Kodak files for bankruptcy →

4 months ago ～

It had been announced earlier these days, but it’s now official. Sad for the 130 year old company, and I’ll miss Portra films if I can’t find those anymore.

French FreeMobile: close to 1 million customer in less than a week →

4 months ago ～

100,000 new customers per day, and 500k within the first days. Not bad for a new carrier…

(French article, via @jpoiraud)

Primary language in iTunes connect →

4 months ago ～

I used to create another iTunes developer account to change this. I had set my primary to French, meaning iTunes stores which I would not put specific description for my apps would see a French description instead of English.

How much they make from the Appstore? →

4 months ago ～

All in all, you can’t be serious about making games and “earning a living” out of it without at least a $40k budget. (And I’m really being cheap here; I think to be competitive today on the App Store you need $100k.)

Great article and a must read if you ever want to make iOS games, and even for other iOS developers.

What TV shows you watch ? →

4 months ago ～

They intercepted and manipulated the data using Fritzbox! and WireShark and returned to the company a negative energy consumption rate of -106610 kWh

Sounds like a good way to not pay electricity bills again ever (actually, you’d get money from the company). I love the CCC, you learn fun things every single year.

4 clicks to register for the Free mobile service →

4 months ago ～

Yesterday there were no way to subscribe for the new Free.fr mobile contract, but today I’ve done it successfully.

Entered my ADSL Free.fr username, they already had my address and bank informations. I clicked about 4 times and approved, done in less than a minute.

15.99 euros / month for unlimited data, tethering, usenet binaries, unlimited international calls. I’d pay more for an iPad “data only” contract.

Oh man other carriers are in trouble, and it feels good.

Free Mobile : All time records →

4 months ago ～

You probably know by now Free.fr released a 19.99 euros per month mobile contract, with unlimited data (hotspots included, you can even do usenet binaries…), voice calls with International calls to 40 countries, SMS, MMS, etc. But do you know they also broke all time records:

4.6 millions unique visitors on their live website (more than 2011 superbowl), and 450,000 simultaneous connections.

700,000 simultaneous connections 45minutes after the keynote (9h45AM) to mobile.free.fr, to register.

Not bad, Free. Thanks Xavier Niel.

More Thunderbolt at CES11 →

4 months ago ～

Hard drives, Express Dock, and Thunderbolt in more laptops. Finally taking off…

The Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock will be available in September 2012.

Ah no, not really. Why so long? …

Shooting with the Nikon D4 →

4 months ago ～

For camera geek and photographers, the D4 is here.

this camera makes the reverential memories of Kodachrome 25 fade like an old color print.

Samsung inspired by Apple ads: same actor →

4 months ago ～

Samsung probably get lots of inspiration from Apple, but they now use the same actor for their ads, funny.

Convert your iPhone to Leica →

4 months ago ～

And if you want to check out the back.

Peepcode: Advanced Git →

4 months ago ～

Another great peepcode screencast, covering advanced Git usage. 60 minutes long.

Next iPhone name: simply iPhone →

4 months ago ～

After all, Apple doesn’t put the extra label on the back of the products. They simply say “iPhone” or “iPad.” Honestly, I think they need to lose the numbering scheme. They’re starting to resemble names like “Dell XPS” and “BMW X3 SAV.”

I agree the next iPhone could simply be “iPhone” and not iPhone 5 or iPhone 6. Same goes with iPad.

Artisanal Raw Denim →

4 months ago ～

Christopher J. Brown:

My goal is to offer an honest labor by hand and resurrect the practices of the formative years with American Denim.  The two vital claims to the brand:  no external marketing, hand crafted.

“He intends to only produce 100 pairs of denim per year and indeed this is how denim was produced in the early 1900′s”. 

You can buy it here, however I just won the contest so I’ll have mine for free. Thanks @RawrDenim.

Recruiting programmers to your startup →

4 months ago ～

Post-traction companies can use the old numbers – you can’t. Your first two engineers? They’re just late founders. Treat them as such. Expect as much.

This is a quote from Naval Ravikant, and I know just too many people who should apply this to their project.