reflections
iOS 6 adjusts metallic button reflections as you tilt your phone
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A video uploaded by YouTube user streborhcaz has revealed a neat little detail in the new iOS 6 music app. The iOS 5 slider, pictured above, is just a static image. However, as you can see below, Apple seems to be using one of its movement sensors to detect...
Reflections on the Natural Gas Revolution That's Already Begun
www.theatlantic.com
For better or worse, previously unknown reserves and a new ability to access them is transforming North American energy policy....
ZTE V96 hands-on at CTIA 2012
www.engadget.com
One of ZTE's latest tablets, the V96, was announced at Barcelona for MWC but never made any official appearances at the show. Fortunately we found the new device hiding in the manufacturer's booth at CTIA 2012. The Ice Cream Sandwich device runs a Qualcomm 1.7GHz MSM8960 dual-core Krait processor...
Revisit Jean Giraud's career with 'Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures'
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Moebius, who passed away last week, was one of the most influential comic book artists of the 20th century and beyond, but you could be forgiven for not knowing it. While he contributed to works as mainstream as The Fifth Element and Alien, much of his work was pretty...
New MacBook Pro’s Retina display reviewed and benchmarked
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Following posting initial benchmark data yesterday for the new Retina MacBook Pro’s SSD and USB 3.0, AnandTech today published a longer analysis of the notebook’s display. First the report took a closer look at the new resolution preferences for Retina MBP users, describing the advantages of the different scaling options...
Bring out your dead! Ultimate 'Holy Grail' guide comes to iPad
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This incredible collection of cast reflections, on-location photos, film outtakes, and more is a must-have for "Grail" fans. It even syncs with the new Blu-ray! [Read more]...
Hori Fighting Edge arcade stick hands-on
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Hori is known for its line of arcade sticks, and here at E3 the company is showing off its stylish new Fighting Edge controller. The first thing that strikes you about the Fighting Edge are its looks: gone are game-related graphics or designs, and what you're left with instead...
We Wish We Could Follow This Class of Kindergartners on Twitter
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(twitter.com/#!/jensclass) But alas, we cannot. Jennifer Aaron, a kindergarten teacher at PS-150 in Tribeca, has made her class's account private. At the end of every day, she sits down with the five-year-olds and asks them to summarize what they did that day to the 35 parents and friends who follow...
The story behind that nasty Microsoft dance routine
www.geekwire.com
This past weekend we reported on a song and dance routine staged by Microsoft Norway at the Norwegian Developers Conference, with lines including “The words MICRO and SOFT don’t apply to my penis” … “or vagina,” as the on-stage slide added, strangely. Microsoft has issued multiple apologies for the incident....
MIT develops fog resistant, glare-free glass, it's clearly amazing (video)
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It sounds like it's not just us that spend half our sweet time with lint-free cloth in hand. Researchers at MIT have developed a new type of glass that "virtually eliminates" reflections, and is also water-repellent. By using techniques from the semiconductor industry, conical nano-textures etched into the layered...
Microsoft reveals Windows 8 desktop UI changes, drops Aero Glass
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Microsoft has revealed that it has made some big changes to its desktop UI for Windows 8, which includes moving away from Aero Glass — the UI first introduced with Vista. According to the company, this means visual changes that include "flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting...
Windows 8′s desktop UI changes unveiled
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If you have been following Windows 8 for any amount of time, you must have run across the Building Windows 8 Blog, the official organ of the Windows team. It is not for massive, Internet-bending pieces of non-fiction that pack in enough context that by the time you emerge from...
‘Don’t burn books! Burn your iPad instead’
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Seattle-area band The Half Brothers had a little fun at the expense of some of our favorite devices at a “meeting” of the Bushwick Book Club of Seattle Friday night in Columbia City. Hardly your typical discussion group, Bushwick invites book lovers to hear original music created by local...
Bloomberg: FLA is finding ‘tons of issues’ at Apple supplier plants
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Despite reports from Reuters earlier this week profiling Fair Labor Association CEO Auret van Heerden’s positive reaction to the early inspections of Apple’s suppliers in Shenzhen, China, Bloomberg announced today van Heerden’s comments actually “reflected his previous interactions with Foxconn.” In contrast to Reuters original article, during a phone interview...
AIPAC 2010: Early Reflections
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It’s Hard To Watch The Newsosaurs Turn A Blind Eye To Their Own Extinction
techcrunch.com
Sometimes it is obvious where the world is headed, but some people and industries become frozen in place and time. They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants around them when the meteor strikes instead of the small furry mammals underfoot who take cover every...
Links for 2010-06-08 [del.icio.us]
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Understanding the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today More on the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today Wrapping It Up: The Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today The Psychology of Twitter | World of Psychology elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age Lars is Learning: Welcome aboard!...
Reflections of a Knowledge Manager: 'Green' KM?
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Reflections before surgery
globalneighbourhoods.net
I learned last Wednesday that I will have open heart surgery this Tuesday, May 11. There really hasn't been much to do since then. There's a few details: I need a new bathroom, and if I am going to use my computer outside during recovery I need a new...
Google's Vint Cerf on Private Clouds v. Public Clouds
www.readwriteweb.com
The debate about private clouds continue as the traditional heavyweight enterprise software providers make their big and glossy pitches for their vision of a private cloud. So, it may come from Google, but still, it is refreshing to hear the intellectual tone that a scholar like Vint Cerf provides. Cerf...
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Yahoo signals major challenge to newspapers
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Reflections on Eyjafjallajokull: Let’s Not Waste Another Wake-up Call | Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
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Reflections on Eyjafjallajokull: Let’s Not Waste Another Wake-up Call | Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
Summary post by Lincoln Mullen re: @PDP2010 - #pdp2010 - http://lincolnmullen.com/archives/2010/02/reflections-on-pdp-2010/
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Summary post by Lincoln Mullen re: @PDP2010 - #pdp2010 - http://lincolnmullen.com/archives/2010/02/reflections-on-pdp-2010/
Reflections: A day and a night with the iPad
www.tuaw.com
Filed under: iPadGetting an iPad was an unplanned part of my day. My original idea was to wait for version 2, but I found myself at a local Best Buy taking pictures and interviewing people in line, and the manager came out and said there were some available. Bingo. Reality...
UnTech10 Reflections http://j.mp/arobAM
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"Cuba—A Way Forward" in @nybooks - reflections on the Cuban blogosphere - http://j.mp/dr8xtr
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Social Capital: The Currency of the Social Economy
www.briansolis.com
The convention for creating financial opportunities is evolving and changing the way we seed prospects, promote our expertise and prowess, and connect with those who can help us learn and advance through the facilitation of strategic and mutually beneficial alliances. Digital capitalization is laying a foundation for expanding the...
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