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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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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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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.

First impressions of the display after installing the WordPress plugin are that it increases the loading-time but seems to play safe with most browsers on the mac and the PC however the implementation and display is [

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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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New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your ‘precise, real-time location’

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:25:47 +0000

iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you “agree” to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is “collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you.” Of course, AOL thought that the search data it released was anonymous and didn’t personally identify people, either. They were wrong.

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MG Siegler on iPhone 4

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:00:40 +0000

MG Siegler:

The Mac vs. PC debate has often found people using a car analogy to explain things. I keep coming back to that when thinking about iPhone vs. Android. For a long time, iPhone felt like a Lexus while Android was more like a Kia. With recent upgrades, Android has transformed into more of a Honda. But with iPhone 4, the iPhone is now an Aston Martin […].

But the crazy thing is that the iPhone is an Aston Martin with a Honda-price. Meanwhile, Android remains a Honda at a Honda-price — it’s a good deal, but [

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How Apple Tricks You … says some twonk

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:45:05 +0000

OK ALREADY! I am an Apple zealot of more years standing than I want to accept or admit and I am seditious enough and ready enough to get pissed off by the claims of any snake-oil salesman … but I really don’t think Apple has short-changed ME, ever! It seems to ME if that if I am ready to publish this then I must have weighed up a whole trug of stuff … and that’s all I want to say about that.

“Steve Jobs has already been busted for exaggerating the resolution of a new iPhone screen the Apple CEO [

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