December 2010
15 posts
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A Debugging Horror Story →
This may be a slight exaggeration of a title that I gave for this post I found, but since reading this I can’t help but worry that one day a bug like this will happen to something I’m responsible for and I’ll have to be some kind of crazy genius to figure it out.
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RSS5000 →
This app needs to exist for every platform! I’ve grown to miss actually browsing the sites of the bloggers that I follow. Perhaps someone can whip up a Chrome/Safari extension that opens the URL of an unread feed item from Google Reader every time you click the toolbar button for it?
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OpenLeaks to mimic WikiLeaks—minus the "political... →
Thank God. Now maybe we’ll see leaks about things that aren’t selected and twisted just to damage the United States.
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One More Face →
How do you add video chat capability to a device that only has a rear camera? Bolt a periscope onto the lens!
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Iconfactory's Newest Android App →
John Gruber:
There is no Iconfactory or Tapbots for Android.
Can’t speak for Tapbots, but Iconfactory now has a version of Frenzic for Android devices. It’s also one of my favorite games, so if you own an Android phone go buy it!
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Thinking about Chrome OS
Chrome OS is intriguing. I think it’ll be a lot more successful than a lot of people give it credit for, just because there’s a huge market of people who do nothing on their computers other than use Facebook, and Chrome OS strips the experience of all its desktop complications (granted, the same experience also applies for the iPad).
I hardly fall into that category, but I look at...
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Purchase Buttons
The #1 reason that the App Store is so successful is that the payment process is ridiculously simple. Double-tap, type password, and purchased, for every application. There’s no possible equivalent for the Web. From the individual payment systems of most sites to the battling between Amazon/PayPal/Google, it’s very difficult to try and duplicate that system without either demanding...
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Minimal Mac: An Open Letter to Tumblr →
Hard not to agree with this. At the same time, it’s also hard to complain about a free service, and Tumblr is quite awesome when it works.
So, I’m going to duplicate, not migrate, my blog onto WordPress. I’m still thinking about how to best accomplish that task, but I have to admit that relying totally on a free but apparently unreliable service isn’t the smartest thing...
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It's Probably the Carriers →
This is a very interesting post. America and Canada have similar phone networks, with one exception: the iPhone is available on all (but one?) of the major Canadian carriers, while only being available on AT&T in America.
In the mobile web traffic of both countries, America’s iOS adoption is 35%. Canada’s is 84%. There’s probably several factors to consider: promotional...
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Verbs →
This looks like a pretty slick iOS app and IM app. Chat applications haven’t really changed much in the last, oh, dozen years or so, and it’s nice to see someone coming up with new ideas and improvements.