two scoops

"Each full page is a giant image – there are actually two images for each page: one for landscape and..."

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:12:26 -0400

“Each full page is a giant image – there are actually two images for each page: one for landscape and one for portrait mode. Yes, I’m laughing on the inside too. There is no text or HTML, just one gigantic image.”

- Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

Talking about the Wired iPad app/magazine and why it’s bloated to 500MB.

From the Sidewalk to Your Living Room

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:01:58 -0400

From the Sidewalk to Your Living Room:

Reminds me of Joe and Ann and their curbside treasures.

"Vulcans are renowned throughout the galaxy for their compilers and algorithm libraries. You would be..."

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:08:38 -0400

“Vulcans are renowned throughout the galaxy for their compilers and algorithm libraries. You would be crazy to use a non-Vulcan regular expression engine. But they are equally as famous for their terrible user interfaces, where they lack objective metrics to optimize. And don’t ask them to build something without first having a precise and complete specification, unless you’re into that nerve pinch thing. Luckily for the galactic software industry, there is an even larger community of programmers who originated on the Planet of the Apes.”

- Vulcans vs. Apes

So meta it hurts. No, really it’s headache inducing.

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:38:37 -0400

So meta it hurts. No, really it’s headache inducing.

Scan for Viruses from the Windows AutoPlay Dialog

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:41:49 -0400

Scan for Viruses from the Windows AutoPlay Dialog:

Useful reghack to check out iffy thumbdrives and the like.

Reclaim (Facebook) Privacy

Wed, 19 May 2010 14:39:46 -0400

Reclaim (Facebook) Privacy:

catharsis:

This bookmarklet by Matt Pizzimenti allows you to easily see which of your Facebook privacy settings might not be as secure as you think.

For more info, check Twitter (@reclaimprivacy) and/or the source code on Github.

/via Teehan+Lax

"But therein lies the rub. All of my open-sourced projects share two attributes. First, the source..."

Tue, 18 May 2010 17:26:38 -0400

“But therein lies the rub. All of my open-sourced projects share two attributes. First, the source code is extremely stylized and meant to be /read/ more than /used/. They are literary arguments in code much more than a useful piece of infrastructure.”

- Magic Scaling Sprinkles

That’s definitely one way to communicate.

via www.smbc-comics.com

Mon, 17 May 2010 16:18:56 -0400

via www.smbc-comics.com

"That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks content..."

Wed, 12 May 2010 11:05:03 -0400

“That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks content away in a container, outside the reach of hyperlinks, you’re not building any kind of ‘web’ app. You’re doing something else.”

- Understand The Web · Ben Ward

It’s fun when your toys can play together.

"Of the big five, only two browsers currently use this protection on Windows; Internet Explorer (7..."

Wed, 05 May 2010 09:42:38 -0400

“Of the big five, only two browsers currently use this protection on Windows; Internet Explorer (7 and 8), and Chrome. For this reason alone, I’d be hesitant to use Safari, Opera, or Firefox. Their security track record isn’t really any better than Microsoft’s, and the consequent exploitability of these browsers is much greater.”

- Peter Bright, Arstechnica - On Mandatory Integrity Control enabled by Chrome and IE7/8/9 on Vista and Win7.

I wonder what the holdup is with WebKit and FF?

"All of this led to the revelation that we’ve begun a new age of “communal computing.” The desktop..."

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:23:25 -0400

“All of this led to the revelation that we’ve begun a new age of “communal computing.” The desktop revolution centered around empowering individuals: this new revolution will extend that empowerment to groups of people.”

- Communal computing

—on the iPad opening up computing for shared simultaneous interactive experiences

List of DRM-free publishers : Threepress Consulting blog

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:59:34 -0400

List of DRM-free publishers : Threepress Consulting blog:

Good to know!

snort (via dataviz)

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:06:53 -0400

*snort*

(via dataviz)

The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM...

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:54:51 -0400

The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work

No Other Distribution Authorized Under this Agreement

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:16:11 -0400

rentzsch:

Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:

7.3 No Other Distribution Authorized Under this Agreement
Except for the distribution of freely available Licensed Applications and the distribution of Applications for use on Registered Devices as set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 above, no other distribution of programs or applications developed using the Apple Software is authorized or permitted hereunder. In the absence of a separate agreement with Apple, You agree not to distribute Your Application to third parties via other distribution methods or to enable or permit others to do so.

Diabolical.

Apple’s developer tools license mandates use of their distribution channel.

Because, you know, Cydia is such a threat to Apple’s business model.

Imagine if gcc’s license required your resulting executables run solely on Linux.

Imagine if Google required hosting your web apps on solely App Engine if you used Closure.

I hope section 7.3 comes back to bite Apple during their Department of Justice investigation.

Poison.

dpstyles: mattlehrer: Stop What You Are Doing & Install...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:47:23 -0500

dpstyles:

mattlehrer:

Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive:

Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, including a live display of recent Tweets, for whoever you’re corresponding with by email. It’s fantastic and takes about 2 minutes to set up.

SOLD. This this is pretty badass. Download here. (takes 10 seconds)

via i.imgur.com

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:03:45 -0500

via i.imgur.com

"We are about to change that past, radically. And the premise for that change is an accidental..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:20:31 -0500

“We are about to change that past, radically. And the premise for that change is an accidental feature of the architecture of copyright law: that it regulates copies. In the physical world, this architecture means that the law regulates a small set of the possible uses of a copyrighted work. In the digital world, this architecture means that the law regulates everything. For every single use of creative work in digital space makes a copy. Thus—the lawyer insists—every single use must in some sense be licensed. Even the scanning of a book for the purpose of generating an index—the action at the core of the Google book case—triggers the law of copyright, because that scanning, again, produces a copy.”

- For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic

Using Tweetie/Twitterific (via the twitter api) as an interface...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:44 -0500

Using Tweetie/Twitterific (via the twitter api) as an interface for tumblr. Nice!

Muffle teh silly a bit

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:05:28 -0500

stevenf:

shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will automatically hide the comments section of many popular web sites. My gift of a quieter, saner web to you.