Features
- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Author Archives: Tarun
Link: Money Well Spent →
HP Spent more money to wind down webOS than to purchase it, according to John Paczkowski’s math regarding the HP earnings for Q4. Ouch.
Link: Momentum →
Rafe Blandford: During the last four weeks, an average of around 165 new content items have been added each day. This number is significantly higher than in the summer. The most likely explanation for the increased number of apps being … Continue reading
Link: Wait on that Android Tablet →
The Android supply chain makers expect to have a large supply of tablets in storage due to the recent release of the “book” tablets. Good news for the consumer: To clear inventories of Android tablet PCs, several waves of price … Continue reading
Weekly Download #21: Mobile Flash, WebOS, Apple, FCC, Mobile Gaming, PSA
Chris dogs Tarun about selling out and getting an iPhone 4S. They also discuss Siri; the death of Mobile Flash; WebOS being neglected; Apple and Tim Cook; the FCC pushing for broader broadband; yet another argument for Nintendo to move … Continue reading
Link: Kindle Phone →
Mark Mahaney from Citigroup believes it would come by 4Q12, which will be well past when the iPhone 5 is released to (once again) record sales numbers. Meanwhile, Windows Phone Lumia 800 will be released in the US and Android … Continue reading
Link: Google Music →
It uses Flash, and requires you to upload your music. Seems like a reach in unfamiliar territory.
Link: Dropping Their Guard →
It is too early to tell whether Apple has loosened up or letting things slip through the cracks. The iPhone 4S, the only product to come post-Jobs, is built off of a strong predecessor. Apple still has solid supply chain management, a great foothold in the apps/music industry, and is dominating the tablet marketshare. This is the Apple we all know and expect. The real question here is — what do we do when Apple fails our expectations? Continue reading
Link: Remove Your Router From Google’s Location Server →
Add “_nomap” to the end of the SSID.
Weekly Download #20: Apple Self-Checkout, Kindle Lending Library, Nook Tablet, Success in the App Store, Virtual Goods, Gaming
Tarun and Chris talk about Apple’s self checkout model; the new Kindle Lending Library; the Nook Tablet; How to be successful in the App Store; The value of virtual goods & Zynga; the continued influence of Apple on the gaming … Continue reading
Link: Quipol →
This was one of the products featured at the Combine. Simple, powerful and fun polling system. Try it out today!
Link: Apple Reduces Part Orders for 4Q11 →
Cage Chao for DIGITIMES: Apple has informed upstream suppliers of parts and components for iPhone 4S to delay part of their shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 to the first quarter of 2012 as sales of the iPhone 4S … Continue reading
Link: Mobile Flash is Dead →
Apple guesses correctly, again.
Link: The Fate of WebOS Undecided →
Joshua Topolsky with the exclusive: HP CEO Meg Whitman just told a room full of Palm and HP employees that the company doesn’t yet know what to do with webOS. “It’s really important to me to make the right decision, … Continue reading
Link: Concerns with Self-Checkout at Apple Stores →
Dan Frommer: So, is Apple just relying on the honor system? (Will it do spot-checks?) Or does it also have a Vegas casino-like security system in each of its stores? Neither would surprise me. I think that the scanning of … Continue reading
Link: “Real” Value →
Fashionistas spend $2,000 on a Prada handbag. Gamers spend $20 on an imaginary tractor or avatar or sword. It’s the same, Ries says, except “the virtual objects are all tied to the specific environment in which they were developed.” A … Continue reading
Link: The Biggest Influence on the Video Gaming Industry →
It isn’t Miyamoto.
Link: Lego Build Solves Rubik’s Cube & Beats The Record →
The new record is about 5.4 seconds, down from 6.24. This is mainly possible because of human limitations of dexterity and brute force, but it is still quite a feat of engineering.
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Link: Kindle Lending Library →
If you own a Kindle, you can check-out books for free and not have to go to a library. There are only 5000 titles available and no publishers are on board, but if you are a Prime member, the service … Continue reading
Link: Imperfections →
Jordan Crook expands on my rant from earlier last week, except the features he would like to see are more “things that should have been in version 1” rather than “pie in the sky”.
Link: The Appillionaires →
Chris Stevens for Fast Company provides some tidbits from “Applillionares: Secrets From Developers Who Struck It Rich on the App Store“: “The closest thing I’ve seen to a ‘business model’ for marketing iPhone apps is to advertise like crazy until … Continue reading
Weekly Download #19: Microsoft and Visions of the Future, Designing for the Future, Cable TV and OnDemand Content, Going Mobile
Today’s podcast takes more of a thematic term as we discuss design, mainly using Google as a lens — what makes design for Google work? What makes it struggle? We also discuss the Microsoft “vision of the future”; Cable TV; … Continue reading
Link: GoMo →
As reported by Tricia Duryee, AllThingsD: The site is a resource center that links to a growing list of 15 to 20 vendors and agencies that can help with all aspects of building a mobile site. The site also has … Continue reading
Design Unification with Google Apps
What are Google’s design principles, and does Google adhere to them today? With the introduction of Ice Cream Sandwich and the overhaul of Google Reader, Tarun steps back to see what it means to have unification in design. Continue reading
Link: Cable Down, But Not Out →
Vijay Jayant, senior managing director for the ISI group: When Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers the fear of cord-cutting goes away a little.
Link: YouTube Seeks Proven Talent →
Guess they got tired of the AutoTunes: Google Inc. on Friday announced the creation of around 100 online video “channels” on its YouTube website that will have new original programming involving celebrities such as such as singer Madonna, rapper Jay-Z, … Continue reading