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12 Jan 2011

Google may be one of the world’s most respected tech companies, but it could learn a thing or two from Apple. One lesson: surprises are supposed to be good. Yesterday, Google surprised the world with an announcement that it is dropping support for the popular H.264 video codec. Not surprisingly, this sparked an outcry from [...]

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Tags: apple one, daring fireball, h 264, innovation support, john gruber, red herring, video codec, video codecs, video playback

iOS 4.3 and Murdoch’s “The Daily” to Launch in December [REPORT]

In: web resources

25 Nov 2010

With the release of iOS 4.2.1 now complete, Apple is reportedly focusing on launching iOS 4.3 by mid-December. It will bring not only bug fixes, but could be the update that brings app subscriptions and Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only publication to millions of iOS devices. Apple is set to reveal iOS 4.3 next month, according to [...]

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Tags: according to john, daring fireball, john gruber, managing editor, new edition, new york post, news corp, rupert murdoch, steve jobs

Bye bye Flash

In: web resources

23 Nov 2010

For a long time I’ve been doing what many others do and use tricks like ClickToFlash (for Safari) and FlashBlock (for Firefox) to prevent Flash content from bringing my Macs’ CPUs to their knees and ruining my “web experience”. But not anymore. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across the Daring Fireball article Going [...]

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Tags: CPUs, daring fireball, Firefox, flash content, flashblock, knees, mac os x, Safari, web experience

iPhone 4 on a Glif, Manfrotto, GlideTrack, and Tripod

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20 Nov 2010

iPhone 4 on a Glif, Manfrotto, GlideTrack, and Tripod: This is a little wacky and definitely looks like overkill. But it was a fun proof-of-concept to throw together. See the test video. Incidentally, you’ll have to tell me if the video plays properly. I’m working exclusively on an 11” MacBook Air today, and I’ve committed [...]