While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding. It was something
Once a year, Apple kicks off its World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote presentation, such as the one coming up on Monday, which I’ll be covering for Technologizer. Many people seem to think t
DISCLAIMER: This is a non-functional concept of a non-existing version of iOS built from scratch in Adobe Fireworks CS6 and rendered in Adobe After Effects CC. There is no download link or ways for yo
Idle Words > Talks > The Internet With A Human Face This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 20, 2014, at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany. Marc [Thiele] emailed me a few weeks ago to
Editorial , Ole Zorn’s text automation tool and Markdown editor for iOS , has changed the way I work on my iPad. Combining an elegant text editing experience with a powerful workflow system based on a
This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclination tend to have at…
The Theory of Peak Advertising and The Future of the Web By Tim Hwang and Adi Kamdar :: October 9, 2013 This paper presents a brief theoretical and empirical grounding for the theory of Peak Advertisi
Recently I did a little side project to improve the website for a non-profit animal shelter in our town. The existing site was an outdated Microsoft FrontPage menagerie, so basically anything I did wo
Just a few days ago, the FCC voted in favor of a pretty uniformly terrible proposal to allow internet fast lanes. And throughout the 99-page proposition, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler makes one thing painf
Part 1. Gameday: Beer, bros and The Beastie Boys. ROSE: If you have a guiding principle of the WWE and Vince McMahon, it's the live event is where it happens. Give the fan his or her money's worth. Wh
If you were a kid in the 1980s or 90s, you probably spent some time reading, watching, or playing with four adolescent reptilian martial arts experts with irregular DNA. To make sure I got the scoop o
WebKit’s FTL JIT (Faster Than Light Just In Time compiler) has switched to a new backend — Bare Bones Backend (B3) replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer in the FTL JIT. Just a decade ago, JavaScrip
For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with the super-secret project that created the iPhone and the late Steve Jobs’s fury when Samsung—an Apple…
Few cities have as rich a cultural and sporting history as Detroit. From the ’80s Pistons to Bob Seger, Eminem to Miguel Cabrera, the Motor City is a rich tapestry of compelling figures, unbelievable
Jene Bramel writes for Footballguys.com . You can also follow him on Twitter and reach him at bramel@footballguys.com. The second installment in this series looked at the historical evolution of the 4-3 front, from Greasy Neale, Tom Landry and Steve Owen through the A.F.L. and its Odd Front 4-3…
Middle East History The fertile crescent, the cradle of civilization World History: Patterns of Interaction The fertile crescent, the cradle of civilization If this area wasn't the birthplace of human
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Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português Imagine that you’ve been working in your job for a while. You enjoy your work, know how to do it well, and take pride in the results you pr
For the last month I have been doing a series of episodes on Developing Perspective trying to unpack practical, actionable improvements that could be made to the App Store. I didn’t want to just whine
Angela quit. She walked in on a Monday morning, went straight into Alex’s office, resignation letter in hand, and said, “I have a great offer from another company that I’ve accepted. My last day is a
Joel Hodgson Platon Released in 1966 , Manos: The Hands of Fate is a D-minus of a B movie: Its plot, about desert-dwelling pagans, makes little sense. Its cast could be out-acted by the stars of a da
On April 17, the bill to expand background checks on gun buyers failed in the Senate, and the fatalistic shrugs in Washington were so numerous they were nearly audible. The legislation had been a mode
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark It Was 20 Years Ago Today… On April 4th, 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern. If you don’t recognize the name, that’s b
It’s been more than 3 months that I made the switch to Sketch after more than 12 years of Photoshop. I want to take some time to give the reasons why it has improved my design flow. It not only made m
I have been using Sketch 3 since end of February 2014 and I’ll present some of the new features so you know what you’ll be looking for while playing with this version. During the year, I kept praising
More college football: Bruce Feldman | Dennis Dodd | Jeremy Fowler | Latest news TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Jameis Winston likes his bling. Not in a prideful or boastful way. It's just that when you've got as much as the Heisman winner, it's fun to take stock. So after two games in two different sports in…
The Bag Man excuses himself to make a call outside, on his “other phone,” to arrange delivery of $500 in cash to a visiting recruit. The player is nationally #1 at his position and on his way into tow
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