Developers Explain Changes in Growl 1.3 Speaking of Growl themes , the developers of the popular notification system for OS X have seen a bit of confusion after the release of version 1.3 on the Mac A
Our son was born March 12th, 2009 . He's a little over two and a half years old. Now, I am the wussiest wuss to ever wuss up the joint, so take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt – but c
You probably cannot beat Georgia Tech if you cannot force passing downs. And I have hated the "Same old Clemson" sentiment this week as much as I knew it was. A) Georgia Tech is pretty damn good (occa
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português One morning, my wife Eleanor woke up, turned over, and said, “I am not looking forward to this day.” I asked her why. What came out is that
Op-Ed Contributor A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked li
Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone By Choice In the fall of 2007, Marco Arment was working as lead developer at Tumblr, the social network and blogging platform, when he noticed that he kept losing the links to interesting stories that he didn't immediately have time to read. So…
Good design at Vitsœ Here at Vitsœ we stand for the inordinate power of good design in everything we do: designing thoughtfully, responsibly and intelligently for our company, our furniture and the ma
“You’re going to build a what ?” That’s what Tony Fadell’s wife, Dani, said to him in 2009 when he told her his idea for a new company. Fadell is one of the most sought-after talents in the world of g
The overwhelming majority of Apple’s earnings, product sales, and new customers are now based on the iOS platform, which consists of: A 3.5"-display pocket computer/phone A 3.5"-display pocket compute
It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something e
Media Platforms Design Team Originally published in the October 2008 issue UPDATES (2011): Tom Junod on Steve Jobs's death and dying UPDATE (2012): Tom Junod on Steve Jobs, One Year Later ***** One da
Following is a transcript of the interview Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conducted with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007. [ Video plays ] Ka
There have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn’t going to add one here on my blog. However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve Jobs yes
They gather under the tall Jon Stewart. They gather under the Jon Stewart who takes up the whole side of a building on Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan and is about three stories high. They gather under t
Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days — thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone being a
About Dan Dan Lyons is an author, screenwriter and humorist who has been called “the Mark Twain of Silicon Valley,” and “a Jonathan Swift for our own digital age.” His memoir, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble , was an instant New York Times best-seller and has been translated into a…
The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple. Illustration by PAUL ROGERS In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneu
Lower highway speeds may get you where you’re going faster, as counterintuitive as it sounds, thanks to speed harmonization. Illustration by Rob Donnelly. There is no more common lament voiced by the
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Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone The lede here is that my pal, Marco , has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed
Supply-Side Virus StrikesAgain Why there is no cure for this virulent infection. (1,112 words;posted Thursday, Aug. 15; to be composted Thursday, Aug. 22) By now there havebeen hundreds of articles ex
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This week’s iOS update is much like this week’s update to the iPhone. A quick glance might not convince you that Apple’s changed much of anything. And yet this is probably the most…
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NO PONZI scheme in the history of the world has ever lasted 75 years. Ponzi schemes depend on garnering an ever-increasing pool of new investors to pay out returns to prior investors. When the potenti
“Everything at Apple is as much about perception as about reality,” the company’s former C.E.O. John Sculley said to me a few days after his old partner and rival, Steve Jobs, unveiled the alliance he had engineered with Microsoft. Since Sculley was deposed, in 1993, after running Apple for ten…
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday after battling cancer and related conditions for seven years. He was 56. Jobs, who reigned as Apple CEO for 14 years, resigned his post in August 2011 and wa
"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet—basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. They…
Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson just might be the closest thing we have to a hip-hop Zelig. Of course, he's been leading the Roots from behind his drum kit for the last 24 (!) years, expanding the assumed
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Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community “What is Google? What do they sell?” asks Don Norman, the author of The Design of Eve
AllThingsD marks the anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death with Walt Mossberg’s memories of the man, originally published Oct. 5, 2011. That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industri