer Spotlight: Folkert Gorter →
I usually skim and delete FF’s newsletters, but this one grabbed my attention. Nicely done and well worth a few minutes of your time.
“Driving while intoxicated, resulting in a death, is punishable by no less than...”
– Mahoney pleads no contest in hit-and-run death - Brattleboro Reformer. What?!? No wonder people drink and drive: there’s no punishment! A year in prison and a $10,000 fine is a fucking slap on the wrist for killing someone.
“Apple’s thermal guidelines for the iPad cite a maximum operating...”
– Like iPad, blistering in the sun: Temperature issues reported. Damn, I guess the iPad will have to stay home when I go to the beach this summer and the Kindle will accompany me instead.
“I have no idea what factors led to Apple’s decision to equip their device with a...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · Memory Matters. I disagree with Tim’s assertion that “regular” users need apps like Lightroom in order to be “creative”, but I fully agree with this: sticking only 256MB of RAM in the iPad makes no sense.
“If you’ve got an iPad (or the SDK simulator), check out the iPad-optimized...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: iPad-Optimized Version of iPhone OS Reference Library. So you gain popover navigation and a nice split view in landscape mode, but you lose the ability to tap the iPad’s title bar to scroll to the top of the page. I guess you just can’t have it all…
“So we ran a fingerprint comparison of the Googlebot, Bing and Yahoo results...”
– SEO Experts; your robots revealed!, We’ve just caught Google, Yahoo and Bing’s spiders in the FindMeByIP.com web… and the results are quite intriguing…. Huh. 