The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing.
The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 but left the iOS version usable by subscribers with it already installed.
Now, however, the FT will render the iOS app unusable by its remaining users over the next month, as it completes its HTML5 migration.
Maybe this is a sign for companies looking to develop “native” apps on iPhone and Android, that HTML5 is good enough, and is more cost effective.
Full story here of course: Web journey complete, FT switching off iOS app
Google Drive just launched today. Here’s a list of free stuff related to Google Drive and resources to use with Google Drive. Promotional video for Google Drive is here.
Google Drive
- FREE STUFF with Google Drive
- 50 free fax pages / month from from HelloFax- You won’t need to run to your friends house or to Kinko’s/FedEx/UPS stores anymore to fax, free 50 faxes/month.
- Automatically encrypt files for your Google Drive - ”I’ve determined to encrypt any files I place on my Google Drive. And you can too—easily and with your new best friend, Automator.” Continue to tutorial.
- Install it on Windows, Mac OS X, Android App, and “in coming weeks,” iOS.
- Create and collaborate on visual diagrams - Lucidchart is an online visual diagramming tool integrated with Google Drive. You can start a new Lucidchart or share your diagrams with friends or coworkers straight from Drive, just like a Google document or spreadsheet.
- Edit Photos: Pixlr presents a full featured photo editor direct in your browser, no download, no wait and 100% free.
- Create PowerPoint like presentations. SlideRocket defines the new way to create stunning presentations that deliver lasting impressions and measurable results.
- Create Floor Plans – Floorplaner is the easiest way to create floor plans.
- Create wireframes and mockups with Google Drive and Balsamiq Mockups
- Edit video with Google Drive using weVideo
Not so Free
- DocuSign Integrates With Google Drive.- ”DocuSign’s latest integration helps Google Drive users eliminate the hassles, costs, and lack of security inherent in printing, faxing, scanning, and overnighting documents to collect information and get signatures.”
Developer Resources with Google Drive
- Google Drive SDK - Integrate your app with Google Drive
- Google Drive questions and talk on StackOverflow.
From EFF:
This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally released its first round of records in response to EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for information on the agency’s drone authorization program. The agency says the two lists it released include the names of all public and private entities that have applied for authorizations to fly drones domestically. These lists—which include the Certificates of Authorizations (COAs), issued to public entities like police departments, and the Special Airworthiness Certificates (SACs), issued to private drone manufacturers—show for the first time who is authorized to fly drones in the United States.
I’ve embedded this map here, showing around Boise ID
View Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations in a larger map
Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships;behappy.
which I then put at the top of the file I use as a todo
http://paulgraham.com/todo.html
