2013
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December 2013
- The AnandTech Mac Pro Review
- The Results of a DNA Picture Depend on Who’s Developing It
- What Paul Graham Didn’t Say
- Smart Watches and Computers on Your Face
- On Hacking MicroSD Cards
- Michael Schumacher in Critical Condition After Ski Fall
- The Tech Press Can’t Admit to Having Nice Things
- Bullies and Bystanders
- Intellectual Property Brouhaha
- Tech’s “Lost Year”
- The VSCO Look
- The Best Photo Editing App for the iPhone
- A Royal Pardon for Alan Turing
- My “Sweet” Mac Setup
- The China Mobile Deal is Now Official
- Projecting
- The Theory Behind Writer Pro
- Pkpkt
- Tech Podcasts
- Big Fan
- Apple’s Inter-App Sharing Dilemma
- Obama Panel Recommends New Limits on NSA Spying
- Mac Pro Available Starting Tomorrow
- iTunes Match and Mastered for iTunes
- The Pricing of the Best Apps of 2013
- Misunderstood or Double-Edged?
- Misunderstood
- Twitter Working on “Edit” Feature for Tweets
- The Definitive Facts Behind CBS’s Flawed Report
- ‘60 Minutes’ and the Revolving Door Journalism of John Miller
- Special Access
- A Swing and a Miss
- App Store Ratings Are the Least of Our Worries
- Keeping It Simple Is Complicated
- ‘The Whopping $3.99 Purchase Price’
- Canadian Competition Bureau Files Complaint Against Google
- Charlie Parker
- Instagram Direct, Twitter DMs, and the Social/Communications Map
- Stock and Flow
- The Year ‘The Stream’ Crested
- Instagram Direct
- Facebook Puts Its Web Feed in Motion With Auto-Playing Videos
- Canada Post to Phase Out Urban Home Mail Delivery
- Decisions and Tensions
- Systems Poster Series
- Twitter Makes Its Play for Private Messaging
- Why Default Settings Should Be Right
- On the Threshold of Sense
- The Silicon Valley Letter
- Reform Government Surveillance
- Feedly Is/Was Hijacking Shared Links
- Ratio coffee
- Apple Selling Sharp 4K Display
- Apple Rolling Out iBeacon in US Apple Stores
- Android Support vs iOS Support
- Scott Simpson at Çingleton 2013
- Departures
- Apple Desktops Overtake Dell on Shoppers’ Holiday Wish Lists
- A China Mobile iPhone Is a Really Big Deal
- Microsoft Might Kill Windows RT
- On the Failure of Healthcare.gov
- Spotify Spills Details on Artist Payments
- VSCO Cam Now Available for Android
- Use Time Machine With the 802.11ac AirPort Extreme Base Station
- Two Weeks With the Retina iPad Mini
- Stuxnet’s Secret Twin
- Apple Buys Topsy
- Oli-Gig-Opoly
- Edison’s Revenge
- Amazon’s Drone Army
- The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack
- Mapping as a Service
November 2013
- Newsstand in iOS 7
- Google’s Growing Patent Stockpile
- Much Ado About Bitcoin
- Three Unpublished J.D. Salinger Stories Have Leaked Online
- The Dirty Secret of “Discounts”
- Android is Eating the World
- YouTube 5.3 Reveals Upcoming “Music Pass”
- Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy
- GoldieBlox, Fair Use, and the Cult of Disruption
- No Matter Why Apple Bought PrimeSense, It Should Be Interesting
- Righteous Bits
- Only 25% of Yahoo Employees Willing to Use Yahoo Mail
- Photographer Wins $1.2 Million From Companies That Took Pictures Off Twitter
- Apple Confirms Acquisition of PrimeSense
- Eric Schmidt Says Some Schmidt
- A Farewell Trip on the World’s Longest Flight
- It’s a Trap
- The Unacknowledged Compromise
- Truce android ios
- Not Dead; Finished
- Bingers (That Pun Was Less Pathetic Than Microsoft’s Scroogled Store)
- iWork for iOS and Mac Updated
- Jury Says Samsung Owes Apple Another $290 Million
- Mark Webber’s Final Formula 1 Press Conference
- Leaving Google Chrome
- Diff
- Instagram Arrives on Windows Phone Today, Without Camera Support
- Stagnation or Stability?
- WordPress Adds Native Markdown Support
- Cell Carriers Again Prove That They Are Dicks
- Bob Dylan’s Interactive ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ Video
- The Sweet Setup
- FiftyThree Pencil
- $17 Million Settlement With Google Over Tracking of Consumers
- Earphone ‘Burn-In’ Is Hokum
- Can We Talk?
- Life 365
- Just Noise
- Jony Ive and Marc Newson
- OS X Mavericks Features That’d Be Great in iOS 8
- Image Retention on Retina iPad Mini
- iPad Mini First Impressions
- Coin Is Trying to Be a Card That Replaces Every Swipeable Card in Your Wallet
- iBooks and iTunes U Updated With iOS 7 Redesigns
- Legroom Becomes Equal
- Apple Spending Big on Robots and Lasers
- Microsoft Does Away With Stack Ranking
- We Meet With the London Bike Courier Who Runs a Vice Parody Account, Then Get Wasted and Cry Into a Pillow
- NMPA Sends Takedown Notices to 50 Sites, Including Rap Genius
- Introducing Custom Timelines
- Hot and Fresh Claim Chowder
- iPad Mini With Retina Display Available Now
- Look Inside Apple’s Spaceship Headquarters
- Progress Shouldn’t Mean Regression
- Technological Optimism, but Only Just
- Take Those Retina iPad Mini “Burn In” Stories With a Grain of Salt
- Desktop Class
- Five Years in the App Store
- Olloclip 4-in-1 Review
- Photo Stream Limits Substantially Increased (Update: Probably Not)
- Basic Math Matters
- iWork File Format, Redux
- The Kübler-Ross Stages of BlackBerry
- Twitter’s Up 75%, but That’s Nothing Compared With 1999
- Khoi Vinh on Everpix
- Wait, Wasn’t Twitter Supposed to Be Dead by Now?
