29 5 / 2012
29 5 / 2012
24 5 / 2012
An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube | Splitsider
Nice look at how messed up YouTube is and how the big networks are in control.
23 5 / 2012
The Mental Blog: Under the Sheets with iCloud and Core Data: The Basics
There can be no doubt that iCloud is an important part of Apple’s future. It’s now less than a year old, but it has been a mixed start. The service itself seems up to the enormous data traffic it has to push, but some aspects of client-side integration are still very rough around the edges.
You…
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23 5 / 2012
The Mental Blog: Under the Sheets with iCloud and Core Data: How it Works
Apple’s documentation for Core Data syncing via iCloud offers very little insight into how it actually works. This is probably quite deliberate: Apple sees this as an implementation detail that developers should not concern themselves with. Unfortunately, if you have no concept of what is…
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07 5 / 2012
03 5 / 2012
The Subsidized Xbox 360
For $99 you’ll get an Xbox 360 plus the Kinect and an Xbox Live Gold account provided you pay $15 a month for the next two years, as Tom Warren scoops for The Verge.
This seems like a pretty smart move by Microsoft — even though basic math shows that the current full-price Xbox 360 + Xbox Live subscription is a better deal. People are going to look at this and think: “Oh! $99 Xbox 360 plus Kinect! In!”
It’s the phone carrier subsidy model.
Too bad it’s only in Microsoft Stores. Or maybe that’s part of the point too?
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