Poole’s argument goes like this: “By “chrome” I don’t mean Google’s browser of that name, but all the pseudo-solid, pseudo-3D visual cruft that infests user interfaces in modern computing. […] Unless you are browsing in full-screen “kiosk” mode or kicking it old-school with Lynx, chances are your browser
I’ve been asking myself why do I keep reading Gizmodo RSS. Now I’ve got two more reasons not to: this article and its new looks.
fake
It’s already a news that not all the apps in AppStore are compatible with iPhone for Verizon. TechCrunch digs a bit and finds out the complaint is originated by “AT&T Navigator” app that refuses to run on Verizon iPhone. The cause is this app’s traffic being
AOL
AOL owns now Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch, which means, by their calculations, around 117 million unique readers. It seems they’ve got now everything they needed to become no 1 media company in tech. It only seems so. The most important condition would be for AOL to support this
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQa9nP4yyms&feature=youtube_gdata_player It’s the carusel GUI.
originals that are copying the ripoffs
This is the newest Google tablet OS Market. It should be called AppStore, but the name was an Apple pending patent… It seems Apple didn’t manage to also protect the looks.
iphone
Engadget Secured corporate data that you’re using on the PlayBook while tethered is essentially on loan — it’ll disappear as soon as you disconnect [your BB phone] All the data is transferred between PlayBook and BB phone via encrypted Bluetooth connection. That will limit the extent of tethered traffic,
I’ve been invited yesterday to an open discussion on this subject: “What would Jules Verne say about the future of the books?”. For me, it was like a deep breath of fresh air, talking and listening to people that I could only hope still exist: the next generation of
I’ve done some thinking before writing about this article, but sometimes it can be useful to point dumb things out too. Gizmodo rants against iPad adoption in the classrooms in one of the most incoherent and un-documented way. Maybe I say that because I believe the opposite: iPads are
Asymco on Apple’s 3.9 B investment: By buying an option on production, not production itself Apple has a clever way to “own factories” without actually owning them: gain control over marginal increase in production without the impact from CapEX or depreciation.
apple
“Google was designed to play the role of a passive observer of the internet: web content was created for people, not specific Google queries, and Google would look around, take inventory of what was available, and give it to people who asked.” –Marco.org I think we need a bit
There is a lot of fuss lately around the disfluency in reading a text (Telegraph, UsabilityPost and Wired) Someone has thrown the idea that e-readers are “not so great” because their content is, well, too legible, therefore the learning efficiency is low. (First thing to notice is all the articles’