- A List of Features Returning to iWork
- You’ve Been a Naughty Search Engine (Whip Crack)
- Like Cracking a Nut With a Sledgehammer
- Apple’s iPad Air Adopts IGZO Technology
- Apple’s Releases Report on Government Information Requests (PDF Link)
- Everpix Is Shutting Down
- Skating Towards the Goal
- Q Branch’s Customer Support Guidelines
- Apple Confirms Next US Factory in Arizona
- Apple’s iTunes Remote App Updated
- Chrome’s Insane Password Security Strategy, Redux
- BlackBerry-Fairfax Takeover Dies; Thorsten Heins Out
- Workplace Equality Is Good for Business
- The 1939 New York World’s Fair
- There is No Non-“Real” iPad
- The Upcoming Moto G Will Run Android 4.3
- Scat Academy (Part 1)
- Why FaceTime Audio Won’t Replace Phone Calls
- J.D. Pricing Power
- J.D. Power Satisfaction Survey Reveals J.D. Power Is Unsatisfactory
- Mavericks’ New Activity Detection
- Kicking the Can
- The New Rules of Tech Journalism
October 2013
- Android for Some
- Measuring Google+ Activity
- Searching for Ads
- Why the NSA Wanted Back Door Access to Data Centres
- OS X 10.9 Brings Thunderbolt Networking
- Finder 10.9 Disk Space Embellishment
- Fantastical 2 for iPhone
- The iPad Air Reviews Are Rolling In
- Samsung’s Developer Strategy
- The Problem Isn’t Technology; It’s You
- Apple Doesn’t Want to Bust Your iPhone
- Adobe’s Giant Security Breach is Even Gianter
- “A Year to Forget”
- Apple Should Spend Its Money on Its Future
- A Mysterious Black Tube Appeared in Jeff Carlson’s Mailbox
- Samsung Galaxy of Weird
- iPad Mini for Creation
- Likely Justification for the New iWork File Formats
- Freedumb
- Re-Re-Re-Revisiting This Big iPhone Thing
- Exploring the New iWork for Mac File Formats
- LinkedIn Introduces Insecurity
- App Store Inconsistencies, Continued
- Human After All
- iPad Mini or iPad Air?
- Apple Pulls Some Disney and Pixar Titles From iTunes Store
- How Not to Design a Great Race Track
- Cabel Sasser’s Talk at XOXO
- How Apple Makes the Mac Pro
- Samsung Fined for Paid Comments
- Another Entry in the App Store Inconsistency Diaries
- Rite of Passage
- Apples and Oranges and Sour Grapes
- Best in Class, Built to Last
- The State of Maps
- The Price of Free Software
- Apple’s Free Apps
- Brian White is a Really Shitty Analyst
- Grading “Spitballing Apple’s October Event”
- The Siracusa Review of Mavericks
- Nokia Lumia 2520
- Apple Really Must Have a Lot More to Cover
- Google’s Iron Grip on Android
- Why Android First Is a Myth
- Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?
- BBM Now Available for Android and iPhone, Kind Of
- David Pogue to Join Yahoo
- Twitter to Kill Twitter Music
- Product Launch Day
- Maciej Cegłowski’s Talk at XOXO
- The Final Straw for Newsstand
- What Is Digital Art Worth?
- “Rearranging Crackers on Plates on Deck Chairs on the Titanic”
- The State of Tapbots’ Apps in iOS 7
- Schmidtty Ads
- WSJ Backpedals on iPhone 5c Supply Chain Cuts Story
- Olloclip Launches 4-in-1 Lens for iPhone
- The Panic Office
- The Plastic Sky Is Falling
- Cupertino Council Approves Apple Campus 2
- iCloud Email
- Media Temple Is Acquired by GoDaddy
- Spitballing Apple’s October Event
- Apple Confirms an October 22 Press Event
- Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as SVP of Retail and Online Stores
- Patagonia Through the iPhone 5S
- iPhone 5S Outselling iPhone 5C Two-to-One, According to CIRP
- Canadian Government to Push Cable Providers to Unbundle Channels
- Flipcase
- Surface RT Brand Was Confusing
- Adventures of a Serial Trespasser
- Instagram No Longer Lets Users Disable Video Autoplay
- Google Sets Plan to Sell Users’ Endorsements
- Judge: Google’s Tracking Not Harmful
- Dave Eggers “Made” Michele Filgate “Quit” Twitter
- What Is Podcasting?
- Henry Blodget Walked Around Apple’s Campus
- How Not to Write App Release Notes
- How Loom Fixed the iOS 7 Forced Logout Bug
- Why Malcolm Gladwell Matters, and Why That’s Unfortunate
- Older Samsung Phones Banned From US as Trade Order Goes Into Effect
- Apple’s Rumoured Oct 22 iPad Event
- More on the Red Bull Traction Control Mystery
- HP’s New Chromebook
- Nest Protect
- Setting Expectations
- Built Right In
- Square Opening New Offices in New York and Waterloo
- This Year’s iMac Update Is a Lot Bigger Than I Thought
- Samsung’s Galaxy Gear Advertising
- iPhone 6B, for Big
- Terrible Reporting About iPhone Security
- The Architecture of Density
- Intellectual Ventures Is Running Out of Money
- Behind the Scenes of the First iPhone Announcement
- Real Security Flaws vs. New Security Flaws
- Customer Data at Adobe Has Been Compromised
- “Instagram as a Growing Business” Is an Odd Euphemism for Adding Ads
- Apple Acquires Cue
- Red Bull’s Traction Secret
- The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
- Inside Lavabit’s Battle Against the Courts
- How Panic Got Into Video Games With Campo Santo
- iCloud’s Storage Limits
- Wristy Business
- How Nate Boateng Almost Lost Every Family Photo
- Like Clockwork
- Touch ID and the Secure Enclave
- Touch ID Conspiracy of the Day
- Galaxy Gear Review Roundup
- Guide: Awesome Coffee Gear
- Note 3’s Benchmarking “Adjustments” Inflate Scores
- Is Thunderbolt “Doomed” to Be the New Firewire?
