iPad Links: Thursday, March 4, 2010

Stuff directly or indirectly for or about the iPad, in no real order. These posts will likely be discontinued once an iPad is in hand.

EPIC POST: Books in the age of the iPad
— I agree with that generally, but see my past posts about smart digital books. It’s not just about text flow but he’s correct in stating that’s a good dividing line between p and e right now.

The Last Big Thing from Apple!

Fired ‘Call of Duty’ developers sue Activision for more than $36 million [Updated]
Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set
2000: The Second Coming— A Manifesto
Cory Doctorow: Making Smarter Dumb Mistakes About the Future
88 Ways to Make The Naughty List [88 Ways A Business Can Perfect FAIL]
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
Think like a statistician – without the math
TED Video: David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min
The repetition of death

Ebert 1: I wonder if this will work
Ebert 2: An Invitation from The Ebert Club

2006: Smart people can rationalize anything
2009: Wall Street Smarts
2010: Your high IQ will kill your startup

The Grim Jules Verne Future:
Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into a game
Ribbon Hero is the future
Previously here: Jesse Schell’s Monstrous Bonus-Point Police State

All Your DRM Are Belong To Us:
Ubisoft’s Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day

iPad:
iPad App Development – Behind The Scenes
Warren Ellis: Unfair competition in 2010
In three years desktops will be irrelevant – Google sales chief
Analyst: iPad will change the entire PC ecosystem
iPad Aesthetics
Bikram Yoga and the iPad

iTunes/App Store:
Technical Analysis: The iTunes Broken Promise: Broken Links
Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes

iPhone:
Teletext: 300,000 iPhone Downloads For DMGT’s App Publisher

Flash:
Why Flash on iPhone Does Not Make Sense
Can Flex save Flash?

UI/Web Design:
Animated CSS3 cube using 3D transforms
The “Attractive City Generator”
The CSS Ninja
1: When ugly works…
2: Ling’s Cars

In every Links post, I try to pimp at least two eBooks (generally free ones). These will be consolidated into one post later on when traffic gets real here and people are looking for things to stuff into their iPad.

FREE eBook: Furies!
FREE online eBook: 1846 Penny Dreadful: The Mysteries of London
FREE online eBook: The Diary of a Murder
Books for Dudes: Murder by Death; Or How Mysteries Will Help You Live Longer
Steampunk: 20 Core Titles

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