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Apple Maps
I have been meaning to blog about the recently discovered custom map tiles that appeared in the recently released iPhoto for iOS. While not particularly suited for driving directions etc. they do strike me as beautiful and with an Indiana Jones-movie like charme. As with many Apple products, they don’t do everything, but what they do—add flair to a photo collage—they to well.
Luckily for people who don’t own iOS devices, @refnum hacked together a custom tile layer for the Google Maps API, and it’s a pleasure to use. I hope Apple will use these maps for something more than decoration, but we’ll see what the future holds.
Update: I had the screenshots wrong, my apologies. Fixed.
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Ideas of March
Funny how just yesterday I revived my personal blog for pretty much the same reasons Drew McLellan outlines in his post.
Often, I can’t find something I know I tweeted the day before. Conversely, as an example, here’s the post from 2003 when Dave announced the CSS Zen Garden, which took me roughly 30 seconds to find.
I will try to keep this up for a while, post more links and shorter thoughts that need a few more characters than 140.
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Gravity Duck 2
A decent successor to one of my favorite online games, but doesn’t hold a candle to the original, which was a lot more inspired and lovable. Still, a good game.
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How iTunes 1080p content compares to Blu-ray
Ars Technica has an in-depth comparison of video quality for the newly introduced iTunes 1080p content. I was surprised that iTunes content came so close to Bluray, even though it’s only a fraction of the file size.
I was also surprised Ars had to take photos (!) of their TV in order to be legally able to provide this comparison. What a pain. A pirate would have had a much easier job. And possibly gotten a better result.
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This is personal: Linked Lists
I am trying to get this blog to act as my Facebook replacement, since I quit a while back. This is why I introduced Daring Fireball style linked items. Hope you enjoy them. I will provide a permalink to my excerpts via the infinity sign: ∞
Linked posts will be identified by an arrow icon, for the time being. We’ll see if I can come up with something else.
My goal is to create linked posts more frequently, but with only a short comment from my side. I have often found twitter’s 140 characters too limiting and did not want to write multiple tweets on the same topic. Maybe my blog is the right place for this kind of thoughts after all.
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wie schön das jetzt ist. mir gefällts. bin gespannt was du so schreibst!
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Lieb von dir. Ich hoffe, es ist ab und zu was spannendes für dich dabei <3
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Ich mag’s auch! Es sieht alles so…. CLEAN aus.
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Ihr seid schon Helden: das Design hab ich seit über einem Jahr nicht angefasst! :D
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Warum mir OS X kleine schwarze Striche in die Screenshots zeichnet, kann ich beim besten Willen nicht beantworten. Hoffentlich verschwinden die genauso heimlich wie sie gekommen sind.
du hast die screenshots immer noch nicht getauscht! :(
und für die, die es interessiert, hier gibt es noch mehr spannendes kartenmaterial
http://maps.stamen.com/#terrain/12/37.7706/-122.3782
Sorry! Habs korrigiert.
Eine richtig coole Seite, eefa! Mir hat aber auch Google’s Amazonas-Streetview gefallen heute:
http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2012/03/visit-amazon-on-world-forest-day-with.html