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by adnrw 13y ago
Your two points are related: because the password is masked and you can't see what you're typing to spell-check, it's worth asking the user to type the password again to make sure they spelled it correctly the first time. Tha
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by adnrw 13y ago
That's definitely not clearer, but that's because it's a poor design decision by the developer. Here's a screenshot of Apple's (just-out-of-Beta) Find My iPhone on iCloud.com showing exactly the same scenario but de
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by adnrw 13y ago
Plenty of Apple and tech-related news sites have posted the email: http://9to5mac.com/2013/07/21/apple-explains-developer-cente... http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/21/apple-confirm
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by adnrw 13y ago
OWC will definitely replace faulty RAM free of charge (example: we bought 2-4 sticks for each of 6 computers a while back, and three of the sticks were bad - very simple return process and they sent out replacements before the originals wer
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by adnrw 13y ago
Last time we were in Paris we stayed in a great hotel for five nights. This time we stayed in an apartment via AirBnB for a month for the same total amount of money. We did our research - found hotels willing to give us a discount for a mon
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by adnrw 13y ago
I don't teach seniors per se, so I can't answer "professionally" but I have taught two of my grandparents how to use their phones (one old Motorolla flip phone, one on my old iPhone) and computers. I found that they were
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by adnrw 13y ago
Can't speak for FireBeyond or dorian-graph but I too am running it on my regular, everyday iPhone 5 and have found it surprisingly stable. Any actual crashes seem to be a result of doing too many things at once, particularly during an
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by adnrw 13y ago
It's addressed in the article. It's a valid concern, but they explain their decision - their "forgotten username" screen is a pretty simple way to check whether a username exists or not, so it's almost a moot point as far as security is con
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by adnrw 13y ago
Green means they've recently registered
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by adnrw 14y ago
> And if all this still goes wrong... if the person liked your newsletter enough, they'll figure out what happened when they stop getting it. Not necessarily, unfortunately. As an example, take emails advertising pre-sale tickets to eve
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by adnrw 14y ago
From the NYT Company's "Guidelines on Integrity" [1]: "... it is imperative that The Times and its staff maintain the highest possible standards to insure that we do nothing that might erode readers’ faith and confidence in our news columns
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by adnrw 14y ago
> Microsoft has been pummeled by critics this week over supposedly inadequate storage space in its new Surface Pro. It wasn't about the inadequacy of the storage space in and of itself – 25/64GB or 90/128GB is not decidedly inadequate f
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by adnrw 14y ago
Kottke's Report on it is very interesting: http://kottke.org/13/01/read-bill-gates-annual-letter
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by adnrw 14y ago
> Yes, but for some other reason It's a compulsive habit that I can't stop, it serves no practical reason whatsoever. I also bite my nails. Same problem.
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by adnrw 14y ago
Agreed. I'm a web designer by trade, and I almost always start on paper. Often, after starting on paper and moving to Photoshop, I come back to paper to iterate on the design before going back to Photoshop again. I find it the quickest and
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by adnrw 14y ago
I'm guessing it wasn't a literal "signing", but rather he refused to put his name on it, probably because he disagreed with it in principle. It would have been signed by Tim Cook on behalf of everyone at Apple, but my guess is that Forstall
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by adnrw 14y ago
The question that needs to be answered is: "Why did Apple flip the switch now, when their infrastructure is in such a poor state?" I think John Gruber answered this question pretty well in his piece last week [1]. His answer is essentiall
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by adnrw 14y ago
...the obvious interpretation of this is that when Apple built the iPhone they licensed Google Maps but with the clause "the iPhone cannot do turn-by-turn" This is from Google's Maps/Earth API TOS: 10.2 (c) No Navigation, Autonomous Vehi
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by adnrw 14y ago
Where is Steve Jobs? Two years ago, the iPhone 4 was released and users quickly experienced issues with the antenna built directly into the case. The furor prompted Apple to publicly apologize for the mistake and offer some quick f
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by adnrw 14y ago
His piece definitely said "none" when first published, but it has since been corrected: There’s also a marketing advantage: few[1] of the competing phones on the market are made of metal. [1: http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-radar/
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by adnrw 14y ago
I am curious about this too. After disabling javascript and fiddling with this for about 1.5 minutes in Web Inspector I was able to get it to behave like the JS implementation reasonably reliably. It would only have required some CSS cleanu