September 2013
- How BlackBerry Blew It
- Time to Make Other Plans
- “You Lose; Good Day, Sir”
- A Beginner’s Guide to Pinboard
- Optimizing UI Icons for Faster Recognition
- Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX
- Ballmer Bids Cringeworthy Farewell to Microsoft
- Microsoft Unveils the Second-Generation Surface
- Unleashing Genetic Algorithms on the iOS 7 Icon
- FaceTime Audio Over a Cellular Connection
- Can Apple Announce the Rest of 2013′s Products in Just One Event?
- Instagram for iOS 7
- Clear Responds to the Pricing Backlash
- Samsung Counters iPhone 5S With a Golden Galaxy S4
- Unsucking Apple’s Mapping Data
- Naming Overcast
- Obtrusive
- Why PopSci Is Shutting Off Their Comments
- Horse_ebooks Is Human After All
- Overcast
- The Maps Data Gap
- Nine Million
- Chaos Computer Club Breaks Apple Touch ID
- The Hot Red Chairs
- Update on iOS 7 Adoption Rate
- Layer Cake
- Apple Seems to Also Believe in Multipath TCP
- Fantastical and iOS 7
- All Things D to Leave Dow Jones
- House Industries for the New Yorker
- iOS 7 Adoption Already As High As 35% In One Day
- The Dumbest Generation? Nope
- Retina Assets on Non-Retina iPads in iOS 7
- Apple’s Magic Curtain
- “New? New Is Easy. Right Is Hard”
- Google’s New Project to Solve Death
- Redesigning Mailbox for iOS 7
- iOS 7: Tips, Tricks, and Details
- The Delightful Details of iOS 7
- John Gruber’s iPhone 5S and 5C Review
- AnandTech’s iPhone 5S Review
- iOS 7: The Pixel Envy Review
- Regarding Apple Not Yet Announcing iPhone 5C Pre-Order Numbers
- Claim Chowder Followup, iPhone 5S Edition
- Why the Naysayers Are Wrong to Say Apple Is in Trouble
- “Petals for the Finale”
- M is for Mystery
- Why Didn’t Ballmer Build Any of This?
- What’s Wrong With Windows Phone?
- Awkward Collar Tug to Follow Later
- Made for iOS 7
- The Aptly-Named Motley Fool
- Today in “Why is Eric Schmidt Allowed to Speak in Public?”
- PCalc Updated for iOS 7
- Apple’s Photography Focus
- Someone Who Used to Work at Apple Just Said Something Controversial About Apple
- The iPhone is Apple Doubling-Down On What It Does Best
- More Details on Touch ID
- The Reasons Apple’s 64-bit A7 Chip Makes Sense
- Gruber’s Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction
- Grab Bag From Today’s Event
- Two Week Old Chowder
- The C is for Colour, Not Cheap
- Apple Announces iPhone 5S
- The Porsche 918 Spyder is the Fastest Production Car to Lap the ‘Ring
- On Recent Apple Parts Leaks
- How the NSA Spies on Smartphones
- The Internet Didn’t Kill the Newspaper
- Bullshitapalooza
- Sour Grapes
- R-I-P-O-F-F
- Say Goodbye to the iPod Classic
- Fingerprints
- Computing’s Future is Not on Your Wrist
- One of the Missing Pieces in the NSA/Encryption Reporting
- NSA Foils Internet Encryption
- The Gatekeeper and the Keymaster
- New Logo for Yahoo Designed In-House
- OmniKeyMaster Update
- The Samsung Galaxy Note 3
- The Samsung Galaxy Gear
- “People Who Are Really Serious About Software Should Make Their Own Hardware”
- Apple’s Newest Architectural Design Revealed at Mall
- Google is Defragmenting Android
- Apple Event Announced
- iPhone 5C Announced
- Sony Attachable Mobile Lenses
- Microsoft to Acquire Nokia’s Devices and Licenses Businesses
- This is Samsung’s Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
- The Anatomy of an Iconic CEO Firing
- Google’s New Policies
August 2013
- “Smart” Watches
- Advertising AdBlock
- Moore’s Law Will Be Dead Within a Decade
- Flickr for iPhone Has a Brand New Camera
- 24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
- The Integrity of Rob Enderle
- Skype Confirms 3D Video Calls Are Under Development
- Apple’s Dark Horse for Streaming Music
- Gone Phishing
- Google Hangouts Switches to VP8
- Details Behind Today’s Internet Hacks
- Two Different Masters
- London/Amsterdam 2013
- OmniKeyMaster
- 300 Days with the iPad Mini
- Apple’s Processor Design
- Why Yahoo and Apple Want Foursquare’s Data
- Prsm
- The Ballmer Product Pipeline Shows a Very Mixed Record for Microsoft
- Steve Ballmer’s Straight Jacket
- How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire Within Twelve Months
- AnandTech’s Nexus 7 Review
- Apple Buys Embark
- London & Amsterdam
- Butterick’s Practical Typography for the Web
- Apple Developer Center Outage Fixed ‘Remote Code Execution’ Flaw
- Easy on the Hooptedoodle
- David Miranda, Schedule 7, and the Danger That All Reporters Now Face
- A Gold iPhone
- Far, But Far From Far Enough
- The Limits of Google’s Openness
- Tech Founder Complains About the Shithole City He’s Forced to Make His Millions In
- Cue Nelson “Ha Ha”
- Google Blocks Microsoft’s New YouTube Windows Phone App
- It’s the Production Line, Stupid
- Customer Acquisition and the Entry Level iPhone
- Neutrality
- Cheap as in Computing
- New York Times Editor’s Memo to Staff Regarding Today’s Outage
- On the Future of iOS and Android
- Improved Support for High-Resolution Displays With the Srcset Image Attribute
- How the iPhone and Bad Decisions Killed BlackBerry
- Hyperloop
- The History of the Tri-Tone Sound
- BlackBerry’s for Sale, but Who’s Buying?
