We’re doubling down on secret ingredients.#ApplePizzaCookRequirements — Stephen Hackett (@ismh) June 1, 2012
The 3.999-inch iPhone
May 30, 2012 By
I’m excited about the prospect of a 4-inch iPhone. Generally speaking, bigger is usually better. What I don’t want to happen, though, is for Apple to create a bigger device. I have small hands and small pockets, and I don’t want to be fumbling and toting around an aircraft carrier of a smartphone. I think [...]
MLB At Bat 12
May 28, 2012 By
Because my uncle wanted more variety in his baseball game-watching, he last month subscribed to MLB Extra Innings. It was a good move — now we have access to multiple games daily, replete with choice of broadcasters and all the out-of-market commercials. (He’s especially fond of tuning into Dodger home games with Vin Scully at [...]
Diet Coda
May 21, 2012 By
Shawn Blanc and John Gruber offer their takes on Panic’s new coding app for iPad, Diet Coda. Here’s Shawn’s take: Candidate for best iOS App Name of 2012: Diet Coda. — Shawn Blanc (@shawnblanc) May 21, 2012 And here’s Gruber’s: I’ve been beta-testing Diet Coda for a while, and it’s a hell of an app. [...]
Thoughts on The Avengers
May 20, 2012 By
After much encouragement, I went to see The Avengers yesterday. And I liked it. I’m not a comic book geek per se, but I am familiar with the Marvel universe, so I know the mythology behind the characters. The movie I saw was good — albeit probably a bit long at 2.5 hours — and [...]
The Facebook IPO
May 19, 2012 By
Charles Skoda has some interesting thoughts on Facebook’s IPO: Someone could be building something right now, in secret, that could obsolete Facebook. Software is ‘soft’ for a reason, it can change fast. Facebook could easily get overtaken by an upstart. Why do you think they’re so eager to buy out anything that resembles competition? Remember [...]
CC: Scott Forstall
May 18, 2012 By
In his piece detailing his wishes for iOS 6, Macworld’s Lex Friedman offers a great idea: Some iPhone competitors offer a clever feature for conserving battery life: They use geolocation to figure out where you are, automatically enabling and disabling the Wi-Fi antenna when you’re away from a known hotspot. When you’re home, the phone can [...]
Blogging Defined
May 17, 2012 By
Jim Dalrymple, on what blogging is: A blog isn’t about the feelings of the company, but rather a personal look at the writer. You can’t assign a blogger a story and hope the audience doesn’t get the fact that they have no idea what they’re talking about or worse yet, they don’t really care. Readers [...]
The Apple Style Guide
May 16, 2012 By
Besides this, my biggest pet peeve has to do with how people write the names of Apple’s iDevices. This drives me crazy — it’s as if no one’s ever seen how Apple prints the name on the box. To review, the correct styling of Apple’s devices appears thusly: iPod iPhone iPod Touch1 iTunes They are [...]
Tweet of the Day
May 15, 2012 By
If Yahoo were a gigolo, he’d paint a picture of a naked woman on his back, just in case it improved business. — Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) May 16, 2012
