- EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’18 May 2013, 2:51 pm
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- Bloomberg’s Lazy Apple Bias18 May 2013, 2:28 pm
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The difference between Google’s predatory rapaciousness and Microsoft’s of yore is that Microsoft wore it on their sleeve, they owned it.... - Jeffrey Zablotny on Apple’s ‘Photos Every Day’ TV Spot16 May 2013, 10:00 pm
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- → Welcome to Google Island17 May 2013, 11:01 am
Amazing. By Mat Honan. (Via John Moltz.) ∞ Permalink... - → Accidental Tech Podcast: Animated Kale17 May 2013, 10:39 am
In this week’s episode: Our theme song, too many to-do apps, Google I/O keynote reactions, localization, Google kicking Apple’s butt in services, Google Play Music All Access Glass Map Hangouts, and Apple’s quietly updated Javascript bridge. Sponsored by An Event Apart and CocoaConf. ∞ Permalink... - → The Great Google Goat Rodeo16 May 2013, 6:27 pm
By Mark Wunsch, the web developer: There is no unified Google that is “good” or “evil”. There is just an organizational clusterfuck that is unable to decide what it thinks is truly the best way to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Is that by forcing web authors into a social network in order to improve directory results? Is that by dipping a toe into the music business? Is that by abandoning standards like RSS and XMPP/Jabber? I d... - → The Android Detour16 May 2013, 12:25 am
For Google, Android was a detour from their focus on owning and dominating web services; it ensured that those services would be freely accessible in this new world of computing, including on the iPhones and iPads that were used liberally in nearly every keynote demo. And, now that Android is successful, Google is back to focusing on “the best of Google”. Speaking of John Gruber being smart, are you reading everything by Ben Thompson yet? ∞ Permalink... - → “Google Versus”16 May 2013, 12:21 am
Excellent, succinct post by John Gruber about Larry Page’s attempt to change the conversation whenever Google rips something off or crushes a market. Politicians and executives do this all the time. “Arguing about [controversial thing we did], focusing too much on [our weakness], or implementing [regulation that benefits the public but makes us less profitable] isn’t constructive and/or is holding back progress/jobs/children/America.” Among its many other similarities t... - → Sponsor: Squarespace14 May 2013, 2:44 pm
Squarespace is a beautiful and intuitive website publishing platform that allows anyone to easily create professional web pages, blogs, and galleries all in one place. Simply start with one of Squarespace’s award-winning designs, add images and content, connect your social accounts, and you’ll have a website that looks great on every device. All Squarespace accounts come with award-winning 24/7 support, as well as cloud hosting, real-time analytics, and a free domain. Whether you’re a c... - → Facebook Home design14 May 2013, 10:41 am
Ben Thompson: Design is about identifying, understanding, and ultimately feeling your end users’ needs, and then meeting those needs. Facebook Home, like countless SV startups, looked beautiful, worked elegantly, and didn’t meet any needs. I’d go a bit further and say it’s actually designed badly. Facebook Home rested on two major assumptions: Your friends put good, recognizable pictures of themselves as their profile photo. Your friends post photos so good that you’... - → Tail wagging12 May 2013, 11:17 pm
Matt Gemmell on skeuomorphism and intuitive design: Our industry isn’t young anymore, but it’s still full of fear about whether so-called non-technical people will be able to use its products. I think we’ve been trying to get to less adorned, more information-centric interfaces for quite some time, but we’re still making the same tired old arguments from the golden age of human-computer interaction, about how humans need faux three-dimensional cues about the affordances of on-screen ... - → Privacy Breach on Bloomberg’s Data Terminals11 May 2013, 11:19 am
This is a very serious problem — not only does this cross major ethical lines, but it reveals a severe lack of security at Bloomberg. Why did Bloomberg News reporters — rank-and-file employees of an entirely different division — have so much access to customer data from the financial-terminal division? Why should reporters have any access to customer information? Who else in the company needlessly has access to it? Since JPMorgan Chase reportedly had a similar issue last summ... - Free Trials and Tire Kickers10 May 2013, 1:38 pm
Time-limited trial or “demo” versions of apps have always been prohibited in the iOS App Store. Recently, discussions about trials have reignited in the circles I follow. Rene Ritchie, partially in response to my paid-app market post, wrote The market for paid apps, and the sum of all compromises a few weeks ago: Buyers want to avoid risk and expensing any more money than they have to, so they compromise on buying apps they might otherwise enjoy. Since there are no trials, absen...
