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Prelude Someone was drunk on the App Store review team this week, or were they? Google Now landed on our iOS devices today, and it looks fantastic. Whilst I've never used the service as it currently stands on Android, I've heard nothing but good things from
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I rarely get excited about companies that decide to start new social media services. Especially ones that end up trying to replicate a lot of functionality that already exist in previously established big players. I could list many micro-blogging style services -- some with varying business models from open source,
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I have been keeping a close eye on Android since its inception. A few years ago I played around with a few different devices -- even dedicating an entire month with them as my sole phone. I never switched devices. I thought that not only was the UI/UX lacking
If you've been on App.net for a while, you owe it to yourself to try out Patter. Initially just a web app for both private and public messaging, this weekend a native iOS app was released that brings much of that functionality to your iOS device. Patter
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If you haven't noticed yet, perhaps this isn't a problem for you. The App Store in its current state contains a glut of apps with blue icons. Why do people keep choosing this colour for their app icon? All things considered, blue is probably one of
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The past week has been a busy and tumultuous one. I, like Harry Marks, have moved away from Squarespace. Over the years I've used various free blogging platforms such as Blogger, Typepad, Tumblr, Posterous, and Wordpress.com. In October of 2010, I switched to Squarespace after hearing much
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The entire Internet, or rather a relatively small — yet significant — percentage of people raised their fists to the sky when Google announced that Google Reader would be discontinued in July of this year. I don't know what the numbers were, but I can only assume the user basea
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I do love Steve Wozniak, but he really has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to Apple most of the time. He think Apple needs to stay "cool" and open up iTunes to Android and Windows Phone. Apple does not need to do
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I found a deficiency with respect to how iTunes Match works under iTunes 11 on multiple machines. I've been spending the last day or so trying to fix the mismatched meta data on many albums in my fairly large collection. Of course, this is a tedious and time
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This past weekend I decided to take a short trip to the city of Seattle. It was my first visit, and I'm not entirely sure why it has taken me so long to come here. I should have done this earlier, because man what a fantastic city it