At first glance I like many others scoffed at the new display in the iPad 3 but after seeing it for myself and watching keynote I have compiled a set of tips to make sure your website looks great on the new iPad.

Tip1: Use the media tag in conjunction with your images
Explanation: Just like icon designers make different size icons so that they look great on any screen resolution you need to make different images for different PPI's You don't want to link to a high-res 2MB image for your shopping cart when you don't have to.

Tip2: Don't use text in your images
Explanation: With the advent of webfonts and CSS positioning there is no reason to have text in your images. By using text in your images you risk anti-aliasing and pixilation in all the wrong places, a font is vector based and gets rendered by the browser at runtime which means you'll take advantage of every pixels the new iPad has.

Tip3: Remember the 50' UI
Explanation: Remember that with 2048-by-1536 screen real estate you have a lot of room to bring your design to fruition. But with that your user has a lot of information to have to perceive. Make use of the white-space your given, spread things out, make them bigger, don't be afraid to use 16pt font in a list of items. I know we have all been stuck at 1024X768 forever now. Use that media tag and break free.

Tip4: Remember the call to action
Explanation: With all that new screen real estate you might get carried away with big images and lots of white space but don't forget your call to action. It should be upfront and clear.

Tip5: Make your website look like an app
Explanation: With HTML5 there is no reason your website cant function like an app. In fact many of the native apps on IOS are just HTML5 extensions of the companies website. Safari is one of the most HTML5 compliant browsers according to: http://findmebyip.com/litmus

Tip6: Use a CDN
Explanation: How do you think you are going to deliver those huge images and jquery libraries across america much less across the pond? What about to China? I recently did speed test across to Beijing and had over 200ms/packet latency can you imagine having HTML5 video or ajax updates stream across that? Seriously if you might even potentially have international customers get some Amazon S3/EC2 or Azure hosting, put your videos on +Vimeo (They have HTML5 video streaming) and get closer to your customers.

I hope you find the above useful
David Bates

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I just saw a local newscast that was warning people that during a storm the most dangerous part was the wind.
The stat quoted for this was that in 20 years 7 people had died in Georgia and North Carolina from fallen trees.

Now I don't know about you but that seams awful low. They presented the facts but used fonts, colors, and hype to twist the facts into a good way to keep you indoors and watching tv.

Meh
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This is what I do know:
1. Anytime you try to mess with the audio of a Kinect device during a remote desktop session it fails with a null reference error.
2. Direct access methods (monitor/keyboard) don't have this issue.
3. it is bugging the hell out of me.

To correct this make sure you do a try on any Kinect Audio functions if there is even a remote possibility your user's will use remote desktop.

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Well you wanted actual pictures and while I refrained from blogging about it (I stick to technical hacky stuff) my mother-in-law sure took lots of pictures and blogs about it (since it is her husband doing the work )
Here is her blog were you can keep up with the remodel: Merry Heart Crafts
They finished what we contracted them for on Friday. All we have to do now is get the painter to come out (My sister) and finish it up.

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He is a vietnam war vet and he wears his army jacket every-were, He sleeps with a quilt that looks like the american flag and say's a prayer over every meal. He is a true american in my eyes. I can only wish to be as patriotic as he is.

He said after the commercial, that is why you buy from american companies. They have a genuine interest in the success of our country. They share our successes and our failures and we theirs.

If you think about the history of Daimler Chrysler you can notice a pattern.

Buy American, or American Made.
David Bates – Owner of a PT Cruiser deemed the most unique car in america that is now worth as much as my computer system

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10 years ago people feared robots, artificial intelligence, and in general automation. If you think about it when robotic assembly lines were first introduced thousands of American’s lost their jobs to these machines. They didn’t like them. The machines could work for hours without a break, they didn’t have a union, and basically were seen as slave workers who performed the same jobs that the American’s did but did it cheaper, faster, and better than any human could.

This was seen as magic to many people, in fact, I remember talking to an ex-miner whose job was replaced by an automatic excavator. He described the machine as though it was a beast. Without heart, not needing rest… relentlessly gnawing at the dirt he said.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from MAGIC.
– Arthur C. Clarke

These average workers didn’t understand that the machines made their lives easier; they didn’t want to train on how to use or repair them. They were happy doing the labor that they had been doing. Working for an honest pay. Hollywood saw this and decided to take advantage of it.

Movies like Terminator and War Games they showcased to the general public how bad computers could be. Even though it was all science fiction it still hit at a time when people could relate to it.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
–Omar N. Bradley

Now fast forward to 2002 when the world got it’s first look at the Roomba. A household robot that actually helped make lives easier for people. Just about everyone had a computer. Artificial intelligence was only heard about from brainiacs and skynet was the Internet. Hollywood still was trying to push out a new Terminator or Battlestar Galactica and there were still holdouts that had either retired or were going to school to retrain on how to use computers. America had come out of a labor country and into a new age where everyone had jobs that required more brainpower and less brute force. Robots are seen as helpers not the evil overlords / magical beast we thought they were.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
–Theodor Adorno

Now fast forward to the present. Technology and robotics are accepted. We have more illegal immigrants doing the “hard labor” jobs in this country than we have American’s and high school students are graduating with an associate’s degree. We are in debt up to our eyeballs and the average entrepreneur has to take out a huge loan to get a business of the ground because of the level and cost of technology involved in everyday life.

However, we now mass-produce everything the same across a thousand units. We work in micrometers for accuracy in machining and yet anything hand-made is deemed to be better quality. Machines help us in every way from vending machines to arthroscopic surgeries.

Social Media brings the internet to the last few holdouts and we are now living in a time deemed the “Internet of Things” or as the Terminator crowd would put it “SkyNet”… but hey computers are dumb, they require an operator, right? We are reaching a time when every segment of technology is advancing faster and faster because everyone has a basic knowledge set and can speak the same language and if they can’t they at least know how to use “the Google”.

So with everyone knowing about robots, computers, programming, and sharing information the next phase is the DIY (Do It YourSelf) phase. Robot parts are cheap; you can buy a kit, or build it from scratch. The latest innovations are no longer coming from corporations or investors but rather 15-30yr old’s who just built something cool and want to share it with the world. Anybody today can be an inventor. Robots are seen as essential and robotic innovation is seen as a personal challenge.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
–Marshall McLuhan

Movies like WALL-E and Real Steal make robots emotional and cause us to be come attached. I would not be surprised if sometime before I die I have a Rosie the robot (Jetson’s) in my kitchen cooking breakfast, reminding me to brush my teeth, and kissing me on the cheek before I leave the house.

Just a random thought
David Bates

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1. +Google+ to Twitter: Takes the short title of the post and the url and post to Twitter.
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2. +Google+ to FaceBook: Shares the URL of the post (FaceBook will auto-generate the title and description) with the comment "My Latest G+ Post:")
http://ifttt.com/recipes/19024

3. +Google+ to Linked In: Shares the URL of the post (Linked In will auto-generate the title and description) with the comment "My Latest G+ Post:")
http://ifttt.com/recipes/19023

4. +Google+ to WordPress Blog: Shares the full content of the G+ post with the tag "iftttb" in the body of a post on the blog (with pictures) You should edit the post in wordpress to your satisfaction.
http://ifttt.com/recipes/19025
I hope you find these useful.
David

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