Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
John Gruber puts the call out to “bring back the two-arm gesture for ‘fuck you’”. Seoul Brother accepts the challenge, delivered in the form of a video. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Twitter, Facebook & FriendFeed. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid , subscribe via RSS , Twitter , Facebook & FriendFeed .
Michael Tsai (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Jason Snell and John Gruber discuss the software changes. Unfortunately, Apple TV needs much more than a software update. With true HD video, a lot more content on iTunes, and a 3.5-inch hard drive it could be interesting.
Michael Tsai (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
John Gruber: But my interest remains, as ever, in the quality of the apps, not the quantity. Let’s say that when the dust starts to settle in this market, Android winds up with far fewer total apps than iPhone OS, but they’re of generally higher quality. That would make Android the Mac to the iPhone’s Windows. [...]
Frequently Asked Q (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
John Gruber nails the reason why it's so hard for everyone playing catch-up to the iPhone. Android 2.0, the soon-to-be-released Verizon Droid, and features like turn-by-turn directions in Google Maps should make things interesting. Competition, spawned by the success of the Droid or even the Palm Pre are important for this device category to continue to experience growth and most importantly...
the blip.tv blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
John Gruber says Mark Pilgrim’s “new chapter on video for his in-progress Dive Into HTML5 is comprehensive — and as usual, written with clarity and style.” If you’re into , you should take a look .
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Apple will unveil all-new iMacs soon, but they will not include Blu-ray disc players, well-sourced Apple blogger John Gruber now predicts . Earlier, Gruber had said that , "If I were a betting man, I’d bet on these debuting alongside all-new Blu-ray-equipped iMacs in a few weeks." Read the rest of this story » See Also: Blu-ray iMacs 'In A Few Weeks', Apple...
My Take (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm not going to go into a big long explanation of the problems switchers have with installing Mac apps ( John Gruber and Lukas Mathis have already covered it enough). Instead, I'm going to leave you with this little thing I threw together. The inspiration came from the Trash window which I butchered to make it. This is what I consider to be the best way Apple could fix this little problem...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday
... library and upload new shots. The only difference between the Android and iPhone versions, as John Gruber pointed out over at Daring Fireball, is that the Android version includes a straighten tool for devices without multitouch. [via AppScout ] Photoshop.com Mobile now available for Android devices originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see...
JeffreySambells.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
John Gruber, commenting on a review of the Droid, made a comment about multi-touch which got me thinking: The big multi-touch gesture that Apple uses in the iPhone is pinching — in particular, pinch-to-zoom. You pinch to zoom in MobileSafari. You pinch to zoom photos. You pinch to zoom maps. There [...]
rickwebb.net (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... of thing was a reality. Anyway, it’s stuck with me and I was reminded of it today reading John Gruber’s response to what apple should do with Apple TV , which includes a suggestion to add Blu-ray. Gruber replies: That would be nice. (I bought a PS3 just for use as a Blu-ray player; I would have bought a new Blu-ray equipped Apple TV instead if there were one.) But:...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality — “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.” —Legal Adage — Much of the current hype surrounding the App Store centers around [...]
GravitationalPull.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
We’re coming up fast on the 2nd anniversary of the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. Yet despite the many improvements and price cuts in KindleWorld, we’re still subject to the same weird, off-base complaints we first heard back before anyone even had even gotten their hands on one. Recently, my favorite Mac guru, John Gruber, [...]
NoahBrier.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... sort of thing was a reality. Anyway, it's stuck with me and I was reminded of it today reading John Gruber's response to what apple should do with Apple TV , which includes a suggestion to add Blu-ray. Gruber replies: That would be nice. (I bought a PS3 just for use as a Blu-ray player; I would have bought a new Blu-ray equipped Apple TV instead if there were one.) But: Apple...
Laptop blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... cellphone marketshare and the perceived dominance of the iPhone, perhaps best exemplified by John Gruber's flippant "If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em." Nokia can't compete against Apple, so obviously it's abusing the hopelessly-broken patent system get a little payback, Espoo-style -- right? Well, wrong. As usual, the race to hype this dispute as a bitter standoff between...
MacBlender (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
From the OpenSolaris forums, by way of Daring Fireball’s John Gruber comes word this afternoon that Apple’s decision to remove ZFS support from Snow Leopard was based on licensing issues. Specifically, Apple may have wanted a “private license” from Sun Microsystems, and Sun simply did not want to play ball. Neither side could agree on suitable [...]
