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A fascinating article from CNN’s Mark Milian about a tour he took with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Of note is that Woz carries way too many cell phones (up to 10 sometimes), which is all forgiven by the fact that he apparently has a white iPhone 4 (jealous). Worth the time to read the entire…
A fascinating article from CNN’s Mark Milian about a tour he took with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Of note is that Woz carries way too many cell phones (up to 10 sometimes), which is all forgiven by the fact that he apparently has a white iPhone 4 (jealous). Worth the time to read the entire article.
[Updated: 12/8/10 at 12:50 PM]
Stephen Hackett reports that the white iPhone Woz has is fake. Which bums me out a bit.
Chris Foresman on how iOS is affecting devices like Sony’s PSP: That point is underscored by the fact that nearly a quarter of those that use a mobile phone exclusively for gaming have a DS or PSP but never use it. That seems pretty logical to me. For instance: before my iPhone the last mobile…
Chris Foresman on how iOS is affecting devices like Sony’s PSP:
That point is underscored by the fact that nearly a quarter of those that use a mobile phone exclusively for gaming have a DS or PSP but never use it.
That seems pretty logical to me. For instance: before my iPhone the last mobile gaming device I owned was a Sega Game Gear (that thing rocked back in the day).
Notice the Motorola branding right smack on the front of the device. Even Samsung had the good sense to not do this on the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Notice the Motorola branding right smack on the front of the device. Even Samsung had the good sense to not do this on the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
“I write in WordPress, Microsoft Word, Notepad, I don’t much care, and chasing tools is a waste of time. Shakespeare, Hemingway and Carver didn’t need much from their pre-electric and pre-web tools to write masterpieces and neither should you.” – Scott Berkun
Ian has put together an exhaustive guide on how you move from Tumblr to WordPress while keeping all of your posts and those posts’ URLs working. This looks like a simple process, but a very tedious one. I recommend though, that if you rely on your blog for anything you get off of Tumblr soon.
Ian has put together an exhaustive guide on how you move from Tumblr to WordPress while keeping all of your posts and those posts’ URLs working. This looks like a simple process, but a very tedious one. I recommend though, that if you rely on your blog for anything you get off of Tumblr soon.
I put together this quick wallpaper/background image last week for myself, thought I would share it with everyone. I am not big on decorations so it is very subtle. Enjoy.
I put together this quick wallpaper/background image last week for myself, thought I would share it with everyone. I am not big on decorations so it is very subtle.
Enjoy.
Marc A. Thiessen: WikiLeaks represents a new and unprecedented cyber threat that cannot be ignored or wished away. Just as terrorism allows small groups of individuals to wreak destruction on a scale that was once the province of nation-states, information technology allows small actors such as Julian Assange to wreak previously unimagined destruction on U.S.…
Marc A. Thiessen:
WikiLeaks represents a new and unprecedented cyber threat that cannot be ignored or wished away. Just as terrorism allows small groups of individuals to wreak destruction on a scale that was once the province of nation-states, information technology allows small actors such as Julian Assange to wreak previously unimagined destruction on U.S. national security through cyberspace. This is a threat that requires aU.S. response. Hillary Clinton is right – WikiLeaks has attacked America.
A piss-poor analysis. I don’t like Assange, and I don’t agree with the way he is conducting WikiLeaks. That said I don’t think that it should be attacked and shut down, this is freedom in its rawest form. I don’t know where I am really on this issue, but I do know that I can’t agree with Thiessen on this.
I want this, I really want this. [via Julio Ojeda-Zapata]
I want this, I really want this.
Nilay Patel: Overall, Chrome OS is very much a modern riff on the “thin client” idea from the 90s — an idea that Eric Schmidt himself pioneered while at Sun. Indeed, Schmidt took the stage at the event to explicitly draw the connection, saying that “our instincts were right 20 years ago, but we didn’t…
Nilay Patel:
Overall, Chrome OS is very much a modern riff on the “thin client” idea from the 90s — an idea that Eric Schmidt himself pioneered while at Sun. Indeed, Schmidt took the stage at the event to explicitly draw the connection, saying that “our instincts were right 20 years ago, but we didn’t have the tools or technology.” That’s a pretty wild statement — and now Google has to deliver.
I don’t get it. Can some please, in no uncertain terms, explain to me why you would want this over an iPad or Android Tablet?
