When I first started writing this weblog just a couple of years ago, I didn't have any foresight to think about where it would take me. I started writing, for what I believe were the right reasons, to share my own unique voice on intensely nerdy subjects relating
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Something has been lingering on my mind lately regarding some pertinent issues involving Twitter and how they treat their developer community. They’ve been on a trend lately of buying out popular third party clients that access their API, for better or worse. Naturally, this has created some feelings of
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It's amazing how in such a short period of time, a stellar Twitter client can go from the gold standard of all apps to something completely and utterly reviled. I know many other geeks, who like myself owned Loren Brichter's Tweetie iOS app from version 1.
I have a mid-2010 15 inch MacBook Pro which has been experiencing some odd stability issues lately, and the only thing I can think of that may be a factor is the latest OS update from Apple. Fully understanding that correlation does not necessarily equal causation, I'm not
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How do you define design and user experience obsession? I'd say an excellent indication would be if you spend hours and sometimes days toiling over what seems to be insignificant (to some) very small details. This is exactly what I have been obsessing over for the past week.
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With the original introduction of FaceTime, there seemed to be an overwhelming amount of vitriol over the fact that Apple wasn't supporting video calls over 3G. Of course there were other third party solutions at the time, like Fring which did support video over 3G. More recently though,
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It looks like my suspicions/hopes were correct that Apple did have plans to create some sort of iOS-like app uninstall process in OS X 10.7. Last month one of the things I discussed in great length was the much needed app uninstall process that would make things much
It occurred to me today that many us that own iPhones and iPads have many apps installed on our devices, in addition to the stock ones provided to us by Apple. As we swipe from home screen to home screen, each littered with those distinctly recognizable icons, the dock (the
Its been another day where the media has totally overblown the recent discovery that iPhones record and store location data (woah big surprise there). Evidently when you connect your iPhone to iTunes and sync, once a backup is made there is a database file that contains a record of all
Since todays announcement of Apple filing a lawsuit against Samsung over their Galaxy line of tablets and smartphones, I wonder how Samsung is really feeling about this. It seems incumbent upon Samsung to really try something new and interesting when it comes to how they approach their hardware design. It&
I would think most Mac geeks (presumably people reading this weblog) already know how frustrating iTunes is to use. It's one of those pieces of software in OS X that seems to be coated with thick veneer of UI, but has the underpinnings of a beat up old
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One of the greatest things about being a geek is that we tend to search for the most creative tools to do a particular job. One thing that I've wanted to figure out is the quickest way to send a link from my Mac to my iPhone and