November 2010
9 posts
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Notified →
Notifications are the single biggest pain point in iOS now, but if you jailbreak you get some great options like this app and LockInfo which solve a lot of these issues. Why can’t Apple make something useful out of the box?
Nov 22nd
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iOS Rules Don't Apply Here
It’s an uncomfortable truth for an Android phone owner, but one that I knew about going in: the app situation isn’t as good as on iOS. At the same time, I find that I’m happy with it anyway, which is surprising. I look at the store and see that it has fewer applications. I look at the games section and see that it has ridiculously fewer applications. I look at the blogs and see...
Nov 22nd
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Push Notifications with Attachments?
I’m not sure how the infrastructure for iOS’s push notifications is set up, but I wonder if Apple’s next update to the system could include attachments with those notifications that would contain data that the app. That app could retrieve the data upon launch, thus getting around the inability to run apps in the background. That would be nice for applications like Instapaper that...
Nov 17th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 4th
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Not Mobile, but Still Different
Mark Zuckerberg, answering a question at Facebook’s mobile event on Wednesday about why his company still lacks an official iPad app: iPad’s not mobile. I think this needs to be read in context. Facebook is a web company, and on the desktop the site’s web interface works perfectly fine compared to native applications. On the iPhone, there’s no way the web interface would be...
Nov 3rd
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Shame on you, America
In the Futurama episode Three Hundred Big Boys, Earth President Nixon gave everyone a $300 tax rebate, which was spent hilariously. In real life, the American government gave everyone a $300 tax rebate, which was spent on things we needed. Such an opportunity wasted.
Nov 2nd
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The Samsung Tab: Conflicted Reviews
James Rivington of TechRadar: The problems are most evident when browsing the web. Scrolling down your average website is quite juddery. Joanna Stern of Engadget: The browsing experience on the Tab is rock solid — pages loaded quickly over WiFi and scrolling / zooming was snappy. Quit messing with my head!
Nov 1st