Archive for August, 2009
Apple censors a dictionary app
August 5th, 2009 | 
Author: This is just getting ridiculous.
John Gruber at Daringfireball.net points to the latest example of an iPhone application being stymied by Apple’s App Store approval process. In this case, it’s a dictionary app called Ninjawords (so called because ninjas are “smart, accurate, and really fast”) that was rejected three times over the course of two months, mostly because “objectionable” words could be looked up and found in the dictionary’s search function, Gruber reported.
It’s a new version of an old story, but one that almost seems like a parody of the byzantine process of getting an app past the guardians of the App store. Here’s how it went down, according to Matchstick software’s Phil Crosby, one of the developers of Ninjawords, as told to John Gruber.
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Freed journalist expresses shock, gratitude after release
BURBANK, California (CNN) — Laura Ling expressed Wednesday the shock she and her and Euna Lee felt when former President Bill Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday to secure the two journalists’ release.
“We feared at any moment that we could be sent to a hard labor camp, and then suddenly we were told we were going to a meeting,” a tearful and emotional Ling said at a news conference.
She spoke just minutes after the two women were reunited with their families at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. They had been detained in North Korea since March.
“We were taken to a location and when we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us President Bill Clinton,” Ling said. “We were shocked, but we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end.”
She expressed her own and Euna’s “deepest gratitude” to Clinton and his “wonderful, amazing” team.
U.S. journalists head home from North Korea
North Korean President Kim Jong Il earlier had pardoned and ordered the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, state-run news agency KCNA said Wednesday.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/04/nkorea.clinton/index.html
N. Korean leader reportedly pardons U.S. journalists
The announcement came after former U.S. President Clinton met with top North Korean officials in Pyongyang to appeal for their release.
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cnnbrkKim Jong Il pardons 2 U.S. journalists – http://bit.ly/PNnKi
Flickr’s new search tool puts details into focus
Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr has a new search results page that marks a subtle, but important change in the way users can find the photo they’re looking for.
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