Daily Archives: October 8, 2012

Here’s A Neat Little Trick To Try With Your iPhone’s Panoramic Camera (AAPL)

October 8, 2012
Here’s A Neat Little Trick To Try With Your iPhone’s Panoramic Camera (AAPL)

Email More Screenshot The new operating system for the iPhone, iOS 6, has a new mode that lets you take panoramic photos. By default, the app makes you turn clockwise to capture the image.  But iDB found a neat trick that’ll let you reverse the direction you turn to take a panoramic photo.  Here’s...

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IT’S FACEBOOK OFFICIAL: There’s Going To Be A ‘Want’ Button

October 8, 2012
IT’S FACEBOOK OFFICIAL: There’s Going To Be A ‘Want’ Button

Aepoc, CC. See Also These 20 Brands Lost The Most Facebook Likes The Day Of The Fake Fan Purge Here’s What BuzzFeed’s Print Ad — That’s Right, Print — Looks Like Olive Garden Changed ‘When You’re Here, You’re Family’ To Something Awful After months of talk, it’s finally official: Facebook is getting a “Want”...

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Video-Game Maker Kixeye Fires Four After Investigating Racist Behavior

October 8, 2012
Video-Game Maker Kixeye Fires Four After Investigating Racist Behavior

Kixeye Will Harbin has purged employees accused of racist remarks. See Also Startup Kixeye Takes ‘Corrective Action’ After Ugly Charges Of Discrimination ELLEN PAO’S LAWYER: Kleiner Perkins Just Fired Her—And We’re Filing A Wrongful-Termination Complaint Top Supreme Court Lawyer Predicts Big Blow For Affirmative Action Kixeye has fired a manager and three other employees...

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Yes, Facebook has a ‘Dislike’ button, but no, you can’t have it

October 8, 2012

Facebook has said time and again that it will never add a Dislike button to its social network. Yet users keep asking for one, as sometimes they just want to show their displeasure without commenting. While that will never happen, here’s the next best thing: Push Kharma. The system is integrated into the profiles...

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More Facebook users are on Android than iOS, but just barely

October 8, 2012

Everyone knows that Google’s Android operating system has a larger market share than Apple’s iOS market share. When it comes to Facebook users, however, the two mobile platforms aren’t quite as far apart as you’d think. Android is still ahead of iOS, but just barely. 20.1 percent of Facebook users connect to the service...

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iPodfather Tony Fadell on innovation frustration, founder-led companies and the origin of Nest

October 8, 2012

“Innovation starts with frustration,” said iPod designer and Nest thermostat creator Tony Fadell at the Boxworks conference in an interview with author Adam Lashinsky. “Frustration, and then curiosity.” Fadell, now of Nest, was famous for leading the iPod project at Apple and contributing to its efforts to ship the iPhone. Lashinsky just published a book...

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I Won’t Buy Apple Products Until The Company Treats Overseas Workers Fairly

October 8, 2012

On Friday, employees at one of the two Chinese plants that produces iPhones walked off the factory floor – the latest in a string of protests surrounding Apple’s manufacturing operations. For Apple, stakes go beyond the smooth operation of its pipeline to the very heart of its business. I’m a lifelong Apple user, but I’m...

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Browser Makers Cooperate On Support For Multi-Platform Web Development

October 8, 2012
Browser Makers Cooperate On Support For Multi-Platform Web Development

Welcome to your “official” support site, Web developers. The Web’s top four browser developers – Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera – teamed with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and technology companies including Nokia, HP, Adobe and Facebook –  to create Web Platform Docs, a Wiki devoted to sussing out and stomping bugs and other issues...

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YouTube Premium Content Goes Global

October 8, 2012

Banking on the success of the 100 Original Channels it launched last year, YouTube announced on Sunday that the company has funded 60 more channels, this time with an international twist. But where’s Korea? Japan? China? “Given the success of these and the tens of millions of other amazing channels already out there… we’re...

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HelloFax’s Joseph Walla might have found the path to the mythical paperless office

October 8, 2012

The company might be called HelloFax, but co-founder and CEO Joseph Walla should probably call his startup GoodbyePaper. In the old days, people used to set up an office by buying a printer, a scanner, a faxer, some chairs and tables and a phone. But all that has changed for large portions of the...

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