2009–2011
567 posts
2011 565
December 2011
- Beyond Oblivion Shuts Down Before Launch
- Driving Has Lost Its Cool
- 100 Devices
- Apple Demands AppTrackr Remove Cracked iOS Apps
- This Is About How Well Siri Works for Me
- Bullshit
- I’ll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping
- Not Even Considering Android or Windows Phone Devices
- Political Affairs Are So Bad It’s Hard to Make Fun of Them
- Resolutions
- There Is No Next Facebook
- M.G. Siegler Should Run Microsoft’s Marketing Team
- There’s No Such Thing as Android, Only Android-Compatible
- Concept: Redesigning the Update UI for Mac Apps
- The TV Store
- Launching the Kindle Fire Was a Mistake
- Time to End the War on Drugs
- “Everyone Realized Buying a Blazer Without Trying It on First Is Stupid”
- The Momentum of Steve Jobs
- Study: Apple’s iPhone, iPad Account for 90 Percent of Mobile Purchases
- The Larger Scope
- Apple at the Retail Crossroads
- Best Buy Cancels Some Online Orders
- VW Disables Email Outside Working Hours
- That 7-Inch iPad?
- HTC Completed Workaround to Skirt a U.S. Apple Patent Ruling
- The Story of Dropbox
- The 25 Least Influential People Alive
- AllThis Sleazy Dishonesty
- The [20] Worst-Dressed Cities in America
- ‘Ship Today, Update Tomorrow’
- Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer?
- Echoes of Silence
- Fuck Me? No, Fuck You
- Why Did Path Add Sleeping as One of Its Five Moment Types?
- Apple Reportedly Swapping Recalled iPod Nanos for New Ones
- The Six Best Comedy Podcasts on Earth Right Now
- Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox
- Google Pays $18 Million to Shutter Apture, CloudFlare Clones It in 12 Hours
- Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2
- Apple Wins Ban of HTC Android Devices
- In Appearance Only
- Apple Moves Forward With TV Plans
- “Go Easy on the Cookies”
- Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK to Not Know How the Internet Works
- Can a $100 iPad Case Improve 3G Data Power?
- Google’s Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead
- RIM’s Year of Misery
- Great Words for a Great Man
- Shooting Oneself in the Foot Quite Carefully
- “Thanks Again for Giving Me 5 Dollars. I Bought 3 Cokes With It.”
- Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
- All That Work, Ruined
- The Joy of Real Shopping
- A MacBook Pro With a Retina Display
- Path Updated to Version 2.0.3
- The Real Story Behind Apple’s Think Different Campaign
- Like Peanut Butter and Raspberry Jam
- The New Fonts in iBooks 1.5
- It’s Kids’ Stuff
- The Apple Blogs vs. Brooke Crothers
- Social Apps
- I would like to thank RIM’s co-CEOs for their incompetence
- Yet Another Contribution to the UI Fragmentation of Android
- Create
- They Should Change it to “AdMitigate Plus”
- Motorola Xoom 2 Review
- Galaxy Nexus Availability in the United States
- Galaxy Nexus OS Variant Not Controlled By Google
- “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Title Sequence
- iTunes Rewind for 2011 (iTunes Link)
- More On the Twitter Redesign
- Flavour of the Month
- “You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people.”
- Don’t Be A Free User
- Why
- That “Store” Button in iOS 5’s Music App
- iOS Grippers
- Incorrect
- Why is Android Laggy?
- Linens ‘n Things
- Poorly Designed, Broken Websites Are Costing Canadian Corporations Millions
- Incongruous
- How It Falls
- This Site’s Domain is Stolen
- Pre-Order “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Soundtrack
- Senator Al Franken’s Letter to Carrier IQ
- Apple Stopped Supporting Carrier IQ With iOS 5
- Surprise — Carrier IQ is Carrier-Mandated
- Carrier IQ is on iOS, Kind Of
- I Was Waiting for This
- Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of Carrier IQ’s “Media Alert”
November 2011
- Carrier IQ Press Release (PDF)
- Comments Off
- Nest Teardown
- Spyware Right Out of the Box
- Switchcam
- Windows Phone Demo
- Apple Pulls iTether From App Store
- HP Printers Can Be Remotely Controlled and Set on Fire
- Ten Years
- Quote of the Day
- It’s Been Said Before, and I’ll Say It Again
- “A Billion Dollar Deal”
- Windows Phone 7 Isn’t Lacking in Apps Because It Has Websites
- Jailbreakers Want to Get Ahead of Apple in Finding Exploits
- The Choice of Privacy
- Copycats
- On That NPD Tablets-Apart-From-the-iPad Sales Debacle
- Samsung in Final Talks on Google TV
- You Get What You Pay For
- The X-Factor
- The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
- Dark Sky
- TellMe vs Siri
- Ice Cream Sandwich
- Desert Bus
- Cinemascapes
- Apple Removes Big Fish Game Subscription Plan From App Store
- Will Amazon Take Over Android App Distribution?
