January 2009
12 posts
“Let me leave you with this thought for now: music and videos can be replaced...”
– Fraser Speirs – Drobo Saga: Part 2
“One upside to a prolonged recession: comment trolls won’t be able to...”
– Anonymous
Wingsuit Base Jumping on Vimeo →
Astounding basejumping footage (via Remy Sharp).
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Pet Peeves: iTunes and the App Store
Despite the stunning success that Apple has achieved with the App Store, it’s far from perfect and I’ve grown increasingly irritated by certain things when using the App Store on the desktop: most of which centre around working with applications I’ve already bought. These aren’t deal-breakers - and most people will live happily without them - but I’m not ‘most...
No wonder Sony reported a $2.9 billion loss last...
chartier:
Sony Ericsson’s new “Premier 3 Walkman” phone can copy music played into it from a CD player. Setting aside the debate of how useful this actually is from either a cultural standpoint (more people buy their music in digital form than optical media now) or functional one (who wants to copy music to a device in real time?), the phone is practically worthless for fulfilling its...
Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto... →
Felix Sockwell & iPhone icons →
Felix Sockwell runs through his designs for the New York Times iPhone app. It’s not a particularly recent post, but fascinating nonetheless.
If it isn't broken →
David Chartier:
I finally figured out what bugs me so much about Microsoft’s Songsmith, a new “Microsoft Research” project that turned into a joke the moment its ridiculous video marketing pitch hit the web.
Songsmith is the epitome of one of Microsoft’s worst problems that goes straight to its core: the software fails to solve a problem that anyone actually has in the...
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Safari and Inline PDFs
When Mac OS X Leopard finally arrived on the scene, the inline-display of PDFs without the need to install Adobe’s ghastly Acrobat Reader was one of my instant-favourite features. However, it’s not perfect.
At the day-job we provide all our documentation in PDF form right now (debate away: we’re always listening) and it never ceases to amaze me, when talking to customers, that...
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atebits blog →
I thoroughly enjoy reading the blog from Loren Brichter, developer of the mighty excellent Tweetie client. There’s a tonne of uniquely-made points about the small details that make up an iPhone app.
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Adobe UI Gripes →
I wish I could claim credit for this blog. NSFW for sure, but you can’t help but agree with it for the most part.
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Technophile - The Guardian - iWork '09 Review →
My review of Apple’s iWork ‘09 suite which appeared in last week’s print edition of The Guardian. This longer online version is about 3 times the length of the printed article.