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Through the Google Glass
So, these things exist. Anyone share my lack of interest? The video doesn’t really sell me on the concept.
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Figure
This is too much fun — Figure by Propellerhead. I’m still trying to get the hang of it but even the most haphazard mix sounds good. Like everyone else, my only wish is an export feature so I can save my tracks.
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Capturing ideas with Drafts
I’ve always been one of those people who tried to keep all of my ideas in my brain. Obviously that doesn’t work and I ultimately forget the awesome idea I had of a social network for fruit lovers. There are few things more annoying than pacing around my office trying to remember something I thought I memorized; I have to address this bad habit. Enter the concept of getting your ideas down on paper immediately.
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Time for some company
Nick Bilton for the New York Times In the last week I have asked Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Microsoft and others about their reports on labor conditions. Most responded with a boilerplate public relations message. Some didn’t even respond. The answer from Barnes & Noble, the maker of the Nook e-reader, was typical. Mary Ellen Keating, a senior vice president, said only, “We don’t comment on our supply chain vendors.” Lenovo e-mailed a general report on sustainability.
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Instagram for Android
Android users rejoice, Instagram has finally arrived! By now, every site on the Internet has a comparison of the iOS and Android interface. So… I’ll just toss these right here. The two apps are very much alike, but not exact copies. This isn’t a bad thing, you want the app to be similar but still follow some of the OS design standards. For the most part, I feel the Instagram team did well.
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Bartending
Stephen Hackett has a book coming out. — Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius. I’m looking forward to this, I’ve been listening to the 512 Podcast since it started and anything from Stephen or Myke would be worth the read IMO. In fact, Myke has a book coming out soon as well, guess I better save my pennies.
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The HTC One X reviews begin
Phil Nickinson reviewing the HTC One X for Android Central: Indeed, the HTC One X has set the bar high for this new generation of Android phones. That bar’s always going to inch higher as the year goes on. But for now, HTC’s back in the saddle and is riding high. This is the year of HTC returning to a focus on quality and this looks to be a decent phone with a few caveats.
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Nvidia on the future of tablets.
NYT Bits has a piece on Nvidia’s outlook on the tablet market. Jen-Hsun Huang: “We took out $150 in build materials, things like expensive memory,” he said. “At $199, you can just about buy a tablet at a 7-Eleven.” Sounds great, hopefully the things they stripped out don’t have a negative effect on performance. He’s rather bullish about Windows 8 and a bit down on Android.
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More on Android fragmentation
I knew it was bad, but The Next Web paints a very bleak picture. “It is a nightmare…the worst part for me is that ultimately it means that I have a lot of grumpy users that I just can’t realistically help. It just doesn’t make sense (economically) to run down every bug that is specialized to a particular device/OS combo.” I suspect we’ll see a lot more news on this subject in the coming days due to the Temple Run fiasco of earlier.
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The peril of Android development
Temple Run released for Android. Read the comments. There exists a huge gap between the low end and high end Android phones available today. Most carriers offer a low end single core 600 mhz phone along side their dual core screamers. I’m not a developer but I imagine it’s nigh impossible to develop something that will run on all of these options. This isn’t an Android problem, it’s a carrier problem.
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