- New iPhone September 10
- The iPad Is Like the iPod, Not the iPhone
- Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
- The Problem Exists Between Nerds and Normal People
- A Brief History of Apple’s iWatch
- The New Instapaper Web Beta
- Secret Court Battles
- AirPort Extreme
- A New Collaboration with Nine Inch Nails
- Anil Dash Is, of Course, Wrong
- Lodsys Dismisses Frivolous Lawsuit
- Design With Windows
- Science Deniers Just Don’t Think
- Hands On with the LG G2
- The Anti-Apple
- Third Time’s the Charm
- Chrome’s Insane Password Security Strategy
- FaceTime Every Day
- Thunderbolt Is (Still) Massively Faster Than USB
- Jeff Bezos’ Letter to Washington Post Employees
- Canalys’ Methodology
- How to Look Like a Buffoon in 800 Words or Less
- “DRM Is a Religion”
- Another Sketchy “Report” From “Analysts”
- The NSA Tool So Secret It’s Advertised on Job Boards
- EXIF Data Crisis Watch
- “She Got a Key Assumption Wrong”
- Pay to Play
- Federal Bureau of Infiltration
- Your App Makes Me Fat
- Pressure Cookers and Backpacks
- The Inside Story of the Moto X
- Enablers
- The Nexus 7’s Display
July 2013
- DRM on HTML5 Video Makes Perfect Sense
- XKeyscore
- “We Never Learnt How to Pronounce It”
- Facebook Said to Plan to Sell TV-Style Ads
- Today’s Edition of Don’t Be Evil
- Android Fragmentation Report
- Apple to Probe Claims of Pegatron Labor Violations
- Strategy Analytics
- ‘Everybody Loves Bob’
- Kindergarten Coders Can Program Before They Can Read
- Apple Removes SVP Bob Mansfield From Executive Team
- Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage
- Six-Second Rebuttal
- Ibrahim Baliç Likely Wasn’t Behind the Apple Developer Breach
- Does Anyone Still Use Twitter Music?
- Dev Centre Back Online
- Amazon Hits New High on Optimism About Its U.S. Business
- Understanding Google
- Henry Blodget Just Bought A Newspaper
- The Surface RT Isn’t Selling So Well
- UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too
- David Geffen’s Beach is Yours
- The Trouble With iTunes on the Mac and Windows
- Print Dead
- The Case for a Low-End Plastic iPhone
- Had Another Messaging in the 21st Century Adventure This Morning
- Random Sneeze Call
- I Guess BGR Gets Paid By Ad Impressions
- Do Android Tablets Stay in a Drawer?
- NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
- Constraints
- Apple Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results
- Victory Lap for Ask Patents
- The 70–20–5 Rule
- SIM Encryption Flaw
- The Apple Developer Connection Security Breach
- Extended Apple Developer Connection Outage Due to Security Breach
- Will.I.Am Offers Advice on Logo Design
- Apple’s Dev Center Has Been Down Since Thursday
- Apple Confirms Hopstop Acquisition
- On Mobile Ads
- Microsoft Fiscal Year 2013 Earnings
- Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?
- Thom Yorke’s Spotify Protest
- What Colour Is Surprise?
- You Know What’s Half-Cool?
- Betteridge’s Law on the Verge
- Apple’s Answer on Upgrade Pricing
- Ghost Town
- How to Publish a Story That Explains How to Use Social Media to Juice Your Story’s Popularity
- Apple Unveils Logic Pro X
- Survey Shows Apple and Google Are No Longer America’s Tech Sweethearts
- Detroit Is Coming Back
- Trayvon
- The Coming Public Freakout About iOS 7
- The Perfect Date to Start Making Your App Look Like It Belongs on iOS 7 Was June 10
- Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service
- The Essential Design Texts
- Post-Scarcity Economics
- Flickr and Instagram
- Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow
- Microsoft Revamps Structure and Management
- YouSendIt Is Now Hightail
- Apple E-Books Ruling Won’t Do Much for Consumers
- Judge Rules Apple Conspired to Raise Prices on E-Books
- Effecting Change From the Outside
- Gingercast
- Apple Whipsawed by Dueling Supply Chain Reports
- Android Jelly Bean Takes First Place From Gingerbread
- The Chooser, From Dropbox
- NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S. Citizens
- Trip Chowdhry Outdoes Himself
- Fattening Up
- Some Thoughts on an Entry Level iPhone
- Exploring iOS 7 Rounded Corners
- Webber Goes From Start to Finish With Grace
- The Verge Attempts to Explain a Plane Crash
- Kanye West’s Assaultive New Album
- Marketing Magna Carta Holy Grail
- Yay! 2013 4th of July Fireworks!
- Telus Sky
- Why iOS 7’S Design Is Bold but Flawed
- Motorola Moto X’s Customization Options
- Lockdown
- iWork for iCloud
- Motorola Rolls Out First Ad for Moto X
- How to Keep Edward Snowden From Leaking More NSA Secrets
- Mavericks’ New Wave
- HP Still Plotting a Return to Smartphone Market
- How Google is Killing Organic Search
- Webfonts by H&FJ
- Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of the New MacBook Air’s Battery
June 2013
- Mapglitch
- Apple Adds Chip Supplier
- Yahoo’s Spring Cleaning
- Kyle Petty: Danica Patrick Is ‘Not a Race Car Driver’
- Feedle-Dee-Dee
- Android Everywhere
- iOS 7’s Coalesced Updates
- Money Well Spent
- Sorry, NSA; Terrorists Don’t Use Verizon, or Skype, or Gmail
- Patent Troll That Sues Public Transit Systems Gets Hauled Into Court
- Inside the Pixar Campus
- Motorola Mobility’s New Logo
- And Partners Make Seven
- Two Major Rulings Bolster Gay Marriage in US
- On OS X’s ‘Missing’ Redesign
- Google Mine
- iOS 7 Beta Available for iPad
- Project Loon
- Firefox Web Browser to Move Ahead Plan to Block Tracking
- Flood
- C’mon Jim
- Inside Digg’s Race to Build the New Google Reader
- Video on Instagram
- Microsoft Nearly Acquired Nokia
- Great Basin
- “The NDA Is More Defensive Than Offensive”
- Wrong
- What Part of “Beta” Does Farhad Manjoo Not Understand?