- So Long Surfbits18 May 2013, 1:56 pm
When I first started thinking about putting myself out there with podcasting and blogging, one of the first people I contacted was Tim Verpoorten. Tim ran the Surfbits MacReviewCast and was always welcoming with advice, assistance, and that friendly midwestern accent. Tim's been sick for some time but that still didn't stop him from blogging and keeping in touch with his old Mac friends. Tim represents to me everything that is great about our geek community and today we lost him. So long Surfbit... - Star Wars Character Periodic Table17 May 2013, 1:19 pm
Since posting strange periodic tables seems to be one of my things, how could I resist this one? ∞Permalink... - 5by5 Interview16 May 2013, 3:30 pm
Here I am being clever with Danielle Moser.Permalink... - Absence of Paper16 May 2013, 12:39 pm
For years I carried a little paper notebook (usually Field Notes) in my pocket along with my iPhone. I don't do that much anymore. At the day job I still carry a pen and notecards in my breast pocket—which are useful for sharing—but after hours I'm no longer with paper. This shift wasn't intentional but instead a gradual thing as I became more smitten with Drafts. It just isn't that much more difficult for me to tap a quick note into Drafts and carrying less always feels better. If you are o... - Wordify for Fun15 May 2013, 12:00 pm
Over the weekend I bought a copy of Wordify from the Mac App Store. Wordify takes an existing picture and a stack of words about that picture and then outputs a PDF that recreates the picture with your words. I made one of my daughter and her cousin and I thought it came out great.The New York Times was doing something similar to this at Macworld/iWorld and people were lined up around the booth. My wife and kids are really into this.∞Permalink... - Hacking The Onion14 May 2013, 3:52 pm
I found this article about the Syrian Electronic Army hacking The Onion fascinating. They pulled it off with phishing. In particular, they embedded malicious links in friendly sounding email. Once they got a few people to bite, they used those compromised email accounts to double down and phish more employees using their friends' emails. This really makes me question the use of embedded links in email. They are so convenient but also so easy to abuse. There are some tools in Apple mail to expos... - MPU 137: Workflows with Aisha Tyler14 May 2013, 12:09 pm
This week's MPU episode is up and ready for download. In it we interview Aisha Tyler, a television and movie actress, self-made director, geek, and all around "Art Shark". This is a really fun episode. Make sure to check it out. ∞Permalink... - Automated Icon Extractor14 May 2013, 9:00 am
Ben Waldie, who is, in my opinion, probably the most savvy AppleScript author not actually working for Apple recently published a script on TUAW that automatically extracts an icon from an application. I created a similar service using scripts I learned from Sal Saghoian's AppleScript 1-2-3 book a few years ago but Ben's solution is much better. I've added it to my script menu and if you ever have need of app icons, you should too.∞Permalink... - 1Password for iOS 4.213 May 2013, 7:30 pm
Agile just released 1Password 4.2 for iOS and it is a really nice update: Better Browser Go & Fill Bookmarks are now in 1Browser on iPad. (The iPhone is coming.) Also, if 1Password sees a URL in the clipboard, it’ll prompt you to open it in the 1Password browser. Better Sharing You can share 1Password vault items (encrypted) with others. This will make things much easier between myself and MrsMacSparky. Better Search Search in iOS 1Password now searches all fields. Learn more on the A... - Mac Power Users Site Update13 May 2013, 3:00 pm
The Mac Power Users website just got a long overdue overhaul. John Chandler is the brains behind the re-design and Katie and I are both really happy with the way it came out. You can now search for old shows easier than ever.∞Permalink...
