On iPod Touch Competitors

September 3rd, 2010

Horace Dediu: The iPod touch has been around about as long as the iPhone. It was launched three months after the first iPhone 2G, almost exactly three years ago. While the iPad has been in the market less than six months, a large number of potential competitors have been launched running Android and there seems [...]

Gizmodo Re-Streaming Apple Event, in Flash

September 1st, 2010

This sure seems to be a violation of Apple’s terms: This broadcast is the property of Apple and is protected by US copyright law and international treaties. Any reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibited without prior written approval from Apple. Please contact Apple Public Relations with any questions. Oh, wait. This is Gizmodo. They don’t [...]

On Fixing Bloat-Induced Bugs

September 1st, 2010

Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman, on Delicious Library 2: So Delicious Library 2 would ship with a whole new back- and front-ends—in effect, it was like a whole new product. But Shipley didn’t stop there; instead, DL2 piled on new features, including a whole list of new product categories it could track, like video games, tools, [...]

‘I Hate You, Dell’

August 31st, 2010

Philip Berne has a meltdown.

‘All You Need is Simplenote’

August 30th, 2010

So very true, Shawn.

‘Wait Until Never’

August 29th, 2010

Dave Pell: Have I ever checked email, read incoming tweets or responded to a text message while behind the wheel of a car? Yes. I’m usually at a stoplight or stuck in motionless traffic when I actually use my phone’s virtual keyboard. That factor might make might my behavior slightly less risky, but it doesn’t [...]

Holy. Crap.

August 27th, 2010

Janie Porter at WTSP Channel 10 News in Tampa Bay: A woman in the Philadelphia area is recovering from “Blackberry thumb” surgery. The mortgage banker spends 12 hours a day texting clients on her iPhone. “I’m texted out,” she said. The constant texting put so much pressure on her hands that the tendons in her [...]

Remember The Milk Free on iPhone

August 27th, 2010

Emily Boyd: Nope, we’re not crazy… okay, maybe just a tiny bit (but shh, don’t tell anybody). From today, we’re making just about the entire iPhone app available free for everyone to use — yay! What’s the catch? We’ve introduced a limit to the free app: you’ll be able to sync manually once every 24 [...]

Simplenote 3.0

August 25th, 2010

Simplenote has become my main venue for thoughts, project notes and just about anything else text-based. This update includes tags, sharing and a great full-screen editing mode for the iPhone and iPad. New features come with APIs, so tag syncing and more should hopefully show up in apps like Notational Velocity before long. If you [...]

The Minimal Movement

August 25th, 2010

John Carey, at the wonderful fiftyfootshadows.net: I find that I sit somewhere between the ultra minimal lifestyle that many tout on their blogs and social networks and those attached to older, kitschy nostalgia. I like having old books on my bookshelf and small trinkets from my travels scattered around my living space. I like both [...]

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