The way I see it, the iPhone 4, 14 months after its release is still the best smartphone on the market, as far as overall design is concerned. It’s incredibly hard to imagine how Apple could drastically improve on its current design in any meaningful way. The requisite improvements
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For as long as I can remember, I have been an audiophile. I believe my obsession with audio quality started a couple years into learning how to play the electric guitar; about 18 years ago. Up until last month, I was still purchasing CDs from a local small shop specializing
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What if we got rid of our iMacs and MacBooks as we know them? Imagine a future in which your primary computing device is an iPad. For advanced tasks, when you are connected via your home WiFi, you could tap an app on your iPad and simply swipe and move
There’s no doubt that Android has been a success as far as pure activation of handsets is concerned. There’s one major stumbling block among the plethora of device manufacturers that I see, and that is how they can differentiate between competitive devices running the same OS. This is
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I was fortunate enough to recently speak with Harry Marks, author of curiousrat.com — a technology weblog. We discussed topics relating to writing, in addition to many geeky things about Apple, how he uses technology in his day-to-day life and what his productivity workflow looks like. I interviewed Harry via
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Lion has been out for nearly a month now, and like many of you, I upgraded immediately on release day. There has been much discussion and consternation over some of the new UI/UX conventions introduced in 10.7, which have borrowed heavily from its iOS counterpart. There are many
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Back in July, Jon Bell wrote an excellent piece on why capacitive touch buttons are generally a bad idea--I tend to agree with his statements on this as well. I recently wrote about my experience with Android in exhaustive detail, and I had similar frustrations with the capacitive touch buttons
Inspiration for topics that I want to write about usually come from an article I’ve read on someone else’s weblog, or perhaps a news source. A secondary factor may be Twitter, which seems odd, but it works. Sometimes an idea sparks and I like to start gathering my
I have finally jumped on the bandwagon and joined Google plus, and there are a lot of things to like so far. It got me thinking though, other than addressing some of the major gripes I have with Facebook and Twitter, what other reason do I have for switching hard
Staying informed about both past and current technology is not only a point of interest of mine, but it's incumbent upon me to do so, considering the field of work I'm in. If you have been reading Zero Distraction for a while, you know this weblog
Trying to digest this weeks announcements from Apple's WWDC event seems about as easy as digesting a KFC Double Down sandwich. In other words, you're better off command quitting your RSS reader for the remainder of the week. Every single weblog and major Mac publication has
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Alexia Tsotsis writing for Techcrunch: According to multiple sources, Twitter is on the verge of announcing its own built in Twitpic competitor. Like tomorrow, if things go according to plan (naturally this post might change that). This doesn’t come at all as a surprise to me, and I doubt