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Link Facebook Preparing For IPO In May

parislemon:

Mark Zuckerberg turns 28 on May 14. That is a Monday.

It is both awesome and depressing to me that he and I are the same age.

Link parislemon: Power

parislemon:

I want a laptop that lasts for a week on one charge. I want a cellphone that lasts a month.

I’d settle for a full day (10-12 hours) on a laptop and a week for my cell phone. My Blackberry 8310 would get close to this, but not with what is now normal usage for me. My Bold could get a full day of heavy use, maybe two or two and a half of normal use. My iPhone lasts ~ 8-9 hours, maybe 12-14 if I’m not using it much.

Link HBO Continues to Miss the Boat...

Reading this, it doesn’t sound like we’re going to see HBO distance itself from the cable companies anytime soon. I’m not the only one who dared to hope as much.

Link Liveblogging The Letdown

parislemon:

John Gruber on the anticipated letdown reaction from some following tomorrow’s new iPad announcements:

But if a faster processor, more RAM, a double-the-resolution retina display, a better camera, and maybe even LTE networking make for a “modest” update, then what would it take for the iPad 3 to be deemed an immodest update? A fusion energy source? Teleportation? A camera that sees into the future?

Nothing has actually been announced yet and it’s already starting. I’ve actually heard this letdown sentiment several times today. Again, from people who haven’t actually seen the product yet and actually don’t even know for sure what’s coming.

I mean seriously, if all of the rumored new features are true, this is going to be a major upgrade. And the actual sales figures will reflect that, even if some of the stories tomorrow don’t. 

Many folks seem oddly tied to form factor when it comes to upgrades. The iPhone 4S was a “disappointment” to some because it looked like the iPhone 4. I suspect the new iPad will get the some of the same reaction since it will look like the previous iPad.

My prediction: those left underwhelmed will have one thing in common. They’ll be idiots. 

Also, the AP story Gruber links to happens to have the most dickishly intrusive ads ever. 

Apple’s hype machine and trove of secrets always seems to work against them in the tech press, but the general public seems to not give a single damn. I just wish the clamoring for ad revenue wasn’t such that every idiot with an AdWords page wants to write something about how shitty the [NextBigAppleProduct] is going to be. Its not going to be everything to everybody. And guess what? **That’s OK**.

Link The Tabs Are Too Damn Wide

Agreed, and I’m using 5.2 full time as well. I still want the return of the unified tab/title bar. Chrome has proven it can work, though their take on it is every so slightly different / better than Safari’s was. Pinned tabs is an awesome feature I’d love to see migrate as well. I didn’t even know it existed in Chrome until I read MG’s thoughts.

I can’t bring myself to switch to Chrome; there’s just something about the full color chrome at the top, combined with the fact that it just feels too big relative to Safari (its really not, only by a pixel or three).

I’m all about minimizing the UI of a web browser, and letting the focus be on the content. Both Chrome and Safari make strides there, but Safari still wins as my everyday browser.

parislemon:

John Gruber filed the following Safari “bug” report:

Summary: In previous versions of Safari, there was a relatively narrow maximum width for tabs. This max width would come into play in windows with few tabs (1, 2, maybe 3). In Safari 5.2, tabs consume the full width of the window, even if there are only one or two tabs. I find that this is aesthetically unpleasing, and would like to see the old tab bar return.

I agree completely. The new Safari (5.2, still in beta) is very, very good. By far the best version of Safari yet — to the point where, yes, I’m actually using it instead of Chrome. But the tabs are ridiculous.

The same problem exists in Safari for the iPad.

Safari 5.2 now has an “omnibox” a URL box from which you can search as well. Now they need to borrow the pinned tabs idea as well. 

Link Square Register

I love Square. I wish I had a better use case for it, for me personally, but in the mean time I’m happy that they are taking expanding and doing so many cool, awesome things.

parislemon:

Square’s latest app has a simple goal: killing the cash register. 

Looks amazing, as usual. And anything that gets more merchants using Card Case is a good thing in my book.

I also love the last line of the USA Today story on the matter:

Square has no plans at this time to launch a version of Square Register for Android tablets.

I assume they also won’t be launching it for the Atari Jaguar, the Newton, or the Commodore 64.