- Morning for iPad
- Mailbox for iPad Gains Support for iPad Orientation
- MacBook Air Reviews Roundup
- Shakespeare.txt.jpg
- Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy
- A Surprisingly Simple Fix for Imbalanced Volume From Apple In-Ear Headphones
- Requiem for a Back Button
- What’s an Apple User Worth?
- You Know What’s Cool?
- Why Apple Added a Male Voice to Siri
- Now I Can See Why Phil Schiller Lost It
- Why iOS 7 Doesn’t Have Shadows
- Mindless iPad/iOS 7 Speculation
- The Hierarchy of iOS 7
- The Rest of the World Will Have to Wait for iTunes Radio
- Craig Federighi
- How OS X “Mavericks” Works Its Power-Saving Magic
- Apple Design Awards 2013
- Been There, Done That
- Smart Observations of iOS 7
- Cut and Paste Apple WWDC 2013 Keynote Article for Idiot Tech Hacks
- Dub Dub
- Designed by Apple in California
- WWDC 2013 Expectations
- The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
- Blowing It
- Future of Canadian Grand Prix Clouded in Uncertainty
- Denial Denial
- This Is Your Brain on Coffee
- Cult of Mac Gets Trolled
- Prism
- Everything the Rumour Blogs Say Apple Will Be Introducing at WWDC
- Vesper
- This Is How Apple Stores Replace iPhone 5 Screens
- The Standard of Mobile Photography
- Came Back Haunted
- Straight Out of BlackBerry’s PlayBook
- BGR Attempts to Regain My Affection with Ridiculous Linkbait
- Samsung Wins ITC Ban on Older AT&T iPhones, iPads
- 4K for $4K
- A Few Observations From D11
- Jim Edwards of Business Insider Is My New Favourite Linkbait Master
- Speculation on Apple’s Rumoured Streaming Service
- Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees
- We’re the Uber of Organ Transplants
- WWDC 2013 App Now Available
- CRTC’s New Wireless Code Spells End of Three-Year Contracts
- No Compromises
- The Idiocy of Eliminating a Photo Staff
May 2013
- The Cord-Cutting Fantasy
- Jenson Button, Canada 2011
- Snake Oil and Audio Woo
- What’s the Most Convoluted Way to Say “Start Button”?
- Apple Shuffles iPod Touch
- D nied
- Managing Expectations
- Internet Trends 2013
- Under Old Management
- This Just In
- Nine Inch Nails to Release New Album This Year
- If Foxconn Sneezes, Does That Mean Apple Caught a Cold?
- The Sweethome
- Olloclip Releases Lens Distortion Correcting App
- Monaco Grand Prix Was Rubbish
- Iwatch idiot
- Free
- 21 Ways for Jim Edwards to Complain About Meaningless Bullshit for Ad Money
- Today in Dubious Update Changelogs
- Another Bidder for Hulu
- Horace Dediu’s Questions for Tim Cook
- Why Waze Is Worth More Than $1 Billion
- The Google We Always Wanted
- Music Every Day
- Joe Nocera Does It Again
- Mailbox Takes Its Email App to iPad
- Android’s Market Share Is Literally a Joke
- Designing Blogs for Readers
- “This Shit Is Private”
- GIF Creator Steve Wilhite Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award
- Apple and Corporate Taxes
- The One-Person Product
- Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership
- A Better, Brighter Flickr
- Unknowable
- Yahoo Really, Really Buys Tumblr
- Tumblr!
- Growing Pains
- Yahoo Wants to Buy Tumblr
- Welcome to Google Island
- Cameras Everywhere
- The Neighbors
- Gullible Finance
- Google Urges Fast Adoption of VP9 Video Compression
- Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet
- How Quickly Do iOS Users Update Their Apps?
- Apps From Twitter, Tumblr, More Now on Google Glass
- The Android Detour
- Google+ Hangouts Video Chat Disabled On AT&T
- Google Versus
- “We Already Have Money”
- Google I/O 2013
- In the Living Room, Still No Sign of Google
- Every Major Mobile Competitor Makes Apps for iOS
- “The Glorification of Technology”
- Strange Things Are Afoot at AppleCare
- Design Is How It Works, Edition Number 3911
- New Icon for Facebook on iOS
- Thoughts on the New York Times’ Prototype Article Redesign
- HTC First to Be Discontinued by AT&T
- Bringing It All Together
- LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
- How to Make a Mockup of iOS 7
- Design Is How It Works
- On Netflix
- Apple Maps: Now Featuring Paris
- About That Bloomberg Report of ‘Falling iPad Mini Demand’
- Tamper
- iOS 7 Wishes
- The Illusion of Simplicity
- Adobe Is (Finally) Killing Fireworks
- Today’s Asstastic Headline Brought to You by Tyler Wofford
- Bill Gates: iPad Users Really Just Want a Surface
- It’s Time for Today’s Edition of “Apple Should Destroy Their Margins”
- Jony Ive Is Not a Graphic Designer
- The Internet Needs a Delete Button
- Photoshop CC Overview
- What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram
- Apple Store Kurfürstendamm
- Number of Users of Popular Social Networks for May, 2013
- The Panic Status Board: 2013 Edition
- Beauty, Truth, and Jony Ive
- Horace Dediu on the Bad Habits of Apple Analysts
- A Short History of Apple’s Stock Movement
- When the Article Isn’t That Interesting, Make Up a Stupid Headline
- Instagram Updates
- It’s Time for Apple to Nuke Their Margins From Low Earth Orbit: A Translation
- Senna
- The Sad State of Apple Rumours
- Apple, Open, and Learning From History
- iOS 7 Will Debut on Time
- Consumer Reports: “Water is Wet”
- What a Stupid Idea
April 2013
- An Anecdotal Observation on How Google+ Is Doing
- “Tablets Are Not a Good Business Model”
- Path Texts My Entire Phonebook at 6:00 AM
- Donald Trump Offers Some Unsolicited Apple Advice
- What Happens When Pirates Play a Game Development Simulator?
