Atebits support FAQ on Twitter’s new-style retweets and Tweetie’s support for them.
★ [...]According to Mike Arrington, they got screwed by their hardware manufacturing partner at the last moment.
No word from Popular Mechanics yet on whether they get to keep their product of the year award.
★ [...]Stewart Alsop in February 1997:
Let’s get this straight right away: Apple Computer did the wrong thing. On December 20, Apple announced that it would spend $400 million to purchase Steve Jobs’s company, Next Software. The company said it would adopt Next’s NextStep operating system for future versions of the [...]
Where by “Silverlight” they mean “streaming video from a Silverlight server”, and by “worked with Apple” they mean “implemented the non-proprietary H.264 and HTML5 standards that the iPhone already supports”. This has nothing at all to do with the iPhone running code for the Silverlight runtime. (Adobe, take note.)
But if [...]
Jeremy King:
Microsoft’s latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless.
The problem affects Microsoft products including Windows 7, Vista and XP operating systems, said Mel Morris , the CEO and CTO for the [...]
He blames the OS, not the hardware, and complains that the UI is frequently not responsive. It’s always interesting to see reviews after a device has been out for a month, but I haven’t (yet) seen any others like this about the Droid.
[...]Dave Winer:
Unix had a shell language. DOS had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have gotten out of the habit of making programmable end-user products, but they are still just as important [...]
Reuters:
Ailing telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has changed its business focus to increasing its market share, the new chief executive of the venture was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“In early 2008 we made a strategic decision to focus more on cash flow and profitability than on [...]
Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff:
With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. […]
From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan villages [...]
Great follow-up from Alan Storm to my piece yesterday on the regex for matching URLs. Storm does what I was too lazy to do: dissect the regex and explain how it works. I’m a big fan of the “/x” format for regex patterns — it’s a big aid for [...]
Tons of improvements, especially regarding H.264 encoding.
Update: If you want to use it with VLC for ripping from DVDs, note that you’ll need the 32-bit version of HandBrake, because the latest stable Mac OS X version of VLC is 32-bit.
Update 2: Some readers are reporting success with the previous [...]
A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern:
\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))This pattern should work in most modern regex implementations. [...]
A few months ago I started an official DF Twitter feed. Everything I post to Daring Fireball gets posted to Twitter automatically. Effectively, it’s a Twitter version of the DF RSS feed.
(Yes, some Twitter clients don’t correctly parse the ✪df.ws URLs. That’s because these Twitter clients have bugs. Also, yes, [...]
Huge discounts from Amazon on Apple kit. E.g., the current price for a new white MacBook is just $884.98 — savings of $114 off the regular price. iPods, MacBooks, iMacs — all on sale. Shop from this link (for anything from Amazon) and I’ll get a kickback.
[...]My thanks to Tap Tap Tap for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Voices. Voices is a fun new iPhone app — make an audio recording and Voices will change your voice into one of several funny characters, including a chipmunk, a robot, a protected witness, and over [...]
I want to kiss them, they’re so beautiful. Best batch of Field Notes Colors yet. And check out this swell video the gang at Coudal just released (which includes a nice coupon on yearly Field Notes Colors subscriptions).
★ [...]Which would explain the stink eye Apple Legal cast at The Little App Factory’s initial attempt to rename iPodRip to PodRip. I still say it’s crummy. (Via Nilay Patel.)
★ [...]At the request of Apple’s attorneys, The Little App Factory has renamed their iPodRip app “iRip”. (Disclosure: The Little App Factory is a previous and future sponsor of the DF RSS feed.)
I’m sympathetic to both sides, especially with regard to The Little App Factory’s rights under Australian trademark law. (They’re [...]
The Telegraph:
Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U suspended sales of Sony Ericsson’s Satio after a flood of returns from angry customers citing problems with the phone. […]
Speaking at the launch of the handset in May, Nathan Vautier, managing director of Sony Ericsson UK, said the phone would “help return [...]
A smart take on Chrome OS from Jon Stokes:
Apple and Microsoft began decades ago with “the PC,” and they’re currently involved in a slow and painful process of trying to stretch and push “the PC” out towards the Internet and towards a more useful and integrated relationship with the [...]
Alexander Micek on last week’s report on laptop reliability from SquareTrade:
When you only have two data points to model, however, two things happen: (1) you can easily model the two points with a linear curve that perfectly fits the data (R2=1). (2) Your model is capable of predicting nothing. [...]
Howard Bryant nails it:
So the Yankees are champions, and thus begins an offseason that will be centered on money. Owners across the league this offseason will promote the creation of a salary cap, ostensibly for “competitive balance” — a way to take money from the players and take down [...]
Just in case you’ve forgotten, Apple has a directory of iPhone web apps that predates the native App Store. Slim pickings, as you might have guessed.
(Judging by my email, one misconception many people have is that iPhone web apps only work when you have network access. That’s not necessarily true [...]
Peter-Paul Koch (a long-time, highly-regarded expert on web standards and rendering engine compatibility), argues forcefully that developers who wish to write software for the iPhone should skip the App Store and write iPhone-optimized web apps instead. His essay, perhaps because it is so strongly-worded, seems to have polarized the [...]
BBC News on the latest jailbroken iPhone attack:
Users who have installed SSH and not changed the password are especially at risk.
By which they mean that users who have installed SSH and not changed the password are the only ones at risk.
Update: They’ve fixed it.
[...]Two new commercials from Apple tout the iPhone’s ability to access the AT&T data network while on a voice call — something Verizon’s CDMA network doesn’t allow.
This is a much more effective response than AT&T’s own. Attack with your strengths rather than defend your weaknesses.
[...]New version of Rogue Amoeba’s iPhone app is already available in the App Store, restoring the previously-disputed display of icons showing the type of Mac and the application from which the audio is being sent.
I hate to say I told you so (where by “hate” I of course mean “love”), [...]
The most interesting thing about Arik Hesseldahl’s interview with Schiller for BusinessWeek isn’t anything that Schiller says, but that the interview exists at all. The debate about the App Store review process is expanding into the mainstream press, and that’s a good thing. Apple cares far more about how customers [...]
tap tap tap, who’ve brought you several Top 10 iPhone apps, including the highly regarded Classics e-book reader and Convert, have just released Voices. Voices is a really fun app that lets you change your voice into several funny characters including a squeaky chipmunk, a futuristic cyborg, a super-slow turtle, [...]
John Gruber, Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