Cameron Moll: While we don’t pay services such as Tumblr and Twitter in monetary means, we do pay them in usage, not to mention attention given to any revenue-generating services (i.e. ads or sponsored items). This usage and attention is what attracts the huge sums of investment dollars these kinds of companies acquire. In the…
Cameron Moll:
While we don’t pay services such as Tumblr and Twitter in monetary means, we do pay them in usage, not to mention attention given to any revenue-generating services (i.e. ads or sponsored items). This usage and attention is what attracts the huge sums of investment dollars these kinds of companies acquire. In the end, if our attention and usage cannot be “paid” to these free services, it’s likely we’ll pay them elsewhere.
A great way to look at the relationship Tumblr has with its users.
Jaroslav Stekl: Additionally, Engadget, whose editor-in-chief was sitting at the event, noticed that the tablet has no buttons at all, for better or for worse. I don’t know about the no buttons route, there needs to be at least one button that performs the action to get back to the home screen, or you could call…
Jaroslav Stekl:
Additionally, Engadget, whose editor-in-chief was sitting at the event, noticed that the tablet has no buttons at all, for better or for worse.
I don’t know about the no buttons route, there needs to be at least one button that performs the action to get back to the home screen, or you could call it ESC if you prefer.
Over the past week or so I have been getting a bunch of questions from readers asking how I am liking the MacBook Air now that I have been using it for a lot longer. ((Since Oct 26th, 2010)) It has been over a month now that I have used the MacBook Air as my…
Over the past week or so I have been getting a bunch of questions from readers asking how I am liking the MacBook Air now that I have been using it for a lot longer. ((Since Oct 26th, 2010)) It has been over a month now that I have used the MacBook Air as my primary machine, and one thing is for sure: it is the best upgrade over the MacBook Pro that I could have made. Yes, I consider it an upgrade.
With the way I use the MacBook Air the speed is a wash with my old MacBook Pro, but the hardware is immensely lighter and smaller. I use the MacBook Air more than I ever used the MacBook Pro outside of work. I like to think of the MacBook Air as everything I needed in the MacBook Pro, just in a smaller, lighter, cooler package. ((Both temperature and looks wise.)) It hasn’t failed me yet.
In case you missed it you can read my full review here.
David Karp on the Tumblr staff blog: While you might feel like you’ve gotten used to seeing errors on Tumblr recently, know that this is absolutely unacceptable to our team, and unacceptable for a platform determined to be the best place in the world for your creative expression. Might and feel are two words that…
David Karp on the Tumblr staff blog:
While you might feel like you’ve gotten used to seeing errors on Tumblr recently, know that this is absolutely unacceptable to our team, and unacceptable for a platform determined to be the best place in the world for your creative expression.
Might and feel are two words that I would not have used. Perhaps he should have phrased it: “I know we have been down a lot lately.” Don’t push off the blame on your customers, they “feel” like Tumblr has been down a lot lately because it HAS been down a lot lately.
Secondly there really is no explanation here and that is truly disappointing, dive into the details and show some transparency, because frankly your product is not good enough to give Apple explanations for problems.
If you agree reblog this post from Patrick Rhone.
This is an extension that makes Google Reader look more like Reeder, and it is mighty pretty.
This is an extension that makes Google Reader look more like Reeder, and it is mighty pretty.
From the web site: Then your life just got better: we’ve just released Appointment Reminder, a new service which makes automatic phone, text message, and email appointment reminders to your clients on your behalf. Basically it calls your clients to remind them of an appointment thus conveying to your clients that you otherwise would expect…
From the web site:
Then your life just got better: we’ve just released Appointment Reminder, a new service which makes automatic phone, text message, and email appointment reminders to your clients on your behalf.
Basically it calls your clients to remind them of an appointment thus conveying to your clients that you otherwise would expect them to not be competent enough to show without a reminder.
2010 is not over, so it bugs me that they are saying no better photos can be made before the year is out, that said these are some great shots (journalistic shots mostly). [via Coudal]
2010 is not over, so it bugs me that they are saying no better photos can be made before the year is out, that said these are some great shots (journalistic shots mostly).
Dan Sabbagh on the iPad as a newspaper savior: This is a seductive looking number – as long, that is, as people spend their time using their iPads for reading. It’s well in excess, say, of the combined average daily sale of the upmarket press – just over 2 million Monday to Saturday. But the…
Dan Sabbagh on the iPad as a newspaper savior:
This is a seductive looking number – as long, that is, as people spend their time using their iPads for reading. It’s well in excess, say, of the combined average daily sale of the upmarket press – just over 2 million Monday to Saturday. But the problem is – for those who dare take their iPad out on the way to work – is that an iPad is not newspaper with moving words. Screen Digest, again, reckon that the average owner downloads about 60 apps a year, of which all but six are free. That certainly leaves room to buy an iPad newspaper, but will it leave time to read it when there is all that other stuff to play with?
