Microsoft has already said that Office Mobile will be supported on iOS, Android and Windows smartphones, although the company hasn't said before now whether the app suite would be Web-based or platform-native.
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Revolutions in technology come in waves only a few years apart. That BBEdit is still an essential tool more than two decades after its initial release is remarkable. BBEdit’s relevance is due in part to the company’s focus on its users' current needs, and in part to its attention to larger trends.
Amazing article by Andy Ihnatko. Useful!
Lytro’s light-field technology eliminates the need to focus — since the key selling point of the camera is its ability to refocus pictures after the fact.
The very mention of QR codes will likely incite groans in the least cynical of technophiles. What once was a tangible and exciting example of two-worlds colliding, bringing the physical world into the digital realm with funky barcodes and smartphones, now illustrates what can happen when we’re not really quite sure how to implement a fledgling technology. Football teams with QR codes on their shirts? I rest my case.
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A new iPhone 5 dock being sold through China-based iPhone5mod.com could be the first third-party product to ship with Apple’s new Lightning connector. Earlier reports indicated that accessory manufacturers would have trouble producing Lightning-compatible products due to a unique authentication chip Apple is using in the new standard. According to reports from M.I.C Gadget and MacRumors, which spoke with representatives of the company, the dock and cable from iPhone5mod are actually using chips obtained from Apple’s suppliers. They also provide all the same functionality. However, the company hinted cracked authentication chips are available and working:
Social media is not just for abusing celebrities and finding your ex-partners. It can get you work too. We reveal 20 ways to use Twitter, Facebook and other networks to send your career soaring.
As many of you know, my Halftone app was featured by Starbucks as its Pick of the Week this past August. I visit Starbucks daily for my morning caffeine fix, and over the course of a couple weeks, I managed to collect a small stack of the Halftone cards. They’ve proven to be a fantastic promotional tool and a very handy way to give someone a free copy of the app.
The W3C has announced WebPlatform Docs, a "community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation". With the backing of Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera and others, an alpha release is now live; the site is designed to enable web professionals to save time and resources by consulting with confidence a single site for current, cross-browser and cross-device coding best practices.
Some rules were made to be broken, especially when those rules were created by people trying to take control of your gadgets and internet. Here are ten ways we love to disregard authority in the name of freedom.
Between the popular Kinect camera and the experimental 3D desktop, Microsoft has been hard at work improving virtual navigation in the three-dimensional space. Despite advancements in technology, execution has long relied on stationary or cumbersome equipment to make detection possible. At the 25th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Microsoft Research will be showcasing a new method of 3D tracking in the form of Digits, a wearable prototype that is able to track hand motions without the inconvenience of bulky hardware.
Got an idea for a killer app but don’t know where to begin? Daniel Bramhall of Visioa explains everything you need to know to start programming for Apple devices
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See how the French capital developed since its Roman conquest in 52 BC until the present day. Witness the construction of the Bastille and Notre Dame, navigate through winding stone streets in the middle ages and visit the 1889 World’s Fair to see the revelation of the Eiffel Tower.
Check out iPod Classic browser demo
Here’s a fitting tribute to Steve Jobs on the one-year anniversary of his death: a working iPod Classic that runs in your browser. It’s a work in progress by Inventika Solutions developer Pritesh Desai, who lovingly crafted this superb browser toy using HTML5, CSS3, and a few other tricks. It’s lovely and brilliant.
In the auction, the Steve Jobs Tribute MacBook has a minimum bid of €9500 (that’s $12,405 USD), and the bidding will be going on until Monday night at Midnight ET (Monday at 9 p.m. PT). Uncover won’t be making any profit — proceeds from the sale will go to two different charities: GetItDone, a social media crowdfunding charity that concentrates on projects that stimulate positive change, and SellanApp, a crowdsourced platform that supports iOS apps that are valuable to society.
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and in a display of remembrance, Apple has updated the front page of its website with a video and message from Apple CEO Tim Cook noting that “His spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”
After several months in public and private betas, Tweetbot for Mac, the OS X version of the popular iOS Twitter client, has finally been submitted to the App Store and will be available soon. Disappointed users—over the recent news that Twitter has internally canned Twitter for Mac—will be excited to see a new Twitter client available to fill in the gap left by Twitter’s buggy app. Especially on Retina displays.
When Jana co-founder Nathan Eagle needed to connect to a cell carrier in the developing world, he’d come to meetings with a duffel bag full of cash and say that he wanted to buy airtime. For carriers who were taking on more customers than ever, but struggling with declining revenue per user, it was an irresistible sales pitch. The result, two years later, is that Jana is now the largest payment platform in the world.
We know a lot about Steve Jobs, thanks to his willingness in the last years of his life to share stories with his biographer about what drove him to co-found Apple Inc. and reinvent the PC, music players, phones and tablets. But there are plenty of “Steve” stories that you haven’t heard around, and a year after Jobs’ death on Oct. 5 at the age of 56, a few friends and colleagues shared their memories of the technology industry’s most notable luminary.
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Forbes and JESS3 began collaborating in the spring of 2011 on a graphic novel about the life of Steve Jobs, with a focus on his decade spent in "exile" from Apple, the company he founded. The book, written by Forbes reporter Caleb Melby and illustrated by JESS3, evolved into an historically inspired tale spanning 30 years of the relationship between Jobs and one of his great influences, Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Zen Buddhist priest who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the late 1960s. Like Jobs, Kobun was an innovator, lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. It wasn't long before their teacher-pupil relationship became more of a friendship, one that in this telling was not built to endure Apple's future success. The Zen of Steve Jobs was published by Wiley in January 2012 and has since been translated into fifteen languages.
Steve Jobs’s life was full of lessons on how to be successful, as well as the pitfalls to avoid when pursuing your dream. Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs has had a huge impact on people across the globe, so THNKR sat down with some of the journalists, authors, and tech entrepreneurs to get their thoughts on Steve Jobs one year after his passing. Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/193974/steve-jobs-life-legacy-reexamined-one-year-later-video/#5T7YZQGoVecOgCri.99