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Comprehensive iPad Review
[Warning: This post is going to be a gigantic, should-really-be-paginated, oh-god-when-is-it-going-to-stop wall of text and photos. For reference: it is 2500 words and features about 20 pictures.]So I...
View ArticleTechnological Determinism
When I got a Blackberry this past summer, the reaction of my friends were split into three distinct camps. The ones who already had a Blackberry cackled evilly to themselves as they thought about how...
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Why we crave unnecessary clutter
This blog post by Steven Poole makes an impassioned argument against user interface chrome – the bits and pieces of a software’s graphic interface that are made to resemble their counterparts in real...
View ArticleHey Apple, stop hiding behind Sarbanes Oxley
I’m a bit late on this, but this is important: When FaceTime for OS X was officially released, out of beta, it cost 99 cents in the Mac App Store. Users were outraged. A common explanation of charging...
View ArticleBeyond The Walled Garden
There’s a book called “Future Stuff” that was written in 1989 that tried to make predictions about what gadgets in the year 2000 would be like, based on interviews with people who were actively...
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RIP Steve Jobs
I’m at a loss of words for what to say. Even though I had followed his health trials and knew he had been doing poorly, I didn’t expect him to pass away so soon.The word ‘visionary’ seems insufficient...
View ArticleBut I don’t want an app for that
I’m a big fan of Excel. Not just because I use it at work all day–in fact, you’d think that would make me hate it more–but because the degree of neurotic categorization and organization it offers...
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