June 2011
7 posts
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Apple to make TVs?
Well, they are if you believe CNN.
My thoughts? If anything, Apple would be most likely to release a large computer monitor with a built-in AppleTV. No regular TV inputs except an HDMI port, but essentially a regular monitor with an AppleTV built in.
I doubt they’d go after the home TV market, but they might think about an AppleTV-with-a-screen.
Anonymous asked: Can I buy the GridView?
Life at Kobo
Richard: So is this one of those things that only Jim can fix?
Me: Nah, it's pretty simple. It's just a wrapper around CFBitVector with a couple of custom methods for comparing different ranges, etc.
Richard: So it's definitely one of those things that only Jim can fix.
“You know what would be worse than having few women in the industry? Having lots...”
– Mike Lee
We should all know by now that diversity of any kind can’t be made to happen. We’ve made a decent start at removing the obstacles having the greatest effect, and that will mature in time.
The most important thing we have to do now is forget about the whole...
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Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in... →
Q. Dear Mr. Jobs,
Will I need to find an alternative website builder and someone to host my sites?
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A. Yep.
Looks like this round goes to Karelia Software and Sandvox.
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Fun with Objective-C: Parsing Mathematical... →
funwithobjc:
A while ago, I was looking for a library to parse NSString objects as mathematical expressions. I wanted to be able to take a string like @"2+3*4" and get back 14. I found two easy ways to do this: GCMathParser and NSPredicate (of course!). GCMathParser is a library by Graham Cox for…
There’s so much awesome in this post that I think I just peed myself.
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“What Microsoft revealed this week is that they do not believe there is a post-PC...”
– Daring Fireball: Ice Water Enthusiast
That’s the crux of it alright, and it seems like it’s a Ballmer-inspired move. It certainly fits with the idea of using any new technology to build a levee around the existing Windows and Office user bases: by shipping less-capable a tablet-only OS...