People only pay for 6 apps a year on average, how do they practice such restraint?
Stacey Armato: I then begged him to read the TSA rules I had printed out. He read the first form which stated that medical liquids can have alternate screening (no x-ray). He was quick to say “well this isn’t a medical liquid!” So I had him read the second form which says breast milk is…
Stacey Armato:
I then begged him to read the TSA rules I had printed out. He read the first form which stated that medical liquids can have alternate screening (no x-ray). He was quick to say “well this isn’t a medical liquid!” So I had him read the second form which says breast milk is to be treated like a medical liquid. He then says, “well, not today.” I started balling all over again once he said that.
This needs to stop, what ridiculous behavior.
It was funny at hour 3 for me, then I started feeling bad for its users from hours 5-10. Now though this is getting funny-sad again. Where is Marco Arment when Tumblr needs him…
It was funny at hour 3 for me, then I started feeling bad for its users from hours 5-10. Now though this is getting funny-sad again. Where is Marco Arment when Tumblr needs him…
After spending a good amount of time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab there are a few things that Android has that I wish iOS devices had. Right now I think the best mobile platform you can get is iOS, whether it be a Touch, iPad, iPhone you really can’t go wrong. I do however see…
After spending a good amount of time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab there are a few things that Android has that I wish iOS devices had. Right now I think the best mobile platform you can get is iOS, whether it be a Touch, iPad, iPhone you really can’t go wrong. I do however see some obvious things from Android that would elevate iOS to the next level.
It irks me to no end that you can’t use an iOS device as a Wi-Fi hotspot to share the web connection. Yes you can tether the iPhone via USB, but who carries an iPod cable with them? I was able to turn the tab into a sweet little hotspot that acted much like the MiFi, without having to carry the MiFi.
I don’t even care if AT&T charges me $20 a month to use this, I really don’t – just let me do it already.
A mobile hotspot is not something that many non-technical people are probably clamoring for, but I would be willing to bet that just about everyone would use it at some point. As a society we have simply become to dependent on Internet access to function at a high level, if we have Internet on our phone would it not make sense to share that with our other devices?
I am not talking about organizing icons, or changing the background. I want some sort of widgets that I can put on the home screen, it’s not for everyone, but it would be a great option to have my home screen be able to show:
Others might like it to show more, but I just want to be able to search right away, that extra swipe is annoying. The grid layout of App icons is nice, but real time info without having to open an app is so essential that I am constantly irritated by the lack of it on the iOS home screens.
I don’t want Swype on iOS, I think it is silly – I do want developers to be able to hack the keyboard so that you can set custom layouts across the OS. That would be sweet. If I could get the keyboard that is used in Writer in Mail I would be one happy camper.
There are so many people out there that have mocked up variants of iOS keyboards, especially for the iPad and I would love to be able to try some of them out. Having to go to the ‘third’ layer of keyboards just to get to the “>” keys is very annoying.
I highly doubt Apple will ever allow this though, so I am going to stop before I get too excited about the possibilities.
Oh man are notifications bad in iOS. What is really bad though are the meaningless icon badges that apps use. Gee thanks Twitter, but does that mean I have 2 new mentions, tweets, or DMs to read – oh and on which account? For the record Androids implementation sucks too. I have not tried WebOS’s but I hear it is nice, though it may be dead. ((Prove me wrong HP.))
I say do away with all icon badges, and work on a system wide notification system that is informational to use, otherwise whats the point of notifying me? The push notification system sucks to, no way of dismissing the message when the screen is locked without getting sent straight to the App. Also have you ever had more than one of these pop-up because that is just the most helpful thing ever, isn’t it?
Ok iOS does a better job managing RAM than Android, but Android does a better job letting apps do stuff in the background. I want the best of both worlds, and I need it today.
I love OmniFocus because it has OTA sync, what I don’t love is that if I don’t open OmniFocus on my iPad or iPhone after I ‘finish’ tasks a reminder will still pop up. I would love for it to be able to sync in the background at regular intervals (perhaps in the future push syncing). In fact I would love that for Instapaper and plenty of other apps too.
I think many people would like that.
Android is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, iOS is better but still not perfect. We can only hope that Apple is working on bringing over the strengths in Android/WebOS/Windows Phone 7 to make iOS that much better.