January 2012
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Take the new Vimeo for a spin →
What’s so new about the new Vimeo? In short: pretty much everything. We made zillions of improvements that cover the front end, the back end, and the parts in between to create a Vimeo that is bigger, faster, smarter, and more fun…
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How Google has lost control of Android →
The fragmentation of Android is very real and very problematic for end users, developers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, and Google. However fragmentation does not mean Android is going to “die” or “fail” as some seem to think.
On the contrary, I think we can count on Android playing a significant role in our world for a long, long time. I also am confident that...
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“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Mat Honan — Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter (via minimalmac)
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“Whether you think it’s evil or evil genius on Microsoft’s part to pursue these...”
– Parislemon: Google Is Making A Killing Off Of Android — And By “Google” I Actually Mean “Microsoft”
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Why I Hate Android
parislemon:
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.
I should probably explain.
Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate Android. That...
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The Nokia Lumia 900 →
parislemon:
I think Farhad Manjoo has this exactly right on Twitter:
The Lumia 900 is the first phone since the iPhone that I want without even touching it. bit.ly/zMeyqd
— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) January 9, 2012
I have yet to touch this (or the Lumia 800 for that matter), but what was shown today immediately makes every Android phone look like shit. Well, the iPhone has done that for years....
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WatchOLPC X0 3.0
Like its XO laptop, OLPC has built an educational tablet for use in low power locations. It’s been designed for outdoor use (a PixelQi outdoor readable display, a solar panel lid, and all) and has some different software options (Android and its own Sugar OS).
(via The Verge)
Watch
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Frequent texters sometimes do it in their sleep →
A chronic texter, often a teen, leaves the cellphone on the nightstand to use as an alarm clock. Sometime during the night, in light sleep or grogginess, the teen instinctively reaches for the phone and starts texting. Sometimes they text gibberish, sometimes actual words. In the morning, they don’t remember doing it.
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Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing →
parislemon:
Sad. But this should be a lesson for today’s larger tech companies: keep innovating or die a slow, dull death.
And as a bonus lesson: patent lawsuits will not save you.
“Hence, fanboy: a derogatory term that means someone who is blindly and...”
– Fanboy theory – Marco.org
Time cloaking: how scientists opened a hidden gap... →
Scientists say they have mastered ‘temporal cloaking’ – manipulating light in a way that makes it appear as if 50 trillionths of a second never happened. Now, they’ll try to expand the gap.
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Counting all the blades of grass in Ireland →
Consider this little comparison: if the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
- The head would fly at Mach 800
- At less than one centimeter from the ground
- And count every blade of grass
- Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
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