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: Google+ Beta →
Google+ is now in Beta, which means anyone can sign up and you don’t need an invite. Additionally, they have made some improvements to Hangouts — you can video chat over mobile phone (Android 2.3 only). Check out Hangouts with … Continue reading
Link: Qwikster →
Netflix is systematically killing the DVD-by-mail model off: Pick a name that is extremely off-putting BONUS: Pick a name that is not trademarked yet and already has a Twitter handle claimed. Establish it as a completely different business from the … Continue reading
Link: Chrome for Lion →
Finally, Chrome gets an update that increases speed, adds full screen mode and supports Safari-like gestures.
Link: Windows 8: 500,000 Served →
Steve Ballmer: There is no phone, there is nothing on the tablet, there is no operating system on the planet that will ship 350 million units of anything other than Windows. But in the long term, the PC market as … Continue reading
Link: The New BSOD →
Interesting design choice with the text smiley, but a marked improvement from the hexadecimal error page
Link: Arrington is Out →
Kara Swisher: The company’s statement said that the high-profile blogger had “decided” to move on, which was a decided understatement, given that the negotiations between the pair sometimes approximated a cage match.
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Link: The New Apple Advantage →
John Gruber: I’ve always been interested in Apple’s products because of their superior design; the business side of the company was never of as much interest. But at this point, it seems clear to me that however superior Apple’s design … Continue reading
Link: Windows 8 Boot Time Demo →
This is impressive, but it isn’t a bloated, final-release version either. The computer in the video is a Core i7 with an SSD (via the YT comments), so the thought is that this would “rival” MacBook Air boot times. How fast … Continue reading
Link: Harry McCracken’s Overview of the TechCrunch/AOL “Train Wreck” →
A story of heated romance and desire, beautifully narrated in this summary report. The whole saga should never have happened — It is a ridiculous conflict of interest to invest in companies you report on, even if you leave the … Continue reading
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Link: Henry Blodget’s Modest Proposal to Yahoo! →
Henry Blodget, CEO of SAI: It’s not an instant miracle cure, of course. Fixing Yahoo will take time. But it is, if we do say so ourselves, the sort of plan that Yahoo has been sorely lacking for the last … Continue reading
Link: AllThingsD: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo →
Kara Swisher has the scoop: The situation around the departure is unclear, but Bartz has had a very rocky tenure in her 30 months at the company.
Weekly Download #12: Kindle Tablet, HP, AOL, AT&T and T-Mobile, Final Cut Pro 7, GameStop
Tarun and Chris talk about Amazon’s entrance into the tablet arena; HP’s continued failings; AOL’s potential as a “buy”; the AT&T and T-Mobile marriage; Final Cut Pro 7’s triumphant return; Gamestop’s great decision to sell iOS devices. Like the podcast? … Continue reading
Link: GameStop to Possibly Carry iOS Devices →
Via 9to5 Mac. This is just further validation that the console age is dying. Hey Nintendo and Microsoft, are you reading this?
Link: Hybrid Books →
This report from NPR talks about how publishers are finding it difficult to increase profit margins during times when e-readers and cheap books are the main business model. A solution to this comes in the form of a hybrid book. … Continue reading
Link: The Amazon Tablet →
MG Siegler has the first look at an Amazon tablet, albiet he cannot provide pictures. Details within the article include: A form factor similar to the BlackBerry Playbook 7” with a capacitive touch screen in full color That means no … Continue reading
Link: Settling →
Jordan Golson, for MacRumors: Apple has put the previous version of its Final Cut Studio video editing suite back on sale after a mixed reception to the new and completely redesigned Final Cut X. We received word that Apple had … Continue reading
Link: It’s Even Priced the Same →
Competition isn’t a bad thing, but this is just too close (via Daring Fireball)
Link: No Streaming For You! →
MacRumors has posted a new update, saying that the new iOS Beta 7 kills iCloud “streaming”, which was really just a cache usage, according to InsanelyGreatMac. So, if a user wants to download a song from the Cloud, this is … Continue reading
Link: Count In AOL? →
AOL owns a significant share of media sites on the web, but that’s about all the company has visibly going for them. A few incubated initiatives are mentioned in the article, but I don’t see how these provide a sustainable … Continue reading
Link: La-La Land →
The Board is said to not meet until December to decide the fate of the HP PC, which means they completely will miss innovation during the critical computer buying time — Christmas. HP cannot recover from being completely off the … Continue reading
Link: Tim Cook as Steve Jobs’ Replacement →
Arnold Kim, MacRumors: The general consensus, of course, is that it’s simply not realistic to expect any one person to replace Steve Jobs. From the same 2008 Fortune article, they point out that Cook will simply need people around him … Continue reading
Link: An Error in Price Setting →
An interesting argument: Had HP sold the TouchPad at $99 from the gate, the iPad would have lost a significant market share because the price point is irresistible to consumers. Bolstering this claim is the fact that the TouchPad has … Continue reading
Link: Always-On →
An insight from Michael Gartenberg, Macworld: The MacBook Air is really an always-on device. For the most part, the concepts of on and off are deprecated.
Link: Facebook Didn’t Actually Have 1 Trillion Views →
I was a skeptic myself, so I’m glad Mike Luttrell from TG Daily picked this up: Comscore explained the discrepancy by saying Doubleclick relies on users’ cookie information, which is not all that accurate because many users reset their cookies … Continue reading
Link: Apple Awards Tim Cook 1 Million Shares →
Matt Rosoff, from SAI: But here’s a fun thought experiment. In the last ten years, Apple’s stock has gone up to more than 40 times its starting value. If Cook were somehow to duplicate the success of his predecessor, that … Continue reading