Swedish Chef is my favorite.

The Information published some information about what Scott Forstall has been up to—Business Insider relayed some of the news:

Amir Efrati at new technology site The Information is reporting that Forstall spent the year traveling to Italy and South Africa. He also advised a few startups, and became more philanthropically involved, focusing on education, poverty, and human rights.

What an incredibly inventive name for a company. They sell a product called Teüna, a chromatic tuner for iPhone and iPad.

So true, they need to be redesigned. Sometimes it’s difficult to even find my seat on the tickets. Throw in tickets for all sporting events and airline tickets and you’ve got something.

The uses could be almost limitless, but here are a few good ideas.

I linked to the “print” page because Citeworld split the article up into three pages.

Sharecare on Monday launched AskMD, an iPhone app designed to allow you to collect information about symptoms of your ailment, learn about the common causes and even connect you to local doctors to be treated. […]

Matthew Bischoff wrote a great article about why he chose to criticize his former employer, The New York Times, on their software strategy.

A guy’s phone catches fire and Samsung tries to silence him. Such assholes.

Good find from Cali Krueger.

Someone’s getting a punch in the face.

An interesting take on a tasks app with lots of filtering options.

I hit the Siri button by mistake last night and before she could react, I yelled at her. Monique asked me who I was yelling at and I said Siri—that’s why the name shows up twice. Siri’s pretty smart.

Last night I posted a link outlining my annoyance with being bothered by apps that prompt—some would say nag—users to “Rate the App.” I received quite a few tweets and emails from developers explaining why they do it. […]

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Yeah, I laughed.

Love it. I’m totally behind this.

The publisher of The Occasional by Funny or Die has decided that the iOS-only publishing model is a dead-end and they are moving the periodical to the web instead.

I am in no way a good photographer, but I found this story very interesting.

Brad McCarty:

I had my first quarterly review a few weeks ago. Things didn’t go very well. Though I had exceeded a few of the goals that we set up when I started, there was one key area in which I had undoubtedly failed. That failure led to a stern discussion with my VP of Biz Dev (my direct boss) and the CEO (his boss).

Incredibly open article.

According to research from Parks Associates, Apple is the top brand in a wide range of categories, including tablets, laptops, smartphones, home networking routers, MP3 players, and streaming media devices.

So basically, Apple isn’t the top brand in cars and hockey sticks.

Very sad.

He leans forward. I can feel his breath in my ear.

“I’ve touched everybody on the nose, man,” he says, quietly. “There ain’t nobody I can’t touch on the nose.” He tilts to one side and says, “I know what you’re thinking. Just relax.” A while later, he says, “If I can touch you, I can kill you.”

Holy shit that must have been scary. The article is seven pages long, so plan ahead.