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Thinking Twice About the New NetNewsWire
Ben Brooks takes a look at NetNewsWire 4 and why he is giving up on it.
The biggest difference with NetNewsWire and most RSS services is that your Mac or iPhone is the device polling the RSS feeds for updates. Whereas with services like FeedWrangler a server sitting in the proverbial cloud is polling those
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A Passionate Plea to Bring Back Google's Old Logo
Why You Hate Google's New Logo by Sarah Larson
The new logo retains the rainbow of colors but sheds the grownup curlicues: it now evokes children’s refrigerator magnets, McDonald’s French fries, Comic Sans. Google took something we trusted and filed off its dignity. Now, in its place, we have an insipid
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Apple Sticks With You
G. Keenan Schneider writes about his time working at a Apple Store in Leaving Apple:
I truly believe that Apple is people. They are a company, sure, but a company comprised of thousands of people who share a common goal: to enrich the lives of their customers through great experiences. This is something that I
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Listen to Chris Lacy's Excellent Podcast, The Blerg
It must be experimentation season for us phone fanatics, because while I've traded my iPhone for a Galaxy phone for the month, Android devs Chris Lacy and Francisco Franco have been giving the iPhone 6 a try. The two discussed their impressions on the latest episode of Lacy's excellent podcast, The
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The iPod Wasn't a Hit Immediately Either
Stephen Hall on why he doesn't feel too bullish on smart watches.
And while ASUS, LG, Huawei, and Motorola have some revamped hardware entries coming very soon, I’m just not that excited anymore. Why? Mostly because I just don’t have a compelling need for wearables in their current form. I have
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Field Notes Convert One More to the World of Pen and Paper
A Week with Field Notes - Zaid Syed
Sure, they looked good, but what could be so enamoring about them that every writer and designer in the geek world would buy them at a heartbeat?
I decided to find out. And one week in, I’m in love.
I always love reading about people who have
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An Incredibly Small View of the World
Johnathan Mann made this really nice video where he discussed viewing himself as a feminist all the while being a terrible feminist at home.
I liked the video but saw that there were a lot more "thumbs down" votes on this video than Mann normally gets. How could this thoughtful, positive video be
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Android Running on a Flip Phone
Android Central is reporting that LG is going to release the LG Gentle, a fliphone that runs Android Lollipop 5.0. It's probably not going to be sold in the United States, however,
LG has announced a new flip phone, but the company has opted to load Android Lollipop to give the smartphone
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Updates on Android Still Suck, and it's a Security Flaw
This is the summer of link baity headlines it seems. This week’s piece is from Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: Goodbye, Android. It’s a solid article that I can relate to. I have long been a big Apple fan, but I spent most of 2014 with an Android phone so I can relate to many
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Twitter Reports $502M in Revenue, $137M Loss
Twitter announced their quarterly earnings today and they're...okay.
While the company reported $502 million in revenue, which is up 61% over last year. This is great in that it means that more people are engaging with Twitter and that advertisers are paying more to get noticed on the service. Great, they'
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Modern Punishment for Kids: TV
Televisons are no longer the screen of choice for kids, according to Advertising Age.
Mobile devices are so popular with kids that nearly half of the 800 parents quizzed by Miner & Co. reported that they confiscate their kids' tablets when they act up and make them watch TV instead, thereby fostering a sort
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Comcast Won't Let Their Employees Call You "Asshole" (Again)
Do you remember this story from back in January?
A man named Ricardo Brown got a bill addressed to “Asshole Brown” after his family tried to cancel the cable portion of its service because of financial difficulties. Mary Bauer got a Comcast bill addressed to “Super Bitch” after a series of billing and service problems.
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Getting a Little Material Design in Your Apple
What happens when an Apple guy explores Material Design?
I love this bit exploration of Material Design by designer Matthieu Aussaguel. I for one would be okay with a little more Material Design in my iOS and Mac apps.
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Hulu Is Pondering a More Expensive, Ad Free Tier
The Wall Street Journal Reports that Hulu is considering adding an ad-free tier to their subscription model. The report says the plan would cost $12-14, a $-6 increase over their current rate.
Many will say that this is how Hulu should have been from the start, and that it’s insane that we’
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Batman and Sony Crushing it in Game Sales
Batman Arkham Knight for PS4 was the best selling video game of June
The latest Rocksteady outing helped drive a 19% year-on-year surge in monthly software sales, and after just 12 days on sale during the tracked period became the second highest-selling release of 2015 behind Mortal Kombat X.
We also learned
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The Fading "Real Computer"
Office, messaging and verbs - Benedict Evans
When people talk about productivity - about PowerPoint and Excel and how Google Docs and the cloud will or won't kill them, or messaging and the cloud, or how you need a PC for 'real work' - I'm reminded of CC Baxter and his Friden
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Moving Forwards by Moving Back
Marco Arment responds to his own "Functional High Ground" article from the start of the year:
The entire decline of software quality that I felt in January wasn’t all due to a single buggy network-lookup service — but, unbeknownst to me at the time, a lot of it was. And that huge
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Don't Hate the Real People Who Work at Your Least Favorite Company
7,800 jobs is nothing to joke about - Peter Cohen for iMore
This week Microsoft announced plans to cut almost 8,000 jobs, mostly associated with Microsoft's smartphone division. Some in the tech press took no time at all to exclaim that Microsoft's smartphone ambitions were dead, and I saw more