February 2012
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Game Review: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)
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Title: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Release date: November 1, 2011
Price: $59.99 at time of review
Rating: Teen (ESRB) 1
Link: Uncharted series, Naughty Dog
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Introduction
Uncharted 3 was one of this year’s most anticipated games, and rightly so—its predecessors were wild...
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“Life is not just a succession of events or experiences: it is a search for the...”
– Pope Benedict XVI
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December 2011
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Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Director: David Fincher
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Release date: December 21, 2011
Rating: R (MPAA) 1
Link: Official website
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a new adaptation of the first book in Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium trilogy. The book was made into a Swedish film in 2009—the book itself...
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Film Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -...
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Title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Director: Bill Condon
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release date: November 18, 2011
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA) 1
Link: Official website
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The Twilight series has always had a die-hard fandom, a fandom that was overjoyed when Summit Entertainment announced its decision to adapt Stephenie Meyer’s well-received...
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Objective Sea: App Store Spam - 28 identical apps →
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In August, iOS developer George Talusan put 22 identical copies of the same app in the App Store. That’s 22 times, under 22 different names. When I discovered this, a few months ago, I reported it to Apple immediately. Since then, he has put the same app in another 6 times, with a …
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November 2011
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If You Had Invented Siri, You Would've Invented... →
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Well, we all knew this was coming.
In a sit down with Forbes’ Eric Savitz, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie talks about how Microsoft has actually been doing what Siri offers for the past year with Tellme technology on Windows Phone. He dismisses Siri’s buzz as basically just good marketing and people being “infatuated” with Apple.
Sadly, the majority of...
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Book Review: Steve Jobs
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Title: Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release date: October 24, 2011
Price: $35.00 at time of review
Link: Simon & Schuster
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In the final years of his life, Steve Jobs commissioned biographer Walter Isaacson (whose works include biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin) to write an authorized and...
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Game Review: Infamous: Festival of Blood (PS3)
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Title: Infamous: Festival of Blood
Developer: Sucker Punch
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Release date: October 25, 2011
Price: $9.99 at time of review
Rating: Teen (ESRB) 1
Link: PlayStation
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Infamous: Festival of Blood is a brand new DLC adventure for PlayStation 3. A new addition to the Infamous series, Festival of Blood is a...
October 2011
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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September 2011
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Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Labeling the Back button →
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Most “deep” apps require some amount of navigation, moving the user deeper into child views and then back out to the parent view. That navigational backtracking is typically done with a “Back” button, positioned in the top-left corner, and denoted by a pointed left side. You’ve all seen it:
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August 2011
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple.
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the...
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Joshua Topolsky: The New York Times is scared to... →
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New York Times, I love you — but sometimes you really show your age. In today’s paper in the Sunday Styles section, the NYT prints an article by Pamela Paul focused on those rare birds who still utilize a paper calendar (or Filofax) in their day-to-day lives. Now, as a man with a spouse…
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Nick Drake - From the Morning
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Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
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From MacRumors: Apple’s iCloud Error Pages Have Personality
July 2011
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June 2011
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“And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is,...”
– Steve Jobs
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Confusion and Chaos: The Seduction of Contemporary... →
Today, with emphasis on self, on style, rather than on content or idea, and in much of what is alleged to be graphic design, communication at best, is puzzling. Order out of chaos, it seems, is not the order of the day.
Paul Rand was a complete genius.
May 2011
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This is my next: Samsung’s lawyers demand to see... →
Craziness. I love it.
We always knew the Apple / Samsung lawsuit would produce some major fireworks, and Samsung just lit off a corker: the company filed a motion Friday night asking Apple to turn over the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 as part of the discovery process. Seriously!
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?