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magicofpi | 13 years ago | on: Why is this so hard... Apple

> Even dragging out the USB cord to plug my phone into my MacBook Pro doesn’t yield a simple solution. Open iTunes, iPhoto, etc. – haven’t found the answer.

There's an app called Image Capture, installed on every Mac, that lets you easily download certain photos and videos from your iPhone (or any other camera). It simply presents a list of media on your device, which you can save in any location you want. There's no organizational aspect, unlike iPhoto. Image Capture doesn't help with the uploading/sharing part, of course, but it's much more streamlined way of directly downloading photos versus iPhoto.

magicofpi | 14 years ago | on: Backbone vs Ember

I'm particularly interested – if anyone has experience using Ember – about the concerns raised about Ember's performance with large amounts of data and "hairy custom view situations," as borismus puts it. Is Ember actually going to be slow when dealing with large data sets?

magicofpi | 14 years ago | on: Responsive Text

This reminds moe of Joe Davis' Telescopic Text: http://www.telescopictext.com/. Assuming you see this on a desktop computer, it's exactly the opposite of Frankie's responsive text: instead of gradually reducing the amount of information, it gradually increases it.

magicofpi | 14 years ago | on: Reinventing the Printing Press

The OP, written by Inkling's CEO, also says: "I also previewed Inkling for Web, which will make all of Inkling’s great interactive content available in any web browser."

magicofpi | 14 years ago | on: Google+ opens to teens, launches youth safety features

I wonder what this could mean for using Google+ in the classroom – perhaps teachers could post links in a circle exclusively for the students in their class, and allow students to comment and discuss those links. Also, on a hangout, students could more easily collaborate on group projects, especially if they use Google Docs.

magicofpi | 15 years ago | on: Apple's Upcoming 'Reading List' to Compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater

I was just wondering, actually, if Apple would make something to compete with Instapaper. The iPad is not necessarily an ideal ebook reader - it's heavier, more expensive, and harder to read in the sun than the Kindle or Nook.

Don't get me wrong; I love the iPad, and I've read a couple of books on it too. But what I really like doing is reading articles on Instapaper. The iPad seems ideal for reading and collecting Instapaper-length stories or essays. To me, it would make a lot of sense to integrate something like "Reading List" into iBooks, and market that as a feature. It may not replace Instapaper/ReadItLater for us, but I'm sure consumers who have never heard of either will love Apple's Reading List.

magicofpi | 15 years ago | on: Jedberg on Reddit's most recent outage

They certainly think there's a problem with EBS: "Since that last failure, we have been doing everything we can to move ourselves off of the EBS product. We're about half way there. All of our Cassandra nodes are now using only local disk, and we hope to have all of postgres on local disk soon."
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