April 2011
23 posts
Engadget's Galaxy S II Review →
Honestly: this is probably up there with the G2x in my list of favorite Android handsets.
Two quick notes:
Engadget says “If you’ve read what we had to say about the G2x and the way it simply flies through homescreens […], you’ll know that we have a high bar for Android perfomrance already set, but the Galaxy S II beats it anyway.” They don’t seem to be...
Photosmith for the iPad →
A while back when I was fantasizing about owning an Olympus PEN E-PL11, I gave away an app idea on this blog. I wanted people to stop making a billion and a half apps that apply filters and let you adjust the hue/saturation of pictures, and start making apps to quickly review the photos you’ve imported from a camera via the Camera Connection Kit, tag them with metadata, and upload them to...
Apple Responds to consolidated.db Paranoia →
In a nutshell:
consolidated.db is a cache file for speeding up cell and Wi-Fi triangulation, which is pretty much what I’ve been saying since the original story broke out.
Apple does admit to receiving some Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data, albeit in “an anonymous and encrypted form”. This is going to set off a few flags in some people, but it’s likely just reporting back with GPS coordinates...
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Insomnia decided to drop by tonight for an encore performance. For the second night in a row, I lie here in bed, incapable of falling asleep, knowing that I’ll make up for the lost hours of sleep by passing out in the early evening tomorrow, and then at night, that little bastard Insomnia will drop by uninvited yet again and mock me as I toss and turn in my bed, desperately trying to escape its...
Because people tend to be really sensitive about spoilers, I’ve rot13’d two theories I’ve come up with while playing Portal 2. You can decode these theories by pasting the content below into this site.
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Whenever a story comes out about Android malware, iOS users are the first to point fingers and laugh. But what is “Android malware”? Android malware tends to be apps using as many permissions as possible to access data on your device and send it back to remote servers. Those permissions are exposed to you when first installing the app, and you must choose to allow the permissions the developer...
“Everyone, focus on Killing Floor. We’re definitely getting Portal 2 once...”
– The Valve ARG wiki, a couple minutes before Killing Floor knocked five minutes off the countdown, despite having the lowest progress rate. Gabe must be rolling on the floor right now.
Prompt: SSH for iOS →
MobileTerminal (with all respect to its developers and maintainers at various points in time) is dead to me.
Common Sense
Lots of people are reacting to Fred Wilson’s post where he reiterates that developers should be developing for Android first, and everybody seems to be missing common sense: If you are writing an app for any platform, you need to ask yourself who the target audience is, and then determine what platform(s) to develop for based on that target audience.
It doesn’t matter how much market share...
iAd Gallery →
If I asked you to name five apps that use iAds, you probably couldn’t. I can name maybe two or three off the top of my head. As much as Apple wants people to use them in their free apps, they simply aren’t as widespread as other ad platforms.
That said, if you’re like me and love iAds because they feel more like HTML5 & Co. tech demos, you’ll probably like that you...
Over on David’s Tumblr:
“Well, A-I seem optional. 1-5 seem pretty standard across all clients already?”
Actually, upon further inspection, these guidelines don’t seem like they’re meant for Twitter clients, since it would be silly to write up a document when you’ve previously said people shouldn’t be making clients anymore. This is more likely meant to...
Twitter's Display Guidelines →
Twitter clients are going to get a hell of a lot more boring.
