- Timeline – Time to Play Fair
Despite my fondness for Apple products, I am willing to be critical of Apple when they're being arseholes. They're being massive arseholes, here, to the detriment of their own users. I would very much welcome an option for iOS developers to implement their own payment systems in apps, if they did not wish to give apple a cut, and I hope the EU finds in Spotify's favour.
Tag: iphone
Bookmarks for November 8, 2012
- Ratchet
Nice HTML/CSS/JS framework for prototyping iphone apps.
Bookmarks for May 17, 2012
- The Wirecutter – Best iphone photography accessories
There are a few in here I've been tempted by, so I'm flagging this as one to come back to if/when I decide to spend cash on this sort of thing. Which may be never.
Bookmarks for March 3, 2012
- Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction
Any once again, I mutter "I'll get round to it one of these days" to myself… (In case you're wondering, I've been largely away from the t'internet for a week, being either parked in front of the Xbox or out doing museums and galleries, and I'm catching up on what I've missed.)
- In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
I find the sort of future he's describing here quite pleasing, as he's essentially saying that the one aspect of modern life that cannot be reduced away is the idea of a social hub. The practical reality of the matter is that someone with an internet connect does not need to go to the shops, the office, or really anywhere, except places where they can be among other humans.
- CERN | booktwo.org
Here's a nice, easy to understand, and very readable bit of writing about CERN, what they do there, and why it's important.
- Olloclip vs iPro Lens review | The TechBlock
Been vaguely wondering about getting one of these. On the strength of this, it looks like the iPro is the one to get.
- Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities. » blog2.easydns.org – Happenings and observations
The US government have just demonstrated that they will sieze the internet based assets of foreign entities, even though no transaction related to those assets took place on US soil, and the crimes it thinks the company may have committed are not illegal in the places they may have committed them. This is (very) roughly like the US government marching into someone's home in London, and taking away their TV (that was purchased in London), on the grounds that it can be used to watch programs made in the US, because the owner, while living in London, drank alcohol at the age of 19. (I pick a trivial offence only because it's the first thing I can think of as an easy and everyday difference between US law and the law elsewhere.)
To quote the article: "This is no longer a doom-and-gloom theory by some guy in a tin foil hat. It just happened."
- 15+ Google Chrome extensions for better privacy control
Every time I need to set up a new install of Chrome, I have to hunt this page out. I'm bookmarking it so as to save myself a little time next time. Some of you may find a lot of it useful, too.
Bookmarks for November 3, 2011
- Up by Jawbone | Band + App Inspires Healthy Living
Reasonably unobtrusive activity/sleep monitor for use with iPhone. May have to get one in the new year.
Bookmarks for April 20, 2011
- In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay?
A short list of reasons why people will pay for things, even when those things are theoretically available for free. There's no great rocket science here, but it's a handy single-place checklist, if you're planning a creative project, and wondering how you might get paid for it.
- petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
This solves a problem I've been trying to solve for myself for about a year now. Need to grab this and get to work.
Bookmarks for March 10, 2011
- The Back Story | Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
The reason I am a web developer now is that in 1995, I was able to use Trumpet Winsock to connect to the internet, and then run Mosaic to browse the then-very-nascent web. I have therefore donated a couple of quid to this campaign. If you used it like I did, then I strongly suggest you kick in a couple of quid, too.
- BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
So there's going to be a new law about what websites need to do around setting cookies, and getting the user's permission to do so, that will probably change how a low of UK and European websites have to work. But at the time the law comes into force, the government will not have spelled out what websites need to do to comply with that law. Someone phone Terry Gilliam and tell him that he's won?
- HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript
How to make an web app look and feel like an iphone native app. This could be very useful at work.
Bookmarks for February 15, 2011
- Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things
Shotnote – notepaper design to be photographed with an iphone camera using a special app, for organisation/archive purposes. If my beloved Fieldnotes were to do this, I would be fucking ecstatic.
Bookmarks for September 19, 2010
- Coderspiel — Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug
Do you use your personal smartphone to get work email on, via Exchange? Here's an article that explains why you might want to stop doing this, and then confirm in person with your IT department that they can no long access your phone. However much I might trust my employers, there's no way I'd hand them the ability to do a remote wipe of my phone. After all, one day, I might want to leave, and they'd be justified in wiping my phone for security reasons. And bang would go my friends contact info, my photos, my SMS conversations, etc etc. (Absent a back up, of course. How often do you plug your personal phone into your home PC, and sync? I'm quite back-up conscious, and I still only do it once a fortnight or so, because 90% of the time, the data I need to have synced is already synced over the air.)
Bookmarks for September 8, 2010
- Unearthing by Alan Moore & Crook&Flail
Alan Moore's latest audio work (a reading of his piece in London: City of Disappearances scored by some very clever electronica wizards) is available via iTunes. It is two hours of the good stuff, and thoroughly recommended.
- calvetica – The fast calendar for iPhone
Testing this out as a better (and yes, much nicer looking) calendar/todo app for iphone.