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1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:54:28 +0000

Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise!

I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world.

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My First Week with the iPhone | Behind the Curtain

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:32:50 +0000

Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. The iPhone only has one thing holding it back: iTunes. Nevertheless, I have fallen in love.

When I first heard that Apple would release a touchpad cell phone with VoiceOver, the screen reading software used by Macs, I scoffed. The blind have gotten so used to lofty promises of a dream platform, only to receive [

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essency, Awareness! The Headphone App

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:14:53 +0000

Awareness! The Headphone App lets you listen to your music with complete piece of mind, knowing that important sounds (warnings, shouts, sirens, alarms or conversations) won’t be missed.

In other words, you get to hear the things you NEED, even when you’re lost in your music.

Awareness! cleverly turns the microphone on when any sound exceeds the level of everyday background noise and delivers it to your headphones or earphones.

This makes it safer to listen to music whilst travelling – driving, riding, commuting, walking, crossing the road, cycling and jogging.

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Scripting News: Ping: It’s even worse than it appeared

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:43:11 +0000

Further examination of Apple’s new social network reveals more problems.

To review from last night’s post:

1. It’s awkward, at least, that it runs in iTunes and not a web browser. There’s no Back button, no way to copy the address of a page and share it outside of iTunes. Also if it were just a website we’d be able to access it from an iPad now, not some time in the future.

2. There’s no way to Like the song you’re listening to. In other words there doesn’t seem to be any integration with the [

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Dell bombshell that won’t run long (that I missed)

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:25:54 +0000

On June 4, 2010 Michael Dell stated that he was considering taking Dell Inc. private “but would not comment when asked what would make him think about the possibility more seriously,” reported Reuters. Well, today we likely know the reasoning for that off-the-wall statement. The SEC charged Dell and senior executives with disclosure and accounting fraud yesterday and the story behind it is one hell of a bombshell!

via The Dell Tale Starts to Unravel and it’s a Bombshell – Patently Apple.

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Google vs iPhone and Facebook

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:12:30 +0000

People are boasting on Google’s behalf of their prowess in being able to catch Apple in market share. It is impressive, but not as much as you might think. Apple has never tried to lock-out their competitors, they’ve never designed their product strategies for market share. Jobs said that in a recent interview (I think it was at the D conference). Google has been able to do to Apple in mobile devices what Microsoft did to Apple in PCs, because Apple would rather control their share of the market and have a single target defined by both hardware and software [

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early adopter or flim-flam addict? Google Fonts in the wild

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:41:41 +0000

So Google Fonts is out ♥ and a WordPress plugin exists ♠ to rapidly apply them – delight! I have shown remarkable control in changing everything but only with one font, for a while. The new Safari extensions allow a Google Fonts preview extension to try them out ♣ and the list is growing fast. Installing is a cinch and the settings are simple.

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Apple vs MS-Google

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:12:22 +0000

Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.

apple profits by product

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:39:27 +0000

Apple’s brewing shitstorm

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:03:14 +0000

Apple is a company that desperately needs to grow up and wipe the smile off its face, and roll its sleeves up and start to appreciate that they’re no longer the upstart, the underdog, the Crazy One in the Richard Dreyfus ad. They are The Man, the Boss, the one who, from now on, everyone is going to be taking shots at and shits on.

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