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Links for 2011-04-05 through 2011-04-14

April 14, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-04-05 through 2011-04-14:

Inspirational Roundup! 40 Great Examples of App Site Design | Webdesigntuts+ –
Mobile UI Patterns › Activity Feeds –
Recent / iOS UI Patterns –
52 Ways to Promote Your iPhone App –
If you’re not using these, think again. – Who says the best things in life aren't FREE? The past 23 months of running Kuyi Mobile has been one, if not the most exciting learning experiences of my life. Running a business is never a joke. Over the course of running the business, I came across vari
Call Me Fishmeal.: Success, and Farming vs. Mining – You can either see founding a company as something you’re doing because you want to produce good software, or you can see it as something you do so you can sell your stock and make a killing and move on.
Connick v. Thompson: Clarence Thomas writes one of the cruelest Supreme Court decisions ever. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine –

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Links for 2011-02-15 through 2011-02-22

February 22, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-02-15 through 2011-02-22:

Why Borders went bankrupt – Interesting discussion on Quora
Basics of effective FPS encounter design (via F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2) – I recently finished playing through the single-player campaign of Monolith's F.E.A.R. 2, a military first-person shooter with supernatural elements. In my mind, the design differences between the original game and its sequel highlight a few essential elements of good encounter design in a first-person shooter. These elements all support one primary tenet: Give the player (and AI) options
Libya Ready to Fall? – Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's regime "showed more signs of crumbling as dozens were reportedly killed in the capital and Gaddafi's son and heir-apparent declared in a televised speech that the North African nation could fall into anarchy if his father was ousted," the Washington Post reports.
iOs Inspires Me | Design showcase of the best looking iPhone/iPad app icons, app interfaces, app websites & resources – Showcase of the best looking iPhone & iPad app icons, app interfaces, app websites & resources
A Couple CGAffineTransform Goodies –

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Links for 2011-01-17 through 2011-02-02

January 17, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-17 through 2011-02-02:

Allerta – Allerta is an open source typeface designed for use in signage. Allerta was designed to be easily and quickly read from a distance. Each letter exploits the most unique aspects of that individual letter so that each character can be easily distinguished from any other.
Omnifocus Themes – Make OmniFocus less ugly with themes.
Picture Imperfect – Praise for Hipstamtic
Advanced drawing using AppKit –
MTA.ME – Animated musical MTA map
How Egypt did (and how your government could) shut down the Internet –
iPad App Marketing Case Study: Flickpad –
Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink — PaulStamatiou.com –
TextMate user – Using the best tool for the best job. TextMate – A great collection of TextMate tips & goodies.
Crash-only software: More than meets the eye [LWN.net] – Many Linux systems actually boot faster when recovering from a crash than from a clean shutdown & startup.
365 Days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, All With 5 Magic Slides –
Change Default iCal Event Length | Mac Tricks And Tips – I was looking for a way to change iCal's default event length to 30 minutes when I was scheduling meetings for MacWorld and I found this. It works nicely.
The F Word – You cannot advance the game by simply making it harder. This tactic hasn’t been acceptable since Space Invaders.
Scouting NY –
Dear Me: Get to work | 43 Folders – GTD is all about rapid, intuitive selection of what you need to be working on now. Whip out your context list appropriate for the time-place-opportunity-space you are in now. Scan through it, then do.
For the longest time I was having a problem with this. I'd scan through my context lists and I'd see things like:
Pack box up
Ask Bob about meeting
Review new design book
Send Cherry income information
Scanning down a list of actions in a context list should be like running your hand across a silk sheet. Scanning through these tasks felt less like silk and more like sand paper. Pack what into the box? What did I need to know about the meeting? Review the book for what, specifically?
Mobile & App Store WordPress Themes –
Persisting model state in Obj-C | XPerienced Blog –
Parallels Consumer Tech Blog: Do your classes require Windows? – Fact: 27% of college students use Macs (more than any other computer). Learn how to maximize your capability…

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Links for 2011-01-03 through 2011-01-05

January 5, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-03 through 2011-01-05:

Is This the End of the World? [Bad Things] – The new year has arrived and it is awful, what with bird/fish/crab death, floods, freezing temperatures, and zombie ex-Vice Presidents.
Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought) – When using computers, we like to refer to things with names. For example, this website is known as “www.aaronsw.com”. You can type that into your browser and read these words. There are three big properties we might want from such names:
secure: that when you type the name in you actually get my website and not the website of an imposter
decentralized: that no central authority controls all the names
human-readable: that the name is something you can actually remember instead of some long string of randomness
In a classic paper, Zooko argued that you can get at most two of these properties at any one time.
How the Tea Party’s fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine – Read It And Weep – (@Dahlialithwick riffs on the latest round of Constitutional Fetishism)
MacTech Labs: Virtualization Benchmarks | MacTech – #mac users want to run W7 on your Mac? Feast your eyes on this head-to-head benchmark comparison via #mactech
Do CES vendors fear Apple? – Do CES vendors fear Apple? [The Loop Links]
Defining and Managing Contexts in OmniFocus « Simplicity Is Bliss – Not sure how to put contexts to use in your workflow? @Simplicitybliss has some great advice here:
Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU –
How does the Twitter iPhone App implement a custom tab bar? –
RSS War! (As Fought On Twitter, Naturally) –
Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world. –

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