They got the bastards in 3 minutes. Cops will never be this responsive in this country.
Caught On Camera of the Day: A 911 call from a woman watching live CCTV camera footage of her house being burgled is synced with video from the surveillance feed she was watching.
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Self reliance.
Thanks to a partnership between Font Bureau, Carter & Cone, and Monotype Imaging, Georgia and Verdana are now extended families, enabling much more versatile use on screen and paper.
/via @hellosigit
Not only did the Levi’s update of iOS (I’m gonna call it that since it’s 5.0.1) bring you better battery life, adds multitasking gestures to the first iPads, resolves bugs with Documents in iCloud and improves voice recognition with Australian accents, it also closed the security bug that was publicly exposed by Charlie Miller a few days ago which cost him his Apple developer account.
Other fixes: iPad 2 passcode security lock bypass and removing DataCert as a trusted certificate provider.
Nokia’s in depth documentary on Lumia 800
Yes, it’s the same kind of polished marketing fluff that Apple and a few other companies produce, but that’s the point. It’s polished, and they talk as passionately as engineers, executives, designers, and other nervous non-actors can about loving their work.
via GigaOM
While this is about the Lumia 800, a lot about the hardware could probably be said about the N9 which I really love, after all, the two phones share an identical design with slight tweaks in a few places.
I do hesitate a little about openly recommending the N9 given the limited availability of the applications as well as the unique approach to its use but I can say that I’m enjoying the different ways to use a mobile device. I love it when somebody comes along and offers a fresh take on common activities and the N9 is as fresh as it gets.
I’m genuinely excited about Nokia’s future having seen and now own the N9. This is a fresh start for the company struggling to maintain its position in the rapidly changing world of mobile phones.
Though I’m apprehensive about the deal with Microsoft, having used Windows Phone 7 for about a month earlier this year, I can say that it’s really not a bad piece of software from the consumer point of view. I like how it delivers a truly fresh approach to the user interface, focusing on text and panels rather than icons and heavy graphics. Microsoft’s approach to Metro takes away many of the fluff and shows just the important elements.
Having gone back to the familiar iOS interface, I miss the spartan look of Windows Phone but what can I say, iOS feels a lot like home. It’s what I’ve been used to since 2008 and it’s clearly much more polished and mature.
Today, I use both the N9 as well as an iPhone 3GS. Having owned an iPhone 4 for three months, I never had the intention to upgrade to the 4S. Despite the highly publicized and clearly impressive Siri, it doesn’t fully work outside of the United States and I’d rather wait until the next iteration. Without Siri, the camera is the remaining major upgrade from the 4 and I’m currently quite happy using the cameras on the 3GS as well as the N9.
In a piece about RIM’s upcoming BBX phones, something tells me Sascha Segan and RIM hadn’t really done their homework regarding Qt development roadmap.
Qt was Nokia’s preferred developer framework before the company switched to Windows Phone, and there’s a population of disgruntled Symbian developers with Qt skills watching their potential market decline as Nokia switches over to Windows. RIM isn’t targeting Symbian developers specifically, but the company is reaching into Nokia’s traditional home turf.
Adobe today:
We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, April 2010
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
This is such an awesome news, I’m gonna scour Wired’s Flickr stream as soon as I get to the office. Some conditions of the licensing terms:
Placing our photos under CC BY-NC license means that designated images are free for all to republish, with minor restrictions, as follows:
- Photos must be properly attributed to the photographer and Wired.com, and we ask for a link back to the original story where the photo first appeared.
- We welcome editorial use by bloggers or any other publisher, but we are not authorizing commercial use, like using one of our photos in an advertisement.
- Remixes and mashups are allowed.
You can’t use photos from the printed magazine, only the ones made available on the Flickr stream and make sure the photos you want have the CC mark on them. Yay Wired!
Wired releases photos for public use under Creative Commons license
If you’re one of the early adopters of the Nokia N9, get ready for an update. Nokia has just announced an over the air software update that’s being rolled out within the next few days and should be completed within two weeks.
The update weighs in at 218MB so you would want your N9 to be within range of a fast wifi connection and plugged in to a power source. The process supposedly could take up to 40 minutes in which your phone would not be usable until it’s completed and you’re advised to back it up beforehand.
The current version of MeeGo on the N9 is the PR 1.1 (20.2011.40-2_PR_005), at least on the device I’m holding. The update will be designated 40-4 and is said to bring parity to the N950 developer device.
A number of features are listed on Nokia’s developer blog but it seems rather odd because some of them are already available on my device which I picked up right after Nokia World, namely:
That’s six of the ten listed new features. What’s left?
If you’re an N9 owner, have you got those features already or are you looking forward to have them?
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