- Ios7 rumours
- Thoughts on WWDC
- A Big Band Plays a Tiny Club
- Google Now on iOS
- The Cheaper iPhone Model Already Exists (and it’s Selling Well)
- Bing, Skype, and Xbox Rebranding Plans
- The iTunes Store Turns Ten
- Coffee Week
- The Wirecutter
- Rental Car Companies Are Idiots When It Comes to Keys
- The White House Makes Official the Pronunciation of “GIF”
- Recommended by 4 Out of 5 Dentists
- Photos Every Day
- Google’s Schmidt Says Talking to Glasses Can Be Weird
- Instapaper Sold to Betaworks
- In the Land of the Coffee Nerds
- New Improvements to Twitter for Mac
- WWDC 2013 Tickets Sold Out in Two Minutes
- Q1 2013 US Smartphone Share
- The Big Gap Between Big Apple Events in Context
- Samsung Galaxy S4
- WWDC 2013: June 10-14
- Guess We Found Out Which Story Was True
- Innovating a Social Failure
- Just How Did Apple “Journalism” Get This Bad?
- Is Your Twitter Password Secure?
- Apple Q2 2013 Results
- Tweetbot 2.8 Adds Media Timeline
- Google Fined $189K by German Privacy Authority
- New Google Glass Gestures
- More Noise, Less Signal
- ‘Apple Doesn’t Innovate’ Nonsense
- Who’s Behind the “Tim Cook Must Go” Whisper Campaign?
- These Can’t Both Be True
- You Don’t Need Every Customer
- The Wrong Solution to a Problem That Shouldn’t Exist
- Coming to Grips With Bahrain’s Many Challenges
- Samsung Probed in Taiwan Over Fake Web Reviews
- WTF Street
- Christmas in April
- Big Shocker
- Album Designer Storm Thorgerson Dies
- Twitter Music
- Don’t Be a Profiteering Asshole
- Apple Stock Tanks on Bad News From Audio Chip Supplier
- Strength in the Face of Evil
- Mike Beasley Watched “iSteve” So You Wouldn’t Have To
- You Don’t Design Something Like Facebook Home Using Photoshop
- The Following Previews
- Microsoft and Foxconn Parent Hon Hai Sign Patent Agreement
- Netbooks Claim Chowder
- Recovering From a Hard Drive Failure
- Mailplane 3 Has Arrived
- Google Glass UI Guidelines
- The Default Narrative
- Driving a Prototype Porsche 959
- I’m With Stupid
- Henry Blodget Reads the iPhone Manual
- New Facebook Home Ad
- Big First Day of iPhone Sales at T-Mobile Stores
- Amazon Investors Give CEO Bezos Room to Run
- Google’s New Android Math Doesn’t Add Up
- The Strange Beauty of Salt Mines
- Samsung Galaxy Mega
- On Chasing the Right “Zero”
- Well Of Course Piper Jaffray Says Teens Love Apple
- How to Destroy Angels, Live at Coachella
- Concluding the Saga #12 Saga
- Status Board
- A Snobbish Canadian’s Review of Tonx
- “S” Is for “Complicated”
- Idiot
- Microsoft Thinks Android Is the New Windows
- iPad Mini Trademark Registration Saga
- JC Penny CEO Inventory Apparently Out of Stock
- Apple Kicks AppGratis Out of the App Store
- Ads in the Form of Articles
- Fast Churnalism
- How a Banner Ad for H&R Block Appeared on Apple.com
- “Is That a Feature or a Threat?”
- Extracting Audio From Pictures
- Facebook’s ‘Phone’ Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity
- What the Internet Owes to Roger Ebert
- The Making of Medium.com
- Roger Ebert Dies at 70
- Facebook Home
- The Real Reason Windows Phone Is Failing
- Apple’s iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds’ Surveillance
- Work Less
- Google Forks WebKit and Launches Blink
- Twenty Awesome Covers From the US Space Program
- Servo
- Helm: A Browser Concept
- Let the Rumours Begin
- Used Car Dealer Logic
- Apple Apology in China a Rite of Passage for Foreign Brands
- Mosaic
- Google Privacy Policy Faces Legal Challenge in Europe
- Housekeeping: RSS Feed Issues
- Regular Audio Human
- The iMac G5
- Size Matters for Connected Devices; Phablets Don’t
- Court Rules It Is Illegal to Resell Digital Music
- Patently Apple Strikes Again
- The Macalope’s Fools of the Year
- Double-Exposure Photography
March 2013
- Enough With the Surveys
- Facebook’s New Home on Android
- The Verge Is DDoSing My Brain
- Google Promises Not to Sue You if You Violate One of Ten Patents Regarding Large Data Sets
- “A Convenient Whipping Boy”
- That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
- The Kone Brewing System
- Why Developers Shouldn’t Use iCloud Syncing
- Where in the World Are Windows Phones Outselling iPhones?
- Flipboard 2.0
- Sweden Axes New Word After Google Intervenes
- Why Doesn’t iCloud ‘Just Work?’
- Forecast
- Twitterrific 5.2 Brings Native Push Notifications
- iPhone to Be Available on T-Mobile
- Dear Fellow Geeks: WTF?
