June 2010
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Seagulls by Port Blue
And speaking of Adam...
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I love Spotify, but it’s frustrating how songs and albums get pulled. Earlier in the year it was Matt & Kim’s Grand and LMFAO’s Party Rock — although that was also then pulled from iTunes not long afterwards — and now Recovery’s gone as well. Think it’s safe to say that all the blame goes to the record labels and it’s all out of Spotify’ control, but...
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Oh my, a Taiwanese man just knocked Roddick out of Wimbledon.
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Is there a Safari extension that replaces all instances of “aluminum” on a webpage with “aluminium”?
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“Don’t argue the botched call doesn’t matter now; if it had been 2-2...”
– John Gruber
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“Sorry guys. Power cut in the whole TV compound. We’ll record a whole forum...”
– Jake Humphrey
Guess I should watch the England match instead then?
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Watching F1: 2010 European GP
A tub of Ben and Jerry’s should make this Grand Prix a not-bad experience.
For a Jap, Kobayashi’s got really good English.
I like having Eddie Jordan on the grid.
Oh my fucking hell! That’s a horrible crash for Webber.
It’s amazing how Mark is able to walk away from that.
The order is so confusing right now.
Vettel got lucky with that uncharacteristic mistake.
So...
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Show 1: The Details →
Andy Wilman:
And if you like your TopGear served up with a dash more petrolheadery, then just wait for the Senna tribute we’ve shot, where we’ve got an exclusive with Lewis Hamilton driving Senna’s 1988 F1 car. We all love Lewis for the way he wears his heart on his sleeve when he races, and it’s the same when he shows his emotions for his hero.
Curious how the producer spells the...
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iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS →
I’m incorporating a few of these CSS-only tricks into the new theme I’m working on for my Tumblr. I don’t think I’ll be using these exactly, but they are inspirational.
(via @sophiestication)
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“I just swallowed a Haribo sweet whole, but when it comes to taking tablets… oh...”
– ifsupermandoesntsavethedayiwill
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My Trackpad Button Got Stuck in the Down/Clicked... →
At the time this thread was discussed, the unibody MacBook Pros — the model I’ve got — hadn’t been introduced yet, but I was surprised to find that the same cause applies in my case. This doesn’t fix the optical drive, although it does mean that it’s all the more critical that I get my MacBook to a Genius next Friday. It also finally gives me an explanation for the...
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Hmm, it seems I have to make yet another trip to the Apple Store again, this time for my MacBook Pro.
I barely used it for the past few days, leaving it on an armchair and only plugging in the iPhone and iPad every night or so to sync them up. And just now as I disturbed it from the screensaver to import some music, the trackpad seemed to be stuck in the click position, meaning that moving the...
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Jenson Button Sued Mercedes over £1m Car “Gift” →
If it’s in the contract, there’s no point trying to wriggle your way out, is there? It’s not even worth trying.
Also: didn’t know Jenson broke up with his girlfriend.
(via ESPN and Autoblog)
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The Denmark football team has a lot of Something-sons.
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Went to the Apple Store today to check out the new iPhone. No, I still don’t feel the need to get it, but:
Video, especially HD video, looks amazing on this thing. I imagine it’s what photographs are like on The Daily Prophet.
The display makes for one hell of a camera viewfinder.
Turns out the original assumptions that non-Retina apps should look identical on the 4 as they do on...
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There’s superhuman, and then there’s superhuman. How are these men still capable of playing tennis coherently?! They must be running on empty by now. Or are they? I mean, this can’t be healthy.
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“Top Gear” Retires Their Lacetti →
Richard Porter:
And just wait until you see what we’ve replaced it with.
I vote a Dacia Sandero. Or a plasma-powered horse.
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“Stop fucking calling it an “iTouch”.”
– Justin Williams
nikf:
Amen to that.
Or if you insist on shortening it, “the Touch” with a capital T.
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iOS 4 Install: Holy Slow Backup Batman →
Yup, I’m going through this right now. An hour and a half and it’s still backing up. Very tempted to just do a restore instead.
Sod it, I’m just gonna do a restore.
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It’s odd: having skipped over the 3GS, I thought I was definitely going to get the new iPhone this year, and I wasn’t planning to get this generation of iPad at all. What actually happened is the opposite: I bought an iPad and currently have no intention to get an iPhone 4.
Yes, the iPad’s speed has spoiled me. During my 3G-only week I had no big issues with the iPhone’s...
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Noo, it’s the summer solstice tomorrow… Days are gonna get shorter again…
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“Login” Is Not A Verb →
nostrich:
So glad our finest programmers are spending time arguing about this.
Noted.
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Hair reset. It’s not quite as orange as last time.
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New Mac mini →
It’s unibody, but not quite as fully unibody as the MacBooks, or even the iMac. See plastic around the ports at the back. I suppose getting every thing into the case via the round access hole at the bottom is tricky compared to sliding the assembled internals in from the back, and slows down the manufacturing process.
The new construction probably means that, compared to the original...
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The Story behind the Apps →
mrgan:
Sure would be great if Apple made videos like this for Mac developers as well.
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Xbox 360 E3 2010 Media Briefing →
C’mon, bring some Halo: Reach! So nice that I can watch it live rather than rely on liveblogs.
And the Project Natal Kinect presentation/performance last night looked pretty impressive.
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Why File-Sharing Has Killed “Unlimited” Mobile... →
That’s new: mobile data caps are a side effect of the frickin’ Digital Economy Bill. Which just annoys me even more because I don’t even download anything via BitTorrent on my home broadband anymore, let alone over 3G. Yet another case of innocent people being treated like criminals.
There is something in the article I don’t understand though, where Charles Arthur says...
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Watching F1: 2010 Canadian GP
Damn. Mom’s watching the tennis at the Queen’s on the TV, so I’ll have to watch the build-up on my laptop instead.
It’d be interesting to see if Alonso and Button can hold back Webber I suppose.
Martin vs. Tanya. Heh.
Possibly three stops? Really?
A Force India winning today will be absolutely wonderful.
That’s the most glorious Ferrari headgear ever.
It rained...
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Reeder for iPad →
I’m going to attribute it to limitations of their API, but I’m annoyed at how no third-party Reader clients do Mark All As Read the same way Google does it in their web app. It works, but it screws up the stat tracking.
Apart from that I quite like Reeder for the iPad. Unlike my previous experiences with NetNewsWire on an iPhone 3G, it updates extremely quickly, allowing me to start...
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“Jarno running a new 3D camera on his roll hoop rather than the standard camera”
– Mike Gascoyne
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“The new handset has a higher resolution camera and is able to record high...”
– BBC
I’m going to assume they misspoke and meant to say uploading high-res photos and HD videos will add pressure to the network, because I fail to see how iPhone 4 will affect O2’s service merely by having those capabilities.
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“But as you also know, Porsche doesn’t race for fame, stunts or publicity. We...”
– Detlev Von Platen
Porsche’s officially not taking up Mini’s challenge. Damn.