HEIF: A First Nail in JPEG’s Coffin?

It claims a 2 to 1 increase in compression over JPEG at similar quality levels. In our tests, we’ve seen even better levels, depending on the subject of the image. By using it internally on the camera, it means storing twice as many images in the same space. People with full iPhones are weeping with […]

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What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?

A second important fact about the 1979 demo to Steve, was that he missed most of what we showed him. More than 15 years later he admits this in this interview:How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX where he says that we showed him three things but he was so blinded by […]

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Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Dickbars

Every Medium site displays an on-screen “sharing” bar that covers the actual content I want to read. This is particularly annoying on the phone, where screen real estate is most precious. Now on iOS they’ve added an “Open in App” button that literally makes the last 1-2 lines of content on screen unreadable. To me […]

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