Category: Links

Rob Enderle:
>Granted, there were folks who believed the iPad 2 didn’t offer enough of an improvement over the original device to justify the purchase. I didn’t agree then, but with the 4G data limitations and the file size, power, and weight issues connected to the new display, well, I simply don’t see the iPad 3 as a better tablet – just different.

[No, Rob, you didn’t agree then — instead you just thought no one would buy an iPad 2](http://www.tgdaily.com/opinion/54470-rotten-apples-is-the-tablet-ipad-bubble-breaking):

>Actually, I think they will have lines for the iPad 2, at least initially. If those first customers get excited about the device then Apple will be fine – although I’d still likely question whether anybody else will be; given no other tablet has yet to sell as well.   



Hmm.

Lastly, where’s the data to back this claim up:

>Clearly, if you are an iPad 2 user you already have the better product.

*Clearly.*

Sounds like Ravi Udeshi got screwed by a sore loser.

Fantastic app, glad to see a new version. [Be sure to check out these Applescripts to if you use OmniFocus to auto add some ticklers from Mail to OmniFocus using MailTags](http://simplicityisbliss.com/post/15179318547/top-5-omnifocus-applescripts).

Pretty nice hack if you still want to own your content, but also want a less — erm — cluttered admin and publishing system.

A nice behind the scenes look at an app that I love playing with.

I was a guest on The Bro Show this week Where Myke, Terry and I discuss iOS 6 wishes. Thanks to them for having me.

I know what you are probably thinking: “Ben why are you linking to a ceiling exhaust fan?” Because it is one hell of a ceiling exhaust fan that’s why. A couple of months ago — maybe more — I received a random message from Marco Arment that said I needed to file something away for future purchase — it was *this* fan. He said it was amazingly quiet.

So I asked my father about it — he’s a commercial contractor — and it turns out he just installed one in his house. He said the same thing Marco did: it’s amazingly quiet. The reviews on Amazon were along the same lines.

I installed one over the weekend and can say when the shower is running you can’t hear the sound of the fan over the noise from the water. In fact, I think most of the noise the fan makes is from the air rushing through it. I never thought I would write this much about a ceiling fan, but I just did, because I love it.

[Go get it](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003TJAGO4/ref=nosim&tag=brooksreview-20).

Rebecca Greenfield:
>While Apple and Google are busy getting bad press for their privacy issues, labor practices and general big-evil-company wrongdoings, Microsoft has done some brand regeneration, making it look like the hippest tech company on the block these days.

That’s the opening sentence — it only gets more stupid and pathetic from there.

Sarah Farnsworth reporting on the legal outcome of a lawsuit over the new iPad in Australia:

>Computer giant Apple has offered to refund people who bought its new iPad, which it admits is not compatible with Telstra’s 4G network.

It’s almost like a dare from Apple right? Kinda like them saying: we know you want the iPad, you know you want the iPad, so we call your bluff.

Tom Hume on skeuomorphism:
>I also find this line of reasoning supportive of my emotional response to skeuomorphs: on the desktop I find the hardback feel of the address book tacky; on a touch-screen device I find an almost-identical interface absolutely fine:

That’s a good point — skeuomorphism makes sense when it is a thing you are physically interacting with (such as on a touch screen), but seems confusing (if not stupid) on a touch-less computer screen.

Jon Mitchell:

>If we have any data we should host ourselves, it’s our personal journals. I don’t care whether it’s digital or analog, paper or plastic, but journaling is important. It’s just as narcissistic on Path as it has always been; we occasionally need to reflect on ourselves to remember what has happened to us. But our journals could never “pivot” or “exit” before. Nor could they advertise to us.

Well said.

Looks like that last “pivot” for Color didn’t work. I wonder how much money they have left at this point…

Dan Frommer traded in his 32 GB wi-fi iPad for the 64 GB LTE model — I too have been seriously considering upping to a 64 GB model from my 32 GB. Why? Frommer states it pretty well:

>I wasn’t running out of space yet on the 32 GB version, but I can see how I might.

The Macalope:

>This screen size argument is just another instance of feature chasing. Saying “Other phones have it so Apple must ship one, too!” is just admitting “I have no idea how Apple designs products.”