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• Cocoa with Love: Is a virtual machine for Cocoa programming inevitable? – A very interesting article on the pros/cons of objective-C and how Apple might be planning a virtual machine that multiple languages could compile down to
• Panic Blog » Good UI – Definitely watch this video, though it takes a while to load, and also check out the comments, this is literally a new generation of usability

I hope amix will forgive me for copy/pasting his blog post wholesale, just a really nice collection of Jobsian moments.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

I was lucky — I found what I love to do early in life.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It’s very character-building.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

There’s a couple of great examples going around, this one:

and this one:

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• Scribe: SEO Copywriting Made Simple – Seems like a great SEO service that will either analyse what you paste into a form, or directly for each piece of content you create in Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal
• ipad apps – a great selection of educational apps for kids

Recommended reading

• The iPad: a Near-Miracle for My Son With Autism | BlogHer – a neat perspective on using an ipad as a learning tool for children
• 30+ iPad Apps For Designers, Developers And Creative Types | SpyreStudios – Some great suggestions for iPad apps

Recommended reading

• Ten One Designer’s Blog – This will open up some really interesting possibilities for the iPad
• Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics – it is bad news. And then it gets worse – A brave look at the real economics behind the AppStore

Check out this great article from Amir Khella where he presents video and blog tutorials showing how much mileage you can get out of Keynote to mock up iPad apps, very impressive.

Seems like a good idea

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.