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It’s said that the best posture is the one that’s constantly changing. I know I’ve developed a bad posture out of constant computer usage. You see, I rest my elbow on one side of the chair, while using the mouse with the other. What I didn’t realise, was that I developed a tilt to one...
CalendarBar, the perfect way to access upcoming events
There are apps that are bundles of features, and then there are apps that try to figure out how to make life easier. They try to hide technology and UI chrome as far as possible, and instead focus on the information. CalendarBar is one of those apps. Clean Cut Code, the guys who make DisplayPad...
Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2
Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2 → Engadget: It has led to Samsung, purveyor of an Android 3.0 tablet by the name of Galaxy Tab 10.1, to look more closely at its own hardware and pricing model and, according to executive VP Lee Don-Joo, “improve the parts that are...
Twitter v3.3’s Quick Spam Bar
Twitter v3.3′s Quick Spam Bar [screenshot] → We thought it was all fun and games when Twitter played around with the Mac app’s icon. It yielded much laughter and sarcastic joy. The iOS update on the other hand comes with “Quick Bar”, which is Twitter’s way of saying “here’s some spam with our free app”....
Motorola Xoom: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard
Motorola Xoom: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard → The Sencha team runs the Xoom through some browser tests. Very impressive performance in SunSpider tests, but: […] the CSS3 animations are almost completely broken. We often found even for the most basic animations the browser skipped frames, incorrectly rendered elements, or didn’t run the animation to completion....
New MacBook Pro Benchmarks
New MacBook Pro Benchmarks →
Very impressive stats:
The performance of the new MacBook Pros is amazing. The slowest MacBook Pro performs on par with the fastest previous-generation MacBook Pro, and the fastest MacBook Pro is 80% faster than the faste...
Apple announces iPad 2 event for March 2
Apple announces iPad 2 event for March 2 → Looks like Jim Dalrymple was right again, and Apple has just sent out media invites for what’s unmistakably the iPad 2 event. I stick to my previous prediction: Faster A5 processor, a gigabyte of RAM, FaceTime camera, and maybe some NFC stuff. No retina display or...
Apple’s Big Subscription Bet: Brilliant, Brazen, Or Batsh*t Crazy?
Apple’s Big Subscription Bet: Brilliant, Brazen, Or Batsh*t Crazy? → MG Siegler on Apple’s new App Store rules: Apple’s aim here is not only to make money, but to enable everyone to make money with a system that actually works. How are they going to do that? By doing something that all companies say they...
Parrotfish: Extending twitter previews for everyone else
Parrotfish: Extending twitter previews for everyone else →
Brilliant Safari (and Chrome) extension that not only adds a whole lot of media types, but also grabs text and other media from arbitrary pages, like the story and images from a linked blog p...
Remnants of a disappearing UI
Remnants of a disappearing UI → Brilliant: Because the primary input method of the iPad is a single piece of multitouch glass, developers have incredible flexibility to design unique user interfaces. It’s hard to appreciate the variety of UIs though, since turning the screen off removes virtually all evidence of them. To spotlight these differences,...
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read?
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? → Very interesting data analysis by Read it Later shows how reading habits vary with devices. This data also shows how much more convenient read-later services like Read it Later and Instapaper can be. Articles come in the whole day, but people can catch up when it’s most convenient...
