The past few months have been spent doing a little reorganizing.  After leaving my last company, IdentityMine, I decided it was time to start doing iOS development full time.  What better way to do that than to start your own app development shop?

So I got together with a couple of highly-skilled, like-minded buddies of mine to do just that.  We all come from a background that focused on usable software, and thought that we could put our skills to good use on the App Store – a place where people are actually rewarded for all the hard work that goes into creating polished, usable experiences.

We needed a name of course, so we followed a successful naming pattern that I like to call “Random Mammal,” whereby you attach some sort of description to a random mammal of your choosing.  For example: Angry Tiger, Ninja Monkey, Sly Shark, etc…

And such was the creation of The Other Dingo, an app development shop devoted to hand crafting applications for iOS.

Check out our website, and keep an eye out for all the apps that we’ll be releasing!

It occurs to me that Apple did make a major change to help those who don’t or can’t attend WWDC: they release the session videos remarkably soon after the conference ends. Watching the videos is not the same thing as being there (no labs, for one thing), but it’s a big improvement over years past, when the videos were released many months after WWDC was over.

This is great compared to the past years, but why not take it one step further?  Why not stream the sessions live?  So that people around the world can feel like they’re there without ruining the experience of actually BEING there.  This could even enhance the experience, sort of like watching a football game on a big screen TV.

Now, it might be a little more difficult to stream the readily available supply of free Odwalla they had at WWDC 2010… actually being there would still have its perks.

Agreed.

“While ALL iPhone 4s actually have this problem (Craig, let me see you’re iPhone and I’ll show you and it is definitely DUMB that a world class mobile phone has an issue as stupid as “if you hold it in this way it doesn’t work,” I feel that it’s not THAT big of a deal. Simply moving my thumb half a centimeter “fixes” everything, and getting a case (which I ordered NOT because of the reception issue) completely resolves the issue.

The only unfortunate thing is that the iPhone hasn’t morphed into a phone that is also a computer. It’s still a computer that is also a phone. Maybe iPhone 5 will be called iRealPhone.

My official stance: MEGA FAIL but not a big deal. Sort of like running into a screen door.”

PS – I never believed that the issue could be fixed by reporting a different number of bars.  That software could fix an obvious hardware problem is silly.  However, the thought that perception of the public can be altered by software is an obvious one, and is the route that Apple took.  Suddenly the reception issue was perceptibly cut in half, because instead of going from 4 bars to none, you’re only going from two bars to none.  Steve, you’re so sly!

The article by Left-Handed Toons was originally submitted by Josh on July 14th, 2007, but has recently been popular on the internet, prompting Subway to correct their unnecessary dairy overlap issue!

[Thanks to Jamey for the tip]

But then I read the post on daringfireball that was trying to drill things home for people:

Gizmodo isn’t being “punished severely for publishing information gained by others in unsavory ways”; they are being investigated by law enforcement for committing a felony themselves.

And then I read the note that Gizmodo received from Apple two months prior, stating that they shouldn’t give cash incentives to people that find leaked prototypes from Apple, because this sort of incentive is promoting people to break the law (breaking the law is illegal, FYI), and that this sort of action is against the law in itself.  Well F – they knew this was going to happen!

I’m now of the mind that Gizmodo is just a bunch of juvenile journalists…

oh wait…. I always thought that.

Only two more days people!  The 3G iPad is supposed to be shipped on Friday, so many (including myself) have been waiting for a shipment confirmation.  Good news, though, from The Loop:

“Unlike the iPad Wi-Fi that shipped directly from China to customers, the 3G model will ship from within the U.S.”

I’ll be waiting at my doorstep.

However, this past Saturdays’ piece was particularly hilarious.  Seriously.  I had to run to the bathroom to pee.  The second time I laughed, I laughed so hard I didn’t even make it to the bathroom!  (not really.  We all know my desk chair is a toilet)

In the first part of the article the macalope picks apart Lee Brimelow’s post from last week that we’ve all seen a million times by now.  But the sarcasm and witty remarks continue throughout the rest of the article.

Oh horny one, your humor was great.  I’ll be eagerly awaiting next weeks post in hopes that this hilarity continues.