Over on the 37signals blog, David makes the argument that the App Store review process doesn’t actually serve to improve the overall quality of the apps posted to the store.
iPhone vs. Mac app quality
If you compare a typical Mac app with a typical iPhone app, you’d probably have to agree with David. I’ve experienced far [...]
From my day job: equinux has written about some of our Macworld experiences over the years and how we made the decision not to go back this year. It’s a good look behind-the-scenes at Macworld and worth reading if you’ve been or plan on going.
equinux blog: Goodbye Macworld
There’s a lot of speculation at the moment regarding some unanswered iPad questions:
Why doesn’t it seem to have the Weather, Stocks, Clock or Voice Memo apps?
Why is there space for a camera?
-insert latest techcrunch rumour here-
For what it’s worth, I believe it’s entirely possible Apple might be holding back certain features so there’s something [...]
For the first time ever, the iPad gives developers the chance to design desktop-class applications for a multi-touch based user interface.
Here are 3 Mac applications with user interfaces that I think would work really well on the iPad:
1. Times
This fantastic RSS reader is already multi-touch aware and is a dream to use on MacBooks with [...]
iTunes made it easy for everyone and their mother to finally join the digital music revolution. Ripping music CDs is straightforward and fairly easy to do, as is buying music via the iTunes Store.
But I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve showed friends and relatives how to import their audiobook / spoken word CDs [...]
Designreviver has a nice list of 20 Beautiful Mac apps that is worth checking out. There are only a few picks I disagree with:
Pixelmator’s black icons on a HUD window background have always bothered me and seem like a bad UI choice
iStatmenus is pretty, but never feels very Mac-like
TuneUp is the antithesis of a beautiful [...]
It’s that time of year again! If you’re still looking for the perfect gift, these gadgets and gifts are sure to be a hit. So read on for some select gift ideas (and your opportunity to support the site - thanks Amazon!). These are all gifts for a mid-range budget and I’ve left out the [...]
A twenty-seven inch screen is big enough for dorm rooms & apartments
Add an equinux TubeStick TV tuner to watch over-the-air HD or cable TV
You may be able to use it as a display with your blu-ray player / games console
It’ll be perfect for watching Hulu or those movies and TV shows you’ve downloaded off bittorrent [...]
In my post Free alternatives to MobileMe earlier this year, I looked at some free alternatives to Apple’s MobileMe service. One crucial piece was still missing though: The seamless over-the-air syncing and push email experience offered by MobileMe on the iPhone.
Google Sync – the Missing Piece of the Puzzle?
MobileMe’s biggest advantage to date has been [...]
As predicted, 10.6 will be released August 28th, slightly earlier than promised. It certainly makes sense for Apple to release 10.6 before Microsoft Windows 7 marketing can hit: Rather than trying to compete with Microsoft for reviews and media attention, release early and hog all the attention for yourself.
However, the extremely short lead-up between announcement and release [...]
Lukas Mathis has posted some thoughts on the issues Mac newcomers have with .dmg files. I also talked about this issue a while back in a post on the most common issues switchers have, but it’s worth noting it again. I agree with his followup post that adding another file format isn’t really the way [...]
Apple announced and shipped the official Safari 4 release on the first day of WWDC. This was preceded by an extensive beta period, where Mac and Windows users could download the new version and test their websites and web applications with the new Webkit engine included with Safari 4.
Apple received a lot of useful feedback [...]
An interesting factoid was revealed today via Apple’s Support pages on a comparison chart detailing support for 3.0 features, broken down by iPhone generations. Amongst other things, the chart includes this interesting footnote:
“The original iPhone does not support using Bluetooth for peer-to-peer connectivity. It can use Wi-Fi and cellular data networks for peer-to-peer connectivity.”
This struck [...]
Continuing in the series of posts hating on MobileMe, today we’re going to look at free alternatives to Mobileme. This article will focus on the core Mobileme features and take a look at the pros and cons of the alternatives.
Mail alternative: Gmail
I’ve never been willing to lock myself into a $99 / year e-mail service, [...]
When Amazon first introduced the Kindle, many pundits were already comparing it to Apple’s introduction of the original iPod – predicting it would be a similar game changer for the book industry as Apple’s device was for the music industry. But the device’s design and marketing seemed slightly out of date for such a cutting [...]
