February 2012
35 posts
APK Downloader →
APK Downloader is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to download Android APK files from Android Market to your PC.
VLC 2.0.0 release notes →
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
Microsoft’s Biggest Miss →
Why then, instead of laughing at the iPhone, iPad, Android, or anything else that comes along, not employ a strategy of “Office Everywhere” and build platform specific and complementary versions of Office for every device that popped up? That, to me, seemed to be their biggest miss. Can you even fathom how many versions of “Office for iOS” they could have sold at this...
Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the... →
[…] more iOS devices were sold in 2011 (156 million) than all the Macs ever sold (122 million).
Alphabetical List of SOC Occupations →
If you need standardized job titles, you can’t go wrong with these.
Jakarta radio stations
List of FM stations in Jakarta, sorted by the number of Twitter followers:
98.7 Gen FM - @987Genfm - 113,218 followers
102.2 Prambors Radio - @Prambors - 109,836 followers
101.4 Trax FM - @TraxFMJKT - 80,054 followers
87.6 Hard Rock FM - @hardrockfm - 76,256 followers
88.0 Mustang FM - @mustang88fm - 67,641 followers
90.8 OZ Radio - @ozradiojakarta - 50,799 followers
101.0 Jak FM -...
Fragrantica - Free online perfume encyclopedia →
9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn →
We can’t give our children a set of data to learn, a career to prepare for, when we don’t know what the future will bring. But we can prepare them to adapt to anything, to learn anything, to solve anything, and in about 20 years, to thank us for it.
Smith Electric Vehicles
I love the simplicity and boldness of the new icon, it feels strong and confident, and it gives Smith a story to tell. I am a sucker for bold strokes and this winged tiger is captured successfully with a minimal amount of vector points. The typography, matching the thickness of the stroke, works perfectly in unison with the icon and has just the right amount of customization in the...
Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift →
To conclude: I do believe mobile sites will win over mobile apps in the long term. But when that will happen is less certain. Today, if you are serious about creating the best possible mobile user experience, my advice is to develop apps.
MacBook Air with Windows 7 review
Apple is never going to make the perfect Windows 7 machine, but in many ways its hardware enables the best Windows experience right now.
Social media explained, in the style of Homer...
W3C co-chair: Apple, Google power causing Open Web... →
The problem right now, Glazman said, is that programmers use -webkit prefixed features without including -o for Opera, -ms for Microsoft IE, or -moz for Mozilla’s Firefox. That happens even when those other browsers support the CSS features in question.
Craig Silverstein, Google's first employee, leaves... →
To AllThingsD, for example, he’s the embodiment of “Good Google,” the part of the company that revels in changing the world through new technology.
Jika, maka →
Konsep pasangan jika-maka sering membuat orang menulis kalimat macam dengan menggunakan jika dan maka sekaligus: “Jika ada sambungan internet, maka saya senang.” Penulisan macam ini malah membuat kalimat tersebut kehilangan induk kalimat (gagasan utama) karena kedua unsurnya merupakan anak kalimat. Ingat bahwa ciri anak kalimat adalah didahului oleh kata sambung?
Ironisnya, contoh penggunaan...
Fountain: Plain-Text Markup Format for... →
What Markdown is for web content, Fountain is for screenplays. Looks great. See more in the announcements from co-creators Stu Maschwitz and John August. (Writes August, “Good ideas sometimes sit around for a while.” True.)
How iTunes Match Works for Copyright Holders →
Jeff Price got his first iTunes Match royalty check, and he’s happy:
A person has a song on her computer hard drive. She clicks on the song and plays it. No one is getting paid. The same person pays iTunes $25 for iMatch. She now clicks on the same song and plays it through her iMatch service. Copyright holders get paid.
Same action, same song, one makes money for the copyright holder, and one...
Path Makes Things Right →
Dave Morin, CEO of Path:
We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your...
New Theatre
Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to...
Arunan Thampi, after examining the network traffic between Path’s iPhone app and their servers:
Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new “Path”...
Selling used iTunes tracks? ReDigi insists it's... →
In its answer to the complaint, ReDigi’s lawyers insist that Capitol’s core argument is false; no “copying” takes place in the resale process that ReDigi facilitates between buyers and sellers of digital tunes.
The Ice Cream Sandwich Desktop →
The final result is a desktop that looks sharp and definitely has a lot in common with the mobile OS that inspired it.
We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th... →
An interactive re-creation of the first mission to the moon, 40 years after Apollo 11 made JFK’s dream a reality.
January 2012
13 posts
Geeks vs. Nerds
Create →
All content that you are allowed to change becomes editable, right there on the page you’re reading.