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Analysis of the Google Phone(nytimes.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|2 comments
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Google Chrome for Mac now in beta(google.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|0 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
For kicking the tires on Android development, you can use the emulator.
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by tfincannon 17y ago
Pages like this will be so much better when we have MathML in the browser and can stop using fuzzy images for mathematical formulas.
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by tfincannon 17y ago
A good example of a "hybrid book" is the free physics textbook Motion Mountain ( http://www.motionmountain.net/ ). It includes many animations, videos, and links.
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Hybrid Books Add Video and Web Features(nytimes.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|1 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
Android apps can be self-signed and published in the Android Market.
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Why Tablets Will Succeed(pcmag.com)
5 points by tfincannon 17y ago|8 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
Also parts 2, 3, and 4: http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/15/40-android-business-mo... http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/16/40-android-business-mo... http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/17/40-android-business-mo...
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40 Android Business Models(androidguys.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|1 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
"The only way the iPhone-on-Verizon scenario comes about in the near future is if Apple changes tactics and makes a second, CDMA-compatible version of the iPhone." This is the weakness in Apple's strategy that Android can exploit, by havi
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by tfincannon 17y ago
This plan is so unlikely that I wonder if the company is a scam. The company website has more details at http://www.interorbital.com . They will send a crew on the first test flight of their new launcher. They are reckless. You test a new
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by tfincannon 17y ago
It's fun to see the good names it comes up with--except almost none of them are dot com names. I wonder whether a dot com name is really so essential anymore. Unless your marketing relies on print or word of mouth, your traffic will come fr
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by tfincannon 17y ago
There's also a link at the end of the page to a similar list of OS X commands on the same site: http://ss64.com/osx/ .
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by tfincannon 17y ago
The best thing that ever happened to my handwriting was learning to keep up with my real analysis professor, who filled one blackboard after another. It forced the kinds of efficiencies described in the article. Their book is available from
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Xkcd: Tech Support Cheat Sheet for Not Computer People(xkcd.com)
19 points by tfincannon 17y ago|3 comments
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Server side Android(trendcaller.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|1 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
It will be interesting to see how well this works. I developed a desktop check scanning application in 2007. We needed good quality scans to make the OCR work reliably. USAA has got to be getting high exception rates with this app, especial
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A world without the browser(funambol.com)
4 points by tfincannon 17y ago|1 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
With Bluetooth in the tablet, you can have a keyboard and mouse when you want them.
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New high resolution simulation of galaxy formation(sciencenews.org)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|0 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
David Mindell gives more details of the AGC rope core memory in his book Digital Apollo. The software was stored in the wiring pattern, not in the cores themselves. The MIT programmers had to deliver final code three to four months before e
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by tfincannon 17y ago
The engineers at Grumman went to extraordinary lengths to trim weight from the Lunar Module so that its single ascent engine could boost it from the lunar surface. The book Moon Lander by chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly tells the story. The
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Apollo on steroids(nytimes.com)
4 points by tfincannon 17y ago|1 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
Tesla told his story to the author of "Prodigal Genius" (1944), who wrote: "What Tesla had discovered was a means of creating a rotating magnetic field, a magnetic whirlwind in space which possessed fantastically new and intriguing properti
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by tfincannon 17y ago
The full text of "Prodigal Genius", a somewhat hagiographic but still fascinating biography of Tesla, is online at http://www.rastko.rs/istorija/tesla/oniell-tesla.html .
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Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble(appleinsider.com)
12 points by tfincannon 17y ago|23 comments
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by tfincannon 17y ago
More details here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/archos-announces-archos9-...
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Archos announces keyboardless MiniPC tablet(archos.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|1 comments
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Android founder Andy Rubin on openness as enabler(news.cnet.com)
1 points by tfincannon 17y ago|0 comments

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