June 2012
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Heat And Fan Noise →
Great overview by Marco Arment of the effectiveness of the new fan system inside the Retina MacBook Pro.
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“That containment wasn’t something average consumers widely understood, I’d say....”
– Danny Sullivan, Why Apple Is Going “Containment” Not “Thermonuclear” Against Google In iOS 6
Great quote.
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I Wrote A Book — It Only Took 5 Years And Was...
When most people write books, they sit down with the goal of writing one. I cheated. Instead, I blogged non-stop for five years, writing about hundreds of different topics on various different sites and had someone edit a collection of those together into a book after the fact.
It’s actually rather genius.
Not necessarily the book, mind you — I’ll let you decide that — but the idea...
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Justice Department Probing Cable Companies Over... →
Let’s hope this is the start of a real inquiry into the regional monopolies that the cable companies have enjoyed for far too long.
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Any Film You'd Like, So Long As It's A Paramount... →
Nathan Ingraham on the new Paramount app for Xbox:
As with most of the other Xbox 360 media-playing apps, you’ll need an Xbox Live Gold membership, and you’ll also need to get Paramount and UltraViolet accounts set up (if you’re planning to purchase). Of course, the movies are still quite pricey (most films are $19.99 for the HD version, though rental prices are a bit more...
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Apple Spokesperson Confirms New Mac Pro and iMac... →
Anyone else find it very odd that Apple is commenting on these future, unreleased products at all? Given the backlash, I could see them *maybe* hinting about something with the Mac Pro, but the iMac? They’re effectively torpedoing sales of that product until next year. Very odd.
Update: Apple has clarified that while they (Tim Cook, no less) are on record as saying the Mac Pro will be...
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Adaptive status bar in iOS 6 →
maxrudberg:
The new status bar in iOS 6 is actually not blue, which you might think from looking at Apple’s keynote, but adaptive to whichever color the app uses. It uses the tintColor set on the navigation bar. Nice find by iOS developer Simon Ljungberg.
Great discovery.
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