Category Archives: Technology

It’s time to relax about multitasking

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Jeff

There was one thing I had intended to rant about last week that I just didn’t get to. Peo­ple need to chill the heck out about mul­ti­task­ing on the iPhone. I see com­ments every day either decry­ing Apple’s imple­men­ta­tion as not “real” mul­ti­task­ing, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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iPhone 4: The bars are a lie

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Jeff

There has been, well, some vig­or­ous dis­cus­sion this past week about the iPhone 4 and what those bas­tards at Apple have foisted upon us. Peo­ple are los­ing their freak­ing minds. Law­suits have been filed. Peo­ple are threat­en­ing to take their phones … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Thoughts on the iPhone 4

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Jeff

After stand­ing in line for a cou­ple hours very early Thurs­day morn­ing, I came home with a shiny new iPhone 4. The actual pur­chase and acti­va­tion process itself took about five min­utes and then I walked out of the mall with my shiny new … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Torn between two ecosystems

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Jeff

Google impressed at last week’s I/​O con­fer­ence. They demoed Android 2.2, “Froyo”, which is already avail­able for Google’s own Nexus One phone. (It’s com­ing “soon” for carrier-​branded hand­sets like Verizon’s Droid Incred­i­ble and Sprint’s EVO.) They showed mSpot, a new ser­vice … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Microsoft out in the cold again

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Jeff

John Gru­ber has some inter­est­ing thoughts about the odd-​man-​out at Google’s I/​O con­fer­ence this week: The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re sim­ply not even part of the game. RIM looms large, as Black­Ber­rys con­tinue to reign as the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Maybe you should try not lying, then

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Jeff

Repub­li­can Con­gres­sional hope­ful Ari David is livid that Apple has rejected his iPhone app due to “defam­a­tory state­ments” about his com­pe­ti­tion, Demo­c­rat Henry Wax­man. As you can see not only are none of the state­ments defam­a­tory, they are all fac­tual. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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What to expect from the next iPhone

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Jeff

What we’ll see in this year’s iPhone, why we won’t seen an iPhone on Ver­i­zon until next year, and when to expect all the new Apple hot­ness. We’ve got three weeks to go until Apple’s 2010 World­wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence (WWDC). … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Living in the cloud, but not the browser

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Jeff

I have an iPhone, a net­book and a multi-​monitor desk­top. And for most tasks, it really doesn’t mat­ter which one I use because can get to all the same data from all three. I tried doing the web-​app thing. I really did. Given that my … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Resisting the iPad just got a whole lot harder

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Jeff

The Spirit Jail­break I used yes­ter­day on my iPhone to give me most of what I was excited about in OS4 with­out wait­ing for OS4 — back­ground music, home­screen wall­pa­per, home­screen fold­ers — also works for the iPad. And accord­ing to Mac­Sto­ries, there’s a lit­tle trick you … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Apple is the new Palm

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Jeff

When Jon Ruben­stein and his band of Apple cast-​offs unveiled webOS and the Palm Pre, they were hailed as the next Apple. So it’s only fit­ting that the Apple of 2010 is tak­ing it’s cues from the Palm of old. Remem­ber … Con­tinue read­ing →

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