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Monthly Archives: July 2010
the end of the mechanical age
Posted by on July 16, 2010
Anyone that knows me also knows that I am tablet fan. My first job out of college was at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center creating a user interface for a tablet that never shipped (this was 1998!) even though we got it working in prototype form. I have used tablets of various kinds since then [...]
the web is an app
Posted by on July 14, 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what apps mean for web development, and how they intersect, and my conclusion so far is that very soon web apps will always be built… as apps. What do I mean by this? Apps are user interfaces optimized for a particular device or screen, and they communicate with [...]
the missing predators
Posted by on July 12, 2010
Over the weekend I saw Predators (fairly entertaining, if slightly slow in the reveal for some portions of the story). I don’t think I’ll ruin anything by saying that in this movie we meet a new caste of predators that we’ve never seen before, a sort of super-predator that kinda slaps around the original predator [...]
the problem with iPhone 4 (and it’s not what you think)
Posted by on July 4, 2010
“Do you like your iPhone 4?” I’ve heard this question more than a few times in the two weeks since I got it, and I imagine I’m not alone. I’ve owned and used as my primary phone every iPhone since the original but for the first time the answer to this question, surprisingly, has been [...]
