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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
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No One Will Ever Need More Than 16GB of Storage
You know how we always hear those quotes from people saying "who would ever need more than ___ of XYZ?" and just laugh? Did somebody at Apple say that once and it's treated as fact? 9to5Mac has some rumors on the new iPhone 7 Plus.
What’s notable, though, is that the
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Dropbox's Project Infinite's iOS-ification of the Desktop
There was a lot of excitement last week when Dropbox unveiled their latest addition, which they're calling Project Infinite.
Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly and securely access all their Dropbox files from the desktop, regardless of how much space they have available on their hard drives. Everything in the company’s
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Now Might Not be the Time to Buy and Apple Watch
Zac Hall wrote this piece for 9to5Mac today:
Agree or disagree, I believe the window on buying the first-gen Apple Watch has closed, and in almost every situation potential customers should wait for Apple Watch 2.
I love my Apple Watch to death, but I have to agree with Zac on this one. The
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Video Game Console Sales Sure Look Bleak (if you don't care about real numbers)
Let's talk about video games for a second. As always, we have tech pundits talking about the end being neigh for video game consoles, which is why this article caught my eye. There is so much wrong with this article that it's almost too easy a target. Let's take
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The App Store Shoots First, Ask Questions Later
Come on Apple, I thought maybe we were past the days of completely bizarre App Store rejections. I thought that putting Phil Shiller at the helm of the Store would change things and we wouldn't have these stupid stories every few months. Well, Apple proved me wrong last night where they removed all
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Purple Blogs are on the Rise!
This is a totally self-serving post, but I've started to notice a few more purple tech blogs out there.
At some point, Above Avalon went purple and I think it looks great. I also came across a link to Allen Pike's site which also has a sharp purple hue.
PurpleIsTheFuture
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Removing Unnecessary Things
Why iOS is Compelling - Initial Charge
iOS’ entire interface paradigm is designed around the idea of removing unnecessary things from the operating system so that the task at hand can be performed with as little resistance as possible.
Similarly, Nilay Patel just bought his mom a Chromebook Pixel and it seems to be a hit.
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Don't be That Jackass
TechnoBuffalo on why the Surface Pro 4 is their favorite tablet:
I post this video because I think that it's a valid opinion that deviates from my own. They just ran another piece about how the iPad Pro is a disappointment and is not a laptop replacement.
In Jon’s opinion, the iPad
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Just Do the Thing
My internet buddy Richard Anderson has been working on a web project called Just Do the Thing. It's a simple web app that employs a system I love for tracking how well I'm doing towards to a goal. I used this method to track my running last year and it worked
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Apple Shouldn't Copy the Surface and They're Not
Apple has learned nothing from Microsoft's Surface - The Verge
It also goes far beyond the hardware fundamentals. Apple's iPad Pro ships with a tablet operating system that doesn't have true support for a mouse and keyboard.
Look, I get it that iOS isn't caught up to traditional