- Please Let This Not Be the Future of Reading on the Web
- Google Kills Off Seven More Products
- Android’s a Malware Magnet, Says McAfee
- Are They Coding These Apps with Pen and Paper?
- Grooveshark Sued by Universal
- Nokia’s Microsoft Phones May Not Get Traction, Analyst Says
- Can the iPhone 4S Replace a “Real” Digital Camera?
- The Story of “Beats” Headphones
- Making Excuses
- RIM Confirms BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Bricking Problems
- Google Should Hire This Guy
- Human-Computer-Human Interaction
- Casellet
- The End of Cheap Coffee
- Take Your Pick
- Field Notes “Northerly” Edition
- “I Can’t Set a Timer With Seconds”
- Gmail App Returns to the App Store With At Least 10% Less Suck
- Foot Entering Mouth with Superlative Vigour
- Two Weeks with the iPhone 4S
- Microsoft Still Doesn’t Get It
- On The Verge
- Evil
- Instagram Challenge Solved with Javascript
- Square App Updated
- Siri’s Awareness of its Downtime
- The Death of the Spec
- Kindle Fire Review
- 5 Problems with Gmail’s New Design
- I’m Still Not Convinced
- Logitech CEO: Google TV ‘Cost Us Dearly’
- Apple Releases iOS 5.0.1
- Swearing
- The Problem with Siri Downtime
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
- We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bandwagon
- Google+ Lost its Chance to Compete With Facebook
- A Flash in the Pan
- Siri’s Mysterious Blue Underline
- Color
- Simple
- Georgia Pro and Verdana Pro
- What’s the Holdup on iTunes Match?
- New iOS Code Signing Flaw
- Enqueue
- Comparison of iPhone Low-Light Photography
- The Knife Maker
- Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS
- Shooting Yourself in the Foot With Great Verve and Accuracy
- Three Reasons Why This Sucks
- The Eight Worst Typefaces in the World
- Apple’s New Fifth Avenue Cube
- Fusion Ads Sold to BuySellAds
- Mac App Store Sandboxing Requirement Pushed to March
- Michigan State Passes Law to Allow Bullying
- Why the Mac App Sandbox Makes Me Sad
- Card Case by Square
- Why Not to Make an iPhone App
- Scratch That, Reverse It
- Gmail App for iOS
- Good Luck With That
- Fragmentation
- “Cleaner and more modern”
- Android Game Income Stats
- Google Officially Unveils Gmail Redesign
- Wolfram Alpha and Siri
- GarageBand Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch
- The Inside Story of How Microsoft Killed its Courier Tablet, Foresight
- WikiMaze
- Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion
October 2011
- Teen Suicide
- Klout is Odious
- A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
- Google’s Moral Duality
- 12-11-10
- I’m Only Posting This Because of the Laughable Stock Photo
- Apple Acquired 3D Mapping Company C3 Technologies
- Visions of the Present
- Broadway: An H.264 Decoder in JavaScript
- Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye
- Double-Dipping
- Apple Lossless is Now Open Source
- Minimal Names
- RIM’s Look at the Future
- Subtle UI Tweaks in iOS 5
- Productivity Future Vision
- Android Orphans
- “I Am Totally Digging Windows Phone 7.5”
- Google Pushes Chrome 15
- RIM Delays PlayBook Update
- RIM Faces Lawsuit Over BlackBerry Outage
- Mike Elgan: Idiot
- Mango Tango Skype Hype
- Nokia Announces the Lumia 800
- Slide to Unlock? Patented!
