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lordmatty

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About lordmatty

Director at Future Workshops

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37445562

    I’ve often wished for this! ICYMI, next best option is plugging your iPhone into MacBook via Lightning cable so the tethering connection doesn't drop and your iPhone stays charged.…

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    Comment #7579197

    Good thought, but Apple is the gatekeeper here - not sure changing your license will help. What if they continue to use the methods without using Mogenerator (they could easily wri…

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    Custom iOS Popovers

    Fully customisable popovers (including arrows) for iOS.

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    Beautiful iOS mail app

    App looks amazing. Looking forward to the possibility of replacing Sparrow!

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    Comment #4339225

    Great resource, but we've always found the issue with these to be the level of polish expected on iOS. On occasion you spend as much time customizing these controls to fit with you…

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    Comment #4184505

    As I posted on the freshte.ch blog, the commercial drive behind Siri is that you don't use Google when on Apple's platform. Google coming out with a competitor that stacks up featu…

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    Comment #4181375

    Any thoughts about putting this on a smartphone?

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    Comment #3998863

    I agree. I can't say I like standard practise of employers owning everything their employees do whether in or out of work, or requiring that you stop anything they don't own. Howev…

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    Comment #3998517

    I guess it probably depends on the position/team. I wouldn't expect GS to open source anything they consider a competitive advantage, but then I don't see Google open sourcing thei…

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    Comment #3998303

    I can understand the reaction on this community to the news, and I'm sure that there are elements of PR and recruitment strategy here, but I happen to know that the primary driver …

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    Comment #3440875

    Great example of an acquisition that will work out - two startups motivated by the same type of goals and both, as far as I can work out, optimised for happiness, not optimised for…

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    Comment #3326301

    I got stock options in exchange for sweat as a consultant in what is now a NASDAQ listed company. Great deal, which netted about a 10x profit over the money Id have been paid. Of c…

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    Comment #3218092

    The guy talks about tired analogies, whilst making one that looks positively sleep deprived in his headline and conclusion!

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    Comment #3174659

    All of these Apps are small, focused and free... Loving LiveReload, Mou and Launch Effect.

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    Comment #3089234

    Sounds excellent - would love to create an ObjC server/client library to take advantage of this!

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    Comment #3089071

    Great to see some positive press on HP. Hope HP can innovate their way out of the current slump.

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    Comment #3073057

    I can see this starting to take over simple tasks. Love the idea of being able to dictate a reminder, or ask the phone to wake me up at 6AM (7AM?!). How much quicker is it ask thos…

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    Comment #3026862

    Can anybody share experiences on using StackMob?

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    Comment #2989147

    TestFlight are doing excellent work - congrats guys!

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    Comment #2882295

    Just because they have a patent doesn't mean they will manufacture a product. Perhaps they just don't want their competitors to put it in their products, for example.

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    Comment #2540774

    That was a joke.

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    Comment #2530416

    How do you discover the discovery service?

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    Comment #2513444

    Is this officially licensed from Apple? If not..how long will Apple let it stand?

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    Comment #2501280

    They should have just used QlikView - its proprietary but blazing fast..

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    Comment #2480869

    Well done Smugmug. Perhaps you should diversify into cardiac monitoring!