November 2009
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Dear Mashup Developers...
Today sees yet another round of some “awesome” Twitter mashup: tweet cloud that generates you a list of the words you use most in your tweets. It’s not a nefarious application by any means, but it’s yet another mashup that fails to disclose up front what it’s going to do with your user credentials.
In recent BarCamp talks on Microcopy, I’ve time-and-again used...
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“What you make people feel is just as important as what you make.”
– I’ll admit it’s a line from a BMW TV advert, but I couldn’t help but feel that it’s something that we should be striving for, whether developing software or building cars.
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“Apple’s goal isn’t to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to...”
– Jonathan Ive (via Andy Budd)
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“Have you played the Twilight drinking game?”
“No, how do you...”
– Dan Glegg, via Twitter
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The Worst Christmas Album Ever? →
In my browsing the Barenaked Ladies discography on Spotify I recently came across this abomination: Barenaked for the Holidays. It got me thinking that there must be more utterly crap Christmas albums out there, that bands would rather we didn’t discover. So, let’s see what this unearths…
If you’ve got another great example of festive crass from a band, leave it as an...
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A Thought
With Apple now using some kind of static analysis tool to analyse applications submitted for App Store review, it’s had me thinking: why not let us test with it prior to submission - or have iTunes Connect immediately analyse upon uploading a binary? With it widely commented that the first 8 days of any review are to encourage developer self-moderation and bug discovery, the notion that...
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“An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win...”
– Apple’s Mistake, via Gruber
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Buzz Andersen on Birdfeed 1.2 →
Despite the temptations of Tweetie 2, I’ve found myself coming back time-and-time again to Birdfeed for tweeting on the go. Birdfeed 1.2 is now out, and there’s a tonne of changes, most of which are listed in this post.
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“This whole notion of paying for everything with advertising is just so totally...”
– Fake Steve in a TUAW Interview
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Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse →
Chris Messina makes some great points about the proposed (and entirely deadpan-serious) OpenOfficeMouse.
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My new favourite iPhone RSS reader - Reeder →
Ever since NetNewsWire 2.0 arrived for iPhone, I’ve been exploring the alternatives. NetNewsWire isn’t a bad application, but it felt just a little too slow and lacking in Google Reader sharing options for my liking. After a much hunting - and trying of nearly a half dozen apps including Byline and Newsstand and the gReader web interface - I’ve yet to find any other reader that...
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LittleSnapper for iPhone - Now Free →
Some of you will no doubt be aware of our LittleSnapper for iPhone companion app, and today we’ve made it freely available on the App Store for a limited time. If you’re looking for a way to upload to Ember on the go, this is it.
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“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s...”
– Joe Hewitt, developer of the Facebook iPhone app. (via David Kaneda)