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Hockenberry on iPhone Splash Screens
The real problem is minimizing startup times. But when you can’t launch instantly, you have to decide what to show while waiting. I actually don’t mind iPhone splash screens �" what I dislike are default screens that feel like a locked-up UI. The screen shouldn’t look like it’s... Read more...
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Ply It Forward
This idea is genius.  ★  Read more...
Published 22 hours ago

Apple Retail Store ‘Field Trip’ Program
I think it’s downright sickening that any school would consider a trip to a retail store as a legitimate field trip. Consumer advertising has no place in education. The fact that the U.S. public education system is in such a sorry state that this is even possible doesn’t mean Apple should... Read more...
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iPhone Application Graveyard
Peter Hosey is maintaining a directory of apps which were rejected or pulled from the App Store.  ★  Read more...
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Megamovies, TV Shows as Days-Long Movies
Kottke, referencing this astute 1999 review by Vincent Canby of the first season of The Sopranos, on serious TV shows as days-long movies: Episodes of these megamovies, Canby argued presciently, are best watched in bunches, so that the parts more easily make the whole in the viewer’s mind.... Read more...
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Video: Content-Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4
Technically very impressive, but in practice I can’t help but wonder if the feature is going to be abused. (UI sidenote: Why in the world did Adobe put the close buttons for document tabs on the right side of the tabs for the Mac version?)  ★  Read more...
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How to Record a Podcast With People in Multiple Locations
Dan Benjamin describes the “double-ender”: the simple, highly effective technique we use to record The Talk Show. (Speaking of which, the new fall season starts next week.)  ★  Read more...
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‘Not Something That Can Be Debated’
Someone seems a tad defensive.  ★  Read more...
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Mad Men, Mad Props
Mark Simonson on the occasional anachronistic typeface choices in Mad Men.  ★  Read more...
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Opera Hires Jon Hicks
Smart move for Opera.  ★  Read more...
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Dan Benjamin Compares the Kodak Zi6 to the Flip Ultra
Dan Benjamin: […] the Flip seems to somehow be specially tuned in to the human vocal range. Dialog seems to pop out over background noise in a pleasing way, and there’s virtually no bleed-through of environmental noise such as wind or water. I’ve got both the Zi6 and Flip Ultra, and I... Read more...
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Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias With Greasemonkey
Very clever hack from Andy Baio and Joshua Schachter. This would be a terrific feature to build into Memeorandum itself.  ★  Read more...
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