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: AT&T Drops T-Mobile Bid →
Definitely no chance of other mergers occurring any time soon.
Link: Consoles Becoming Streaming Media Hubs →
Engadget picks this up from a recent Nielsen report on game console usage for 13+ years of age: …gamers this year spent notably more time streaming video to their consoles than they did in 2010, due in large part to … Continue reading
Weekly Download #24: Flipboard, iPad Design, Miyamoto, Gaming, WebOS, Wikipedia, SOPA
This week, Tarun and Chris discuss Flipboard on the iPhone; the claim that the iPad’s design is a natural evolution for tablets; Miyamoto stepping down, Gaming on mobile devices; WebOS going open source; the potential for Wikipedia to blackout to … Continue reading
Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone
Tarun takes a look at the experience and design of Flipboard for iPhone, featuring Cover Stories and unique sharing outlets that redefines the reading and sharing of news. He also contrasts this experience with Google Currents. Continue reading
Link: Straw Poll to Blackout English Wikipedia →
Jimmy Wales: A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed … Continue reading
Link: Apple’s Mac App Store Downloads Top 100 Million →
Apple: With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.
Link: Nintendo’s Miyamoto Stepping Down, Working on Smaller Games →
Chris Kohler covering for Wired, who will be publishing an exclusive interview with Miyamoto next week: In an exclusive interview with Wired.com on Wednesday, the 59-year-old head of Nintendo’s game design department said that he will move away from supervising … Continue reading
Link: iPad Design Obviousness →
Nik Cubrilovic argues that the design of the iPad is a natural evolution of designing tablet computing devices, using the idea that the Crunchpad (later the JooJoo) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab (currently in spat with Apple) share similar maxims … Continue reading
Weekly Download #23: Carrier IQ, Facebook and Gowalla, Windows Phone, Apple TV, Women and Tech Jobs
Tarun has a mild cough, but that doesn’t stop him from recording another episode! The usual suspects discuss the recent developments of the Carrier IQ logging scandal; Facebook acquiring Gowalla; the HTML5 Windows Phone mobile demo; Samsung’s flexible AMOLED displays; … Continue reading
Link: The Rise of Developeronomics →
A great read by Venkatesh Rao, from Forbes: There is a theory in evolutionary biology that reciprocal altruism and cooperation first appeared as a solution to the food storage problem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a … Continue reading
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Tagged acquirements, developers, market
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Link: Rethinking the Digital Future →
David Gelernter, a professor at Yale: Mr. Gelernter believes streams are a more intuitive, useful way to organize our digital lives, not least because, as the past and future run off either side of our screen, at the center is … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Computer Science, Design, Social Networking
Tagged apple, future, lifestream
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Link: An Interview with the VP of Carrier IQ →
Exclusive interview on The Verge from Sean Hollister and Dieter Bohn with VP Andrew Coward about what Carrier IQ’s role is in logging your phone’s activity. Coward believes that in a perfect world, the activities that Carrier IQ performs on … Continue reading
Link: Dell Streak 7 Android tablet discontinued →
Dieter Bohn for the Verge: It’s not entirely a surprise to see Dell moving away from Android tablets, however. CEO Michael Dell was quoted in October as saying “that market has not developed to the expectations they would have had,” … Continue reading
Link: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Carrier IQ →
This symbolizes the beginning of many other initiatives to investigate the outrageous consequences of having Carrier IQ’s software on our mobile devices.
Link: Facebook Acquires Gowalla →
Gowalla was always under the shadow of Foursquare, but never really gained had the same relationships that the larger company did. It was likely for talent purposes, but I suspect that the move to “liking” locations on mobile is a … Continue reading
Link: Can a Windows Phone Web Demo Win Over iPhone and Android users? →
This demo further solidifies why the Windows OS platform is a strong contender. A solid user experience that is both lightweight and dynamic. It’s not about apps but it is about content. The retina display actually helps their case too … Continue reading
Link: Women Struggle to Make Workplace Impact →
From the Economist: Yet while women have made big strides in all kinds of careers they find it harder than men to bag the most senior jobs. Just 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. And despite sheaves of equal-pay … Continue reading
Link: Summary of the Carrier IQ Logging Scandal →
Carrier IQ seems to log information on both iOS and Android phones, over 3G or Wi-Fi, but only on Android the service violates privacy laws by using a bit of software, IQRD: After connecting his HTC device to his computer, … Continue reading
Link: Social Media Tips From Grandma →
Chacho Puebla: When you´re younger you think you´ll never fall into that same kind of discourse, until you find yourself talking about stupid (cliché) stuff with your kid, about how important school is and if you don´t have a degree … Continue reading
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Weekly Download #22: Google Music, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook Phones, Android and WebOS, Flickr, Open-Source, Zynga
After a week hiatus, Tarun and Chris are back… to talk about the stuff you are probably familiar with! We touch on the new Google Music service and it’s sad usage of Flash; Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook as platforms entering … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Android, Apple, Business, Computer Science, Facebook, Games, Google, News, Podcast, Social Networking, WebOS
Tagged google, mobile, podcast
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Link: Office on iPad and Mac App Store Forthcoming →
Matt Hickey for The Daily: In addition to an iPad-ready version, a new edition of Office is expected for OS X Lion sometime next year. The current version of the desktop package, Office 2011, officially supports iOS versions up to … Continue reading
Link: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why →
Nick Bilton of the NY Times calls for a change in the F.A.A. regulation that prohibits the use of electronic devices during take-off and landing: According to the F.A.A., 712 million passengers flew within the United States in 2010. Let’s … Continue reading
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Tagged FAA, safety, technology
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Link: The Case for Open-Source →
A strong argument on why (almost) all code on the internet should be open-source. From the founder of GitHub, Tom Preston-Werner. (via Jaimie Murdock)
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Link: “Ruining Sharing” →
A nice op-ed piece regarding the privacy of the increasingly social web from Kevin Kelleher, Reuters: New features on social media sites often require users to change their behavior, and the grumbling usually subsides in time. But Facebook’s latest features seem … Continue reading
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Link: iPhone 4S: Most Popular Cameraphone on Flickr →
The iPhone 4 remains at the top of all cameras, in general, for the site as well. (Pointed out by @RogerDodgerTM on Twitter, reported by MacRumors)