1. The Sun Chronicle, a Massachusetts paper, will charge would-be commenters a nominal one-off fee of 99 cents. But it has to be paid by credit card, which means providing a real name and address.

    And the name on the credit card will be the name that will appear on comments. So it’s goodbye to anonymity.

    US newspaper to charge website commenters

    Thursday July 15th, 2010 (10 notes)

  2. ➶ Apple Tried To Buy Palm Before HP Won The Bidding War - And RIM Completely Blew The Deal

    I’m really not surprised that Apple was interested in Palm: given the large number of patents that Palm holds, they’d be crazy not to try and acquire the Palm patent portfolio.

    Thursday July 15th, 2010 (10 notes)

  3. ➶ iOS 4.0.1 released, SDK updated

    Just in time for tomorrow’s press conference, the update is out to solely address the “erroneous” signal display issue. There’s a 2.28GB SDK update available for developers too, making that the second SDK release in two days. My ISP is going to hate me.

    Thursday July 15th, 2010

  4. ➶ Yours Truly Interviewed by Macworld UK

    If you’re wanting to know some of the the back-story to Happening, the folks from Macworld UK have just published an interview about the app.

    Thursday July 15th, 2010

  5. The creeping feeling that Android is the new Windows becomes an overwhelming sensation the first time you boot up Droid X. Seven sprawling desktop screens, littered with widgets, oodles of little programs—the vast majority of which you probably don’t want or need. It’s overwhelming and utterly incomprehensible if you’re not the kind of person who’s seen at least two non-JJ Abrams Star Trek movies.

    The minutes lost to clearing them to get to a reasonably clean desktop, one press-and-hold-and-swipe gesture at a time, brought me back to the sullen days of removing crapware from whiny relatives’ Sony Vaios. Breathtaking hardware, filled to the brim with crap.

    Gizmodo reviews the Droid X

    Thursday July 15th, 2010 (30 notes)

  6. ➶ Apple to hold iPhone 4 Press Conference on Friday

    The “will they recall or give out free bumpers” drama kicks off at 10am Pacific Time.

    Thursday July 15th, 2010 (1 note)

  7. ➶ ShareKit

    This looks super-handy: a drop-in web service sharing for iOS apps (think posting items to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious etc). It’s open source on GitHub, and entirely customisable. Whilst it’s intended to be used in its entirety, if you’re wanting to (say) implement Twitter sharing in your own iPhone app with xAuth login you can still use ShareKit to implement the service on its own.

    Tuesday July 13th, 2010 (14 notes)

  8. ➶ Viewfinder for iPad

    It’s been a busy 24 hours: Fraser Speirs’ brilliant Viewfinder application for Flickr photo research is now available for iPad.

    It’s $9.99 on the App Store. I love the desktop version, and this looks to be a fantastic extension of the OS X app.

    Disclaimer: Viewfinder for iPad contains some copy written by yours truly.

    Tuesday July 13th, 2010

  9. Calcbot for iPhone and iPad

    Congratulations to Tapbots on the launch of their new app: Calcbot. It’s a universal app for both iPhone and iPad - bringing a stylish calculator to the calculator-less iPad.

    It’s 99¢ on the App Store.

    Tuesday July 13th, 2010 (2 notes)

  10. ➶ Pixelmator 1.6

    Super-slick update to the gunning-for-Photoshop OS X image editor. Now 64-bit, featuring Facebook Flickr and Picasa uploading - along with a tonne of other features and improvements - it’s a free update for existing users, and something of a steal at $59 for new customers.

    Tuesday July 13th, 2010 (10 notes)