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Why Target Was Down 20% in Apple Sales
I love when my Target experience comes into play. Here's a short piece I saw linked to today over on 17orbits.
They have a picture of an iPad case that is totally empty, save for a couple Apple Watch straps. It's a dire situation to be sure, and the ex-Target
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iPad Pro Changing Hearts and Minds
Todd Haselton on his no-so first impressions of the iPad Pro:
I’m quick to criticize new products, our readers know that all too well, but I was wrong about the iPad Pro.
The iPad family always proves to be more appealing when you approach it on its own terms, and not based on
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Rocket Gives You Slack-style Emoji on Your Mac
Rocket is a new tiny app from Matthew Palmer that makes it as easy to enter emoji anywhere on your Mac. macOS has a decent emoji selector (hit Ctrl + Cmd + Space in any text box), but the method allowed by Rocket is just a little nicer. I'll try to keep this blog as
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10k Apart - Building a website in less than 10kb
From a-k-apart.com:
With so much of an emphasis on front-end frameworks and JavaScript runtimes, it’s time to get back to basics—back to optimizing every little byte like your life depends on it and ensuring your site can work, no matter what. The Challenge? Build a compelling web experience that
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Twitter Going All Out with Moments for the Olympics
From the official Twitter blog:
You’ll see the option to follow country specific Moments, which will last throughout the Games, so the best of what’s happening with your team will appear in your timeline for the entirety of the Olympics. You can also just opt to follow your favorite sports and events to
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PlayStation 4 Sales Continue to Rise
Sony announced another quarter of impressive sales revenue numbers for their PlayStation brand:
The company reported the results of its fiscal first quarter today, and it revealed that it generated $3.2 billion in revenues from its game and network services division during the three-month period ending June 30. That is up 14.5
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The Seemingly Invincible (and naive) Idea Apple Should Open Up Their Software
I saw this bizarre piece today and have just a few comments. The overall theme: Apple should license iOS and start raking in the cash.
In June 1985, Bill Gates sent a letter to Apple CEO John Sculley and Mac development head Jean Louis Gassée, urging them license Apple’s operating system to other companies.
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Intentionally Slowing Down the User Experience
The UX Secret That Will Ruin Apps For You - Fast Company
Facebook actually slows down its interface to make users feel safe, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed in an email. "While our systems perform these checks at a much faster speed than people can actually see, it's important that they understand what we
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Pinboard Turns 7
Pibboard just tuned 7:
I did almost nothing on the site this year except keep it running. Mainly I spent the year fomenting and profiting from online drama. But lately a kind of coding mood has descended on me, and I hope I can spend some time later in the summer figuring out how on
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Dreamweaver Tries to Buck its Reputation
Adobe showed off some new features in Dreamweaver lat week:
Dreamweaver is undergoing its biggest transformation ever to become faster, leaner and completely modernized for anyone who works with code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsABVpiB1E
In a world were us web designers have moved our workflows to dedicated text editors like Sublime Text
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How Someone Deaf and Nearly Blind Uses the Apple Watch
This piece over on Molly Watt Trust is a delightful read:
Learning to live with sight loss, when you are already deaf, can be pretty inconvenient. The world just isn’t designed with deafblind people in mind. It’s the little things that are most stressful. The things that most people wouldn’t think of.
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Sony Continues to Thrive on PlayStation Revenue
That damn home console market continues to refuse to die as yesterday Sony talked about the state of their "Game and Network Services" division of the company. It was essentially a victory speech as the company outlined all the things that are going well in this part of the company. You can read
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Atom Text Editor Turns 1
Atom blog 1 year ago this weekend:
Today we’re proud to announce Atom 1.0. It’s amazing to think Atom has only been out and available to the public for a little over a year. A lot has happened since then. Atom has been downloaded 1.3 million times, and serves 350,000
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Safari 10 Demotes Flash, Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime...Good!
Next Steps for Legacy Plug-ins in Safari for macOS Sierra
On websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 implementations of content, Safari users will now always experience the modern HTML5 implementation, delivering improved performance and battery life. This policy and its benefits apply equally to all websites; Safari has no built-in list of
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Some Great Wordkflows for WordPress Publishers
I had to take a second an write a quick shout out to my buddy Michael Rockwell who has been killing it with custom WordPress scripts for the indie darling app, Workflow. He got my attention with his Push to Ulysses workflow that makes it just a little easier to get content into Ulysses.
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Microsoft to Have More Powerful Xbox One...Next Year
Last month saw rumors of a new PlayStation console coming this fall, and now we're starting to hear rumblings that Microsoft is also getting into the new console game a little earlier than many of us were expecting. Kotaku first broke the news yesterday, indicating that Microsoft will be unveiling not one, n=
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Greener Grass
Marco Arment wrote a good piece yesterday about how Apple could become the next Blackberry in the smartphone world if they're not careful.
If Google is wrong, and computing continues to be defined by a tightly controlled grid of siloed apps that you poke a thousand times a day on a smooth rectangle