Category Archives: Apple

Android vs iPhone: whats with all the hand-wringing?

The last week or so has been very interesting across the many technology blogs that I follow.  Ever since the Google IO conference and the announcement of Android 2.2 the amount of hand-wringing going on over on the iPhone side … Continue reading

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Cedric Beust is Bust

Cedric Beust posts something incredibly lame on his weblog about the iPhone.   It gets picked up by John Gruber and posted at Daring Fireball.   Cedric’s website is now bust. Not surprising given how ridiculous his post about the … Continue reading

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RTM and Appigo go at it over RTM API access

Well well.  It would appear that the folks at Remember the Milk and Appigo are in a bit of a dust-up over the Appigo iPhone/iPad app Todo. Just a quick piece of information to make the story clear: the Todo … Continue reading

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Trying MarsEdit 3.0

I’ve been trying various native applications for both Mac and Windows for a year or so now as editors for this blog. I stil think the king of blog editors is Windows Live Writer.  It is a fantastic application but … Continue reading

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The iPad – One Month On

I didn’t want to write about my experience using the iPad too soon because I really wanted to give a bit of time to see how it would fit into my daily routine. I also didn’t see the point in … Continue reading

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Thoughts on “Thoughts on Flash”

Steve Jobs posted a nice letter on the Apple website addressing the issue of Flash on Apple devices..namely the iPhone and iPad.   I would not be sad to see Flash go the way of the Dodo personally but I … Continue reading

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Inappropriate Use of Metaphor

I’ve been reading quite a bit the last week on my iPad using both the Kindle reader app from Amazon as well as the iBook app from Apple and one thing has struck me as very odd: the page turn … Continue reading

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iPhone on Verizon? Uh…don’t think so.

Until Verizon solves the problem of not being able to do 3G data and voice at the same time I really don’t care about being able to use an iPhone on their network.  Of course there are people out there … Continue reading

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iPad on it’s way…

Fanbo(i)(y) or not I ordered it today.  Can’t wait to get my hands on the thing.

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Gruber On: the Office 2011 for Mac “Save” Button

Over at Daring Fireball Gruber notes: Icon for the Save button is still a floppy disk, despite the fact that Apple hasn’t sold a machine with a floppy drive for a decade. So what do you suggest they put there … Continue reading

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