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Jacob Swinney's Awesome Filmmaker Montages
Jacob Swinney has been making some pretty incredible montages of certain filmmakers’ work. I’m a huge Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola fan, so these videos stood out to me, but he has plenty more on his Vimeo page.
Sofia Coppola's Dreamscapes from Jacob T. Swinney on Vimeo.
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Apple's App Advantage is Continuing on the Watch
Android Wear officially launched back in June 2014 and was met with mixed reviews. One of the things Google touted was their developer support they were seeing for the platform, and how this would lead to long-term success in the market. According to Android Central, there were 69 apps with Wear functionality on day
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Rene Ritchie on the 5th Anniversary of the iPad
iMore - The iPad and its impact: Five years later
Yet through it all, to many people, the iPad remains the most usable, most accessible computer they’ve ever owned. It remains their first, best window into the world of the internet and apps.
The iPad is an amazing computer. It manages to simultaneously be the
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Tim Cook On "Religious Freedom" Laws
Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous - The Washington Post
I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it
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HTC Brags About the Ultimate Bullshit Spec
Readwrite - The HTC One M9’s Best Feature Doesn’t Actually Exist Yet
HTC decided to do just that by boasting about the fact that the One M9 offers a stunning 2 terabytes—yes, you read that correctly—of microSD storage.
There’s just one problem: 2TB microSD cards basically don’t exist yet. The
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My 3 Favorite Apple Watch Quotes
All from nerdy tech writers, of course.
Marco Arment wrote a post last night about this where he dropped this gem:
Once you’re accustomed to wearing one, going out for a night without your Apple Watch is going to feel like going out without your phone.
In a similar vein, Jason Snell has been
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Target to Pay $10 Million to Some Victims of 2013 Data Breach
New York Times - $10 Million Settlement in Target Data Breach Gets Preliminary Approval_)
A federal judge on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a $10 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by customers of Target, which experienced an online attack involving confidential customer data during the holiday season in 2013.
According to documents filed with the
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Vincent Laforet Flies Over San Fran
Vincent Laforet made a splash earlier this year with this amazing photo series of New York at 7,500 feet. Well, he’s back with more amazing photos of San Francisco. I’ll only tease a few, but check out the full set here.
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Matt Gemmell's Epic Overview of Windows Phone
Matt Gemmell - Windows Phone: A Guide for iPhone Users
I take my iPhone everywhere I go, and for the most part, it’s a satisfying device to use. […] It’s a little (dare I say it) boring.
Some of that feeling is just because of familiarity; I’ve never used a non-Apple smartphone for
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Why Jupiter Ascending's Failure is Bad for the Future of Hollywood
Variety - ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Flops: Why the Wachowskis’ Failure Is Bad for Movies
All the red ink that “Jupiter Ascending” will spill will make studios all the more conservative and risk-averse. There will be more reboots, retreads and revivals as companies try to give facelifts to geriatric franchises such as “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and
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The Problem of Android Bloatware
Forget PCs. The Real Bloatware Problem is on Android - WIRED
Bloatware is a bigger headache on Android phones than it is on PCs for multiple reasons, says Irfan Asrar, a researcher with mobile security company Appthority. “Not only is it harder to remove (every time you do a factory reset it will come back), but
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More Comcast Bullshit
Seriously, Comcast? After reading headlines about the PlayStation 4 finally getting an HBO Go app, I turned on my console, downloaded the app, and was promptly greeted by an activation screen. Comcast was mysteriously missing from the long, long list of cable providers. Oh, it must be an error, I thought, but nope. Apparently HBO
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Get a Feel for Apple Watch Apps at WatchAware
WatchWare has quickly become one of my go-to sources for all things Apple Watch. And while their daily links are fun and thoughtful, this page winth interactive demos of Watch apps takes the cake. Seriously, check it out and play around with some of the demos. This is the most helpful resource for demystifying
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Do Fitness Bands Have a Place in a Smartwatch World?
David Nield on "Why Fitness Bands Will Continue To Thrive In The Smartwatch Era".
Against this rising trend, bands that simply measure steps, heart rate and sleep may seem increasingly irrelevant. But they're not, and here's why.
Smartwatches are really coming into their own. Last year's Moto
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The Second Generation of Xbox Live
Polygon put out this awesome piece by Russ Pitts about the history of Xbox Live.
For Eric Neustadter, who literally built the service from scratch out of server parts and Cisco routers, witnessing the birth and maturation of Xbox Live has been one of the most extraordinary experiences of his life.
I've never
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Samsung Might Have Some Culture Problems
Samsung seems like a great place to work
In fact, during one meeting with the global teams at Samsung’s headquarters in Korea, executives made the US team stand up in front of several hundred of their peers in an auditorium. The executives told the employees to clap for the US team as encouragement since
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Pebble Time Announced (on Kickstarter? Why?!)
Well, we all knew it was a matter of time, and Pebble announced their new smartwatch today. Interestingly, they’re going to Kickstarter again, which makes no sense at all to me. They sold over a million watches and from all appearances, seem to be a legitimate company now, so why are they wasting their
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Blogs Are Awesome! Write One, Follow Some
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Happy Sunday, everyone! I woke up today with a distinct feeling of joy that I have my little corner of the web that is all mine. I can write whatever I want and it will get seen by hundreds, if not thousands of people. It’