Ok, this is kinda cool. The white iPad 2 is capable of TRON-like light effects.
via fscklog
Over the last few days Jim Dalrymple of The Loop has written a few pieces on the rather strange things RIM’s two co-CEOs said in interviews (articles 1, 2 & 3).
All of the things Mr. Dalrymple wrote were accurate — albeit a bit tongue-in-cheek — yet in the comments of each post there was a rabid RIM supporter — of the trollish kind — feeling the need to bash Apple, the iPad in particular and praise RIM’s soon to be released iPad competitor to high heavens.
What these close to fanatic RIM fans don’t understand is, the iPad desperately needs an actual competitor, because even a company like Apple can become complacent. Nothing spurs innovation like healthy competition.
By all means, I want the PlayBook to be good (and HP’s tablet, too), I want it to be all the things that RIM has been promising customers for months.
Dave Caolo on the pitfalls of long podcast episode names.
I look for new podcast in the iTunes application on the iPhone regularly and sometimes it’s very hard to recognise which episodes I’ve already listened to.
The skill of strategy analysis: Uncovering company priorities
The Macalope Weekly: The Noyes machine
Hey Dan, I was just reading an interesting piece in that new iPad magazine. I think you’d really dig it.
Isn’t it amazing how it’s 2011 and we can just share these things quickly? Remember when you first used email and you were like, whoa dude, did you just send a letter to a possibly hot possibly girl in Cambodia? And you mean to tell me that she is going to be able to read it before I’m done saying this senten holy crap she wrote back already! Remember that? So since it’s 2011 this is going to be so much more amazing, yeah?
Alright, let me find this bad boy. For some reason* I can’t search this app so let me simply swipe my way through every page of every issue until I see the article I mentioned. I appreciate your patience. Ok here it is. Hey also for some reason* I can’t directly email this or select it to send it to you, so let’s do this right. You ready?
(*The pages are just dead images. There is no text to search or copy lol.)
Ok, download Futurio from the App Store. Got it? Love the sound of FREE, yeah. Take that, 1999. Ok, now, scroll on over to issue #9, the one with the poorly compressed JPEG on the cover, oh wait, now it looks better. Ok, buy (sike!) that one. It’ll take a few minutes to download. No, we can’t play Words With Friends while we wait, are you nuts. Hell yeah the download would break and probably be impossible to continue later.
Got it? Oh sorry, yeah, I’m eating a chicken confit sandwich. I had time to make it while the thing downloaded. Anyway, the article, the article… Right, it’s on page number, uh, well, ok it’s a big red page towards the back. Got it? Ok, it’s down at the end. No, scroll down. More. More. More. Ok there it is.
I know! I also thought Amanda would love it. You should totally send it to her.
It’s only a little bit better with some magazines in Germany. Still:
(via Marco Arment)
“When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”
Very true.
noun
- informal derogatory: a term used to describe people who bought a product that competes with the one you bought, which is probably more popular than your choice, for reasons that you wish to discredit or diminish because you’re secretly afraid or upset that you made the wrong choice.
ORIGIN from fan + boy.
Awesome, but it lacks passage about the often contrarian nature of fanboys.
Great ad campaign!
Reminds me of my childhood, when great parts of my monthly allowance were spent on Matchbox and HotWheels cars.
On LikeCool.com, via Dan Frakes