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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
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Google Releases Material Design Lite for Web Developers
Google has released Material Design Lite, which is just a few CSS and JavaScript files that enable deb designers to easily tap the looks and feel of Material Design.
I have just begun to poke around with it, but it seems like it's going to be a great tool for developers who are
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Blackberry Seriously has the Worst Smartphone Differentiator
Is this BlackBerry’s First Android Phone? - Techcrunch
Posted by the endlessly resourceful Evan Blass (aka evleaks), the photo shows a device that appears to have curves on both halves of its display — not unlike Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge. It’s said to be called the BlackBerry “Venice”, though that’s likely a codename.
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No, the Law Isn't Optional
Simon Maloy writing for Salon on some conservatives' claims that religion protects them from following the law:
“I was not elected Governor of Arkansas to surrender all our rights as citizens to an all-powerful federal autocracy,” Orval Faubus declared in a 1958 speech resisting the Court-mandated racial integration of public schools. “It
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The First 15 Minutes of Beats 1 Radio
In case like me, you missed the launch of Beats 1, this fine soul recorded the first few minutes. Zane did a really great job getting the station going.
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Apple Music 1.0 is Great, Therefore it Sucks
Apple Music's a Crushing Disappointment, But Not Because It’s Bad - Gizmodo
Apple Music does everything it’s supposed to: It plays music on demand for $10 per month. The app is fun to use, as Gizmodo’s Kelsey pointed out yesterday. You’re never at a loss for some inviting tile to
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General Grievous
via Star Wars
Yes, the Star Wars prequels were terrible, but they did have some talented artists working on them. It's a shame such stylish characters were wasted.
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Declaring App Bankruptcy
A Fresh Start (on my iPhone) by Rob Conybeer
Yesterday I returned from vacation, and went to sync my iPhone with iTunes on my desktop at home. I had about 250 application updates waiting for me, and between that and the volume of photos I took on vacation, the sync refused to finish. I thought
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Safari is the New IE...or it Isn't...Umm
Nolan Lawson made waves with this article on Safari lagging behind other browsers.
At this point, we in the web community need to come to terms with the fact that Safari has become the new IE. Microsoft is repentant these days, Google is pushing the web as far as it can go, and Mozilla is
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Lorenzo Pennati's Stunning Photography
I first saw Lorenzo Pennati's work last week and am extremely impressed with his work. He has a ton more on his site that you should take a few minutes and enjoy.
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Everybody Chill, It's Okay to Work for Someone Else
A Few Words of Explanation - Richard Anderson:
That’s one of the things that irked me the most, and lead to my piece, the one-size-fits-all advice of “WORK FOR YOURSELF OR BE A MISERABLE FAILURE” mantra that runs through way too much of the tech-focused media I consume. It’s in
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Barack Obama Interviews David Attenborough
Barack Obama turns tables in David Attenborough climate change interview
Challenged by the naturalist, Obama says: “We’re not moving as fast as we need to and part of what I know from watching your programmes, and all the great work you’ve done, is that these ecosystems are all interconnected. If just one country
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Privacy or Not
Dean Murphy on ad blockers:
Do I care more about my privacy, time, device battery life & data usage or do I care more about the content creators of sites I visit to be able to monetise effectively and ultimately keep creating content?
I'm with Dean here, it's a hard decision.