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World Factbook Dashboard by IBM

lrei — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:16:06 +0000

World Factbook Dashboard

and a video:

(Via DownloadSquad)

links for 2010-07-31

lrei — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:00:45 +0000

iPhone Pull to Refresh – Leah Culver's Blog

Ever since Tweetie 2, the pull-to-refresh paradigm has been a hot feature for iPhone applications. The idea is that you can pull down on a list of items to refresh them. This saves you from needing some sort of "refresh" or "reload" button. Nice!

(tags: code development howto opensource programming iphone ios)

links for 2010-07-30

lrei — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:53 +0000

Why Everyone Loves Tumblr

(tags: blog web2.0 microblog)
OStatus | people on different networks following each other

OStatus lets people on different social networks follow each other. It's transparent to your friends, colleagues and family which software or service you use. They can get your status updates on their own sites and reply, like, or re-post your updates.
OStatus isn't a new protocol; it applies some great protocols in a natural and reasonable way to make distributed social networking possible.
Activity Streams encode social events in standard Atom or RSS feeds.
PubSubHubbub pushes those feeds in realtime to subscribers across the Web.
Salmon notifies people of responses to their status updates.
Webfinger makes it easy to find people across social sites.

Sites like Google Buzz, StatusNet, WordPress.com, and Tumblr have implemented some or all of these protocols today.

The OStatus spec is a first step in this direction. We're eager to work with other implementers to make it better, to smooth the rough edges, and to improve the overall experience.

(tags: microblog opensource protocol web2.0 social)
StatusNet | Open Source microblogging service

StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.

With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.

(tags: social opensource web2.0 server software online collaboration microblog blog)

Another Evil of Apple’s App Store… oh wait

lrei — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:56:38 +0000

Android wallpaper app that takes your data was downloaded by millions | VentureBeat: “A questionable Android mobile wallpaper app that collects your personal data and sends it to a mysterious site in China, has been downloaded millions of times, according to data unearthed by mobile security firm Lookout. That means that apps that seem good but are really stealing your personal information are a big risk at a time when mobile apps are exploding on smartphones, said John Hering, chief executive, and Kevin MaHaffey, chief technology officer at Lookout, in their talk at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today. ‘Even good apps can be modified to turn bad after a lot of people download it,”

(Via Slashdot)

C.R.A.B. – Badass Robot Design

lrei — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:32:41 +0000

(Via Slashgear)

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Nobody talks about making a Nexus One Killer

lrei — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:27:32 +0000

The Emperor’s New Antenna: “Nobody talks about making a ‘Nexus One killer’ or an ‘HP Slate killer’ or a ‘Zune killer’; Apple’s consumer electronics products become the reference points for their fields. The Mac isn’t an exception here, either. While it’s by no means a market leader, Windows became far more Mac-like over the years than the Mac became Windows-like.”

(Via John Gruber)

Android Market apps now have to check in with licensing servers to confirm legitimacy

(author unknown) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:26:11 +0000

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LOL. this is going to work out just great. More so considering how many androids don't have data plans and the fact that a lot of apps are useful offline. I'm guessing google should start SEO a "Marketgate" page...

Filed under: Security, Google, Android

The Android Market is doing away with its current copy protection scheme for apps, because breaking protection to pirate the apps is a little bit too easy for the comfort of the developers who sell their software in the market. To protect its relationship with the all-important dev community, Google has launched a "licensing service" that verifies whether an app was legitimately purchased.

This kind of scheme isn't uncommon, but it's sometimes unpleasant for users. In a perfect world, your Android phone would always have reception, and a licensing server would always be up and running to authenticate the apps you've bought. There are bound to be a few problems, though, and it's not clear how Google will address them. I'm not going to assume the worst, but I do wonder what happens when you have an offline app and you're in a service black hole. Can it run without being able to access the licensing server?

Google could protect developers without checking apps every single time they run, but there are other possible worries, like legitimate apps failing the licensing check due to glitches (a la Microsoft and Windows Genuine Advantage). On the plus side, Google has some of the best server infrastructure in the world, so it's very unlikely these servers will go down for any length of time.

Currently, this type of authentication is available to any developer who wants it, but it's not mandatory. It'll be interesting to see how many app creators start using it right away.

[via Engadget]

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Google - Android Market - Microsoft - Windows Genuine Advantage - Security

links for 2010-07-21

lrei — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:00:58 +0000

Google Font Directory

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.
Includes font preview!

(tags: web development html css opensource design)

1996

(author unknown) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:05:13 +0000

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T.I. calculator -m y highschool :) oh and the BW display can be made to display certain colors with some hacking.

The provincial lawyer who is helping plot an emirate coup | World news | The Guardian

Instapaper: Archive — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:01:11 +0000