- That’s Really Clever
- A Most Serious Problem
- iOS on the Desktop
- Quicksilver Roars
- The Metaphors Breaking The Future
- Trust Issues
- Ten Years of iPod
- Smokeshow
- May on Motoring DIY
- Dead Kennedys Art
- The Cellular Revolution
- Followup to Steve Yegge’s Google+ Rant
- Train to Nowhere
- The French Roast is to Dark Roasts What the Oslo Roasts Are to Light
- You Can’t Be Serious, Amazon
- The Poison Tree
- 37% of Published Android Apps Were Later Removed
- Buttons Are a Hack
- How to Bring Good Design to a Platform
- Font Hipsters
- I Got 99 Problems…
- It’s Like Rain on Your Wedding Day
- The Secret Business of Select iOS Apps
- Galaxy Nexus Hands-On
- Matias Duarte on the Philosophy of Android
- Motoactv Bluetooth Headset
- There Isn’t a Tablet Market, Only an iPad Market
- Finally Google Gets the Hint and Offers Another Font Family
- Motorola Droid RAZR
- Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
- WebOS Update for TouchPad
- We Are Living in the Future
- Four Months With Android
- Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
- Ditching the Competitors
- iPhone 4S Video Sample
- There is Only One Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
- Sprint Reports Best Sales Day Ever
- I Can’t Believe Gregg Keizer Gets Paid to Write This Crap
- AT&T iPhone 4S Activation Woes
- Breaking: Hiccups Occur When Millions of People Trying to Upgrade to iCloud
- Four Ways RIM Can Rebound from BlackBerry Outage
- Apple Slowed the Internet Down
- Cleaning…
- Women Looking Dissatisfied in Bed
- More Media Tablet Hype
- The “F” in “Five” is Either For “Fantastic” or “Finally”
- Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant
- iPhone 4S Review
- Magazines Begin Hitting Newsstand
- Photoshop Image De-Blurring
- Why isn’t the A5 in the iPod touch?
- “Underwhelming”, Apparently
- The New Yorker is Wrong
- Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s iPhone 4S Event
- In Praise of Bad Steve
- Candids
- Steve Jobs and I
- Remembering Steve Jobs
- Steve
- Verizon (Re)Compresses JPGs
- Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+
- Apple’s 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late
- Coffee and Community
- Siri Understands Accents
- iPhone 4S Images Appear on Apple’s Website
- Diggnation Ending in December
- 3.5 Inches
- You Might As Well Get Behind This, Canada
- Rumored iPod Classic, Shuffle Discontinuation
- Midnight Marauder
- Who Said Android Apps Can’t Look Good?
September 2011
- Amazon Looking to Buy Palm
- Another Whopper from Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch
- iPhone 5: This is our Design Prototype
- Finally
- The Upcoming Crash Of Apple And Amazon
- Amazon Silk: Just Like AOL Used to Make
- Amazon’s Kindle Fire Unveiled
- “Grossly Underpriced”
- Insta-Grumble
- Apparently, an iPhone Prototype Was Lost in China
- Shopping in Los Angeles with Jesse Thorn
- The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital
- This Supposed Early October iPhone/iPod/MacBook (Pro)/iMac/OMG Extravaganza
- The Macalope Weekly
- White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit
- The Fraying of a Nation’s Decency
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- A New Gowalla
- Warco
- Rabbit Island
- You Can’t Buy Word of Mouth
- Apple Store at IFC Centre
- How to Return the “Bounce Message” Feature to OS X Lion Mail
- Introducing Instagram v2.0
- Final Cut Pro Software Update
- Secretly Nimble
- Kerning.js
- Ephemera Regarding Permanence
- Google Chrome Version 14 Released
- Stage Collapse Tragedy Caused By Illegal Downloading
- Instapaper’s (anti-)Social Network
- Metro
- Place No Faith in Articles
- The Boston Globe
- I Remember 9/11
- Still Living Under Surveillance
- From the Shitty Patent File
- Google Hands HTC Patents to Use Against Apple
- That Didn’t Take Long
- The New Setup
- Sony’s Inspired Unlimited Music Designer
- Leapfrogs
- Ultrabook: Intel’s $300 Million Plan to Beat Apple at its Own Game
- Making Beautiful Forms
- One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities
- The Plot Was Non-Existent
- Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real
- The Plot Thickens
- So Close
August 2011
- Open
- Not Good Enough
- The Apple Logo
- Improvements in Windows Explorer
- Complete Coincidence I’m Sure
- How F1 is Changing the Future of Air Travel
- AT&T Was Dickish Yesterday
- The Towns Italy Forgot
- Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview
- The Ex-CEO, the New CEO and the Future of Apple
- Only One Story Today
- Remember When HP Used to Sell iPods?
- A Dream Fulfilled
- Search on Google’s Android Market Sucks a Big One
- Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision
- Help, I’ve Fallen Into a Pit of Steaming Google+
- New Visual Proportions for the iOS User Interface
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Software Update Versus the Mac App Store
- Scientists Crack The Physics Of Coffee Rings
- Humble Pie, Served Fast
- Google Buys Motorola
- The 3G MacBook Pro that Never Was
- “When you’re done talking, stop”
- Review: BookBook for iPhone 4
- The Stain on News Corp.
