From the monthly archives:

December 2010

I don’t really see why this is worth a story

December 28, 2010

Brian X. Chen, for Wired: “The company recently approved an iPhone camera app that carries a special feature: the ability to snap a photo by pressing the physical Volume button rather than tapping the touchscreen. Oddly enough, about four months ago Apple banned a top-selling iPhone app for including the same “volume-snap” functionality.” Just as [...]

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A thought on journalism for Boxing Day

December 26, 2010

Cover via Amazon I’ve spent part of the Christmas break reading Andrew Marr‘s book “My Trade“, which is a kind of personal history of journalism. If you like Marr’s history programmes, and have any interest in the history of media, I’d highly recommend it as his writing style, a mix of good research and excellent [...]

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“World’s best manga app” released

December 20, 2010

Not a Basement Studio has released what it claims is “the ultimate manga app” – and for the first three days, it’s only 0.99¢ I’ve got to admit that I’m not the world’s most massive manga fan, but Manga Rock Unity looks to be a pretty good application, and at that price I might even [...]

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Circus Ponies Notebook: Expensive, but feature-rich, notetaking for iPad

December 19, 2010

I’m only slightly obsessive about note taking applications. I actually use more than one at once – DEVONthink for organising notes around projects, Evernote for filing just about everything else. One of the ones that I’ve used in the past is Circus Ponies NoteBook, which on Mac was a great note taking application, particularly if [...]

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Nerd supremacy

December 19, 2010
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Jaron Lanier gets it: “What I’m seeing in my nerd brethren is an increasing combativeness, a loss of empathy, and creepiness,” said Jaron Lanier, a critic of digital culture and a pioneering computer scientist who helped develop virtual reality. “It’s just another supremacy movement, ultimately. It just happens to be nerd supremacy.” (via ‘Hactivists’ fight [...]

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Oh, the irony: Chrome OS “no good for making stuff”

December 19, 2010

Joel Mathis taking a look at Chrome OS: “If you want to make stuff, in other words, the cloud isn’t quite ready for you—and that means Chrome OS isn’t quite ready for you, either. Will it be when (and if) Chrome OS netbooks actually hit the market next year? That’s tougher to say.” One wonders how [...]

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links for 2010-12-16

December 16, 2010

Why they want your email address… (tags: spamming trolling griefing email) £100bn hole in local government pensions (tags: economics pensions politics) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the…: 22 Jun 1964: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) Work is not the chief end of man. Human beings are made and are entitled to enjoy a [...]

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links for 2010-12-15

December 15, 2010

Changes Made in Obama Executive Order 13526 on Classified National Security Information (tags: politics) Assange's Extremist Employees – Reason Magazine (tags: wikileaks journalism) Hacking, Wikileaks And Cyber Warfare | The New Republic (tags: politics wikileaks) The IMF according to Keynes? (tags: economics)

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