I have written about Apple’s support prowess in the past a few times, but still it impresses me in a way that no other company seems capable of. For the past couple of months I have been suffering from some… Read More ›
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To effect this, he outlined specific steps to “make political advertising more transparent.” Facebook will soon require that all political ads disclose “which page” paid for them (“I’m Epic Fail Memes, and I approve this message”) and ensure that every… Read More ›
Feeling down? Don’t go to Facebook
I was speaking to someone this week about Facebook and she mentioned that she has stopped using it completely. She explained that every time she visited she ended up coming away from it feeling down and generally annoyed at people… Read More ›
Infamous Techflops
Costing $900 ($1,350 today), the Sony Glasstron was a head-mounted display which promised to replicate “the viewing experience of a 52-inch TV at 6.5 feet.” Inside were twin 0.55-inch LCD screens, each one boasting a resolution of 180,000 pixels. Slap… Read More ›
Design is about the juggling of various often competing constraints
“Once upon a time, Apple could do little wrong.” I wonder when that was? Having just read about the design and launch of the Mac – not enough memory, no cursor keys, etc – it wasn’t then. Or how about… Read More ›
How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
After he finished watching the video, Brown called the police chief, Craig Kingsbury, to get more information about the case. Kingsbury said that he couldn’t discuss it and that the police reports were sealed because minors were involved. Brown made… Read More ›
I can wear an Apple Watch… for about 5 minutes
I keep putting my Apple Watch back on my wrist for various freelance projects and am trying to live with it for longer than a few minutes, but I am failing every time. It is obviously an impressive piece of… Read More ›
iPhone 8 “Are you insane?!?” and The Red Dot
I have been flip flopping around the iPhone 8 for a little while and after spending some time with it, not much was needed, I came to the conclusion that 99% of people should avoid it. While inspecting the iPhone… Read More ›
Children under fire
She faced forward and punched the gas, pushing the speedometer past 100 mph. Hill veered off an exit, stopped and leapt out of the car. She rushed to the other side and unbuckled her son, then wrapped him in both… Read More ›
farewell 32-bit iOS apps…
Well, we knew this day was coming… with the release of iOS11, Apple is dropping support for 32-bit apps. I can’t blame them, entirely – eventually a company should probably decide to drop the technical weight of supporting everything forever…. Read More ›
