NEWS: WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Wireless
A day in the park with Jay-Z
The festival season is upon us very soon and this is one that you can still buy tickets for.
Forget Glasto – they’d gone months ago, but the Wireless festival has attracted some big names for 2010 including one-time Glasto headliner and Mr Beyonce, Jay-Z.
Three days of tunes worth catching.
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★ Regarding John Nack on Apple’s Control Over Native iPhone OS Software
I agree with much of this piece by John Nack today, regarding what everyone — developers, users, and even Apple itself — is missing out on because of Apple’s tight control and management of the App Store:
The effect on product development and innovation can be chilling.
Yes, it’s easy to point to 200,000 apps [...]
Notes on HTML5 Parser History
Anne Van Kesteren:
We reached a new milestone with HTML5 this week. Henri Sivonen
flipped a switch and now Firefox nightly builds ship with an HTML5
parser by default. It might not seem as a milestone to everyone
however. As Henri puts it: “A key feature of the HTML5 parser is
that [...]
CBC Hockey for iPhone
Live streaming of NHL hockey playoffs. The app is free; live streaming of games is an in-app purchase. No ipad-native version yet, nor any version at all for Android.
Update: Sadly, there’s a major catch regarding the live streaming: it only works in Canada.
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Two Weeks of Travel, Ten iPad Lessons
Michael Gartenberg:
A while back, I tried traveling on business with nothing but the
help of three smart phones. I quickly ran into the headroom of
those devices and, by the time I was home, I had a huge list of
tasks I needed to deal with that could only be done on [...]
Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G
Re: my question on which phone will be first with video chat, Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G goes on sale June 4. Looks like one hell of an Android phone. (Sprint’s product page is all-Flash.)
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New Beta Version of MobileMe Mail From Apple
Interesting — the layout is much more like the ipad’s Mail than Mac OS X’s. (That’s a good thing.) They’ve added server-side rules and a simple Gmail-esque archiving feature.
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Pages 1.1 for iPad
David Chartier on what’s new.
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The Infancy of Mobile Video
Tim Bray:
There are two obvious things that everyone wants but just aren’t
there yet on the devices we carry around. First of all, video
chat. My Nexus One is just the right form factor to bring friends
and family up on, for some on-the-road face time. It is after all
a [...]
Adobe: ‘The Truth About Flash’
Part of Adobe’s new “Freedom of Choice” campaign to promote Flash, this is (I assume) Adobe’s attempt at a point-by-point refutation of Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Flash”. The only point they really address here, though, is the idea that Flash doesn’t conceptually fit with touch-based interfaces. The rest is all vapid hand-waving.
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