- Things Yahoo! Has Made Better »18 May 2013, 11:09 pm
Burn. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - Westboro Baptist Church Protests in Memphis »18 May 2013, 12:12 pm
“Memphis is in the United States. You’ve got this idol over here it’s huge. They’ve turned this guy into an idol. They worship and serve him more than they do the living God,” said Westboro member Shirley Phelps-Roper. Hm. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - Apple Pulls Bang with Friends »17 May 2013, 5:20 pm
I’m surprised it took this long, actually. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - Learning to Love Evernote »17 May 2013, 10:53 am
My friend Bradley Chambers has a new project out. $4.99 gets you an hour of screencasts as .mp4 files or wrapped up as an iPad-ready iBook. They’re all well done, and Bradley is a great teacher. If you’ve been Evernote-curious or want to get more out of the app, be sure to check it out. [...]⌘ Permalink... - Larry Page’s Island »17 May 2013, 10:12 am
Mat Honan: The soft, froggy voice startled me. I turned around to face an approaching figure. It was Larry Page, naked, save for a pair of eyeglasses. If you read one thing today, make it this article. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - 48 Billion and Counting »16 May 2013, 6:20 pm
Matthew Panzarino: Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the same keynote, the counter on Apple’s site ticked over to 50B App Store downloads. But there has been some question about how exactly the two companies tabulate their numbers. Turns [...]⌘ Permalink... - Dell Crumbles »16 May 2013, 5:56 pm
Reuters: Dell, the subject of a takeover battle between the activist investor Carl Icahn and the company’s billionaire founder, reported a 79 percent slide in profit as personal computer sales continued to shrink. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - J.J. Abrams Takes Audience Suggestions For Star Wars »16 May 2013, 4:52 pm
“We just don’t want to screw it up.” ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - iTunes 11.0.3 Adds new MiniPlayer Options »16 May 2013, 4:18 pm
Handsome. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - Our Grindfather »16 May 2013, 1:34 pm
Nothing pulls this city together like basketball. If you haven’t unfollowed me on Twitter because of basketball yet, things are about to get a lot worse for you. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink...
- The Dish and Reader-Supported Business Models17 May 2013, 1:00 pm
Andrew Sullivan on the current state of The Dish fundraising: I’ve even decided not to take a salary this year at all in order to invest in the Dish itself and keep it afloat. We’re still chugging along steadily in … (More)✚... - The Tools & Toys Guide to Backyard Cooking15 May 2013, 9:01 pm
I’m almost as nerdy and fussy about grilling and smoking as I am about making coffee. I’m just not as vocal about it. Well, until now… This Tools & Toys guide was written by yours truly, and it’s a doozy. … (More)✚... - On The Media: ‘Who’s Gonna Pay for This Stuff?’13 May 2013, 12:16 pm
I especially enjoyed this week’s episode of On The Media if only because it hit very close to home. The show was dedicated to “the incredible volume of media available to consumers, and the incredible difficulty of making money for … (More)✚... - Sponsor: Mad Mimi Email Marketing13 May 2013, 10:51 am
Mad Mimi is a design-oriented email newsletter service founded in 2008. Developed to provide a mobile-app-like feel, and with a drag-and-drop email composer, Mad Mimi offers a simple, elegant user experience that helps customers create, send, and track beautiful html … (More)✚... - The New OIympus E-P510 May 2013, 2:53 pm
Olympus just announced their new camera today, the E-P5, and Ming Thein has a nice hands-on preview post about it with some sample shots from the camera. I love Thein’s concluding sentence: I’m personally very glad that I’m not entering … (More)✚... - iOS 7 Wishes8 May 2013, 4:20 pm
Federico Viticci’s got a killer list of ideas and wishes. ✚✚... - The iOS 7 Power User Challenge8 May 2013, 3:55 pm
Fraser Speirs on some of the frustration points getting in the way of making our iPhones and iPads a bit more “power-user friendly”. As someone who uses his iPad as his “laptop”, I too encounter many of these frustrations on … (More)✚... - The Top 5 Worst Passwords From the Star Trek Universe8 May 2013, 2:28 pm
Here’s your daily dose of nerdery. ✚✚... - There Will Be No Adobe Creative Suite 76 May 2013, 1:56 pm
Harrison Weber: Adobe is abandoning its Creative Suite entirely to focus efforts on Creative Cloud. CS6 will still be available for sale, but otherwise if you want the newest software it’ll only be available through subscription. $50/month for the whole … (More)✚... - Dropzone6 May 2013, 12:14 pm
Dropzone is a pretty rad Mac utility that lets you upload files to your FTP server, Amazon S3, Flickr account, and other places via drag-and-drop targets. Per Stephen Hackett’s recommendation, I gave the app a trial a while back but … (More)✚...
