Very clever trick- access iCloud Photostream on a Mac without opening iPhoto

God Save the Queen.

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Thanks House, and good bye. And remember, everybody lies.

Thanks House, and good bye. And remember, everybody lies.

“Some men are coming to kill us. We’re going to kill them first.”

Skyfall

thisistheverge: Rethinking the iPhone’s App Switcher Some interesting ideas from Verge Forums user brentcas. I’m a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be taller. And why not? When you double click the home button and the screen rises, the status bar also vanishes, and you only have visible access to four apps. If you want to change the volume, you have to swipe over twice. Meanwhile, the raised app is taking up a lot of real estate. This is a great idea for improving the app switcher, which while useful does seem like an afterthought. I hope Apple improves iOS “multi” tasking with version 6 at WWDC next month.

thisistheverge:

Rethinking the iPhone’s App Switcher

Some interesting ideas from Verge Forums user brentcas.

I’m a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be taller.

And why not? When you double click the home button and the screen rises, the status bar also vanishes, and you only have visible access to four apps. If you want to change the volume, you have to swipe over twice. Meanwhile, the raised app is taking up a lot of real estate.

This is a great idea for improving the app switcher, which while useful does seem like an afterthought. I hope Apple improves iOS “multi” tasking with version 6 at WWDC next month.

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Apple assuming retail lease, plans to open new UK Apple Store

Well this is very exciting for my old hometown!

More info here from the Evening Herald/ThisIsPlymouth.

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Wow.

Wow.

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All you have ever wanted to know about your favourite pre-dinner snack. Mayonnaise.

Great Odin’s Beard!

Great Odin’s Beard!

totalfilm

xkcd 1056

xkcd 1056

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Lawrence M. Krauss

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Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice

Good.

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Labour has its biggest lead over Tories in polls since general election

And how does the Guardian illustrate this article?

With a pasty.

Outstanding.

Unemployment

This amuses me more than it should.

thefrogman