Nicholas Penree

AnandTech - Confirmed: Galaxy Nexus Includes PenTile

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:07:29 -0400

AnandTech - Confirmed: Galaxy Nexus Includes PenTile:

Closed Apple headed for trouble as Jobs's ego bites: Netgear CEO

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:45:15 -0500

Closed Apple headed for trouble as Jobs's ego bites: Netgear CEO:

Patrick Lo clearly has a great understanding of why Apple has been so successful. Their strategy of integrated — easy to use solutions could not possibly work without Steve Jobs. Right guys.. right?

Today Show January 1994…What is the Internet?! (via...

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:28:24 -0500

Today Show January 1994…What is the Internet?! (via DrHexagon011)

13 Reasons Why Software Is Not Free

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:52:45 -0500

13 Reasons Why Software Is Not Free:

wildchocolate:

Lately it seems more and more evident that the general population expects software to be free or at the very least cheap. This is reinforced when companies like Apple, who make a tremendous income off of their hardware, the iTunes store, and many other revenue streams, heavily discount their…

Oops: Android contains directly copied Java code, strengthening Oracle's case

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:04:41 -0500

Oops: Android contains directly copied Java code, strengthening Oracle's case:

“Florian Mueller has been killing it these past few months with his analysis of various tech patent suits on his FOSSpatents blog, and today he’s unearthed a pretty major bombshell: at least 43 Android source files that appear to have been directly copied from Java.”

Vim + Transmit Remote Editing

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:05:19 -0500

Vim + Transmit Remote Editing:

“I was having problems getting MacVim to work with Transmit’s remote editing feature - when I saved the file, it wasn’t uploaded. Turns out by default Vim can create it’s backup files by renaming the original as well as creating a copy - when it decides to rename, Transmit is left looking at the…”

Possession With Intent to Soar: Colombian Carrier Pigeon Caught Smuggling Drugs

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:32:09 -0500

Possession With Intent to Soar: Colombian Carrier Pigeon Caught Smuggling Drugs:

This is pretty epic.

The Starbucks Trenta Cup Holds More Liquid Than the Human Stomach

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:55 -0500

The Starbucks Trenta Cup Holds More Liquid Than the Human Stomach:

Nice.

Vatican Told Irish Bishops Not to Report Abuse

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:07:19 -0500

Vatican Told Irish Bishops Not to Report Abuse:

“We now have evidence that the Vatican deliberately intervened to order bishops not to turn pedophile priests over to law enforcement,” she said. “And for civil lawsuits, this letter shows what victims have been saying for dozens and dozens of years: What happened to them involved a concerted cover-up that went all the way to the top.”

Apple's Cook Faces Leadership Hole as He Tries to Fend Off Google Android

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:25:01 -0500

Apple's Cook Faces Leadership Hole as He Tries to Fend Off Google Android:

“Jobs has an almost magical ability to see markets that are small and niche, and to understand what it would take to make them big businesses,” Greengart said. “Steve Jobs is the one and only Steve Jobs.”

Amazon EC2 enables brute-force attacks on the cheap

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:00:31 -0500

Amazon EC2 enables brute-force attacks on the cheap:

Using Amazon’s EC2 to crack the password of WPA-PSK-protected networks takes around 20 minutes and costs about $1.68.

(Amazon charges 28 cents per minute to use its services.)

Right…

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:15:46 -0500

Right…

'Why Android App Security Is Better Than for the iPhone'

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:38:37 -0500

'Why Android App Security Is Better Than for the iPhone':

I wrote about Katherine Noyes’ credibility back in November, looks like she is at it again. I think all you have to do is look at her article titles to see that she is clearly on Google’s payroll. Keep up the fair and unbiased reporting Katherine!

Mac's Law of App Store Pricing

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:16:45 -0500

Mac's Law of App Store Pricing:

Nice post from Drew McCormack, seems right on the money as far as the current markets as well as the demo prices of the Mac App Store during Apple’s demo.

A Better List Mode for Stacks When switching to a...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:24:09 -0500

A Better List Mode for Stacks

When switching to a side-positioned Dock, one thing I really missed was being able to have my Documents and Downloads stacks in “Fan” mode. Fan mode allows you to view a list of files but also has dragging capability.

Thanks to Onyx, I found a nice hidden preference for Dock which allows you to use a new list which seems to draw inspiration from iOS and also restores dragging ability.

To enable the “new” list mode style open Terminal.app and enter the following commands:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock "use-new-list-stack" -bool true
$ killall Dock

Your dock should restart and any stack using the list mode will be in the new style.

Myspace Prepares to Cut As Much As 50% of Jobs

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:56:13 -0500

Myspace Prepares to Cut As Much As 50% of Jobs:

“News Corp. acquired Myspace in 2005 for $580 million. Since then, it has struggled to remain relevant as Facebook’s popularity has soared and it has undergone several rounds of management changes. Myspace had 54.4 million unique U.S. visitors in November, down 15% from a year ago, according to comScore. Ad spending on Myspace was expected to decline 37% last year to $347 million, according to research firm eMarketer.

By contrast, Facebook had 151.7 million unique U.S. visitors in November, up almost 50% from a year ago, according to comScore.”

First Listen: The Decemberists, 'The King Is Dead' : NPR

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:24:05 -0500

First Listen: The Decemberists, 'The King Is Dead' : NPR

IBM Files the Patent Troll Patent

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:56:40 -0500

IBM Files the Patent Troll Patent

Taylor Carrigan on the potential of webOS

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:58:54 -0500

Taylor Carrigan on the potential of webOS:

This article is spot on. webOS offers many great and unique features including their cards metaphor for multitasking, synergy integration with your contact list (with third party developers able to tap into this in webOS 2.0), an extremely great notification system that makes the iPhone’s modal alerts look like child’s play, and a unified messaging application that combines texts and IMs into a single point of contact and allows switching on the fly.

What HP/Palm lacks is still good, quality hardware. I wrote about this over a year ago and nothing has changed. They really need to put out new hardware that is on the same level as the iPhone and Android specs we are seeing today.

HP makes some great hardware and I think they have the capability to become a real contender in the smartphone space — if they can catch the hardware up with the OS.

Uploading Mac App Store apps whose names contain a space

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:36:39 -0500

Uploading Mac App Store apps whose names contain a space:

Pete Goodliffe, you are a life saver.

Really stupid on Apple’s part, the validation process sees no problems with it but it fails validation during submission process.