Archive for May 2012
» Samsung accuses Apple experts of “slavish adoration of their client”, blames “cult-like following”
Oooh. Those grapes are sour.
» Microsoft Drops ‘Aero Glass’ User Interface in Windows 8
This is my second favorite feature of Windows 8 after Metro. To me Aero was always like having your screen smeared with Vaseline.
Don’t ask how I know what it’s like to have your screen smeared with Vaseline. There are some questions you don’t want the answers to.
» Dear Google: AT&T Locked Down the Best Android Ever, and It’s Your Fault
The HTC One X is a wonder of a phone — sleek and thin with a brilliant screen.
And yet it comes pre-loaded with so much unremovable bloatware,
And a bootloader.
Uh… open?
» The Talk Show on the Mule Radio Syndicate
John Gruber’s The Talk Show podcast has moved to the Mule Radio Syndicate and I’m tickled literally pink (it’s a condition) to have been the first guest. In this edition John and I discuss Mozilla’s antitrust concerns about Windows RT, Ashton Kutcher, 4-inch iPhone rumors and how important thumbs are.
You can get it on iTunes here.
» The Avengers: Who’s Gonna Pay for That?
Midtown Manhattan is a mess. Who’s gonna pay to fix this up?
(via Ben Boychuk)
» Android Malware Has Nearly Quadrupled in the Past Year
“Nearly quadrupled” means there is almost four times as much.
No, really. It does. I did the math.
» Mule Radio Syndicate app
Lovely app from my pals at the Mule Radio Syndicate and Black Pixel. Some quality work, and it’s free.
As an aside, I’m Hour of Pour’s biggest fan. I find it charming, like a lovely mint after the dinner of pedantic Apple podcasts I usually gorge myself on.
» Blogging is not a thing, it’s an attitude
Jim Dalrymple:
If large media companies want their writers to be bloggers, they need to let them go. Bloggers need to feel free to express themselves and their opinions.
Exactly. Here, for example, you will get my unvarnished opinions about yachts.
» The Eagle Has Crashed
His heart rate increasing from 77 to 156 beats per minute, Armstrong assumed manual control early.
Dramatic retelling of the details behind a great scene from From The Earth To The Moon (I say this because, as we all know, the moon landings were faked) and how NASA might have unnecessarily scrapped the first (fake) moon landing just seconds from touchdown.
Neil Armstrong (and by “Neil Armstrong” I mean actor Tony Goldwyn) was grace under pressure in perhaps the single biggest event of our (television) lifetime.