Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch on Flash’s Effect on Battery Life
Austin Carr, writing for Fast Company:Today, in an interview with Fast Company, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch
answered critics who might say HTML5 is somehow more efficient
than Flash.“It’s a false argument to make, of the power usage,̶...
37signals Working on New Framework for HTML5 Mobile Apps
Ryan Carson, regarding an interview with 37signals’s Ryan Singer:There is nothing like Rails for mobile web app development, so
37signals are creating a web app MVC framework specifically
designed for mobile phone web apps. The code will b...
Google Chrome Sponsors Free In-Flight Wi-Fi on Virgin America, Delta, and AirTran
Great sponsorship idea. ★
Calvetica
$2.99 calendar app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, with an emphasis on fast, convenient event creation and a very crisp, stylish UI design. Behind the scenes, it’s built on the iOS system level calendaring APIs, so it syncs perfectly with the bui...
Trailer for ‘Linotype: The Film’
“How does the Linotype fit in with new technology?”“It doesn’t.” ★
RockMelt — Like Flock, But Junking Up Chrome Instead of Firefox
They solved the problem of Chrome having a nice, simple, minimalist interface. ★
Careful With Your Recurring iPhone Alarms Tomorrow
John D. Sutter, CNN:A glitch in the iPhone’s operating system will cause recurring
weekday alarms not to ring on time on Monday morning because of
the end of Daylight Saving Time, which occurs at 2 a.m. on Sunday
in the United States. The p...
Ross Rubin on the iPadification of Mac OS X
Ross Rubin:We’ll know something went wrong if we have to shake an iMac to undo. ★
Nicholas Kristof on U.S. Income Inequality
Nicholas Kristof argues that the U.S. is at the level of plutocratic banana republics:CEOs of the largest American companies earned an average of
42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as
much in 2001. Perhaps the most asto...
Microsoft vs. Software Piracy
Long NYT feature by Ashlee Vance on Microsoft’s counter-piracy measures around the world. Seems crazy to me how much of it revolves around physical media — counterfeit CDs, DVDs, and holographic stickers. ★
It’s Been a Long Five Years
I was flipping through old DF entries last night, and this one caught my eye. In July 2005, HP was still reselling an HP-co-branded iPod. Seems like a long time ago.Update: John Nack, via Twitter: “5 years ago, Adobe had yet to own Flash.̶...
Fortune on the Hurd/HP Saga
Not sure what’s going on, but Fortune published its own lengthy, well-sourced report on the Mark Hurd/Jodie Fisher/HP saga, on the same day as the WSJ. Both reports are interesting, and contain different information. The timing seems beyond coin...
