Crossfade preventing play count updates in iTunes 11

Crossfade preventing play count updates in iTunes 11: If your iTunes 11 installation will not update play counts, then its crossfade feature may be to blame. [Read more]

YES! I noticed right after it was released.

Still not fixed.

Make use of the built-in VPN service in OS X

Make use of the built-in VPN service in OS X: In addition to client support for VPN, OS X contains a fully fledged VPN server [Read more]

Moog Updates Its Far-Out Synthesizer App for iPad

Moog Updates Its Far-Out Synthesizer App for iPad: Moog Music's Animoog synthesizer -- the iPad's most spaced-out, most diabolically fun musical instrument app -- just got a big upgrade.

Roku adds Spotify, Vevo to its streamed channel offerings

Roku adds Spotify, Vevo to its streamed channel offerings: Channels for the popular music streaming and video services added to the home set-top box steaming platform. [Read more]

Path Wants to Become Your Social Search Engine

Path Wants to Become Your Social Search Engine: Path lets you bring in updates and photos from Facebook, Instagram and Foursquare. Now, it's letting you search all those social memories too.

Google+ mentions make their way to Blogger

Google+ mentions make their way to Blogger: Now, Blogger users can put a "+" before a person's name, and have a link to their Google+ profile automatically included in their post. [Read more]

The 2012 App Gems Awards | Macworld

The 2012 App Gems Awards | Macworld: Apple rightly takes a lot of pride in the size of its App Store—more than 750,000 apps are available for the iPhone and iPad, according to the company’s last count. But the risk of having such a massive emporium for mobile software is that the sheer volume of not-so-hot apps pushes the truly great offerings out of the spotlight. Not to worry, though: Plenty of iOS apps still combine great design and must-have features to help you get even more out of your iPhone and iPad. We’ve discovered nearly two dozen apps in the past year that remind us how the App Store and the iOS universe are about quality, not just quantity.

Forget JavaScript, It's Time for Browsers to Speed Up Images

Forget JavaScript, It's Time for Browsers to Speed Up Images: Images make up roughly 60 percent of the data downloaded with the average webpage. It's great that browser makers have been focused on improving JavaScript, but if we really want to speed up the web it's time to tackle images as well.

MakerBot purges 3D printable gun parts from Thingiverse

MakerBot purges 3D printable gun parts from Thingiverse: Citing its Terms of Service, MakerBot has removed designs for AR15 and other weapon components from its 3D printing file library. [Read more]

Instagram Claims Mix-Up, But for Some Photographers the Damage Is Already Done

Instagram Claims Mix-Up, But for Some Photographers the Damage Is Already Done: After a loud outcry from people across the internet, Instagram seems to be backpedaling on the changes to their new terms of service. But even if they agree to back off, some photographers say they've been left with a bad taste in their mouths.

'Interactive Guide' Teaches the Basics of Good Web Typography

'Interactive Guide' Teaches the Basics of Good Web Typography: Have a blog, but don't understand the finer points of good web typography? No problem. Thanks to developer Tommi Kaikkonen's interactive guide to blog typography you'll be an expert in no time. Your readers will thank you for it.

2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President | TIME.com

2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President | TIME.com: Later that night, Vietor read the specials scribbled on a chalkboard at a bar. The Obama was a shot of Jack Daniel’s and a Pabst Blue Ribbon for $7. The Romney was a shot of Johnnie Walker Gold and a bottle of 1995 Altamura cabernet for $870. The message was breaking through.

Review: Evernote 5.0 for Mac improves an already-indispensable service

Review: Evernote 5.0 for Mac improves an already-indispensable service: Evernote is an Everything Box

Instagram: On being the product

Instagram: On being the product: Update 5:13 pm ET — Instagram has just released a response in which they say, among other things, “Legal documents are easy to misinterpret,” and claim it’s all a misunderstanding.
I call BS. It’s easy to misinterpret a legal document, but the language of Instagram’s TOS was exemplary in its clarity.

If Instagram is backing down, that’s great. They should just say so, rather then blaming their customers for misunderstanding. And they should (quickly) release some equally clear legal language rectifying the situation. They’ve promised to “remove the language that raised the question.” Great, but what they’re doing now is just damage control until they release the new document. Let’s see it.

You have a new TV. Now what? | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews

You have a new TV. Now what? | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews: Now that you've bought your shiny new TV, make sure you get the most out of it with the right settings, cables, and placement.

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos | Politics and Law - CNET News

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos | Politics and Law - CNET News: Reginald Braithwaite, an author and software developer, posted a tongue-in-cheek "translation" of the new Instagram policy today: "You are not our customers, you are the cattle we drive to market and auction off to the highest bidder. Enjoy your feed and keep producing the milk."

One Instagram user dubbed the policy change "Instagram's suicide note." The PopPhoto.com photography site summarized the situation by saying: "The service itself is still a fun one, but that's a lot of red marks that have shown up over the past couple weeks. Many shooters -- even the casual ones -- probably aren't that excited to have a giant corporation out there selling their photos without being paid or even notified about it."

President says he won't go after Washington over legalized pot

President says he won't go after Washington over legalized pot:

President Barack Obama says he won't go after Washington state and Colorado for legalizing marijuana.

Arts & Letters Daily (14 Dec 2012)

Arts & Letters Daily (14 Dec 2012):

Do you sneer at things predigital, use words like "disruptive," tap the wisdom of the crowd? Get a grip: You've become a cyberguru... more

Before Hobbes, political thought was historical thought, much of it wacky. Since Hobbes, political thought was about ideas, many of them preposterous... more

Marcel Duchamp was ambivalent, even embarrassed, about producing art. He was in search of a medium untainted by aesthetics. He was, in short, a Romantic... more

Gene Wolfe wins grand master award for science fiction and fantasy | Books | guardian.co.uk

Gene Wolfe wins grand master award for science fiction and fantasy | Books | guardian.co.uk: "It's not that Gene Wolfe is, in the opinion of many (and I am one of the many), our finest living science fiction writer. It is that he is, in the opinion of the Washington Post (and of me, too) one of our finest living writers," said Gaiman. "He has been our uncrowned grand master for a long time, and now the rest of the world will know as well."

Four short links: 14 December 2012

Four short links: 14 December 2012: The Web We Lost (Anil Dash) — so much that has me thumping the table bellowing “YES!” in this, but I was particularly provoked by: Ten years ago, you could allow people to post links on your site, or to show a list of links which were driving inbound traffic to your site. Because Google hadn’t yet broadly introduced AdWords and AdSense, links weren’t about generating revenue, they were just a tool for expression or editorializing. The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.