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The Myth of Scientific Literacy — I’d love it if there was a simple course we could send our elected officials on which would guarantee future science policy would be reliably high quality. Being educated in science (or even “about science”) isn’t going to do it.

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Four short links: 13 August 2010 – Scientific Literacy, Load Balancing, Indoors Geolocation, and iPhone Security

Theodore Gray, author/creator of “The Elements,” shares his thoughts on interactivity in ebooks, why programmers should be treated like authors, and why he believes the print form will continue to exist for quite some time.

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What publishers can and should learn from "The Elements" – Theodore Gray, author of "The Elements," on interactivity, apps vs….

As the Web has moved onto mobile devices, developers have told themselves a lot of stories about what this means for their work.

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7 Myths of the Mobile Web – What’s new in O’Reilly Answers: Using your phone as a modem, communicating with your manager, myths of the mobile web, and…

Alasdair Allen, author of Programming iPhone Sensors, says real-time facial identification — the sort that pairs names and faces on the fly — is closer than you might think. He expands on that topic and a number of others in this video interview.

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Augmented reality as etiquette coach – Alasdair Allan has a practical goal for AR: putting names to faces.

Disney’s announced purchase of Mountain View gaming startup Playdom, follows on the heels of EA’s purchase of London-based Playfish last November. Based on active users, Zynga remains by far the biggest online social gaming company.

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Which social gaming companies are hiring

One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool.

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How to use UIAutomation to create iPhone UI tests – What’s new in O’Reilly Answers: iPhone UI tests, beautiful code, Objective-c, cloud computing,…

Dangerous Prototypes — “a new open source hardware project every month”. Sample project: Flash Destroyer, which writes and verifies EEPROM chips until they blow out. Wabit — GPLv3 reporting tool

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Four short links: 20 July 2010 – Hardware Hacking, BI Reporting Tool, Book Recommendations, and Winning the Futurist Lottery

This mod is designed to use the GS1000 salad bowl (circumaural) pads for the SR325is . Unadulterated the pads (whilst giving better sound stage and being more comfortable) do decrease bass response because the same sized driver is being employed in a larger space walled by a greater amount of non reflective acoustic foam. Essentially the un-altered salad bowls are in effect more open.

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Grado SR325is – GS1000 (salad bowl) Pad mod

Westone have just released a revision of the UM2 and UM3X with removable cables.  This means that if the cabling breaks you just swap the cable for a replacement.  This is something that owners of Ultimate Ears (Super.fi and Triple.fi) and Sennheiser (IE8) have been enjoying for some time, so it’s great to see Westone responding to customer feedback.

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Westone Earphones With Removable Cables – UM2 & UM3X

Looking for a shortcut to get full-screen anti-aliasing for your iPhone game? It might not be the optimal solution for your needs, but if you’re rushing to get something out and need to cut some corners, then this excerpt on supersampling from Philip Rideout’s iPhone 3D Programming is for you. Read more

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A Super Simple Sample App for Supersampling on iOS – New in O’Reilly Answers, plus posts about iOS 4, Objective-C, MobileMe email on Android, and much…

The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact that the App Store has generated $1 billion in royalty payments in just a few years.

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iPhone economics and lower barriers to entry – The power of the App Store is defined by more than direct revenue.

My new O’Reilly book about iPhone user experience – Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps – hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it’d be fun to share a few of the book’s big-picture design ideas here. For instance, choose a personality for your app

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How to design a unique visual identity for your iPhone app – New in O’Reilly Answers, plus iPhone app design, iPhone UI tests, automation systems, and…

ACS have completely redesigned their T1 triple driver Custom In Ear Monitor for 2010, below is our review of this exciting new earphone. At the top end is a combined unit providing specific drivers for the highs and mids engineered into a single unit with an ultra-compact crossover optimising the response for each, this is then combined with a clear and powerful bass driver to deliver rich and full-bodied bottom end. All driver builds are hand-made and individually tested by the technicians in Banbury to ensure that each configuration is a perfect fit.

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ACS T1 Custom Earphones – Brand New for 2010

Beyerdynamic are just about to launched the T50p in the UK – a new portable headphone that is set to compete head to head with the B&W P5 . Matt from Polar Audio (Beyerdynamic’s UK distributor) visited HiFi Headphones HQ today to give us a first listen.

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Beyerdynamic T50p Headphones – a B&W P5 beater?

Google does not have to dominate the smartphone business; they just have to make sure that there’s an environment in which the business of selling ads thrives. While Apple wants to dominate smartphones, Google undeniably dominates online ad sales–and they clearly see ad placement on mobile as a huge opportunity

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Google vs Apple: Google Doesn’t Need To Win

Just like the iTunes app store, the iBooks app on the iPad spotlights the Top Paid (and Top Free) books within each category. Here are some charts that compare the average price (by rank)1 across the major categories. The average price of the Top 50 titles across the major categories range from $7-$15

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Cookbooks: The highest priced iPad book category

Whitehouse Released Open Source Code — four modules for Drupal with features the White House needed, including integration with the Akamai CDN. Android on iPhone — it’s like constructing an apartment building out of lasagne: an astonishing feat of engineering, even if it’s not ultimately useful for anything

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Four short links: 22 April 2010 – Whitehouse Source, Hot Android on iPhone Action, Geomapping, Open Data Fights Fraud

Measured in terms of number of titles, half of the over 46,000 (paid and free) books available that we detected as being offered through the iBooks app are from 6 categories1. Fiction & Literature alone account for close to a third of all available iBooks titles: The current set of titles is indicative of the publishers (and/or imprints) that Apple…

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A few weeks in, a third of iPad Books are Fiction

zxing — barcode library for iPhone, Android, Java, and more. Guido’s Python — how the compiler and interpreter see your Python programs. It wasn’t until I had this level of knowledge of Perl that I really know what the hell I was doing.

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Four short links: 10 May 2010 – Barcodes, Python’s Innards, Informed Elections, and Data Literacy

The new Beyerdynamic Flagship model, the Tesla T1 , is now available in the UK.  We have been lucky enough to borrow Beyer’s Demo pair and it was love at first listen. Delivered in it’s aluminium flight case the Beyerdynamic T1 is hand crafted in Germany and it shows – they have a solid industrial beauty that exudes high end build quality. The coils are hand wound as a machine is not capable of the necessary dexterity to achieve Beyer’s exacting standards.

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Beyerdynamic Tesla T1 and A1 Amplifier

It’s human nature to look to the past to predict the future. That’s why it’s unsurprising to see knee-jerk conclusion that Apple iPhone vs Google Android will mirror the PC wars

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Five reasons iPhone vs Android isn’t Mac vs Windows – Competitive lessons from the PC era don’t always apply to mobile

Sleek Audio have finally unleashed the eagerly awaited SA7 earphone on the World.  The SA7 is the new high end in ear monitor (IEM) from Sleek Audio with the earphone featuring a milled aluminium body, carbon fibre cladding and dual wideband balanced armature drivers. Built to last, the SA7 earphone will appeal to those who get through high end earphones at an alarming rate.

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Sleek Audio SA7 – high end, durable earphone made from military grade aluminium