February 2012
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Not Quite One Million Moms whines about gay... →
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The Joy of Tech: iPad 3 Facts! →
“iPad 3 includes a night light, because the dark is afraid of iPad 3”.
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Skype beta for Windows Phone arrives, showing the... →
While Windows Phone 7 gained some basic multitasking features in 7.5, VoIP wasn’t on the menu. If you switch away from a Skype call on the current crop of Windows Phone 7… phones, your call gets cut off.
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A Show with Ze Frank by Ze Frank — Kickstarter →
Kickstarter is probably one of the top ten best things to come out of the internet—which means that the next post-SOPA bill from the MPAA will probably include a couple lines about nuking it from orbit.
Bonus Points: I love that you can pledge $69, but you won’t get much for it.
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No Company Follows Apple’s Factory Audits -... →
Adam Satariano:
Apple said on Feb. 14 the Fair Labor Association had started independent audits amid criticism of conditions at its plants in China. Companies including Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Dell Inc. (DELL), Hewlett-Packard Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. rely on their own evaluations, based in part on guidelines from the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, which they say are...
mayppong asked: What happened to your onefps page? I thought I was following you on there and then it disappeared and then I just found out about this page.
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NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right » Pressthink →
Jay Rosen on the revamp NPR did to its journalism ethics guidelines:
With these words, NPR commits itself as an organization to avoid the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth,” which as we know is not always...
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“It might sound strange to use the verb “Love” in the title of a rant. But here...”
– Rant: I Love Photography | Wired.com
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AIM unwraps new version, still doesn't let users...
AOL introduced a new beta of AIM three months ago with a new design across web, desktop, and mobile apps, as well as the option to start logging your chats like Gmail and Google Talk, so they could remain online and pervasive across devices.
The big problem is that the company couldn’t be bothered to give users a way to shut it off, and I’ve been banging this drum since last month....
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MATTER, a tech journalism project — Kickstarter →
I just backed this. Sounds interesting:
The web is the future of journalism, but let’s be honest: the future isn’t living up to expectations. Newspapers and magazines have cut back on in-depth reporting. Gossip sites have proliferated. The web has become a byword for fast and cheap. Why isn’t it synonymous with fearless, investigative and enthralling writing?
We think it can be.
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Things Cloud Public Beta - Cultured Code →
Things fell behind, way behind, when it comes to multi-device task management with a simple, convenient way to sync tasks. Cultured Code announced its plans for cloud sync between Mac, iPhone, and iPad over a year ago and started a small private beta last August. Then it essentially fell off the map.
In that time, a number of new competitors like Wunderlist debuted with cloud sync baked in, and...
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T-Mobile cites the iPhone 4S for 'significant... →
T-Mobile has released its Q4 2011 earnings. Overall revenue dropped slightly, but contract deactivations rocketed up to 802,000 (from 186,000 in Q3 2011). The reason?
However, not carrying the iPhone led to a significant increase in contract deactivations in the fourth quarter of 2011.
So the iPhone 4S is a dud that sold more than twice the units in its opening weekend than the...
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Apple has once again extended the Mac App Store... →
Not surprising. Sandboxing is a big deal and, I believe, a good thing for customers in the long run. But it’s a giant pain in the butt right now because it requires many developers to rewrite important code or, in some cases, remove features entirely to get into the Mac App Store.
Apple’s original deadline for apps in the Mac App Store to adopt sandboxing was November 2011. It pushed...
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Why Mountain Lion could blunt Android’s momentum —... →
Kevin C. Tofel—an Android user and cross-platformer at heart—sees a lot of value in Apple’s approach of unifying as many of its software experiences as possible between OS X and iOS.
Simplify the tools and make users feel at home on every device, and they’ll spend more time using your products and buying apps and accessories to tweak for their needs.
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Red Sweater Blog – Fix The Sandbox →
More smartness, and an apt analogy for the common user, about OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, sandboxing, and Gatekeeper from Daniel Jalkut:
Simply establishing the identities of software developers is a major step for increasing security, because bad actors can either be immediately shut down, or at least prevented from further propagating on the platform. If “Hawt Dawg Industries” is discovered to...
