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NetNewsWire for Mac 3.2.8

Brent Simmons on what’s new in the latest update to my favorite RSS reader:64-bit code (on 64-bit Intel systems). This may not have much of an effect, except for one big thing — when Flash crashes, it should no longer take down the ap...

Boy Genius Report on the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Jonathan Geller:Browsing the web with Flash on (enabled by default) proved to be a pretty frustrating experience. Scrolling was jittery, slow, and sometimes pages just wouldn’t even finish loading. However, once we changed the browser’s plug-...

Windows Phone 7 Launches in the U.S.

Josh Lowensohn and Ina Fried, reporting from San Francisco:If Microsoft hopes to get back in the smartphone game, it had better hope that Windows Phone 7 makes a bigger impact than it appeared to be having at one AT&T store here.As of midda...

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,&#822...

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...