


Using a hashtag does no harm in the same way wood paneling does no harm to your station wagon, or a misspelled tattoo does no harm to your bicep. I’ve heard before: What’s the harm? Why not at least try to include #SuperBowl if every little bit helps? Somewhat of a fair point. Hashtags Considered #Harmful ★ĭaniel Victor, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab: Obviously, Apple needs to make a cheaper iPhone. Galaxy S4 Starts at $249 on Contract at AT&T ★

This, from the company that shitcanned Google Reader because they wanted to “focus”. Thursday, 28 March 2013 Google Introduces Same-Day Shipping to Compete With eBay and Amazon ★ What does this mean for the Facebook integration in iOS? I wonder if this is what Mike Matas - and the many other A-team iOS designers Facebook has hired in recent years - have been working on? This could include Facebook news feed stories and data splayed out right on the home screen, along with easy access to Facebook apps. Rumors we’ve heard say that the project could actually be called “Facebook Home”, and its hallmark would be a heavily Facebook-ified mobile phone home screen. A new homescreen/launcher replacement, perhaps? Facebook to Reveal ‘Home on Android’ at Press Event Next Week ★
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Makes me wonder whether they’re announcing a major new app for Android in general, not just their own device. Heavily customized version of Android and not even mentionĭoes seem strange. Has been for companies to develop phones and tablets based on a Invitation is that it mentions Android at all. If that’s true, the most fascinating thing to me about this John Sherrod, on Facebook’s “Home on Android” event next week: This Is So That I Am Always on Offense and Never Defense.’ ★ ‘I Don’t Use a Ring of Any Kind on My Phone. Friday, 29 March 2013 ‘OK’ ★ĭavid Gelphman, on an email he got from Steve Jobs while he worked at Apple. It’s easy to use, easy to customize, and easy to get started.īest of all, you can try it for free. Squarespace has everything from great-looking templates, code-level customization, domain name registration, 24/7 support, and now even built-in e-commerce. Squarespace is an all-in-one website builder and hosting service, and when they say “all-in-one”, they mean it. My thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Core Data really does “just work” for local storage, both on OS X and iOS, but that’s not the case with Core Data and iCloud. However, is a very complicated and difficult job for Core Data. Yojimbo, our product, was one of the veryįirst to ship using Core Data storage - we’ve used it sinceĢ006, and it works great for storing data locally in the way that Means for applications to store items, and data about those items, Core Data is the application-levelĭatabase framework supplied by OS X and iOS that provides the Volume 2: Works, 208 pages, 779 color ills.Linked List: March 2013 Sunday, 31 March 2013 Rich Siegel: Our Travails With iCloud Sync ★ĭetailed, thoughtful piece by Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software:Ĭore Data syncing: This is where the rubber meets the road forĭatabase-backed applications. Volume 1: Totem & Taboo – Sketchbook, 104 pages, 94 color ills. This booklet, in which he transcribed texts by Sigmund Freud and Ezra Pound and juxtaposed them with drawings by, among others, Maori and aboriginal artists, as well as Russian Constructivists, is regarded as one of the most important artefacts of twentieth-century New Zealand art. The central volume is the first facsimile edition of his Totem & Taboo sketchbook. The three-volume catalog presents the exhibited works and new texts by leading experts on Len Lye in one volume each. At the same time, initially in New Zealand and Australia, later in London and in New York City, he created a fascinating body of work embracing all artistic disciplines which the exhibition showcases in all its variety and breadth. Len Lye (Leonard Charles Huia Lye, a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, 1901–1980), was one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 1930s to 1950s.
