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Best of both worlds, atheist, transhumanist, amateur traceur and IT student. I love high quality (tech) products.
For the past years, Apple has been showcasing the educational advantages of devices like Macs, iPhones and iPods on its Apple in Education website. Since the introduction of the iPad in 2010,…
I'm a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a…
By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his "magical and revolutionary" new machines in San Francisco, traditional publishers had been…
BY ANDY IHNATKO ai@andyi.com May 7, 2012 6:22PM
Every company comes up with the idea of writing a “shell app.” By replacing native code with a web view you could: Release new functionality outside a full app update Implement a…
Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powerhouse Most new announcements by Apple are digested and understood by the tech press instantaneously. Great products are great products, and…
Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I'm also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on…
Last September, the writer/director/occasional-novelty-T-shirt-subject Joss Whedon wrapped principal photography on the biggest film of his career. Chances are if
Whilst watching a recent episode of All About Android on the TWiT Podcast network, I noticed that as one of the hosts was demoing Plume – a twitter client for his Android tablet – he…
THE lights dimmed. The crowd hushed. The teleprompters flickered. Kazuo Hirai stepped up and flashed a winning smile: it was show time. The scene was oddly upbeat inside the Sony Corporation…
For most of my life, I’ve struggled to quantify what constitutes an enticing interface. There are certain basic aims from which you can take your pick - intuitiveness, attractiveness, clarity,…
PHOTO BY JENNIE WARREN Ross Lipman, restorationist, UCLA Film & Television Archive PHOTO BY JENNIE WARREN Jan-Christopher Horak,…
I wasn’t planning on writing about the Instagram-Facebook merger, but all of the posts about people quitting or asking how to get your data out of Instagram or posting the usual run of…
Oliver Cameron thinks there’s something special, intriguing, about the address book. As a personal list that smartphone users have curated over several years, one could wonder about the…
Related Content On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happe
Marcus du Sautoy with one of Luc Steels's language-making robots. Photograph: Jodie Adams/BBC 'I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?"' Not my question but the opening of Alan…
The Betamax SL6500! I totally had this model!!!Several really smart people in our industry are arguing very publicly right now about a company called Readability and how great and/or evil their…
This is a long-ass post. In summary: Readability and Instapaper are two awesome reading tools that actually aren't in competition since Readability is mostly a network and Instapaper is mostly an…
First there were clunky mobile app stores managed by carriers — aka people who don’t know anything about software or user experience — and then there were in-between devices like…
What’s the value of all the upgraded features in the third-generation iPad? $100. I’ll show my work later in this article, but it’s an important number. Apple is consistently…
I tried reading this GigaOm post, "Why Google isn't worried about Android revenue" but all I kept thinking was: what is this shit? I mean, Android isn't making a dime for Google. It's a massive cost…
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:51 am CST: With a thermos full of coffee on my desk, half a dozen Safari tabs open, and Twitter in the corner, I am ready to watch the liveblogs. 12:21 pm: Tim Cook…
By Michael S. Rosenwald, COLUMBIA, Mo. — Roger Fidler, in jeans and a black turtleneck, is watching Steve Jobs, in jeans and a black turtleneck, introduce the iPad. Fidler is sitting in his…
Well, it was fun while it lasted. The personal computer industry backed a promising candidate in the ultrabook concept, convincing even a skeptic like myself that a new class of superslim,…
Do Android tablet apps really suck? Yes. Yes, they do. We take a close look, and provide examples. I just gave the new iPad an Editors' Choice award for large tablets, but frankly it was a foregone…
For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece…
There’s a ton of innovation in the world of displays—from pixel density, to aspect ratio, to core technologies. Windows 8 is designed to grow and improve as the display ecosystem grows…
[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.] iOS is a popular platform for creating apps that are touch first, fun, and engaging. With the introduction of Windows 8 Consumer…
ScienceDaily (June 20, 2010) — Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT. They found that using carbon nanotubes for one of the…
Back in 1998, websites would often force visitors to aimlessly move their mouse around, trying to reveal hidden icons or pieces of text that would explain where to click. Frustrated with these…
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