January 2011
8 posts
BGR: Over 100 Tablets Announced at CES →
Only thing missing is the “availability date” column.
PDFescape - Online PDF Editing →
OS X’s Preview.app is a great PDF reader but not a very good PDF editor. It doesn’t support pasting images into PDFs, so when I’ve had to add my signature to a PDF in the past, I would drop the PDF into Acorn (and previously Pixelmator) and paste away.
My main problem with this approach is that Acorn (and Pixelmator) rasterizes the text in the PDF, resulting in blurry text and...
WatchGlenn Beck: “Philadelphia is not a place you want to be.”
He probably thinks so because you can’t hear him on the radio here. I, for one, support him on this. Whatever it takes to keep the nutjobs away.
H.264 / WebM and iOS vs. Android
I’ve been thinking about Google’s recent decision to pull H.264 support from Chrome in favor of their own WebM codec. Since Apple is the #1 proponent of H.264, many are claiming that Google’s reasoning for doing this is that it gives them a competitive advantage against Apple in the mobile space.
In order for Google to realize that advantage, however, several things need to...
New Multi-Touch Gestures in iOS 4.3 →
Hope you weren’t too attached to the iOS home button.
“True, this is a very large number, but most numbers are larger.”
– Math StackExchange user Ross Millikan (who attributes it to Martin Gardner) on the number of monkeys it takes to produce Hamlet.
Slate on the Dave Matthews Band →
Annie Lowrey writes about how DMB makes money in what many believe to be a dying industry. The secret (at least to those who haven’t spent thousands on concert tickets over the last decade, like I have): the band makes most of it’s money from touring, rather than from selling records.
As Josh Klein puts it:
The gist is that unlike the traditional musician business model (get...
