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Re:Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS on Friday December 11, 2015 @03:28AM (#10715993)
I think news paywalls need to be bundled in not with other newspapers but other subscription services.

I'd kill for a Netflix/Spotify/choose-your-newspaper all in one bundle.

Re:Diary of a Diary – Building My First iOS App on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:13PM (#9534930)
Cheers!

Nothing planned at the moment, but I've been thinking about it. Hard to sync events with times into a diary where there is no concept of time. Even harder to go back the other way.

Re:Diary of a Diary – Building My First iOS App on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:15AM (#9531127)
Hi Dan,

I didn't do too much research to be honest. As a beginner, in-app purchasing looked a bit daunting, so I decided to start simple with an up-front cost. I chose the Tier 2 price so I can run promos to the Tier 1 ($0.99) price from time to time.

Down the track I might look at making it free with in-app purchase or something though.

Re:Diary of a Diary – Building My First iOS App on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @06:14AM (#9530607)
Hi kadder,

No I didn't, except for the Twitter-designed emoji and a few icons from an icon pack I purchased. I looked at many libraries for the month view but I ended up just making it myself so I could control exactly how it looked and felt.

Re:Diary of a Diary – Building My First iOS App on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:14AM (#9530396)
It does look a bit weird doesn't it!
Re:Diary of a Diary – Building My First iOS App on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @03:14AM (#9530002)
Thanks! Looking at implementing something similar as a week view for the app.
The biggest problem I have had with travel planning startups is that many of them focus too much and too quickly on monetisation - often leading to a poor user experience.

When I'm travel planning, I like to somewhat explore the destination (like reading a guide book) and think about what to do, where to stay etc -- rather than being immediately shown a list of hotels & airfares.

Re:Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi on Thursday July 24, 2014 @06:40PM (#8082765)
Someone should really make an 'Airbnb' for High Speed Internet Connections around the world. Hotels, universities, internet cafes, business centres - a lot of businesses would pay to find high speed internet locations around the world for business trips
Re:Goodbye Gmail on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:31PM (#7426668)
Also works much more reliably in foreign countries where Google services may be slow/blocked
Re:Is the Aussie too expensive? iPad index says no on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:35AM (#6429794)
The launch of the iPhone 5s/5c, we saw price rises in Australia due to the Aussie dollar.

I think it's likely we'll see similar price rises on the release of the new iPads shortly

Re:Google Laughs at the New iPhones on Thursday September 12, 2013 @04:59AM (#6372915)
This article is pure rubbish
Re:An app to browse your friends' trips on Monday May 20, 2013 @03:50AM (#5736456)
This is a great idea.

Some suggestions

-Some more links about their destination would be great - links to wikitravel; photos from other travellers, hotel/flight etc.

-Not all photo albums (especially with non-phone cameras) have location information attached as the user has to tag that location. I've noticed many of my friends will name their holiday album with the name of the country or city? Is there some way you would find trips based off photo albums with country names or similar?

I like it a lot, but once I've seen my friends trips in a minute or two; I'm not sure what to do now. Nice work.

Re:Horrible experience with Iwantmyname.com on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @07:05PM (#5635459)
I've have nothing but great experiences.
Re:Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon on Thursday March 28, 2013 @11:21PM (#5459075)
Maybe a combination of both?
Re:Coming soon design unlike any other on Saturday March 09, 2013 @09:32PM (#5350461)
If it is this hard to 'express' our email address I'm not particularly excited about how we might express our ideas using this...
I'm sure they'll be looking at the stats of how many people clicked the Get App button as part of this parody.

This doesn't mean I would buy the app though - it's just probably the one place where somewhere could actually worked out what it did!

Re:Supersonic free fall from 120,000 feet live at 8:30AM EST on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @06:45AM (#4630858)
The tech to shoot and transmit this whole event live is almost as incredible as the event itself

http://www.redbullstratos.com/technology/cameras-communicati...

Re:UDID Leak : Identifying the Traitor on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @09:00AM (#4474322)
What about PokerStars?

Their US operations were shut down the FBI recently on bank fraud and money laundering charges.

http://www.tightpoker.com/news/pokerstars-shuts-down-2347/

Can anyone else confirm they have PokerStars installed? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473730

Re:AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @08:48AM (#4474283)
What about Pokerstars?

Their US operations were shut down the FBI recently on bank fraud and money laundering charges.

http://www.tightpoker.com/news/pokerstars-shuts-down-2347/

Re:Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store on Thursday January 05, 2012 @05:58PM (#3430994)
Fantastic advice! I'll be implementing some of this for my app shortly!
Interesting correlation! - Does anyone offer any suggestions as to why?

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