June 2012
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Facebook's Incoming Fully Native iOS App →
Nick Bilton:
One of the Facebook engineers said the new application has been built primarily using Objective-C, the programming language used to build applications for iOS. Many of the components of the current version of the Facebook app are built using HTML5, a Web-based programming language.
The current version of the app is essentially an Objective-C shell with a Web browser inside. When it...
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College Football Finally Gets A Playoff System →
Heather Dinich for ESPN:
A four-team playoff for college football has been formally approved by a presidential oversight committee, a dramatic change for the sport that will begin in 2014. The four teams will be chosen by a selection committee, the semifinals will be held at current bowl sites and the national championship game will be awarded to the highest bidder.
The 12-year deal is through...
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Bijan Sabet: People tagging →
bijan:
One of the most successful online social drugs is people tagging in Facebook photos. I can’t recall when this feature was first introduced but getting a message saying “you’ve been tagged in a photo” followed by a link was incredibly seductive. It still is.
And it isn’t link bait as the content…
The Instagram -> Twitter username sync fail seem to come up at least once a week...
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a blog by pud: Mass-Unsubscribe From Junk In Gmail →
pudjam666:
Here’s a clever way to mass-unsubscribe from spam, marketing emails, newsletters, and other stuff you don’t want clogging your inbox.
In Gmail, do a search for “label:inbox unsubscribe OR email preferences OR subscribed OR newsletter” (without the quotes)
Select (checkbox) the emails you want…
Brilliant.
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Gmail iOS Gets Full Push Support →
Sweet Jesus, we finally have functional push mail for Gmail on iOS. I’m not talking the wonky port-through-Exchange nonsense — I’m talking full Gmail messages sent to your phone in realtime. And I’m not talking a stupid little badges to let you know you have a message, I’m talking full-on message excerpts.
The app itself still mainly stinks, but I don’t plan to ever...
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Predicting the next Mac desktops →
marco:
Why did Apple just release new MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, and a Retina MacBook Pro, but no new iMacs or Mac Pros? And why are the iMacs probably being updated this year while the Mac Pro update won’t happen for 12–18 months?
Pretty good reasoning, I think. Though, per update #2, I’m fairly surprised Apple will upgrade the iMac without a retina display. Why bother waiting then?...
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Google Maps Backtracks →
Google Maps Product Manager Thor Mitchell:
As you may know, last year we introduced limits on the number of free maps that developers could show daily through the Google Maps API. Since then, we’ve been listening carefully to feedback, and today we’re happy to announce that we’re lowering API usage fees and simplifying limits for both Styled and regular maps.
“Since then” —...
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It costs just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year →
infoneer-pulse:
That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.
The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.
By comparison, a 60-watt compact...
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kottke.org: A look back at the tech brainstorm for... →
jkottke:
Back in 1999, as he prepared to make a movie called The Minority Report, Steven Spielberg gathered top science and technology types to an “idea summit” where they would share thoughts on what things might look like in 50 years. To mark the ten year anniversary of the movie’s release, Wired asked
Oh to be in that room — they were quite literally dreaming up the future.
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A Hardware Place →
As John Gruber notes, the most interesting thing about the Surface isn’t really the device itself, it’s that Microsoft decided they need to do it themselves. Just as with Google’s Nexus devices, the message here — intended or not — is that they don’t trust their partners to do a good enough job.
The thing is: Microsoft had relied on such partnerships for 37 years.
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was...”
– Sep Kamvar (via cdixon)
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IFTTT Blog: The New IFTTT →
ifttt:
Over the past few months, our team has been working hard to improve your experience with IFTTT. We’re proud to announce a new look, new language, new Channels, and speedier Triggers!
A New Look
Our new logo and wordmark come from the idea that the combination of two basic elements can…
IFTTT gets a new logo, cleans up the experience, and takes its first steps into the real...
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Bijan Sabet: Mobile optimized sites →
bijan:
According to Google Analytics about 18% of the folks that visit my Tumblr at bijansabet.com are using a mobile device (phone or tablet). Google Analytics only sees a small subset of the traffic because most people that check out this site follow me on Tumblr and view the content via the Dashboard.
My site is remarkably close to this as well. In the past 30 days, just over 19% of visits...
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Busting the iOS 6 Transit Map Myths →
Good overview by Andy Baio of the iOS 6 Maps transit situation — including how the APIs for this will work (at least right now).
(via Rob Pegoraro)
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“Tumblr CEO David Karp has just announced that it will launch a brand new iOS app...”
– Tumblr will be launching a brand new iOS app next week, says David Karp - The Next Web
Very excited.
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(Public Transit) Maps, They Don't Love You Like I... →
There’s been quite a bit of hoopla surround Apple’s decision not to include public transit directions in their new iOS Maps application, and instead outsource this to developers (many of whom have already been doing this for a while). On one hand, this sucks. On the other, Cocoanetics brings up a great point: it may actually be a somewhat savvy move.
As they note about a particular...
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Space Wallpapers for Retina MacBook Pro →
Rob Sheridan has curated a few MacBook Pro Retina-ready NASA images. Perfect desktop backgrounds.
