1. ➶ Retina.js — Retina graphics for your website

    If you’re looking for a solution to serve up retina images in HTML (as opposed to via CSS), this might come in handy. It follows the Apple.com method of always downloading the low-res first - making it bandwidth heavy - but after having spent a fair bit of time looking at options it seems to be perhaps the most easily implemented1 on the majority of sites.


    1. N.B. It’s not perfect - few retina solutions are. Nor is it suitable for everyone’s scenario (hosted blogs on Tumblr such as this being one example). But it’s definitely worth considering. 

  2. ➶ dcovery

    It’s not yet launched, but it looks like a pretty smart - and well-designed - app and service for planning trips.

  3. Inception — Filming the Corridor and Zero Gravity Scene - Absolutely fascinating video as to how the Inception production team pulled off the corridor fight, via Charles Arthur on Twitter.

  4. Amazon’s UK operations are also poised to benefit from Luxembourg ownership in the battle for the lucrative and fast-growing ebook market. Being based in Luxembourg means it can charge VAT on ebook sales at the local rate of 3% rather than the 20% VAT imposed on British-based ebook retailers.
  5. Imagine everything that is wrong about Android phones and UIs & Google privacy and then strap it to the front of your face.
    Chris Heathcote on Twitter, about Google’s new Project Glass. Cynical? Yes. But I’d by lying if I said this wasn’t one of my concerns about Project Glass.
  6. ➶ Instagram now available for Android

    Huge congrats to my buddy Tim Van Damme and the rest of the Instagram team.

  7. ➶ Anchorman 2 is in production

    Awesome.

  8. I think if everyone tweeted less the overall quality would improve, so maybe I’m trying to compensate for the rest of the universe. Then again my last three tweets were poop related.
  9. A Tip for Purging Photo Stream Across Multiple Devices

    Every app that I try / use tends to get screenshotted on iOS or my Mac [running the stats on my LittleSnapper library, I’ve kept - note not “taken”, that’d be way higher - roughly 6 screenshots a day, since LittleSnapper launched in 2008].

    Photo Stream is great for getting those to my Mac without using Image Capture, but until a moment ago there were 200 screenshots, all imported away from iPhoto, that reside in my Photo Stream. To say it makes for bizarre Apple TV slideshows would be an understatement.

    Here’s the strategy I used to purge them from my iPhone, iPad and Mac - remember, iOS 5.1 doesn’t allow you to remove images from Photo Stream, and have them removed from all your devices in one fell swoop, that were taken prior to iOS 5.1. Only images taken with iOS 5.1 can be deleted once, and removed from all your devices.

    I make no claims about this being pretty - it ain’t - but my plan was basically to remove all the screenshots from Photo Stream without having to do so on every single device.

    1. Delete all the unwanted images from iPhoto’s Photo Stream section.
    2. Fire up Settings -> iCloud on your iOS devices.
    3. Turn off Photo Stream on said devices.
    4. Load Photos.app and ensure the Photo Stream section disappears.
    5. Power-down, and power-up each device.
    6. Re-enable Photo Stream on your devices, and launch Photos.app to verify that Photo Stream is re-downloading from the server and not using local copies.

    It’s crude, annoying to have to do, and not particularly Apple’s finest hour. But if you’re wanting to clear out Photo Stream this should get it back in shape - and ready for the long-overdue ability to remove from Photo Stream once, and have the deletion occur across all devices.

    You could also just reset Photo Stream at iCloud.com: but that kinda irked me about removing stuff that was already in my Photo Stream - I didn’t want to remove everything.

  10. ➶ Thieves Are Your Best Customers in Waiting

    I believe the term is “This”.