- This Isn’t What the iPhone 5 Will Look Like
- Matt Damon at the Save Our Schools March
- This is Why Your Newspaper is Dying
July 2011
- Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged
- Sip, Spit, Grade
- Austin Citizens Vote To Name Solid Waste Dept. After Fred Durst
- MacBook Air 13″ Mid 2011 Teardown
- A Word About Unsolicited Redesigns
- How I Evaluate and Decide to Purchase New iOS Apps
- Teaching Your Customers
- Whither the Foreign Bureau?
- How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy
- Yet Another Entry in My Series of Poorly-Considered and Ill-Advised Bullet-Point Thoughts
- How Much Lower Can One Company Get?
- The Siracusa Review
- 12 Features Android Handsets Have that iPhone 5 Will Not
- Developers Prefer Apple’s iOS, Including Google
- Chosen
- Clarendon Text
- Goto 10 Live Projected Performance
- Imagine Apple with an MBA at the Top
- Survival of the Flattest
- This is How Macs Connect to WiFi Networks So Quickly
- State Of The Internet 2011
- Spotify is coming to the U.S.
- Cross Promotion in “More Games” Violates Lodsys’ Patents
- Reorganizing the Bus System within the Network Hierarchy
- Everything Requires Maintenance
- TechCrunch Redesign
- Own Your Identity
- How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
- An Unsympathetic Obituary for “News of the World”
- The HP TouchPad
- Bing for iPad’s Lasso Gesture
- The Weekly Design Magazine World Goes Digital
- Google Bid Pi for Nortel Patents and Lost
- Funny Again
June 2011
- Seven Peculiar U.S. Borders
- Translating Apple’s Final Cut FAQ into Plain English
- First Night With Google Plus
- Google + (-Me)
- Adobe’s SEO Company May Be Planting Links in Blogs
- AeroPress
- As Clear as Crema
- A Patent on Crazy
- Best Buy Gets into Cloud Music with an Impenetrable Mess
- The Difference Between Tablet Commercials
- “I’d like your pointiest boot.”
- Everything is a Remix Part 3
- To Hell with Bad Devices
- A Tale of Two Inboxes: RSS and Twitter
- Air Guitar Move
- Subtle Patterns
- Moby on Strombo Tonight
- Photos of Vancouver Rioting
- The Native is Better Thing Again (sigh)
- Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com
- Go Coffee Go
- Debating the Value of College in America
- C:\NGRTLNS.W8
- WWDC 2011 Keynote: Initial Reactions
- Ridesharing as an Alternative to Transportation Capacity Increases « The Transport Politic
- A Followup on Two Apple Prediction-Related Posts
- WWDC 2011 Keynote
- Stumptown Stubbies
- Windows 8
- The Way I Work
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Sony Pictures hacked by Lulz Security
- Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed
- Windows 8 Video Preview
- Pulp for Mac
- Twitter integrated into iOS 5 with MediaStream?
May 2011
- WWDC 2011 Press Release
- Marco Arment is Well-Versed in Sarcasm
- Windows Phone Mango
- Make Your Franklin
- Free Ideas for Developers
- Upgrade
- Don’t Wake the Dragon, But Maybe Strike Up a Licensing Deal With It
- LSTN 14
- Long-Exposure Air Travel
- Lost Type Foundry
- Unsolicited Redesigns
- Flawed Typefaces
- Remember Microsoft?
- Here’s to the Crazy Ones
- In This Article, a Feature That Allows for Speedy Uploads is Shown to Be Technically At Odds With the Terms of Service
- I Don’t Work in a Museum
- Apartment in a Box
- The Humility That Comes From Being Hated
- The Invisible Wall
- Giving Land Back to the Flooding Mississippi River
- Chromebox Mini-Desktop
- Mississippi River Flooding
- What’s High School For?
- It’s the Experience, Stupid
- Only iTunes Music
- Marketers of the Apocalypse
- Facebook and Twitter vs. Email
- Samsung’s Central Station
- Why the 13″ Air Is Better Than the 13″ Pro — The Brooks Review
- Those Annoying “Rate this App!” Dialogs
- My Bag is Badass
- What’s the Point of Popular?
