May 2011
13 posts
1966 Prediction of the Home Computer →
“What the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console.” (via Jim Coudal, courtesy of Daring Fireball)
May 31st
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Luminary: Custom modal UIViewController... →
monoceroi: Just a snippet. Note: Don’t push or remove view controllers with non-opaque views. The underlying view of the parent view controller is removed. [CATransaction begin]; CATransition *transition = [CATransition animation]; transition.type = kCATransitionFade; transition.duration = animated ? 0.5f... Is it entirely inappropriate for me to say rowr at this point?
May 28th
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"Literally Unbelievable" →
nikf: Single-purpose Tumblr Of The Week, it’s a blog dedicated to “Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook”. Scary, scary reading. Oh … my … God. Really.
May 27th
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“My name is Alycea. I am five-years-old and I go to elementary school. I like...”
– Awesome kid interviewed at Meridian Hill Park. (via mayafish) I like the cut of this kid’s jib.
May 25th
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May 25th
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“[Kobo CEO Michael] Serbinis … declined to comment on rumours that Apple...”
– $139 Kobo e-reader takes aim at Kindle - thestar.com Er, the who to the what now?
May 24th
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Regarding Objective-C & Copland 2010 →
Objective-C continues to evolve, and in directions I believe will be increasingly important in the future. I don’t believe we’re anywhere near the level of crisis that Apple hit with Classic Mac OS and I don’t believe that a total second-system re-write without a clear goal is the best prescription for the platform. — Guy English (via Neven Mrgan) Fantastic article debunking some of the...
May 24th
Help Support Kobo and the Writers, NOT Apple! →
This Get Satisfaction poster seems like a nice chap.
May 18th
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“According to Lauwaert, everone seems to be content with USB 3.0 so they...”
– Hewlett Packard Not Convinced of the Value of Thunderbolt - MacRumors.com “640KB of RAM ought to be enough for anyone, right?”
May 17th
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“If using a platform-provided API is not free from the odious weight of software...”
– Mike Lee on Lodsys
May 16th
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May 16th
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gbdc asked: Hi Alan, thanks for creating AQGridView. It more or less made my iPad project possible.

My question is about memory management. I am looking for ways to release all AQGridViewCell items that belong to AQGridView. This is to recover memory when I switch to a different view because each cell has large image). For some reason, releasing the AQGridView itself doesn't release the...
May 15th
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“BeamItDown Software and the iFlow Reader will cease operations as of May 31,...”
– iFlow Reader Closes Up Shop It begins.
May 11th
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