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The right way for developers to access your Contacts on iOS
There’s been lots of controversy the past few days about Path’s admittance that they had transparently uploaded your entire list of contacts to help better find your friends.
Today they released an updated that asks permission before uploading your contact list.
Ironically today Instagram also released an update that includes the perfect way to describe what they would like to do:
It’s worded perfectly in my opinion, besides the fact that the application on your iPhone is called Contacts.
2013 Ford Fusion
Ford’s new 2013 Ford Fusion (this is the plugin hybrid version called the Energi). Looks like they incorporated some Austin Martin design cues. I hope it drives as good as it looks.
Help take back the USA government
If you have an iPhone and live in the USA you should download this app now. It will help us take back this country from the big corporations who have bought congress.
Steve Jobs RIP
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted here. Too long. And it’s a sad day to start.
Steve Jobs and Apple is the reason I got into computers. I started off using and developing on an old Apple II+ by Bell and Howell in 1983ish.
When the Mac was introduced in 1984, I begged my dad for one, and thankfully he got me one. The rest as they say is history.
I’ve seen Steve talk, both at WWDCs over many years and during my time at Apple in the Newton group – which was some good talks and some bad “we’re shutting you down” talks.
I respected every time he talked, both good and bad. He will be missed, but I have the upmost confidence in the team at Apple, some of whom I know.
And I have the upmost confidence in us, Apple developers, to uphold the “make your app as good as the Apple apps”.
Rest in peace Steve. I hope you are in Heaven now, meeting Jesus and all the great folks who have passed before you. I’ll look you up when I arrive.
Turns out I was bored at a few jobs. Well worth the read:
Rands: Bored People Quit
The STS-135 Tweetup Folks
You can see lined up waving the astrovan on with the astronauts.
Via Flickr:
The Astrovan carrying the STS-135 crew; Chris Furgeson, commander, Doug Hurley, pilot, and mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Mangus, rolls past the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and Launch Control Center (LCC), on its way to launch pad 39a and space shuttle Atlantis, Friday, July 8, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the shuttle program, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
My budding photographer
Daughter number one.
Your Startup Sucks – How to (Fucking) Hire Developers
Your Startup Sucks – How to (Fucking) Hire Developers: ” For one, there’s a huge difference between coding and coding on a dirty whiteboard in front of a sweaty meatball breathing down your neck and belching a constant stream of critique. For another, developers (usually) make awfully nervous thespians.”
Love that quote. A great read…
Back view of Atlantis
The last shuttle ever to fly getting towed to the VAB.