- The New iMacs’ Hybrid Drive Chipset
- Business Class for Online News
- How the US Military Got Their Man
- The Proper Way to Draw Rounded Corners
April 2011
- My Column on Columns – Subtraction
- What Safari’s “Reading List” in Lion means for Instapaper
- Night Sky Panorama
- ProCSSor
- Moving Beyond the Automobile
- Hot Sauce Committee, Part Two
- You Suck at Making Coffee
- Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
- iPhone Location Tracking Draws Fire, Shrugs – CIO.com
- This is a 633-word long story about an everyday occurance at nearly any airport.
- A Disappointment
- The Tragic Death of the Flip
- Translation of Selected Portions of Microsoft’s “Mango” Press Release to Plain English
- Solving the Android Problem
- Rabid Vinyl Monks – Thank You
- Cisco Shuts Down Flip
- Auto Buds
- From U.S. to Paris in 2 minutes
- Head Tracking for iPad
- 75 Abandoned Theaters
- Commodore USA
- Espresso, Intelligentsia
- Georgian Woman Cuts Off Armenian Web Access
- Observation RE: NY Times Subscriptions
- Android Is Destroying Everyone, Especially RIM; iPhone Dead In Water
- Two and a Half Men Is Better Than None
- We Believe – iPad 2 Ad
- Wasting Light
- Find the Future at NYPL
- James Cameron champions faster film projection rates | 24 Frames | Los Angeles Times
March 2011
- Field Notes Spring Colours
- Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011
- Earth Hour 2011 – The Big Picture
- New York Times paywall goes live
- Some readers will get around paywall: NY Times
- Various Bullet-Point Thoughts on the iPad 2
- RIP New York Times Elizabeth Taylor Obit Writer
- Undercover News: Long-Lost Bowie Album Leaks Online
- Things Real People Don’t Say About Your App
- Why so little looting in Japan? – Slate Magazine
- Google TV Remote app now available – Engadget
- Multitasking, etc.
- Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat
- Making Money by Making Stuff – The Guardian
- Newly Found Brown Dwarf is Ultra-Cool – New Scientist
- Tokyo Left Quaking
- Adobe Flash Player leaks for Motorola Xoom – Engadget
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown – iFixit
- First production Singer Design 911 — Autoblog
- VeriFone Releases Open Letter to the Industry and Consumers
- Naked Security
- Asus reveals ET2700 All-in-One Desktop – Engadget
- New York’s Puritan Chefs Want It Their Way – NYTimes
- Thoughts About iOS 5 Features
- Scrabble Gets a Typography Design Makeover – Design – GOOD
- Let’s Get Social: Networking Frames – Scanners
- Douchey Self-Promotion
- It’s Time to Play ‘Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?’ – Daily Intel
- Teflon Coated Basket
- Apple – iPad – All-new design. Video calls. HD video. And more.
- Followup to “2”
- March 2 event
- Cactus Walking On 20 Legs Found In China – Krulwich Wonders on NPR
- CRTC ditches bid to allow fake news – The Globe and Mail
February 2011
- Curl your latest Tweet using PHP
- Trent Reznor just won an Oscar – reddit.com
- ISS + Discovery
- How To Be a Writer — from Thought Catalog
- Farcical Xoom 4G Upgrade Plan Requires 6-Day Mail-In Operation | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- The lost art of pickpocketing – Slate Magazine
- Delayed Gratification in the Happiest Place on Earth – Arin Fishkin
- Scientists Are Cleared of Misuse of Data – NYTimes.com
- Apple – Thunderbolt: Next-generation high-speed I/O technology.
- What happens when you stick your head in a particle accelerator – Boing Boing
- Obama Won’t Go to Court Over Defense of Marriage Act
- Recipe for Coke? One More to Add to the File – NYTimes.com
- Robot Wars – George Monbiot
- Five weeks on a container ship – Slate Magazine
- Hundreds of Tourist Photos Weaved into One (18 total) – My Modern Metropolis
- La Chocolaterie de Jacques Genin, in Paris – NYTimes.com
- Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins – NYTimes.com
- Robert Lepage’s ‘Siegfried’ at the Met Opera Is to Use 3-D – NYTimes.com
- Borders Bankruptcy: Why Reading Isn’t Dead – Speakeasy – WSJ
- Watson wins it all, humans still can do some other cool things — Engadget
- Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex camera
- Monocolumn – Monocle
- 52 Cups of Coffee
- Original Recipe | This American Life
- moby.com
- Apple Launches App Store Subscriptions For Digital Content | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Ferrucci on Watson’s Jeopardy performance: Day One
- Who Is Arcade Fire??!!?
- Wherein I Discuss Layout Decisions