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I finally had a chance this afternoon to go look at the Xoom and the iPad 2. Admittedly my expectations were low based on everything I read about the Xoom, but after holding one and playing with one for a while, its a serious device. I’ve played with the Honeycomb SDK and when the time comes, look for a Xoom version of ProteinScope. The rest of the pics (including the iPad 2) from today are here.

The prescient, insightful staff at AGL have used some of my antenna photos again. Excellent!

Integrating the Touches sample code for UIPinchGestureRecognizer, with the UIRotationGestureRecognizer temporarily left in…

You can almost see the light cycles battling on The Grid in this electron microscope scan, it really does look like a middling-size city!

All quiet on the western front today…

Yesterday was a little more frenetic, like a scene out of “The Social Network” Marin rowing took on Oakland in the contentious “Battle of the Bay” – pics from yesterday’s races are here.

From the farthest flung corners of the uplink.to network…

The ProteinScope Network Blog (temporary link)
PhotoUpLink on Facebook
VideoUpLink on Facebook
ProteinScope on Facebook

Torus HD for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch on Facebook

Compleat press release archive at prMac!

mmorrisdev on Flickr
mmorrisdev on Linkedin

Lets see how it goes. Turns out I still need Xcode 3 for OpenSSL on 10.5, but I might be able to work around that if the benefits of moving everything to Xcode 4 are big enough for all the Mac products too. Here are some illustrations of the new IDE. Very Visual Studio like! I have yet to install my hard-earned (got it for being in a Microsoft focus group!) copy of Visual Studio 2010, thats next when I return to the Windows / Mobile versions of the catalog!

Every day people are using PhotoUpLink and VideoUpLink to share slices of their lives with others – over 4000 times now at a rate of about 30 a day. uplink.to short URLs are resolved about 100 times a day, and this site welcomes about 10,000 unique visits per month. Cheers! uplink.to enables these applications to add a link to a Google map of where the upload occurred – eg uplink.to/0a. You can also access the URL shortener directly from any browser by just entering uplink.to as the URL, where you will also find App Store product links for if you are using an iPhone browser. uplink.to is also available as a toolbar for Snow Leopard featuring a random uplink.to button. Enjoy!

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