• Rob Pegoraro:
    Auto Enhance features uses automated algorithms to tweak photos, sort of like what iPhoto , Picasa, and Windows Photo Gallery already do.

I’m no expert, but this looks a hell of a lot better than the auto-enhances I already have on desktop.

  • Andy Ihnatko:
    I wonder if savvy Google I/O attendees board their flight with no electronics, counting on getting a laptop, tablet & phone on Day 1?

I can’t imagine that anyone at I/O could possibly go four hours without something electronic.

  • Rob Pegoraro:
    And looks like this year’s I/O freebie, or one of them (note: for journos, loaner) is a $1,500 Chromebook Pixel.

How quickly can you sign up for a Dev account? :-)

  • Andy Ihnatko:
    Pushing message hard: Chrome is an app environment that lets a developer write one app that runs on anything from any maker/OS.

So… um, they’re pushing HTML5 programming in a less buggy environment?

  • Rich Mogull:
    Working on my Mac in a coffee shop in Boulder. Let the record show I was doing this long before the birth of the modern hipster.

Only gains you street cred if you did it with a Macintosh Portable.

  • Rich Mogull:
    I lied a little. Couldn?t afford a Mac laptop back then.

My first was a 1993 Duo 210. My first color laptop a few years later made me understand why my parents were thrilled by color TV.

  • Rich Mogull:
    I started at CU with my Commodore 128. Was sort of a laptop if the coffee shop had a TV and I brought the RF adapter.

My Dad ran an adult bookstore. High point of my life: discovering the “quarter for 3 minutes” video booths run by banks of C64s.

  • Daniel Jalkut:
    I just RSVP?d for a party at WWDC, said “Add to Passbook” on my Mac, looked at my phone, and there it is. Bravi, everybody involved!
  • Dan Moren:
    Yeah, that?s pretty cool. (Had to force quit Passbook to get it to show up, though.)

No offense, but “force-quit” does seem to mitigate “pretty cool”.

  • Daniel Jalkut:
    In my tests it “just” takes a little while longer if you don?t force-quit, or launch from scratch.

I was being snarky. But notable that 99% have no idea how or why to force-quit an iOS app.

Google News from Twitter #2: lots of chatter saying Apple should copy Google dev svcs, but I don’t see that Apple feels the need to compete.

Google News from Twitter #1: Google launches streaming music service just as all major US carriers clamp down harder on data caps.

  • David Chartier:
    Android?s tablet problem is fascinating. Tablets are selling now, yet Google still needs to say ?design your apps for tablets.?

I’m sitting here with a 4.7″ 1920×1080 Android. Can’t imagine how a dev decides what the hell size to design for.

  • Geoff Duncan:
    That’s the same lsregister trick. I’m having to do it like twice a day now. :(
  • Chuq Von Rospach:
    yeah, I need to do it occasionally. I?m not seeing it corrupt that badly.
  • Geoff Duncan:
    Maybe I need to look at how to force Spotlight to rebuild. Been noticing lots of indexing there too.
  • Chuq Von Rospach:
    it couldn?t hurt. I rebuild spotlight by disabling it and renaming the data dir, then restarting it.
  • Geoff Duncan:
    I’ll give that a whirl. I’ve spent most of my OS X “career” ignoring Spotlight because it was so slow and so wrong for so long?

There’s a Darwin command that says “delete everything and start over,” IIRC. And I don’t mean rm -rf *

  • Glenn Fleishman:
    Fascinating to me that some men of my acquaintance don?t instantly notice the diffs between two Meridas. A lesson here about perception?
  • Jean MacDonald:
    You guys gave me something to be cranky about today. Merida is my hero. F?k princessification.

At the risk of being contrarian: w/o the hubbub, I’d see the “new” Merida as just change in animation style.

Not arguing in favor of the changes. But I could make similar argument w/ comic vs cartoon of Superman.

  • Merlin Mann:
    Holy. Crap. Even Batman would need a manual and a month off to figure that junk out.
  • Merlin Mann:
    I?m starting to smell a new Tumblr here.
  • Jason Snell:
    I?ve been meaning to write a Macworld/TechHive article about it. The text equivalent of pointing and laughing.

Back in ’86, I completely screwed with my dad by setting his car to use KM instead of MPH. Button on passenger side.

I say, “Dad?” He looks down and sees 120 in speedometer, slams brakes. Great prank, he nearly killed me…

…until I told him I checked for traffic *before* I pranked him.

  • Daniel Pasco:
    Not sure why I started saying ?<so-and-so> is aces? but I?m pretty sure I learned it reading Heinlein which means it?s at least 60 years old

Sounds to me like poker etymology, most of which entered the US lexicon in late 19th century.