Most of iOS 7’s redesign was probably decided on “valid” factors: the iOS UI was looking pretty dated and had accumulated a lot of cruft, and Apple clearly loves and believes in the polarizing new des
Photo by Bachtiar rahady used under a creative commons license Because you don’t get what you want in life. Published in I. M. H. O. · 9 min read · Jun 5, 2013 -- A third of this is tongue in cheek. Y
T he following is an actual conversation I had with my younger sister, Olivia. She likes to draw, play World of Warcraft , and now, she’s the only fourteen-year-old girl who understands the U.S. economic crisis. Kevin: Have you been following the news? Olivia: Yeah, I don’t really get it. Kevin:…
May 28, 2013 at 10:50 AM by Now that the Xbox One has been revealed , joining the already-released Wii U and the previously announced PlayStation 4 , we can finally get a sense of what the next genera
I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session .
We shot a video about The Verge 's first year in existence, and I said something while being interviewed that I've been turning over in my mind since that day. To paraphrase, I said that if last year
This past week marked a very unusual anniversary in my life. It was just three years ago, which is hard to believe. I was sitting at home with my wife and son, when my iPhone starts going crazy. I wal
3 min read · Apr 29, 2013 -- I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone u
Freemium, free-to-play and IAP are now entrenched in gaming for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. But is that a bad thing, or has the system just been too often abused? I ask developers whether micro-
WARNING – EXPECT AWFUL GRAMMAR (HASTE TO POST OVERTOOK REQUIREMENT TO FOLLOW THE RULES OF LANGUAGE, SORRY) Last weekend I spent some of my time drinking beer and talking to Sir Peter Blake about Kendo
A desktop PC used to need a lot of different chips to make it work. You had the big parts: the CPU that executed most of your code and the GPU that rendered your pretty 3D graphics. But there were a l
Exposing to the right (often refferred to as ETTR) is a technique that seems to polarise opinions across the internet so you can find plenty of examples of people supporting its use and an equal numbe
You have a job and it has a name. A name of convenience. It exists so that when someone asks, “What do you do?” you can simply say, “I am a software engineer” rather than saying, “Well, there are these things called computers and computers run software and humans write software and I am one of those…
At NewsGator and Sepia Labs I worked with Brian Reischl , one of the server-side guys. Among other things, he worked on NewsGator’s RSS content service, which reads n million feeds once an hour. (I do
Even if you don’t use an RSS reader, you still use RSS. If you subscribe to any podcasts, you use RSS. Flipboard and Twitter are RSS readers, even if it’s not obvious and they do other things besides.
6:55 PM. Tom 's shift ended in precisely five minutes. Neither he nor any of his late-shift copilots were on the phone at the moment, so increasingly carefree banter flowed through an otherwise empty
With a market capitalization of $559 billion, Apple is the most valuable company in the entire world. But that doesn't mean it can't be destroyed. Advertisement Advertisement In fact – per SEC regulat
I guess you could say it all began when I took that Brogramming class in high school. To be specific, there’s one person you can blame: my Brogramming teacher. I was in need of a father-figure, and he
About Projects w Opinion Talks January 28, 2013 Pixels don’t care I’m short. When I was 20, I decided to try and make some extra money building websites for people to pay for my tuition. My work was g
It’s very simple. I have a Samsung Galaxy III, a BlackBerry Z10 , an iPhone 5, an HTC Windows 8x and an LG Nexus 4. More or less the smartest soldiers in the smartphone army.
There’s a fire in my flat/hotel-room/bordello/ski-chalet. I have only enough time to take ONE. Which do I choose? This is the…
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... and they're that way on purpose. Reuters Today is the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, the nation's most iconic -- and certainly its most beautiful -- train station. One of the most telling f
Jack and the Beanstack by Mark Isaak Once, in a finite state far away, there lived a JOVIAL character namedJack. Jack and his relations were poor. Often their hash table was bare.One day Jack's parent
Jschulman555 Hidden somewhere in a pile of my own bad prose and abandoned bucket lists, in a tattered grocery bag in my storage room, lies the secret to happiness and peace. It’s scrawled on a fifty-c
Paul Miller Las Vegas CES 2013 stock Last week I found myself slouched on a couch, ten feet away from a pair of $107,000 speakers. I was on the 35th floor of The Venetian hotel, which towers over the tail end of the Las Vegas strip. I was listening to an overwrought piano cover of Joni Mitchell’s…
Like most journalists everywhere, I am hungover. I am sat in the basement of a hotel on the outskirts of Munich; the sort of hotel that must have sprung up fully-formed overnight, a massive swelling o
lead paul offline When I was a kid I had a box of “electronics.” Basically, it was cannibalized parts from various decrepit gadgets, like RC cars, walkie talkies, and cassette players. I always dreame
It's a big storm, moving slowly. A gigantic span of ferocious swirl meets a front of chilly resistance. The effect of that collision is amplified by powerful tidal influence. Upheavals and surges swam
I’m still calling this the iPad mini event. But that’s only because it sounds much simpler than the MacBook Pro/iMac/iPad mini event. That was quite a boatload of technology. Some observations: Tim Cook. I thought he was much improved yesterday — compared to his performance at the iPhone 5 event,…
Late last week Apple won a sweeping case against Samsung when a bunch of the company’s smartphones were found to infringe on Apple’s patents. Since then, there has been a spate of discussion centered around the theory that the win will stifle innovation in the smartphone space as competitors dance…
There’s a photograph in my living room that I took three years ago in a Vietnamese diner in Vegas. It’s of a girl I used to see, but do not think about anymore. It’s in black and white, and she’s crowded to the right side of the frame, eyes fixed on the lens, lips hanging open a little. I remember…
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Good perspective from CNET ‘s Brooke Crothers on the much-maligned Digitimes : DigiTimes’ problem is that it doesn’t filter the rumors as well as, let’s say, a DisplaySearch analyst would. But maybe t
There’s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer science to a job as a real-world software developer. The conflict lies in the fact that, whereas
Only once in my life have I owned the best of anything. That was on June 29th, 2007, the first day the original iPhone went on sale. Purchasing an 8 GB iPhone in 2007 meant I owned the very best mobile phone money could buy1. In 2007 the iPhone was in a league of its own. Android would not be…
From the beginning, Google’s design sensibilities on the web and Android have been unique. Whether you were a fan of the spare, utilitarian feel of products like Search or not, you knew when you were looking at something built by Google. To a degree, that’s still very true. Android apps built by the…
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