Welcome to the new decade: Java is a restricted platform, Google is evil, Apple is a monopoly and Microsoft are the underdogs
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Movie Times
Simple web app to find movie theaters and schedules near your area based on data from Google Movies. Unfortunately Indonesia isn’t supported yet, the data’s simply not available on Google. Singapore is though.
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
These are hilarious. If only they can be applied to online articles, we need these for the web.
Google pulls apps too
Just as some people are up in arms about Apple pulling Camera+ from the App Store, the Cupertino company isn’t the only one with that prerogative. Google recently pulled EasyRoot from the Android Market because Verizon complained it allows Verizon Droid phones’ owners to circumvent Verizon’s hotspot policy even though it’s not a function of the app.
Rooting an Android phone is the same as jailbreaking an iOS device. It lets you access and enable functions not made available by the vendor. In Verizon’s case, rooting the Droids will let the owners share their phones’ internet connections via wifi freely, something that Verizon charges money for, despite the feature being standard on Android 2.2.
Just like Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market has policies. Any app that violates those policies or receives complaints from significant enough parties will be removed.
A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
More of not what we believe in. (via Boing Boing)
A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
LOLCODE
It turns out a few days ago Adobe updated its Photoshop.com Mobile app for iOS and renamed it as Photoshop Express, which made a lot more sense and a lot less mouthful.
Many of you might not know this but Adobe used to run a web project called Photoshop Express about two years ago on the domain photoshop.com. It was designed to be a free and light photo editing web app. They’ve since launched it properly and added links to other services such as Flickr and Facebook but dropped the Express name.
For whatever reason, they’ve now repurposed the name for the iOS app and added iPad compatibility. While the app itself is pretty neat for a light editing app, it’s kind of stupid how you can only launch it in portrait orientation. If you launch the app on the iPad while holding it horizontally, the app will quit and hand over whatever file it was going to open to a random app.
Prank of the Day: Aaron is Out Of Office today, so his co-workers decide to pull a prank on him. Considering he works at Sega, it’s only natural that the prank involve replacing all the stuff in his cubicle with a papercraft replica of Sonic the Hedgehog’s Green Hill Zone.
[hyst.]
The Mystery of Steve Jobs’ Plateless Benz | Wired.com
“In a state where SL55s are a fairly common sight, and where no personal information can be gleaned from a license plate number, the act of putting a plate on would actually be the best avenue toward anonymity.
So maybe there’s some other reason Steve Jobs avoids rectangular metal objects with numbers on them — say, to gin up mystique or augment his persona?”
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