Earlier Friday, The Verge reported on a significant security exploit with Apple’s “reset password” functionality for Apple IDs. Armed with only your email address and date of birth, a hacker could tweak a specific URL to reset the password for your account.
Wow, that is not good. I’m glad to see they took it offline quickly.
Thanks Rush.
Om Malik:
It is hard to trust Google anymore to make rational and consumer centric decisions. I said — nuanced as it might be — that I don’t trust Google to introduce new apps and keep them around, because despite what the company says, these apps are not their main business.
That’s how I feel.
Eric Schmidt uses a BlackBerry. Why? He likes the keyboard, he says.
They deserve each other.
Very well done update to their app. I especially like the transitions.
The rare offering of a VOX guitar played by both John Lennon and George Harrison is what rock n’ roll legends are made of. The striking custom guitar built by Mike Bennett and Dickey Denney was gifted to “Magic Alex” Mardas by John Lennon in 1967. Harrison played the guitar while practicing “I am the Walrus” during The Magical Mystery Tour and by Lennon while recording a video session for “Hello, Goodbye.”
A really well designed user interface is one that goes unnoticed by the user, whereas a poorly designed user interface forces the user to pay attention to it instead of the content.
Absolutely.
Certainly worth a read.
And now Google has confirmed this, with a representative telling us that, “Yes, I can confirm for you: We have not submitted Google Now to Apple’s App Store.”
So there you go. Lying bastards.
Cody Fink wrote a nice article on what two-step verification is and how to enable it.
For the ninth consecutive study, Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction. Apple achieves a score of 855 and performs particularly well in physical design and ease of operation.
The average was 796 points. Nokia scored 795, Samsung 793, Motorola 792 and HTC 790. LG scored 744 and lowest of the manufacturers was BlackBerry with 732.
Basically, the battle is for second place.
Apple has joined the growing list of companies offering two-step verification to secure user accounts. By enabling two-step verification, whenever you attempt to log in on a new device with your Apple ID, you will be asked to enter a 4-digit verification code. This code will be sent to a device that you have registered as a trusted device, such as your iPhone, via a Find My iPhone notification or SMS.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google Now has been submitted to the Apple’s App Store and is waiting for approval, but Apple’s says that’s not true.
Apple told me today Google Now has not been submitted at all.
Why would Schmidt lie about this? Besides the fact he’s Eric Schmidt and works for Google.
Apple’s commitment to the environment is second to none and on Thursday the company released its yearly update detailing the environmental impact its products. I spoke with Apple executive Scott Broderick about the report and what Apple is doing on the environmental front. […]
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continues to shuffle its executive ranks, announcing Senior Vice President of Geo and Commerce Jeff Huber will step down to pursue new projects within the company. The move follows just one day after longtime head of Android Andy Rubin also resigned his post.
This happened almost a week ago, but I missed it at the time.
Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics ‘Cloud Media Services’ survey.
In a recent study of almost 2,300 connected Americans, Strategy Analytics found that 27% have used Apple’s iCloud followed by 17% for Dropbox, 15% for Amazon Cloud Drive and 10% for Google Play (see chart).
Earlier this week I asked all of my RSS subscribers to change the link they use because I am moving away from Google’s FeedBurner. The biggest problem I face now is how to count my subscribers, the main feature I used in FeedBurner. […]
Om Malik on launching Google Keep after just killing Google Reader:
I spent about seven years of my online life on that service. I sent feedback, used it to annotate information and they killed it like a butcher slaughters a chicken. No conversation — dead. The service that drives more traffic than Google+ was sacrificed because it didn’t meet some vague corporate goals; users — many of them life long — be damned.
Looking from that perspective, it is hard to trust Google to keep an app alive.
I agree completely. How can Google expect users to trust them with an app when they could shut it down at any time. No thanks Google.
There are some CSS3 properties that aren’t used as often as you would expect. Despite their rarity, they are extremely useful.
Some big changes in this release, including support for Audiobus, which allows you to play and record music apps supported by Audiobus directly into GarageBand.
Dan Frommer:
But even from the outside, it’s easy to see that the Android situation isn’t ideal. Yes, it is the world’s “most popular” mobile phone platform, if you sort by the number of people using it, and that’s an impressive achievement. But it certainly isn’t making the sort of impact — on the world and on Google itself — that it perhaps could or should.
Interesting thoughts.
Mark Reynolds summed up my thoughts. It made me laugh.
The crash was caused by NVIDIA graphics card drivers and is now fixed, according to the Pixelmator Team.
Daniel Pasco:
Second, even though we’ve been quiet about it, we have been working on new versions of NetNewsWire for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. We have some great new features and a modern design that we can’t wait to show you.
Great news for RSS users.
It’s amazing how much people respond to your job title. Michael Lopp has a great article on the subject.
Getting a great vocal sound doesn’t need to be hard. Whether you’re recording or you’re mixing, Nectar Elements makes vocal treatment a snap.
There are a couple of videos on the page that are worth watching.
Jim and Dan talk about Kevin Lynch, the iOS update, Google Reader’s demise, leaving Feedburner, Google’s priorities, privacy, Dropbox, BlackBerry’s claim that the iPhone is “old”, learning guitar chords, the Line 6 amp, and more.
The iOS update yesterday fixed a passcode flaw, but apparently there’s another one.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters.
Walmart’s “Scan & Go” program will soon be in more than 200 stores, up from about 70. The pilot began near its home office in Bentonville, Arkansas in late 2012, then expanded to Atlanta.
Obviously it’s working well.
Daniel Eran Dilger has a good article on Apple’s recent hire.