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What’s Wrong With AIR?

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What’s wrong with AIR? “At first, I simply accepted the explanation. But the more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. It seemed like a decision that had everything to do with what’s in the best interests of the business, and little to do with what’s good for their customers.” I love stuff … Read more

YVOD Assistant

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After Work Steve leaves his office in SF and jumps on BART. His Assistant notices the time of day and the GPS route and deduces that Steve is on his way home from work. As Steve exists BART and begins to walk home, his Assistant sends him a text messages summary of the house information … Read more

Learn by Video

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Adobe Press Learn by Video This is REALLY, really cool. Set up an app to play purchased video content. Then sell the videos for $2 each (or whatever you want). Lots of free videos for “members” as well. I think this is very smart. Very. Makes me think…

iOS Breakpoints

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When you check in your project make sure to also check in all individual user file. Inside the project you will find (projectname).xcodeproj inside this folder you will find a number of files with your username in them. for example: (username).mode1v3 (username).pbxuser The breakpoints for a project are stored int these files. If you do … Read more

iPad video encoding specs

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Jules sent me a link on how to compress video for the iPad. I am not against folks trying to make money on their knowledge, but it struck me as a bit cheeky to charge for advice that is common and can be placed in two paragraphs. What follows are the “free” paragraphs I think … Read more

Where the iPad will take us

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Viv Motion Magazine Demo [A friend of mine], you can dismiss this project if you wish, but I believe this is only possible because of the closed nature of Apple’s offering. Apple is ahead right now because they have released a fabü iPhone OS SDK. I have no doubt others will try to catch up. … Read more

Tim Bray is barking up the wrong tree

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[A friend of mine] writes: Tim Bray is now a paid cheerleader for google/android so you may take his comments as just marketing speak. I found them interesting though. Apple’s approach to software on the ipad is something I find preposterous. I arrived at that conclusion on my own, but it’s now interesting to see … Read more