- Just Say No to Pizzazz
- Springbored
- Yahoo To Acquire Summly
- After All Is Said and Done
- How Apple Invites Facile Analysis
- Meet The Internet Frauds Who Want To Sell You A Top Gear-Endorsed $49,000 Bugatti
- Please Stop Fighting About Your Smartphone
- Complex’s “The 40 Hottest Women in Tech”
- Major Security Hole Allows Apple Passwords to Be Reset
- The Battle of the Buds
- How to Enable Two-Step Verification for Your Apple ID
- Apple Reduces Functionality of Podcasts Recorded on Magnetic Tape
- Eric Schmidt Last Seen Attempting to Pry His Foot From His Mouth
- Apple Says Data Centers Now Use 100% Renewable Energy
- Dan Lyons to Leave ReadWrite
- Swinging for the Stars
- The End of Android
- iOS 6.1.3 Contains Yet Another Lock Screen Bypass Flaw
- Gmail’s Overly-Sensitive Spam Filter
- Google Alerts Are Now Useless
- Kevin Lynch at Apple
- The World Has No Room for Cowards
- Compose Gmail Message.app
- The Price of Free
- More Vague Than, Like, Whatever, Okay
- Apple’s RSS Reader
- How Mailbox Can Make Me a User
- Mailbox, After a Month
- The High Priest of App Design
- Apple Doesn’t Need a Cheap iPhone
- Samsung Electronics Appoints Co-CEOs
- Dropbox Buys Mailbox
- A List of Features in Apple’s Next Version of Mac OS X
- Tone-Deaf and Shockingly Sexist
- Samsung Unpacked 2013
- Samsung Galaxy S IIIS
- The iPhone 5, After Further Review
- Patently Ridiculous
- Apple Needs a Cheap iPhone
- We’re Building a Reader
- Regarding the iPhone’s Market Share
- Google’s Spring Cleaning
- Andy Rubin Steps Down
- Greed Is Groupon
- Why Apple Should Sidestep the ‘Phablet’
- Beautiful Typeface Designs Released Last Month
- Introducing a New Article Experience
- Taking Things Personally
- The “iPhone 5S” Problem
- The Era of Symbol Fonts
- Google Admits WebM Infringes H.264 Patents
- Because Screw the Readers, That’s Why
- SXSW as Cool and as Real as It Gets, Reports Marketing Associate
- Why I Like Daylight Saving Time
- Someone on the iBookstore Team Really Likes Introspective Novels
- Samsung Galaxy Note III Prototype Spotted
- Google to Settle WiFi Spying Case
- Bleedthrough
- A History of Abuse: The Brushed Metal Diaries
- iOS 6.1.2 Is the Most Popular Version of iOS
- News Feed Is Facebook’s New Jackpot
- Are We Still Complaining About Apple Maps?
- Hey, Dan Lyons, Your Apple Analysis Is Making You Look Stupid
- Outsourcing Control
- Anybody Else Feel Lucky?
- How McLaren Built the Greatest Formula One Car Ever
- An Expensive Error
- Smithsonian Magazine’s 2012 Photo Contest
- The Google Glass Feature No One Is Talking About
- Turning the Page
- The (Necessary) Cult of TED
- Fear of a WebKit Planet
- Digital Pioneers Sour on ‘Pay What You Want’ Music
- Apple’s Reality Distortion Field Relocates to Wall Street
- What Coke Contains
- “Can We Just Agree to Substitute ‘Analyst’ With ‘Stock Market Manipulator’ Everywhere the Word Is Used?”
- Voodoo Meditation
- Minified
- The Digital Age
- Guy Walks Into a Mediocre Department Store
- The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
- Spec Submission for the New Yorker’s Infographic Department
- The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
- The Fate of Google Glass
- HTC Explains the Design Philosophy Behind Sense 5
- Open and Shut
- Greenlight’s Einhorn Drops Suit Against Apple Over Preferred Stock Plans
February 2013
- “I Am Accountable”
- Did You Know Apple Pre-Announced Its iPad Sales?
- Outbox is Stupid
- The Rise of the Well-Dressed Man
- Slogans
- Judge Who Forced Apple to Apologize to Samsung Now Works at Samsung
- Introducing Mandroid
- Apple CEO Promises Investors ‘Great Stuff’
- Pulling Shots
- Tweetbot Shows You How to Shame Pirates
- Samsung’s Shameless Copying
- High-Hanging Fruit
- Skating to Where the Puck Is Going to Be
- Samsung’s Heft in Android Worries Google
- App.net’s New Direction
- App.net Is Now a “Freemium” Service
- Another Optimistic David Pierce Review
- LG Doesn’t Know Why It Bought WebOS From HP
- Annoyance
- Trent Reznor Announces the Return of Nine Inch Nails
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Hands-on Preview
- The False Burdens of Apple’s iOS
- Google Complicates Adblock Plus in Android Security Tweak
- Point-Counterpoint
- Joshua Topolsky Used Google Glass
- The First Read-Later Service
- A Summary of Today’s Attacks
- Schmiddty Predictions
- Chromebook Pixel Unveiled
- Online Economics Are All About Incentives
- Sony Gathers Journalists in a Room for Over Two Hours to Show Them Other People’s Videos
- “We’re About Defining the Future of Productivity, Entertainment, and Communication”
- How the World Looks Through Glass
- Hands-On With the HTC One
- New York City MTA Graphic Standards Manual
- Apple Hit by Hackers
- Skipping Pebbles
- Online Content Producers Timeline
- Professional Grade
- Google Will Open Its Own Stores by the End of the Year
- Apple Doesn’t Really Assign Engineers to “Fake” Projects
- When Good Design Isn’t Enough
- Elon Musk’s Misguided Attack on the Times
- Big Hedge Funds Fueled Apple’s 4th-Quarter Share Plunge
- A Most Peculiar Test Drive
- Microsoft Is Rapidly Approaching a Critical Crossroad
- I’d Like to Use the Web My Way, Thank You Very Much Quora
- More Shitty Punditry
- The Creepy Line
- A History of Horrible Apple Predictions From Peter Misek
- “Apple Holding TV-Related Event in March?”
