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SwiftDoc Is a Great Reference if You're Writing Swift Code
If you are using Swift at all, SwiftDoc is a fantastic site for learning about specific syntax questions you have as you work. The site is simple, but will quickly get you the information you need about any type, protocol. operator, or function in the language. It's also getting updates as Swift grows,
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Video Game Sales Are Strong...Really Strong
Good news for fan of video games[1], hardware sales of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are 60% higher at this point in their lives than the combined sales of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. 15 months into this generation of gaming, there have been 18.94 million PS4s and 11.33 Xbox
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Stephen Fry is Taking Some Time off From Twitter
Stephen Fry is taking a break from Twitter.
I do not attend at all to Direct Messages. Apologies to those friendly types who leave DMs for me, but I’m afraid they won’t be read. It is simply impossible for me even to look at them, let alone respond to them, and have anything
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Huck Gee Makes Some Amazing Looking Toys
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Huck Gee is one of the most active people I follow on everyone's favorite social whipping boy, Ello. He makes some of the coolest looking toys I've ever seen. His website
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TUAW Editors Return to the Web with Apple World Today
Steve Sande, Dave Caolo, and Kelly Hodgkins are back to writing about the world of Apple at Apple World Today. The trio used to work at TUAW which was shut down last week. If I'm being totally honest, I had stopped following the site a couple years ago. I thought they had lost
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Bravery Second Gets Official Artwork and Title
I never got into the first Bravely game, but I've always loved the artwork for the series. This makes me want to buy a 3DS all over again and try it out.
via raven777 on NeoGAF
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Sling TV adds AMC to It's Lineup
Dish announced that they are adding AMC to their Sling TV service "Soon".
Dish’s Sling TV, the low-cost cable-TV-on-the-Web experiment, just got a little more interesting: The service is adding the AMC network, the channel that delivers cable hits like “Mad Men” and the “Walking Dead.”
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More Great Zelda Artwork
Video Game Art continues to be a great Twitter account that all video game fans should be following.
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Photos for Mac
Apple unveiled the new Photos app for Mac today. It's built into the next point release of OS X, and is the replacement for iPhoto and Aperture.
There seems to be some trepidation about this, but I am bullish on the prospects of the app. To my eyes, the previews I've
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Subscribe to Good Music on Bandcamp
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Bandcamp is one of my favorite places to discover new music. SoundCloud and The Hype Machine are great as well, but discovering a new artist on Bandcamp
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Apple is Building an Android App
9to5Mac reports that Apple is working on Beats Music, and intends to keep up Android comparability. And this isn't just keeping the old app around, they're building their own Android app in-house.
Apple engineers are currently working on an Android app for the new Apple-branded service. Contrasting with former
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Speed Testing an iPad vs a Mac
You don't often see speed tests between a Mac and an iPad, so I thought I would put together a little video. There's also some commentary on the state of mobile hardware.
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The PonoPlayer Just Sucks
I try to keep this site pretty positive. I want to believe in a world that embraces enthusiasm and joy over knee-jerk pessimism and Twitter one-liners, but it has to be said that the PonoPlayer looks like a crappy device.
David Pogue has my favorite review yet. In his review, he says this
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Inside Gaming Has Left Machinima
That's the last video Adam, Justin, Bruce, and Lawrence did for Machinima last week, and it's a bittersweet goodbye. I'm sad to see them leave the channel, but I'm super excited to see what they do together next. Good luck to all of them, and I hope
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This is Why I Love Sports
As usual, Jason Kottke wrote a great post about why he loves sports (within a post on why he hates the NFL).
Life is full of many greater, more fulfilling, and more genuine moments, but there's no feeling quite like the one when you realize your team has won, especially when that victory
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Samsung is Unbundling TouchWiz
Via SamMobile
It has been reported that Samsung is working on optimizing its software for the Galaxy S6 to near-Nexus levels, and we now have exclusive info that the company is removing every add-on feature that can be downloaded as an application, and slimming down the software by a wide margin in the
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Wil Wheaton on Being Wesley Crusher
Wil Wheaton has taken to answering questions on his Tumblr lately, and the question of do you actually regret being wesley crusher?? spurred a really great response. I'd ask you to follow the link to see his answer, but I will say here that I have come around on Wil Wheaton quite a