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Finally. Great looking phone, great looking OS. It only needs developers. So please guys, develop for Web OS.
This is funny. The Economist has published an interesting chart showing iPad’s retail price throughout the world. Just like the Big Mac index. With Apples.
It everything works as they say, this would be one great, great innovation.
Great write-up from TNW. It details various things you should try when you feel your Mac is slow. However, the article is concluded with an interesting psychological analysis. In fact, there aren’t much things you can do about your Mac’s speed.
At first, when you buy your Mac, you want it to be amazingly fast so you think it is. And as time goes by, you think your Mac is getting slower but it isn’t—it’s just the fact that since it’s getting older, you think that it will slow things.
I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree. The experience with your Mac isn’t psychic. When you feel it it slow, it unfortunately means that it is slow. Test it, you’ll see. Let’s not fall into psychologic answers for very pragmatic and mechanic questions.
He’s the same Steve in his passion for excellence, but a new Steve in his understanding of how to empower a large company to realize his vision.
—Kevin Compton, on when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997.
Hat-tip to Macgeneration for discovering these two, fine apps.
TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more!
HyperDock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.
The apps are free, for now at least.
Another quite fascinating piece by Babbage on Time as a concept. It explains the famous story of the pendulum that went up in the air and came back down—younger.
Obviously not even the finest Swiss timepiece can boast the accuracy required to detect such minute shifts. So physicists have come up with “atomic” clocks that rely on some fundamental physical properties of electrons in an atom. Normally, these reside on specific energy levels but when electromagnetic waves of a particular frequency are shone on them, they absorb energy and jump to a higher level. As they re-emit the energy, they drop back down. By creating a feedback loop which has electrons continuously hopping between two levels, physicists are able to construct an ultrafast and extremely consistent subatomic pendulum. The clocks currently used to set the international time standard rely on microwaves with a frequency of 9.2 billion cycles per second being shone on cesium atoms.
Sometimes, I wonder why I stick with Apple. And at this precise moment, I remember: wholesome goodness.
I particularly like these kind of applications since they optimize your time. Plus, this one is quite well designer, so it’s a win-win.
Dear Microsoft,
You failed to buy Yahoo! but you got to rise up and fight. Two things could be happening: all this money Google used to buy other companies, you use it on R&D? Do you? If not, you must know that if you fail to renew, you will fail. Heavily.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this is catastrophic—yet.
It seems that when it comes to monetization, everybody forgot how Google did it. They own the web search market and propose various solutions such as AdWords or AdSense. And every single robot or human being uses Google.
What are promoted tweets?
Who clicks on promoted tweets? Nobody. Because when it comes to search for something you want to buy, you go on Google. That is because you trust Google and not Twitter, yet. (Also because there are not as many people on Twitter as you think.)
Now, continuing with promoted tweets is not a good idea. Because what they need is many users clicking on the ads, and nobody will, since nobody likes to click on ads. And if you are a greedy geek, you know you do not like the feeling of giving money to someone, just by clicking on a link—in your inner self, of course, otherwise, you are filled with joy and happiness.
This might seem like a rant, it is not.
Yesterday marked the day when Facebook was down for a few hours—more like one hundred years.
And people, sometimes are funny. GigaOM offered this friday morning a collection of crispy tweets, aiming to explain why is Facebook down or what would the consequences of this downtime be.
My favorite?
BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession
An interesting read to salute the week-end’s beginning. Hat tip to kottke.
The Shazam algorithm fingerprints a song by generating this 3d graph, and identifying frequencies of “peak intensity.” For each of these peak points it keeps track of the frequency and the amount of time from the beginning of the track. Shazam builds their fingerprint catalog out as a hash table, where the key is the frequency. When Shazam receives a fingerprint like the one above, it uses the first key (in this case 823.44), and it searches for all matching songs.
Stop guys, seriously. “Apple is being ping’d by spam”, “Apple and Facebook are scrap-ping”. No, please, no.
Get to know more about the new iPods here, the revamped Apple TV over here, iTunes there and finally iOS there.
