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“Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan.”
I’m pretty sure the application is Hipstamatic.
“So, I get press, a mailing list to spam, a shot at the top 100 with the associated extra sales, and Apple pay me $50 to do it.”
Morally illegal.
Inspiring.
The second one is worth a mention here:
“Google is having trouble making money from anything but search, which is why, he says, hardly a week goes by without word of another Google innovation. “Last week it was Google broadband. This week it’s Google TV. It’s all a big joke. Even Android is a joke.”
Beautiful.
I was reading Marco’s latest post about Instapaper for iPad last night, and as I saw the screenshots of the new version I realized something: developers seem to see the bigger screen of the new device only as a way to put more information on screen, rather than a way to lay out information in a different way.
Don’t get me wrong, of course with a bigger screen you’d like to insert more interface elements and stuff - the point is, you don’t necessarily have to. Instead of focusing on how to fill that space with elements that would be located in a different window otherwise, why not thinking about how to explore new ways to present information?
We all know Webkit is a fantastic engine, just as we all appreciate its 3D capabilities and css transforms effects when we see a well implemented one. But when I thought I had seen everything Webkit could offer (or at least a good part), there I stumbled upon this article on HplusMagazine, describing the Text 2.0 project, an enhanced reading experience that combines (or should, at last) eye tracking, neat javascript and CSS tricks to create a brand new, revolutionary way of reading web content.
You’ve probably read John Gruber’s post about backups last week, the one where he talked about his experience with a damaged internal hard drive and, luckily for him, the way he managed to save data with Dropbox, Super Duper, Disk Warrior and a couple of external hard disks.
I think John made some strong points in suggesting to purchase not one, but a couple of external hard drives - as you really don’t know when a hard drive is gonna fail. Just as an internal drive can die, so a Firewire one with all your backups can.
Anyway, there are some other practices I’ve gotten used to follow over time I’d like to talk about.