- A Loose Rant on Maximization
- Google Fails the Turing Test
- The Charges Are Flying Over a Test of Tesla’s Charging Network
- Buttered Coffee
- Flat Pixels
- BlackBerry Creative Director Alicia Keys Tweets From Her iPhone
- Comparing Twitter App Timeline Views
- How Apple Could Add Widgets to iOS
- Less Time Can Mean Better Problem-Solving
- New Notification Preferences
- The Dirty World of Facebook EdgeRank Optimization
- A Tattered Line of String
- Nearly 30 Years Later, C’était Un Rendezvous Is Still Fantastic
- Vocabulary of Coffee Bars
- My Dead BlackBerry 10, a Eulogy
- He Is Dave Grohl, Ask Him Anything
- Mantra
- Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
- Flickr Is Back
- A Better App Store
- Source Links
- Who’s Being Dishonest With Articles Complaining About Storage Space?
- Mailbox: “If You Open Some Email, 10 Percent Is Relevant to You”
- Blackberry 10’s User Interface
- Storytelling
- Things Apple Has Not Yet Done
- Amazon Wants Its Own Currency
- Google-Designed Chromebook Concept Revealed in Leaked Video
- The Verge Reviews Microsoft’s Surface Pro
- Starfish Smartwatch
- Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web
- New Undocumented APIs in iOS 6.1
- Dell to Go Private in $24.4 Billion Deal
- Scaling the iPhone’s Interface to Five Inches
- I’m an English Professor in a Movie.
- What I Do for a Living
- Mbv
- Grand Central Terminal Turns 100
- Social Networking During That Big Game of Which the Name Is Forbidden to Be Spoken Lest Someone Think I’m Affiliated With a Giant Saucer
- Mercedes Formula 1 Launches 2013 Silver Arrow
- TechCrunch Didn’t Do the Research (Again)
- Actually Getting Things Done
- Apple’s 2013 To-Do List
- It’s Not a Good Day to Be Twitter, Either
- It’s Not a Good Day to Be Path
- The Theoretical iPad Mini With Retina Display
- How Long
January 2013
- Why I Don’t Stream My Music: A Somewhat Specific Set of Qualifications
- A Snark Peek at Camera+ 4
- SurfacePad for iPhone
- Not Quite as Advertised
- Comments
- What’s the Point of Office 2013?
- Why on Earth Did BlackBerry Hire Alicia Keys?
- RIM Rebrands Itself as BlackBerry
- Peak Mac?
- Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak Takes the Fifth
- Xxyyxx
- Amazon’s Earnings
- Apple Adds a 128 Gigabyte iPad Model
- Announcing the App.net File API
- Apple Updates iOS to 6.1
- Whither Link Posts?
- Quote of the Day: Take That Edition
- Asshole Identified
- Unreasonable Expectations
- Keith Rabois Explains His Departure
- Nose Jobs
- AT&T Earnings
- Why Does Google Still Reward Content Scraping?
- Goodbye to Stepped Noses
- Apple’s Semi-Soft Quarter in Charts
- Spell It With Me: B-E-L-E-A-G-U-E-R-E-D
- Here’s Why AAPL Was Pummelled in After-Hours Trading
- “Maybe it isn’t Apple That’s Failing”
- The Xbox Hoax
- Pebble Ships ‘Less Than 500’ Units Today
- Apple’s Q1 2013 Results
- Internet Comments Still Suck: A Translation
- Hands on With Microsoft’s Surface Pro
- Verizon Activated 6.2 Million iPhones in Q4
- Anti-Apple Anger
- How to Spend a $37 Venture-Capital Infusion
- Going Postal
- Rumour Mill Keep on Churnin’
- Vincible
- Opera Shows Off New WebKit-Based Browser
- Bendy iPhones
- Stumptown
- The Serif Readability Myth
- Apple Doesn’t Need a Cheap iPhone to Be Successful
- Becoming a New American Airlines
- The Red Bull Racing Story
- Worse Products Through Software
- The AT&T FaceTime Saga Comes to a Close
- Appleworld’s Bad Ride
- The 2012 Patent Rankings
- Behind Facebook’s Graph Search Tool
- More on iPhone 5 Sales
- Design Is Driving Technology Forward
- One Year, Four Departed Executives
- Apple Reportedly Cuts iPhone 5 Display Orders
- The Void of Losing Someone You Don’t Know
- Daisy
- The Art of Coffee
- The Best Typefaces Available From Google
- I Don’t Know What’s Going on With the Cheap iPhone Rumours Any More
- Nokia Decrypts HTTPS Data
- How About an Amazon AutoRip for Books?
- Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services
- Amazon Launches AutoRip
- This Is Not a Repeat From 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Fire Is Hot
- The Year of Samsung
- A Low-Cost iPhone?
- Content and Curation
- The Big-Ass Table
- “Easily Fits Into Your Life”
- The Consumer Electronics Show Is a Massive Waste of Time
- The Huawei Ascend Mate
- One Million Apps
- Going Solo
- Henry Blodget/Consumer Reports/Business Insider Trifecta
- Voyeuristic Tendencies
- Regarding the Android SDK’s License Agreement
- Android SDK Is Now Proprietary
- What Happens Now on Standards-Essential Patents?
- “Play With My V Spot”
- James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design
- How Google Beat the Feds
- There’s No Avoiding Google+
- Ubuntu for Phones
- Why Do Not Disturb Will Resume Working on January 7
- Apple Announces Q1 2013 Conference Call for January 23
- Everything Is Not Equally Good
- Take a Stance
- In Related News, Claim Chowder Is Now Available in Stupid, and Extra Stupid
- The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins
- No, Really, It’s the End of the Netbook
- Things Patrick Rhone Learned In 2012
- The End of the Netbook