Yearly Archives: 2012

Geek It Up Radio episode 11

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Peter joined Chris Stanton and Gene Marques on their “Geek It Up Radio” podcast this week.

Quotebook for iPhone and iPad

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Quotebook is a notebook for your quotes.

The app syncs quotes between the iPhone and iPad using iCloud, which I love. For me this app would be used just as much for capturing song ideas and lyrics as it would for quotes.

Pre-paid iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 coming June 22

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“Our customers want the best products available and we are excited to bring iPhone to our pre-paid consumers with an industry leading $55 per-month service plan,” said Doug Hutcheson, president and chief executive officer, Leap Wireless International, Inc. “Launching iPhone is a major milestone for us and we are proud to offer iPhone customers attractive nationwide coverage, a robust 3G data network and a value-packed, no-contract plan.”

Apple denies e-book price fixing

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Tuesday’s filing saw Apple categorically dismiss accusations from the class, which now includes 31 states, stating several times that the evidence will “speak for itself.” The response breaks down the complaint paragraph by paragraph, challenging the charges by either citing a lack of “sufficient evidence and belief” or denying them outright.

The EFF can suck it

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls iOS a “crystal prison.” Ridiculous.

D10 Video: Tim Cook session highlights

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AllThingsD:

Tim Cook learned a lot from Steve Jobs, and one of the big takeaways seems to be: Don’t tip your hand. The Apple CEO was unwilling to tackle questions about any future product plans during his first appearance on the D10 stage Wednesday night.

The need for ‘Like’ and ‘Tweet’ buttons

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Shawn Blanc:

When I redesigned this site I considered every element and asked myself why it was there and what purpose it served.

I did the same thing when I redesigned The Loop last September, but I kept the Tweet and Google+ buttons because I thought readers used them. If nobody is using the buttons on the page, I’d gladly get rid of them.

Skype’s future isn’t too bright

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However, its position at the top isn’t cemented. There are dozens of upstarts who want to eat into Skype’s future growth.

I don’t think there was ever a time when I liked Skype. It’s necessary sometimes, but I’d gladly use a startup that knew how to build software.

Tim Cook: In his own words

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The folks at Macworld have a great story summarizing Tim Cook’s conversation at D10 last night. Cook talked about Steve Jobs, the Apple TV, Macs, iPad, and a number of other topics.

Tim Cook at D10

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Mac Rumors is providing a live update of Tim Cook’s interview at the D10 Conference. The talk started at 9:00 ET.

Can you tell what these items are without their brandings?

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Digital Trends:

It’s no secret that branding is powerful: Fonts, shapes, colors are all part of what we associate with certain brands. Without the words, we can tell the swoosh is part of the Nike franchise, and a yellow M is a straight sign to your local McDonald’s. But can you recognize these brands and objects if you take the colors and logos away? That’s the idea behind the project Brand Spirit by Andrew Miller.Every day for 100 days, Miller has taken a random object and paint it completely white to strip it of the branding we’ve come to know like the back of our hands. By removing the visual branding, Miller says this ”reduc[es] the object to its purest form.”

Many of these are utterly generic but it’s interesting to see how many you can identify simply by their shape.

Ads in your face

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Brent Simmons looks at the way Web sites display ads and how it relates to Facebook.

RIM is in the shitter

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The on-going competitive environment is impacting our business in the form of lower volumes and highly competitive pricing dynamics in the marketplace, and we expect our Q1 results to reflect this, and likely result in an operating loss for the quarter. We are continuing to be aggressive as we compete for our customers’ business – both enterprise and consumer – around the world, and our teams are working hard to provide cost-competitive, feature-rich solutions to our global customer base.

Translation: We’re fucked.

Facebook stock tumble continues

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Facebook’s stock value took another slide in Tuesday trading as investors bet on the stock’s future performance.

Apple rejects Flattr

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The folks at Flattr describe what happened and why apps including the functionality are being rejected from the App Store.

Facebook fool’s gold

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Facebook is no better at advertising than ValueClick or any other online ad network. They just happen to be able to correlate their customers slightly better than everyone else. That’s not the formula for a $100 billion business, just click through rates closer to 1%.

Curt Schilling is a big fat hypocrite

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38 Studios’ failure continues to be a train wreck in progress, partly thanks to the loud mouthed hypocrisy of its founder, Curt Schilling.

Daylite 4 offers a major redesign

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Weldon Dodd has a look at Marketcircle’s new Daylite 4 for Mac and iOS. Marketcircle is one of those companies that I really like — they care about their products and customers.

WWDC keynote to be held on June 11

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Apple today invited media to a keynote kicking off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The keynote will be held at 10:00 am on Monday June 11 at Moscone West. […]

The “happiest” countries in the world

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24/7 Wall Street:

For the second year in a row, 24/7 Wall St. examined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report on life satisfaction in the developed world. Economic prosperity, health and a strong social support network continue to correspond highly with happiness. Once again, the United States fails to make the top 10 happiest nations in the world, while countries like Australia, Israel and all of the Scandinavian nations do.These are the happiest countries in the world.

Before you read the article, take a guess where the US falls in the list.

Tim Cook visits Washington

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Cook wants key players in Washington to know they now have an open line to the chief executive in Cupertino.That was the message aides briefed on the meetings said Cook conveyed in sit-downs with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Cook didn’t connect with the top House Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, who hails from neighboring San Francisco, because she was traveling back from an official trip to Afghanistan when he made his rounds.