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Friendly reminder: a ton of Netflix content... →
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Google Didn't "Track" iPhones, But It Did Bypass... →
Long story short: the Wall Street Journal’s headline was a little sensationalized (welcome to 21st century journalism), but Google is still doing something pretty bad here and possibly violating its privacy agreement with the FTC.
I’m never a fan of sensationalism, especially in an industry with the founding purpose of dissolving bullshit and disseminating real information in the...
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The PA Report - Making the Cut: our plan for... →
Ben Kuchera is one of my favorite and most inspiring writers, and not just in the gaming industry. He recently left the most excellent Ars Technica to do more great stuff at Penny Arcade, like this:
We won’t be blogging about these stories nor giving away all the information with a small link at the bottom. Instead, we’re going to give you the name of the writer, the name of the outlet, and...
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“Give us convenient content at a reasonable price, and we’ll buy it. Sell the...”
– The Piracy Threshold - Matt Gemmell
Stop treating people like shit and they’ll give you money. It cannot get any simpler than this.
via The Loop
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Panic Blog » About Gatekeeper →
Steven Frank is a developer at Panic, one of the most widely regarded Mac software shops. He’s also been one of the most outspoken critics in the developer community of Apple’s moves in recent years to lock down devices in the name of protecting user privacy and security. So how does he feel about Gatekeeper, one of Mountain Lion’s most important yet understated features that...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion vs. Real Mountain Lion -... →
Most telling comparison: Notifications.
“Notification Center shows on-screen pop-ups every time you receive an email, instant message, friend request, calendar alert, etc.”
“Mountain lions will not notify you before they pop-up and eat your face.”
via Peter Cohen
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Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser... →
Jennifer Valentino-Devries:
Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.
The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing...
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Two Become One: How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps... →
Future, a major UK publisher, is rethinking its print magazine layout and design by incorporating the tablet iPad version at the core of the process.
Robert Andrews:
As publishers extend their print titles to iPad, they can choose either to repurpose the paper originals, which can seem lazy and ill-suited to the touch screen, or to custom-produce interactive apps with a native interface in...
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Apple thinks different with Mountain Lion →
The most striking thing about Apple’s unveiling of Mountain Lion today is how differently the company played it this time. There were absolutely no rumors; not even a peep. Apple announced Mountain Lion with no event, but embraced the tech press for this unveiling in a way I haven’t seen in a long time, including one-on-one demos.
Some sites got advance developer previews days before...
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“People complain about the cost of software, then act surprised when companies...”
– Marco Tabini
This. Absolutely this. A thousand times over, this.
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Protest against Apple nothing more than a... →
Color me surprised. Jim Dalrymple:
So if these protesters are really concerned about the workers in China, why not deliver that petition to the other companies that manufacture products at Foxconn. Where is the press release saying they were going to visit HP, Dell, Microsoft and others?
I emailed the PR guy Brett Abrams yesterday and asked him that. No response.
By all accounts I can...
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“Free idea for Google: a search option to let me exclude all sites trying to sell...”
– Dan Ciskey
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Smarterbits: Breaking Away From the Bullshit →
Shadoe Huard:
Tech blogging really does seem at times like an overwhelming circle jerk, an echo chamber of people passing off anything as news, cross linking back and forth between each other and framing every product release through the prism of which company won or lost, mostly so we can gloat and point fingers at each other. Worse still, we’ve created from it some sort of meta-linkbait...
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Apple woos Amish with “Apple Store in a Barn” |... →
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How to deal with Twitter Overload, by me for... →
I wrote a thing for Macworld. There are words, even full sentences, about dealing with Twitter Overload—how to manage your Twitter account, create lists, mute chatty users, and be smart if you really do have go on an unfollow spree.
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No New Mail? Try Google+ →
A slick observation from Alex Chitu at Google Operating System on the evolution of the message that Gmail displays when you reach inbox zero.
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