If this is accurate, the iOS7 adoption rate is stunning. It’s at 28% in the first 24 hours. Now we just need a toggle in the AppStore to only show apps updated for iOS7 or iOS7 only. Let there be a righteous, cleansing rain that clears out all of the abandoned apps.1
This was my opinion back in 2012. And yes, I’m still using the same analogy. Old people repeat themselves.
From the Globe and Mail:
It hadn’t. Indeed, the average rate of errors had barely budged in almost a century, from 2.11 errors per 100 words in 1917 to 2.26 words today. What’s more, there were “almost no instances” of the smileys or LOL-style short forms that have supposedly metastasized everywhere. (When students do deploy “textisms,” it’s not unintentional, University of Toronto linguist Sali Tagliamonte has found: They use short forms as flourishes of wit; and they do it more rarely than you would suspect.
This is the John Gruber I remember1 (emphasis mine):
To put that in context, the iPhone 5S beats my 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro by a small measure in the Sunspider benchmark (with the MacBook Pro running the latest Safari 6.1 beta). The iPhone 5S is, in some measures, computationally superior to the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro from just five years ago. In your fucking pocket.
This is the bit I don’t understand about the crap on the internet.
DoNotLink.com is a service for linking to sites without increasing their Google-juice. I’d love to know what names they rejected for this service considering it’s mostly going to be used to link to crap stories used for ridicule.
You can easily use the service by appending the target URL as follows:
:::text http://www.donotlink.com/www.macdrifter.com I like this a lot. You are freely encouraged to use it for this site if it makes you feel good.
It’s really not enough to just do a web search anymore. There’s just too much stuff. Do yourself a favor and learn some of these Google tricks to slice and dice the web or just a specific domain.1
For example, you want to search this site to just get all of the MultiMarkdown results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amacdrifter.com+%2Binurl%3Atxt&oq=site%3Amacdrifter.com+%2Binurl%3Atxt&aqs=chrome.0.57j58.16034&sugexp=chrome,mod=11&ie=UTF-8#q=site:macdrifter.com+filetype%3Atxt
Yes, I still mostly use DuckDuckGo but I know when to be practical. I’m not some hippie.
I’ve been a fan of David Lanham’s art for years. It adorns my office and my kid’s room. I have it as wallpapers on my Mac and Windows machine. I have it as iPhone skins. So you can imagine how excited I was to pull a Chris Farley with him on the latest episode of Generational.
Lex Friedman talks about using a DNS to get around stupid restrictions on specific domains. I have no need to do this for watching sportsball but I can think of a couple of more general uses.
By the way, you should probably subscribe to Lex’s site for the occasional random gem like his Grammar Article
I really don’t understand this fad of consuming things that come out of animal sphincters. Have we become so desperate for attention that we now pride ourselves on which fecally derived beverage we drink? And now we’ve caused animal crap farming to be a thing that needs regulation.
PCalc version 3.0 is out today with an impressive visual update as well as some new features.1
Sure, you can go back to the old school theme, but the new Samurai theme is really nice.
For those just now finding out about the best calculator on any platform, you can get a detailed review of version 2.8 from a slide rule savant. I trust him when it comes to calculators.
Booking.com has an open designer position in the wonderful country of Amsterdam. Good company, good job, good location. Great sponsor.
Thanks to Booking.com for sponsoring Macdrifter this week.
The front-end team at Booking.com continues to grow and we are looking for talented UX Designers, Web Designers, Product Owners, and Front End Developers to come help us create the world’s best accommodation platform.
You’ll work at our head office in central Amsterdam which is sandwiched in-between canals, museums and the occasional statue of an old Dutch master (good evening, Mr.
