In my piece that I wrote yesterday, I discussed how my father’s peculiar tendency to go into the multitasking tray to kill all apps might be a bad habit from the days before protected memory operating systems, such as OS X. Alas, one of the design decisions made by
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Last year my father ditched his ancient Palm Treo for an iPhone 4. He is without a doubt pleased with it, however I noticed an odd behaviour he’s been making a habit of. Frequently he will double-tap on the home button to bring up the multitasking tray — which begins
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The last several years I’ve spent many hours signing up and trying new web services from Google. Some good — others complete shit. Google mail is one of those not shitty ones. I have gone back and forth between email hosting services before. Back in the 90s it was Hotmail
This year should be a big year for RIM. By big, I don’t mean in a good way. In order to elucidate, I’m basing my thoughts on some announcements made in Q4 2011, but also the general trend the company is headed on while we’re just a
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I read an unfortunate story the other day. A good friend of mine mentioned she was having some problems with her new Android phone. The sad part about this is that neither her wireless carrier or Samsung could be bothered to send her home with a new replacement. To give
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I only have one computer, and that’s my 15 inch MacBook Pro. It’s a 2010 model and is fully maxed out at 8GB of RAM with an 80GB SSD and i7 processor. I absolutely love this machine. Here’s the clincher though: the battery life sucks. Apple claims
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I love the idea of full-screen web apps, and it’s one of the little perks you get when using iOS. Last night I added a simple line of code that enables that for this very site. You simply add: The content=”black” part sets the status bar black, however
I don’t think there’s any doubt that Apple is rethinking how the Mac Pro fits into their product line. I give it one more major refresh before it’s discontinued. There reasons for this are vast, which include lower volume of sales and Apple’s focus on consumer
iTunes Match only recently became available to me here in Canada. Unfortunately one of the downsides to being Canadian, is that we’re always behind when it comes to receiving the latest services and content that always seem to launch first in the US. I decided to try iTunes Match
With any major new iOS release, it typically takes several weeks for my giddiness to subside. Once the initial excitement wears off, I try to ruminate on all of the changes and new features so I can determine what I like and don’t like. Although I’ve written about
I have used Skitch for many years for taking screenshots on my Mac. I never used it because I couldn’t be bothered to use the built-in screenshot capability of OS X, but because it was so easy to annotate and share images. In addition to making that process easy,
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Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson is the author of Calepin, the Dropbox powered blogging engine built off of the open-source Pelican, and also serves as interactive tech director at Icelandic agency. Over our email discourse, we discussed the recent static blogging engine craze and how it seems to be picking up steam,