Since Classics is now free, I decided to check it out in the app store. I searched for “Classics”, expecting it to be the first thing that would show up. Instead, the application named “Classics” is 6 rows down.
Mike Cohen
My thoughts on the iPad
The iPad looks awesome, and of course I want one, but most likely I won’t get an iPad for one reason: it can’t replace either my MacBook or iPhone, so I’d have to travel with three different devices. I would definitely get an iPad rather than a Kindle or Nook, if I did get an eBook reader.
Since the iPad doesn’t have a camera and isn’t usable as a phone, I still need an iPhone. Since it can’t run Mac software I need such as XCode and web development software such as Coda or BBEdit (or MarsEdit, which I’m using now), I’ll still need to use my MacBook.
A use for that XO Laptop
If you bought an XO laptop through their Give One Get One program, it’s probably sitting and gathering dust. You can finally make it useful. The OLPC foundation is requesting that unused XO laptops be sent to Haiti. That’s what I’ll be doing with mine.
Dear G1G1er,
At the end of 2007 you participated in the Give One Get One program of One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Thanks to you and others like you, 75,000 laptops went to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Cambodia, Oceania, the West Bank, and Haiti.
An additional 75,000 laptops came into the USA as part of the “get” side of the equation. In some cases those laptops have since been put into closets for one reason or another.
We are gathering additional used XO laptops to send to Haiti. If you or the child to whom you gave the laptop is no longer using it, we appeal again to your generosity and ask you to send it to the address below (even if it is broken).
OLPC FOR HAITI c/o Exel
615 Westport Parkway #500
Grapevine, TX 7605175% of the schools in Port-au-Prince have been destroyed in the recent earthquake, but by good fortune, none of our Haitian team was hurt. They have spare parts and OLPC technical staff and teachers, and stand prepared to deploy these XOs.
Because of the XO’s unique features (sunlight readability, solar powered, water resistant, drop proof), it is also an ideal tool for relief work.
If your XO is in use, please ignore this email. We only want your broken or unused XOs.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Negroponte
links for 2010-01-25
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Every day, there’s about 300 apps published in the Apple App Store. Some of these apps are made by developers like ourselves, trying to open up the many possibilities of the iPhone OS platform to ohers and ourselves. By sharing our app’s capabilities and using the capabilities of the apps made by other developers we can increase the usability of the platform. And we might learn something in the process. handleOpenURL.com offers a centralized platform for developers to read and write about others’ and their own apps.
A first look at ICHC 2.0
I did a lot of work on I Can Has Cheezburger this weekend, and I now have it more or less usable, although a few UI features are still missing. I rewrote some of my views to take more advantage of Three20, which dramatically improved the performance.
I reduced the memory usage in the LOL Creator (which was always a problem) by not creating a full-sized preview, but only creating the full-sized image when saving or sending. For the preview, I now create the image only large enough to fit in the view (an iPhone camera shot is 1600×1200, although the screen is only 320×240).
Here’s a sample of how it performs on an iPhone 3GS with a WiFi connection.
New Webhost
If you’re seeing this, the DNS is resolving to our new location at DreamHost.
When I had all of my domains hosted at MediaTemple, I was always very close to and often exceeded the monthly 1000 GPU limit.
Although MacMegasite is a pretty standard WordPress site without any plugins that hog processor time, it gets a lot of traffic and the database is pretty huge due to the number of posts. Even with WP-Super-Cache, it averaged over 30 GPU per day, which easily put it over the limit, not counting this site & WorldBeatPlanet.
A few weeks ago I moved MacMegasite to DreamHost, where I’m also hosting the feed proxy used by the latest ICHC app. After the move, I found that MacMegasite ran a lot faster than it did at MediaTemple, which I found to be getting a lot slower lately.
One reason I prefer DreamHost to MediaTemple is because their Panel API lets you control your virtual private server from an iPhone app, among other things. With DreamHost I can change the memory size or reboot my VPS at any time. DreamHost also lets you create a separate user for each domain or group of domains, so it’s a lot easier to give someone access only to a particular domain than at MediaTemple, which puts all of the domains under a single user.
DreamHost had some problems a few years ago, but they definitely got their act together and they now seem reliable. MediaTemple, on the other hand, seems to have become extremely slow with frequent server outages.
Evidence of a 10.2" Tablet?
I often review UNIEA’s products at MacMegasite, so they will send me a package with some of their newest items. This time they sent me a 10.2″ “U-Sleaf”, which claims to be for a 10″ netbook. The flap makes me think it’s actually designed for a tablet-type device.
links for 2010-01-22
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Let's you connect your laptop to the iPhone to surf the web
The results are in
I got my app store sales report for yesterday and the results were less than dazzling. My sales for the day were just about average and lower than on some normal days. Yesterday’s sales were $42, but my best recent sales day in the last week was $51. Rather than donating yesterday’s sales, I will be donating my highest sales total for the week to Partners In Health.
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In addition, I also bought several other apps and a BassJump yesterday.
links for 2010-01-20
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Here are the 133 standard Crayola crayon colors with their equivalent hex codes.