From Nathan LeClaire:
When trying this out for the first time on a recruiter I was interested in contacting, I found myself clicking the generated permutations in succession with a looming disbelief that this trick would actually work. Then, suddenly, Rapportive lit up with their portrait and social media info and I felt a funny buzzing sensation in my head as the possibilities swirled around in it.
From your friends at LinkedIn
An interesting take on how the Beer-Check-In apps change the other behaviors around social drinking.
The time it takes to check-in and the impact that has on conversation
The usage of the app to check-in beers during festivals and provide a quick rating
The braggadocious attitude that the app encourages via social media
On point 1: I partially agree. Many apps take too long.
From Fraser Spiers:
All of these are available on iOS now. That is - more or less - the entire Google services suite fully accessible on iOS. There’s seemingly nothing that Google is obviously keeping back for Android exclusivity. That’s not what Android is about for Google.
This is a concise summary of the current state of our new imagined holy war. I do think Fraser misses one persistent conflict: privacy.
Jason Becker:
In classic turns out sense, however, the evidence keeps mounting that one must teach from the “Facts” approach to achieve the goals of the “Skills” position.
I’ve never understood this distinction.
The dear Doctor teaches the kids how to pick a real calculator app:
It can’t be just a four-function calculator. Have some pride.
I almost feel like Dr. Drang threw a bone to the nerd brigade by including Soulver. It’s clever, but it just doesn’t come close to PCalc.
As a side note: you should probably subscribe to and religiously read any site that is smart enough to have Dr.
Wolfram Alpha can provide song lyrics. I guess that explains how Siri can also provide song lyrics.
As always, Anandtech gets into the details where other reviews do not.
The iPad mini with Retina Display has the same color gamut as the standard iPad mini, which is narrower than the iPad Air and less than the sRGB coverage we normally look for. The biggest issue here is that there are other smaller tablets in this price range that do offer sRGB coverage (e.g. Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HDX 8.
From Quartz:
This completely unexpected turn, which Chambers said was the fastest swing he had ever seen in emerging markets, comes just as Cisco is trying to establish itself as a bedrock technology provider for of the internet of things, which industry analysis firm IDC says will be an $8.9 trillion market by 2020. This quarter Cisco unveiled the nPower chip, a super-fast processor designed to funnel the enormous volumes of data that the internet of things will generate.
You guys are funny. Walla.by probably would have received more attention if it made you pre-order or wait in a virtual line.
David Sparks, geek author extraordanaire, does it again. His new book, simply titled Email is terrific.
I’ve read/watched/listened from virtual cover to virtual cover twice. I found new and interesting things both times. He hits every significant aspect of dealing with Email on a Mac and iOS. It’s also one of the best iBooks editions I’ve seen of any book.1
Even if you’ve been using email everyday for the past 20 years, like me, you’re going to find something new in David’s book.
