Category: Apple
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iPad as the new Flash
iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…
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Paul Ford on The Big Web Show
Paul Ford is our guest on The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET tomorrow, 14 October 2010, on the 5by5 network at live.5by5.tv. Paul is a freelance writer…
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The future of web standards
“Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…
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HTML5 For Web Designers is a hit in the US iTunes store.
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My other iPad is a Kindle
The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It’s inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it’s more comfortable than an old-style…
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HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers
Sacrebleu! The French edition of the ebook of Monsieur Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers is in the top five sellers in the iTunes Store Français. To answer your other questions: an eBook version in…
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iPad Fonts Petition
Dear Apple: It is a triumph of engineering and marketing and general cause for joy that Apple provides highly functional iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers for a mere $9.99 apiece. Alas, the iPad…
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Design Apps for Fun and Profit
Update! Episode 14 is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big…
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iPad Mellotron
In Heaven, if I should get there, I will play the Mellotron. Meanwhile, I play the Mellotronics M3000 HD, a $12 Mellotron for iPad (and soon for iPhone and iPod touch as well) by Synthtopia.…
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iMac dies after Safari update
There is a new Safari update. After I installed it, my home iMac cannot reboot. For about an hour, the iMac was stuck in the grey Apple screen (sometimes with, and sometimes without, a progress…
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From Gmail with Love
It shouldn’t be this much work, but hats off to Nick Cernis for showing us the trick to enabling multiple “from” addresses under a single Gmail account in Mail on the iPad and iPhone.
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Apple Responds
Via yfrog.com/83n4fp. See also: TechCrunch: Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight, by MG Siegler, 13 May 2010 Apple.com: Thoughts on Flash, Steve Jobs, April 2010 The Big Web Show Episode 2: HTML5…
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Happy 15th birthday, DragThing
On 1 May 1995, young James Thomson released the first version of DragThing, “the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop.” On 1 May 2010, a still young James Thomson celebrated his product’s…
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Steve Jobs and Me on Flash
Assume I retweeted Steve Jobs’s thoughts on Flash. Note Steve’s concluding paragraph: New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus…
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Web charts with HTML5 + Flash
ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…