Extra Future

Year: 2011

  • HP To Open Source WebOS, Enyo App Framework

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    Phil Nelson
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    [This is good news.][link] I liked WebOS, and I’m glad to see it live on, but it’s hard to figure out where it’ll fit in the current smartphone ecosystem. My gut says either HP couldn’t find a buyer or they didn’t *want* to. [link]: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-webos-enyo-app-framework-goes-open-source/65117 “HP: WebOS, Enyo app framework goes open source | ZDNet”

  • PayPal Now Working with Regretsy

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    Phil Nelson
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    [After much public shaming and gnashing of teeth, PayPal was cajoled into apparently doing the right thing.][link] [Previously.][prev] [link]: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/06/breaking-news/ “BREAKING NEWS | Regretsy” [prev]: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/ “Cats 1 – Kids 0”

  • Handheld Designer

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    [A successor to the “Sweet solution,” an HTML5-based iOS app creator for Macs.][link] Looks great in theory, looking forward to trying it out. [link]: http://handhelddesigner.com/ “Handheld Designer, Easily create and host beautiful HTML5 mobile web applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch”

  • Crafty – HTML5 Game Engine

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    [Promising engine which already includes collision detection, sprites, events, and entities.][link] [link]: http://craftyjs.com/ “Crafty – JavaScript Game Engine, HTML5 Game Engine”

  • “The Next Steve Jobs Will Totally Be A Chick”

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    [Comedian Louis C.K.][link]: >The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2–and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity,…

  • HP’s TouchPad Is The #2 Best Selling Tablet This Year

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    [Ars:][link] >HP’s TouchPad was the most popular non-iPad tablet in the first ten months of this year, according to a new study from the NPD Group. The TouchPad has the second-largest tablet market share with 204,000 units sold (17 percent of the market), trailed by Samsung at 192,000 units. It’s a real shame that HP…

  • FingerCursor

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A transparent background image of the “finger” cursor for Mac and PC.][link] [link]: http://fingercursor.com/ “FingerCursor.com – Get a transparent image of the finger cursor.”

  • Playing The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim on A Mac via Wine

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    Has anyone had any success with this yet? [The WineHQ AppDB][link] has some promising info but none that I can make work on my Macintosh with the MacPorts version of Wine-devel. *UPDATE:* I eventually had success with [this Wineskin wrapper][wine]. [link]: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=13667 “Skyrim on WineHQ” [wine]: http://portingteam.com/2011/11/skyrim-mac-port/ “Skyrim Mac Wrapper”

  • A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

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    [A pretty great rant][link] by one of the designers of the iPad on the future of a profession that many of my friends put on their business cards. [link]: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/ “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design”

  • Adobe Discontinues Flash for Mobile Devices

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Buried inside this inane, rambling, corpspeak, document is the fact that Adobe is abandoning Flash for mobile platforms][link]. This is a good thing for everyone, Adobe included. [link]: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html “Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5 Adobe Featured Blogs”

  • CSS3 Patterns Gallery

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Golly this is nifty][link]. A very nice collection of gradient patterns, all of which work with CSS PIE (which means they work in IE!). [link]: http://leaverou.me/css3patterns/ “CSS3 Patterns Gallery”

  • HP to Keep PC Division

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    Phil Nelson
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    [New CEO Meg Whitman makes her first good move.][link] It’s heartening to HP realize that its hardware division has not only an important history but a future, however it is saddening that this vision does not apply to webOS. [link]: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111027xa.html “HP to Keep PC Division”