This past October I applied WD-40 to my iPhone 4’s home button because it was barely registering clicks (or double clicks) anymore.
I’m happy to report after over 3 months, my home button is working better than ever.
For anyone who was suspect of this technique, I think the coast is clear.
Microsoft Might Kick In $1-$3 Billion To Help With The Dell Buy Out
$3 billion to keep Dell going?
It’s like supporting a horse carriage company during the golden age of automobiles.
If I were Michael Dell, I would give the money back to the shareholders (it never gets old).
What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?
Agency : No, we can only take on clients who know how to drive the cars we stock. We find it’s safer that way. There are so many little differences between cars, we just don’t want to take a chance.
Applicant : I have a drivers license. I know how to drive. I’ve been driving all kinds of cars for 15 years, I am sure I can adapt.
Agency : We appreciate your position, but we can only take exact matches. Otherwise, how could we ever know if you could drive one of our cars?
I’m a sucker for a good car analogy.
via Hacker News
Taken from The Combustion Chamber
The Icarus Deception from Squarespace on Vimeo.
Window Seat is an amazing series of photographs by Julieanne Kost.
via Flavorwire
Looks like Group94 is relaunching their site next month:
Assume nothing, question everything. Group94 stands for highly tailored work. In an industry tending to standardization, offering more of the same, this appears to be an approach that works.
Developing in HTML5 nowadays did not change that…
Indeed every project starts from a clean slate, the goal is to make it fresh and innovative yet well thought out and usable, it must be fast and to the point and of a highest order from a technical point of view.
Can’t wait. I’ve been a fan of their work for years.
I apologize if you’ve been inundated with old posts on the site and in your RSS feeds.
Last week a third-party plug-in was causing my Movable Type administration area to crash. In turn, I tried to fix the problem and I made more work for myself than I needed to (It had to do with Twitter Tools and and what I think was a conflict with a Perl module upgrade by my hosting provider). I learned some things. Good news is, the site is running better than ever.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Daily Exhaust is back online.
The main lesson I learned is Movable Type is not getting better with age—at least in my experience with it on a shared-server environment (I’m not the only one). Part of what took me so long to get this site back up was installing and testing multiple dot-releases of Movable Type 5. As of this writing, the latest release is 5.2.2 and it ran exponentially slower than the version I had previously installed, 5.02. Luckily MT includes the install version number in the HTML Head section.
I’m not interested in exporting everything over to WordPress because WordPress doesn’t have static publishing like Movable Type does. Despite the broken links and embedded video objects from the last 7 years, static publishing gives me a complete archive that isn’t contingent on backend server to work.
At the end of the day, Daily Exhaust is about publishing words and images and Movable Type does that well. No it’s not as advanced as platforms like Squarespace (which I use over at The Combustion Chamber), but it doesn’t need to be.
BGR: Teen survey says Apple is done, Surface is cool
“Teens are telling us Apple is done,” Buzz Marketing Group’s Tina Wells told Forbes. “Apple has done a great job of embracing Gen X and older [Millennials], but I don’t think they are connecting with Millennial kids. [They’re] all about Surface tablets/laptops and Galaxy.”
Really?
On my flights across the country this past year my “research” says otherwise, but I’m not a teen anymore, so what do I know?
Techcrunch: Microsoft Launches “Next App Star” Competition For Windows Phone Developers
You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still writes its own blog posts when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the Windows Phone store isn’t actually quite as empty as the Windows 8 store, but Microsoft could sure use some marquee apps for its mobile platform. To get developers and consumers a bit more excited about it, the company is launching its “Windows Phone Next App Star” contest today.
It wasn’t to long after Apple launched their App Store that they were able to brag about having both the best and the most apps. Now in 2013, Microsoft has no such advantage. While 150,000 apps is nothing to scoff at, it means nothing to people already conditioned to seeing over one million apps in Apple’s App Store. “Hey, Windows Phone now has Angry Birds!!!” …who cares?
Parity in apps will help Microsoft, but parity won’t win the war for them.
I’m just curious when the Charade of the Zune Phone will end. Will Microsoft piss away all their cash reserves before they gain a foothold in the smartphone space?
Influencer: Kickstand, inventioned by Joseph Paul Treen, 1930’s
Influenced: Microsoft Surface, 26 October 2012
Microsoft Surface image taken from Anandtech
I’m really liking Head Like An Orange
Over at The Verge, Paul Miller on fitness trackers and the data they capture:
At CES this year, a horde of companies brought devices that track every metric of fitness: steps, runs, weight, heartbeats, skin temperature, air quality, and even how fast you eat. Much of the choice seems to come down to ergonomics (wristband or beltclip?), and color (pink or blue or gray?), but there’s another important distinction that needs attention: does the data this device tracks belong to me, or to the maker?
Miller brings up some great points in this post.
I haven’t thought about this since I started using my Nike FuelBand this past Sunday, but it’s true, there’s no reason I shouldn’t have access to my fitness data so I can back it up or export it to another service. Sure, Nike can keep their proprietary ‘Fuel’ score. But steps? Calories? Those are universal measurements. They’re my measurements.
We’re already seeing Twitter opening up access to users’ tweet archives. I think it’s only a matter of time before fitness trackers do the same.
I smell a Kickstarter opportunity.
