January 2010
46 posts
Shift
The secret sauce of the iPad was completely ignored or quickly dismissed by most of the tech bloggers covering the Apple event on the 27th. It was demonstrated by Phil Schiller during his segment of the presentation. He showed fully-functioning, complete applications of iWork that were completely self-contained. When you open Pages, you’re presented with the documents you’ve created in...
Why are you so terribly disappointing? →
Our disappointment begins to curdle, to turn back on itself, poison the heart, turn us nasty and low. It shifts from merely being a national mood or general temperament, into a way of being. A wiring, deep and harmful and permanent.
A good article quickly soured by a poor user experience (holy crap I’m making his point right now). I wanted to share this article with you and I wanted to...
Fireland's Favorite Favorites 2009
fireland:
ladawn / Just once I’d like to see a realistic tampon commercial, with the actress sobbing herself to sleep with a half-chewed Snickers in her mouth.
What a good idea. You should read the rest of them.
Ad Nauseam
If I thought the build-up for the iPad was overwhelming (it was) then the next 60 days is going to be downright nauseating. For 60 days my tech blog subscriptions are going to be filled with hearsay and conjecture. So-called pundits make bold claims about whether the iPad will fail miserably or change the world. No one has a friggin clue what this is going to do once it hits the market. And, as...
Toyota Halts Sales of Most Popular Cars →
This seems like an act of genius to me. Reputation is crucial and Toyota is a respected brand. People were starting to question their reputation and wonder if they had gotten too big. By halting production, in the face of severe financial consequences, they’re reminding people how they got that reputation.
“What up man. Scott funnest call the apologize. tiVo crazy and I have my first of...”
– Voicemail message murdered by Google Voice transcribing.
Only 35 Paying Customers For Newspaper Site →
The very idea that they can go to a subscription model shows how hard it is for newspapers to let go.
Apple's Tablet: The Ultimate Red Herring
benjaminstein:
You may not realize it, but Apple has ALL the pieces of the puzzle. They just need to put them all together.
He’s probably reaching too far but at least he’s thinking outside of the lines of what we already know. Whatever happens tomorrow, it won’t just be a tablet computer with Mac OS X on it.
Apple 2010 Q1 earnings announced →
Analysts are right, Apple really needs to get into the low-end netbook market ASAP.
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WatchRescued boy flashes wide smile.
YouTube Offers No-Flash HTML5 Videos for Chrome... →
I can’t wait until I can ditch Flash entirely.
The Finger. →
Earthquake survivor says iPhone helped save his... →
And you all made fun of me for buying the US Army First Aid Manual.
G.O.P. Takes Massachusetts Senate Seat →
“I’m hoping that it gives a message to the country,” said Marlene Connolly, 73, of North Andover, a lifelong Democrat who said she cast her first vote for a Republican on Tuesday. “I think if Massachusetts puts Brown in, it’s a message of ‘that’s enough.’ Let’s stop the giveaways and let’s get jobs going.”
The possible one good thing to come from the Bush years is that it reminded people that...
Readability: The Best Bookmarklet →
Readability is my most-used and most-appreciated bookmarklet of all time. Just drag the link to your bookmarks bar and click it whenever you’re on a web page with content you want to read. Even if the site you’re visiting is well designed, Readability makes it much more enjoyable to, you know, read.
Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass →
There needs to be great design, by which I don’t mean looks (though they’re important), but how it works for the end user.
Very good read. I agree completely. I use Tumblr everyday and the Posterous account I took time to create remains dormant.
Sadistic Kitchen
I want this knife holder.
And this pen holder too.
Photo Bomb →
Pitch for Avatar Revealed →
Disney’s James Cameron’s pitch for Pocahontas Avatar.
Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make... →
marco:
Perfect. (via energyface)
Distraction Free
minimalmac:
OmmWriter is a new full screen and distraction free writing environment for the Mac. The best way I can describe it is that it is what would happen to WriteRoom if Brian Eno got a hold of it.
I wish someone made something like this for code. Especially if you could “quick view” your code in a browser window and then dismiss it.
How to choose a Vice Presidential Candidate →
“Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, ‘This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.’ Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, ‘She knows nothing,’” Heilemann told Cooper. “A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still...
France considering Google Tax to support dying... →
This sounds just like something out of Atlas Shrugged. Creepy.
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Nexus Vexes
I bought the Motorola Droid on launch day. I loved the screen, the notification bar, and the ability to run apps in the background. But I didn’t like its heft, I thought the slide out keyboard was useless and those four “soft” buttons at the bottom of the touch screen were consistently being activated when I didn’t mean to. So I took it back.
Then I tried the HTC Hero on...
I dislike airports ...
squashed:
The reason there are few attempts to blow up airplanes is not because we have successfully restricted people from blowing up airplanes. It’s because not many people want to blow up airplanes.
What’s the point of all the increasingly invasive security measures? Why isn’t there more of an outcry? Is it because we like what they symbolize?
This should piss off most Americans,...
AT&T 7.2Mbps Upgrade
AT&T announced an upgrade to their network with some hemming and hawing from the tech community. I am not educated to the wireless infrastructure and I’m sure that this isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. But I went to mobilespeedtest.com this morning on my iPhone and tested using the 1MB test and my results were almost twice as fast as earlier tests using the same 1MB version.
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Unison 2 Now Available →
Before the web, this is how a lot of internet users connected, shared tasty chili recipes, or argued about Kirk vs. Picard vs. Ninjas.
App Store Downloads Top Three Billion →
“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
I don’t see anything catching up anytime soon either....
Nokia asks ITC to ban iPhone, iPod, and MacBook... →
Translation: Nokia is very upset that Apple walked into our space and kicked the snot out of us. We may still have the market share but Apple is clearly killing us in profit-per-unit and we have no other recourse but to ask someone else to stop them because we can’t seem to do anything worth a damn to get customers to come back to Nokia.
RIAA Internal Memo →
WatchMy favorite icy-driving video.