- ‘I Hate Dogs’10 May 2013, 1:06 pm
Farhad Manjoo on the maddening issue of dogs being fucking everywhere in the U.S.: But here’s my problem: There’s now a cultural assumption that everyone must love dogs. Dog owners are rarely forced to reckon with the idea that there are people who aren’t enthralled by their furry friends, and that taking their dogs everywhere might not be completely pleasant for these folks. I find people who brings dogs everywhere with them — including into [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a... - Quote of the Day: Jim Ray10 May 2013, 1:01 pm
“Ultimately, though, these amount to little more than brave tales of how the 1% become the 0.1%.” — Jim Ray This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.... - Paragraphs10 May 2013, 12:54 pm
There’s a new blogging app out, well actually a new blogging platform, called Paragraphs. I wrote up some thoughts about it and naturally published it on its own platform. This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.... - Kit & Kiya9 May 2013, 5:38 pm
Kirsten Ostgard, a friend (well friend of my Wife) has started an Indiegogo campaign for a children’s Web/TV show called Kit & Kiya. I’ve known Kirsten for a while now and I can say that her passion for children, and children’s film in particular has been with her the entire time I have known her. She’s a great person whom I think will succeed in children’s programming. She is only trying to raise $1,500 to [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Re... - Is it a beach ball, or a pinwheel?9 May 2013, 5:33 pm
Help me out: This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.... - ‘Social’9 May 2013, 2:41 pm
Really great post from Cliff Watson (on Medium) about how and why kids are using social networking differently than adults: For those of us out of school, Facebook is a place to see the accomplishments of our friends and acquaintances we’ve made over years and decades. We watch their lives: babies, job promotions, vacations, relationships, break-ups, new hair colors, ad nauseum. For kids who still go to school, Facebook is boring. If one of their [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a B... - W3 Total Failure8 May 2013, 12:08 pm
When I first started with WordPress, I knew one thing to be true: I needed caching. A WordPress site without caching is a site waiting to go down. Even with a fast, powerful server you’re better off caching WordPress, which as anyone who has tried will tell you, is a black-art. Not a black-art in the “bullshit SEO” sense, but in the sense that few people know how to do it effectively. Initially I chose [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay a... - ‘Please Don’t Buy an SLR if You’ll Only Use the Kit Lens’7 May 2013, 5:46 pm
Marco Arment on SLRs: A decent consumer SLR body, usually $600–900, is a big investment for most people. But if you can’t also afford to buy at least one good lens with it, you’ll get better photos by going with a less expensive kit, such as a high-end point-and-shoot or an entry-level mirrorless setup. I’ll second Marco here, with the caveat that you really can take a great photo with any lens or camera. BUT [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remov... - The Deciders7 May 2013, 10:52 am
This is a fantastic article from Jeffrey Rosen at The New Republic. The article details one of the toughest problems with running a service — a service which allows users to upload content — the problem is: when, and what, content to take down. The implications of being too aggressive are huge for the general openness of the internet while the implications of doing nothing could also be disastrous — and these are take down [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member ... - Limitless Surveillance6 May 2013, 1:58 pm
Glenn Greenwald reporting: Let’s repeat that last part: “no digital communication is secure”, by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications – meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like – are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, lim...
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