The following link explains how to update your terminal shell on OS X to create a new “trash” script. This will send files to the same trash can that you will find on you desktop.
Use OS X’s trash in a Finder-like way from Terminal – Mac OS X Hints.
If your a Google apps fan (like me) you may find this pretty cool…
Check out the shared folder on Google
A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 5 reasons it beats Omnigraffle and Visio – Morten Just.
This was clearly a signal that m1.small was not performing well at that load for our application. We decided to switch to c1.mediums. We knew that c1.mediums have 5 EC2 compute units where as the m1.smalls have 1 EC2 compute unit. But we wanted to see how far m1.smalls can take us. The switch totally worked! Cpu bursts stopped. Autoscaling stopped kicking in. We can see the cpu going from 10% to 50% smoothly from non peak to peak hours. This is what we wanted!
via Web serving in the cloud – our experiences with nginx and instance sizes.
Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise. But, by being cross-platform, they don’t use, they erase “uncommon” features. To Apple, this is anathema as it wants apps developers to use, to promote its differentiation. It’s that simple. Losing differentiation is death by low margins. It’s that simple. It’s business. Apple is right to keep control of its platform’s future.
via The Adobe – Apple Flame War | Monday Note.
We thank Twitter, everyone there, for the kick start it gave bit.ly. And we certainly hope we helped Twitter during a difficult scaling period.
via Bit.ly to Twitter: So Long, and Thanks for All the Links.
Essentially, when you want to print you'll be sending your request over to a Googlestation up in the clouds, which in turn will translate those instructions and forward them along to the nearest paper tarnisher. We say nearest, presuming that's what you'd want, but the big deal here is that you'll be able to use any device to print on any printer anywhere in the internet-connected world.
via Google Cloud Print service aims for unified, universal web printing method — Engadget.
Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor.
via Vimium – the hacker’s browser.
A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update. This time, we’ve got three new panels to present: a Timeline, Audits and Dedicated Console.
via Surfin’ Safari – Blog Archive » More Web Inspector Updates.
The company [Google] is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said. And with that release, Mozilla — maker of the Firefox browser — and Google Chrome are expected to also announce support for HTML5 video playback using the new open codec.
via Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video.
So today we're posting the “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement”—the contract that every developer who writes software for the iTunes App Store must “sign.” Though more than 100,000 app developers have clicked “I agree,” public copies of the agreement are scarce, perhaps thanks to the prohibition on making any “public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written approval.” But when we saw the NASA App for iPhone, we used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules conrolled the technology they could use with their phones. NASA responded with the Rev. 3-17-09 version of the agreement
http://www.eff.org/files/20100302_iphone_dev_agr.pdf
