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Maybe it is a Wild West free-for-all. What a fucking mess.

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Kevin C. Tofel:

To keep things simple, I started the conversation by asking: “How many of your parents use a smartphone?” Not a single student raised their hand. […] But then the light bulb went on and I asked: “How many of your parent…

Kevin C. Tofel:

To keep things simple, I started the conversation by asking: “How many of your parents use a smartphone?” Not a single student raised their hand. […] But then the light bulb went on and I asked: “How many of your parent…

Nice layman’s overview from Matt Neuburg.

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Tonight the Yankees face off against Joe Torre for the first time.

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My thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote ChimpKit, a complete Objective-C wrapper for their MailChimp API. MailChimp is a terrific email marketing and mailing list service, and ChimpKit lets you connect email addr…

When I first started using my iPhone 4 yesterday in its default factory-fresh state, FaceTime worked just fine. But then after restoring from a backup of my old iPhone 3GS, FaceTime was no longer available. No FaceTime button during phone calls, no Fa…

I don’t know if this signal-degradation-in-left-hand thing is really a widespread problem or not yet, but it’s not reasonable to tell people not to hold the phone this way.

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Kent Walker, Google VP and general counsel:

Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Co…

Rather amazing fluid web layout by Jon Hicks.

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Rather amazing fluid web layout by Jon Hicks.

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Rather amazing fluid web layout by Jon Hicks.

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Detailed, insightful review by Joshua Topolsky. (Nice touch: the video clips are published using HTML5 when you read the article from an iOS device.)

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Bluetooth keyboards work with iPhones running iOS 4, too.

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Bluetooth keyboards work with iPhones running iOS 4, too.

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One recurring sentiment I’ve seen a few times is that some people wish they could delete built-in iPhone apps that they never use, like, say, Stocks or Weather or whatever. What they can do now with iOS 4, though, is…

One recurring sentiment I’ve seen a few times is that some people wish they could delete built-in iPhone apps that they never use, like, say, Stocks or Weather or whatever. What they can do now with iOS 4, though, is…

A second collection of 30-second videos, each based on a tweet by someone else. Very fun. Includes a contribution from yours truly, which you can see by itself in HD here.

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Clever poster for David Fincher’s upcoming Facebook movie.

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Comprehensive.

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My thanks to Sourcebits for again sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Sourcebits is a contract developer specializing in iPhone, iPad, mobile, Mac, and web software. Their iPhone apps have been downloaded over 4.5 million times from the App Store, a…

One week out, a review of WWDC 2010.

So now Apple’s web mail has a better UI layout than their desktop app. I really like that three-column iOS-inspired layout.

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Lioncourt:

Last week, Adobe released version 10.1 of their Flash player
plugin for both the Mac and Windows operating systems, which
included a large number of security fixes. Much to the frustration
of visually impaired users, the installer…

Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.

Brian Ford:

It’s all fairly subjective, but my experience on the one website (Newsvine) where I ever had to deal with a significant number of comments is that, like gardening, successfully moderating comment threads is a ridiculous amount of wor…

Brian Ford:

It’s all fairly subjective, but my experience on the one website (Newsvine) where I ever had to deal with a significant number of comments is that, like gardening, successfully moderating comment threads is a ridiculous amount of wor…

Derek Powazek:

But your right to post to someone else’s site rests with that
someone else. This is so painfully obvious, anyone who doesn’t
get it must simply have an axe to grind. It’s like assuming you
have the right to go inside any…

Ian Betteridge:

And to my perspective, comments preserve a centralised,
egotistical model of web publishing that’s entirely against the
fundamental principles of a truly distributed web. Rather than
encouraging writing responses and linkin…

Robert Reich:

I’m a fan of Barack Obama. I campaigned for him and I believe in
him. I think he has a first-class temperament. I have been deeply
moved and startled by his ability to speak about the nation’s
most intractable problems. But…