December 2010
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Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps » Matt... →
If you develop iOS apps, you need to read this now.
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“It’s the first serious step any of the major players have taken toward changing...”
– Kobo Looks to Social Reading to Distinguish It From Kindle
Dec 17th
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“iBooks now fits more words per page by automatically hyphenating text, available...”
– Doubtless only possible through the use of private APIs which no competing eReader is allowed to access. I mean, I’ve been investigating this for eight months now and still haven’t found a way to make UIWebView do this without slowing everything down way too much to be useful. Apple...
Dec 17th
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“[T]he conditions under which Manning is being detained were once recognized in...”
– The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention — Glenn Greenwald — Salon.com This just reminds me of my father’s misgivings about Barack Obama: not that he had anything other than the best intentions, but that he was too inexperienced a politician to be able to force...
Dec 15th
Joshua Kors buys iMac, writes article, sets off... →
nikf: Excellent piece by Craig Grannell about Joshua Kors, a Huffington Post “Investigative Reporter” who decided to return his iMac. Pure linkbait on the Huffington Posts’ part. Awesomesauce. I tweeted a link to TUAW’s reaction earlier today which also bears a look-in.
Dec 14th
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Anonymous asked: Hey, I am working on App, i have xml of 10,000 record. i have to parse xml and display into UI and in the same time i made one sqllite where i am storing data in synchronous way using NSOperation. can u suggest me what parser should i use.
I have to improve performance in turms of memory as well as time also.
Thanx in advance

pankaj nigam
Dec 14th
Giveaway: Win a Holiday MashPack With 19 Tech... →
Mashable is giving away a Kobo Wireless eReader folks!
Dec 14th
“I’d love to see this thing taken a step further — allowing people to send book...”
– James Patterson, Kobo e-reader turn books into games | ZDNet
Dec 13th
“What I am excited about, though, is stats. Kobo Reading Life tells you how many...”
– Kobo Reading Life makes reading ‘gamified’ and social – Telegraph Blogs
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“Sodmothering arsemustarding titburp”
– Such novel expletives could only be the work of Stephen Fry
Dec 13th
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Secret Sauce
I gave a presentation on some cool Apple technology at 360|MacDev this last weekend. I’ve created a page where you can find all sorts of information about it, which you can find in the sidebar to the right.
Dec 13th
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“I pretty much live in the Kindle iPad app these days, but these features mean...”
– Wired reviews Kobo Reading Life on the iPad
Dec 12th
Dec 10th
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“I can certainly see somebody saying, ‘How come Delicious Library is $40...”
– How the Mac App store could blow up the software market - Fortune Tech
Dec 10th
“The Reading Life Suite is certainly the most professional and polished release...”
– Kris Abel’s Tech Life | Kobo iPad App Gets A Dynamic Personality With New Social Features Click through for a great review of the new Reading Life features in the Kobo iPad app. Kris echoes much of the acclaim we’ve received from everyone to whom we’ve shown this update so far. ...
Dec 10th
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People say the music business is suffering, but... →
Maybe I did the right thing to switch from music to programming then…?
Dec 9th
Anonymous asked: Do you mean "your" instead of "you're" in http://quatermain.tumblr.com/post/2154141809/i-am-ridiculously-proud-of-my-team-for-what
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Unless you’re one of the guys on my team, at which point it’s probably not, as your reading the news.
Dec 9th
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WatchWatch
I am ridiculously proud of my team for what they’ve accomplished here over the past four weeks. The design work from our UX department has been top-notch, and everyone inside the company and out who’s seen this stuff has been utterly blown away. You can see more info on the new features on the Kobo website. It’s implemented only for the iPad right now, but it’ll be...
Dec 9th
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“Sales of e-book readers are going to skyrocket - but not for a few years yet. So...”
– E-book reader demand boom near • reghardware
Dec 9th
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“[T]he Obama administration has been trying to draw a sharp distinction between...”
– Feds hint at charges for WikiLeaks’ Assange
Dec 8th
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iTunes adds international promo codes →
Erica Sadun, writing for TUAW: “[A]pplication promo codes may now be used internationally, instead of being limited to US store customers only.” Fantastic. Slightly too late to get review copies out before Christmas (most major news/publicity distribution networks go on blackout for Christmas on December 15th) but overall very welcome.
Dec 8th
PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account... →
PayPal VP of platform Osama Bedier: “State Dept told us these were illegal activities. It was straightforward.” No specifics on which laws were breached was offered or, it appears, required— just the claim of ‘illegality’ in general. Food for thought: If WikiLeaks’ recent publications were embarrassing someone other than the US, say China, Russia, Iran or...
Dec 8th
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“A short video featuring Napolitano will appear on TV screens at select checkout...”
– Wal-Mart joins Homeland Security terror fight Jesus H. Christ in a sidecar. Philip K. Dick and George Orwell, please step up; the future you proselytised against is here in the flesh. Napolitano is clearly anxious to earn her nickname isn’t she? A gold star to the first person to take...
Dec 8th
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“To me the New York Times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship, but...”
– Facepalm-inducing quote from Joe Lieberman on the NYT support of WikiLeaks Now I wonder what would happen if WikiLeaks had discovered that, say, some committee to lobby for the president’s re-election had been used as a front for illegal activities against the opposing party? And that people...
Dec 7th
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Tumblr Backup app for Mac OS X →
nikf: If you’re on OS X, and run a blog hosted on Tumblr (like this one), it might be wise to run this tool every so often. Just in case. While I don’t think it’s worth going overboard about the Tumblr outage (it’s a blog people, it’s not like your lives depend on it) this is a worthwhile tool for keeping your own backups, just in case. You should always keep backups of...
Dec 7th
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“[T]he Mac App Store is bringing people over to the Mac OS from iPhone and the...”
– Analysing a Touch-to-Desktop UI port using Fitts’s Law: Reeder for Mac Beta | Daniel Kennett This is something you need to read now. Read it until your eyes bleed. That is all.
Dec 2nd