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What is a Browser?

The last session of WWDC ‘09 yesterday was about publishing on the App Store. The content of sessions is under NDA, so I can’t tell you what it was about. So I’ll tell you what wasn’t in it: the audience Q&A session that succeeded nearly every other WWDC session and usually provided invaluable access to Apple employees and useful additional knowledge to attendees. The session itself blew through its lightweight examples quickly, ending 45 minutes early. The majority of the audience was clearly there for the Q&A. As people lined up at the microphones around the room, the presenter abruptly showed a simple slide with only “WWDC” in plain lettering, thanked us for coming, and bolted off the stage. The Apple engineers, usually staying around the stage for one-on-one questions, were gone. The lights came up instantly, and it was the only session that didn’t end in music. The audience was stunned.

The last session of WWDC ‘09 yesterday was about publishing on the App Store. The content of sessions is under NDA, so I can’t tell you what it was about. So I’ll tell you what wasn’t in it: the audience Q&A session that succeeded nearly every other WWDC session and usually provided invaluable access to Apple employees and useful additional knowledge to attendees. The session itself blew through its lightweight examples quickly, ending 45 minutes early. The majority of the audience was clearly there for the Q&A. As people lined up at the microphones around the room, the presenter abruptly showed a simple slide with only “WWDC” in plain lettering, thanked us for coming, and bolted off the stage. The Apple engineers, usually staying around the stage for one-on-one questions, were gone. The lights came up instantly, and it was the only session that didn’t end in music. The audience was stunned.

—Marco Arment

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Dave Matthews Band: ‘The Dreaming Tree’, live at Beacon Theatre, NYC, 1 June 2009.

I’ve never heard a live version of this song before, but I’ve always wanted to. It seems they don’t play it very often.

'I requested that roughly a dozen Chinese painters paint . . . the Tiananmen Square protest'

‘I requested that roughly a dozen Chinese painters paint . . . the Tiananmen Square protest’

For once, I have nothing to add. (via Cabel)

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Leaked shot of the new PSP Go. I’d prefer a clamshell design to protect the screen. And, as a friend pointed out, the position of the ‘analog nub’ looks even more uncomfortable than the current PSP.

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Funny video from my favourite Mac software company. They’re also doing some kind of sale; you should check it out.

iTunes App Store policies: one developer's fantasy

iTunes App Store policies: one developer’s fantasy

A mixture of:

1. ‘it’s true, and if only Apple explained it just like this’; and
2. ‘if only it were actually true’.

My favourite part is this, which I think would go a very long way (if not the whole way) towards solving the current problems:

…always let resubmissions be judged by a different person at Apple, to get another perspective.

The most recent in the long line of increasingly ridiculous App Store rejections

The most recent in the long line of increasingly ridiculous App Store rejections

How many times is this going to happen before Apple fixes their completely broken review process?

Edit:  it’s now approved, which almost certainly wouldn’t have happened had this story not travelled all across the internet. This same story keeps happening over and over again. I wonder, for each of these bad rejections we do hear about, how many of them don’t we hear about because the author’s blog isn’t so popular? And what recourse do they have then?

Automated video game trade-in kiosk: how it works

Automated video game trade-in kiosk: how it works

Some of these are appearing at Wal-Marts.

'I'm a Megan'

‘I’m a Megan’

I usually don’t link to these, but the point I like here is that people aren’t PCs or Macs–people are people. Previously.