John Gruber on the state of Apple’s syncing with iOS

Apple seems to be a generation ahead of its competitors on the device side — both hardware and software — but a generation behind on the cloud side

iBooks is a glimpse to how good syncing could be. It has to be good enough that you don’t even have to think about it.

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This is an obvious addition to Google Docs, but I don't like that there are only fixed width views. So much content will never end up on paper, so why isn't there a basic view, that fits to the width of the window I'm editing/viewing in? Like email and websites do?

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An amazing photo of London City

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I've been using Rapportive for a while, and they've just added a feature that allows it to more intelligently work out who it is that emailed you.

You get a sidebar in your gmail that tells you what the person emailing you has been tweeting/facebooking etc recently. I guess it sounds creepy when you put it like that, but I like it. I can't be bothered to follow what's happening on facebook, so I like that I do get to see some of what's going on with the people I actually email.

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While reasonable people can disagree about the approach of Wikileaks and the the rights or wrongs of those who delivered information to them, the illegal torture of Bradley Manning, who has yet to receive a fair trial or be convicted of any crime, is a shameful violation of human rights and human dignity

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An overwhelming Mario fix

By using emulators, save states and running the games at a very slow pace, he was able to individually tweak and nudge each movement of the four Marios so that they would stay a hair’s breadth from danger

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Arrrgh… Tron wants more money!

I've found these types of remix albums to be disappointing, and it's difficult to tell whether the album will be one I'll listen to lots of times from the tiny previews on iTunes.

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