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Creating a webpage icon for iPad or iPhone

June 16, 2010

I’ve been using Silvio Rizzi’s excellent Reeder for iPad for the past several days. It’s far and away the nicest Google Reader application for iPad, and maybe anywhere. One thing that I noticed about it was that for some of the sites in my feed there were big fancy icons, while others were stuck with favicon.ico [...]

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HOW TO: Avoid a Sausage Fest on Foursquare

May 14, 2010

Assisted Serendipity is a simple little application that uses Foursquare checkin data to alert you when the “scales of love tip in your favor,” i.e. when the male-to-female is on your side at a designated bar, restaurant or venue. via HOW TO: Avoid a Sausage Fest on Foursquare.

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Steve Jobs posts his thoughts on Flash

April 29, 2010

But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. via Thoughts on Flash.

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Wolfram Alpha lowers iPhone app price from $50 to $2.

April 1, 2010

after initially releasing their “knowledge system” on the iPhone and then pulling it and trying to go premium with a $50 iPhone app, they’ve now reversed their position once again. The iPhone app will drop back down to $1.99 on Sunday, via Wolfram Alpha lowers iPhone app price, will give refunds..

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iPhone app developer Ngmoco explains some of the server architecture for their game Eliminate

March 12, 2010

The next big hurdles were player management and matchmaking. After considering a few different options, they went with an open-source messaging server called ejabberd — while it’s written in Erlang, a language that they said had some “crazy syntax” (they showed an inexplicable piece of code on the projection screen to make their point), it [...]

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Vienna Beef Hot Dog Stand Locator for iPhone

February 23, 2010

Introducing the Vienna Beef locator for the iPhone. Wherever you live or travel, you can search for restaurants that serve the authentic Chicago style hot dog from Vienna Beef, then get directions, call them, visit their website, and add to your contact list. I… I… I… just don’t know what to say about this. How [...]

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