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Great follow-up from Alan Storm to my piece yesterday on the regex for matching URLs. Storm does what I was too lazy to do: dissect the regex and explain how it works. I’m a big fan of the “/x” format for regex patterns — it’s a big aid for readability and ...
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handbrake.fr - 3 days ago
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handbrake.fr —
There's an old proverb in the video encoding
world: "Speed, size, quality: pick two." It means that...
you always have to make a trade-off between the time it takes to encode a video, the amount of compression used, and the picture quality. Well, this ...
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HandBrake 0.9.4: Released! or: Not Dead, Just Pining for ...
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A common problem programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern:
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A few months ago I started an official DF Twitter feed. Everything I post to Daring Fireball gets posted to Twitter automatically. Effectively, it’s a Twitter version of the DF RSS feed.
(Yes, some Twitter clients don’t correctly parse the ✪df.ws URLs. That’s because these ...
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Huge discounts from Amazon on Apple kit. E.g., the current price for a new white MacBook is just $884.98 — savings of $114 off the regular price. iPods, MacBooks, iMacs — all on sale. Shop from this link (for anything from Amazon) and I’ll get a kickback.
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27bslash6.com - 3 days ago
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I quite like Simon, he is like the
school teacher that would pull you aside after class...
and list, for an hour, every bad aspect of your personality and why you will never get anywhere while you nod and pretend to listen while thinking about how tight ...
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"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use ...
apple.com - 2 days ago
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apple.com —
iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for Developers Here’s
everything you need to know to create a rich,...
interactive experience around your music and movies. All right in iTunes. Distributing Your iTunes LP or iTunes Extras Automatic, electronic submission of ...
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iTunes LP and iTunes Extras
I agree wholeheartedly. Remember: the iPod Touch accounts for about 40 percent of the overall iPhone OS market. Neither Android nor Palm have anything like it.
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mrgan.tumblr.com - 2 days ago
I want to kiss them, they’re so beautiful. Best batch of Field Notes Colors yet. And check out this swell video the gang at Coudal just released (which includes a nice coupon on yearly Field Notes Colors subscriptions).
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quirksmode.org - 2 days ago
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Still no mention of the Cocoa Touch framework.
I’m telling you, that’s the key to the popularity...
of native iPhone development. ★
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PPK Follows Up on Native iPhone Apps vs. Web Apps
Which would explain the stink eye Apple Legal cast at The Little App Factory’s initial attempt to rename iPodRip to PodRip. I still say it’s crummy. ( Via Nilay Patel .)
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financial-alchemist.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Fact-checking and countering a Bloomberg TV interview with
analyst Brian Marshall. ★ ...
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Turley Muller on Apple and AT&T
precentral.net - 4 days ago
At the request of Apple’s attorneys, The Little App Factory has renamed their iPodRip app “iRip”. (Disclosure: The Little App Factory is a previous and future sponsor of the DF RSS feed.)
I’m sympathetic to both sides, especially with regard to The Little App ...
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telegraph.co.uk - 5 days ago
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Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U withdraw phone company's flagship
handset from sale after a flood of returns from...
angry customers.
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Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U suspend sales of Sony ...
A smart take on Chrome OS from Jon Stokes:
Apple and Microsoft began decades ago with “the PC,” and they’re
currently involved in a slow and painful process of trying to
stretch and push “the PC” out towards the Internet and towards a
more useful and ...
