Dear Google Thanks. Thanks for Google Search. Thanks for Google Maps. Thanks for Gmail. Thanks for YouTube. Thanks for Google Calendar. Thanks for Google Chrome. I use these services every day and they are awesome. I am almost 30 and remember when web-based email was a joke. I remember when we didn’t need thumbnails for [...]
I’ve been thinking for a while about a series of posts describing how I use things. Since my iPhone is the device I use most, it seemed like the logical place to begin. I imagine that I use my iPhone home screen differently to most people. Here’s a screenshot: As is quickly evident, I keep [...]
Yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought an Apple device on the date it was released and I thought that I’d take the opportunity to share my first impressions. This isn’t a review. There are plenty of those around if you want to know if you should get one. Instead, here are three thoughts. [...]
Almost exactly one year ago, John Gruber criticised the tendency of reviewers to grade to a curve in the context of tablets. Unfortunately, it’s been a year and things haven’t changed much. Consider Vlad Savov’s recent review of the Sony Xperia S for The Verge.1 Savov gives the device a 7.1 making you think this [...]
Businessweek has a story in its latest issue about Sony. It was on the front page of Daring Fireball and linked to a couple of times in my Twitterstream. As a long time Sony fan, I was interested to see what it said. The article is terrible and I have no idea why anyone has [...]
I am not a smart phone analyst. I am not a technology analyst. I am a lawyer that likes technology. Jim Dalrymple is also not a smart phone analyst. He is also not a technology analyst. He is a professional blogger, focusing on Apple. I think he does a good job when he writes about [...]
Good web software has a lot of upsides: speed, compatibility, network awareness and seemless updates. Those seemless updates have a downside, though. I use Google Maps three or four times a week. I also live in Japan. Until Saturday, when viewing Google Maps in English, the application displayed placed names in both kanji and romaji. [...]
People that run these create a startup in 48 hours things? They’re snake oil salesmen, pure and simple. They’re selling to software developers a get rich quick scheme in slightly more respectable clothing. There is no substitute for hard work and no short cuts to success. You want to build a business? Great. Be prepared [...]
Remember how curation became the ‘in’ thing to do in 2010? It’s like we finally found a reason to justify posting links to our blogs: we were ‘curating’. Well, the other day I signed up to, and was invited into, Stellar. Stellar is kind of like an automated curation service. It can automate your own [...]
Not the most important part of the article (but my favourite part nonetheless): You’d think it’d be fun, wouldn’t you? Writing about “The Simpsons” and such for money. It’s every slacker’s dream job. And I was making $35,000! I remember that I crossed a certain threshold, soon after I got my new job: I stopped [...]