There was an interesting thread of iOS-vs.-Android news and punditry over the weekend, starting with this report by Seth Weintraub for Fortune : I had a chance to speak with Jim Tran, VP/GM Handset Li
It’s been another banner year for Apple and Apple products—if you need convincing, check out our year-in-review summaries for the Mac , iOS , Apple as a business , digital entertainment , and creative
The new Twitter for Mac is somewhat polarizing, what with its almost entirely custom UI. I used to have a fervor for uniform consistency in Mac UI design. A perusal through the early DF archives will
FOR a subject that arouses such strong passions, “network neutrality” is fiendishly difficult to pin down. Ask five geeks and you may well be given six definitions of it. The basic concept sounds simp
If you are a living breathing human being you most likely suffer from a common problem that all humans suffer from: forgetting stuff. Big or small, we tend to forget things. A large part of my job is
For years, the most profitable industry in America has been one that doesn’t design, build, or sell a single tangible thing. Illustration by Joost Swarte A few months ago, I came across an announcemen
As users of Apple’s hardware and software, we do have a weird relationship with that company, don’t we? A little while ago, iTunes helpfully informed me that Apple had released an update to the iPad e
In the early summer of 1945 a 52-year-old prisoner arrived at Mondorf-les-Bains, a town in Luxembourg that included an American detention center for suspected war criminals. The prisoner, dragging 49
February 24, 2009 Hierarchies Today, Apple released a new version of Safari , and they finally fixed something which I always thought was a strange idea: They moved the tabs above the address bar. Thi
Have you ever heard of a little preference pane utility called Hazel ? I use it everyday and it just may be the single most under appreciated app on my Mac. It is that good. Hazel basically allows you
Is Canvas the new Flash? By stevenf November 04 [Note: this is a cross-post from my blog, to be an easy reblog on Tumblr / backup in case my server crunks up again. You can find the original post on f
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December 2010 I was thinking recently how inconvenient it was not to have a generalterm for iPhones, iPads, and the corresponding things runningAndroid. The closest to a general term seems to be "mobi
Ever since she was 23, people have been using Ann Kirsten Kennis’s image to sell their products. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, she appeared in magazine advertisements, catalogue pages, and tel
Starting in 1998 with Internet Explorer 4, and then from March 2008 through March of 2010, one by one, all of the “big five” desktop browsers—Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome—have rolled out roughly
COMPARED with the extraordinary fanfare before the global-warming summit in Copenhagen a year ago, the meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that starts in Cancún next w
I have recently been asking people around me what they think makes a good gift. And I don’t mean specific items like sunglasses or one of my books (which are all excellent ideas); I was looking to fin
T hrough the past four years I’ve often suggested that China’s vaunted achievements are less impressive, or at least more complicated, seen up close. Yes, Chinese factories make nearly all of the worl
So the cat — or at least part of the cat — is out of the bag on Apple’s upcoming support for recurring subscription billing for content. Edward Helmore, reporting for The Guardian yesterday : Rupert M
It turns out that the Ikea effect also applies to food, at least in mice. The experiment was simple: Mice were trained to push levers to get one of two rewards. If they pressed lever A, they got a delicious drop of sugar water. If they pressed lever B, they got a different tasting drop of sugar…
Recently, an increasing number of designers (myself included) are turning to Apple's presentation making software, Keynote , to design and prototype software applications. Here's a few reasons why and
Having been to several different Starbucks locations throughout Manhattan over the past several months, I feel comfortable in making the following observation: The size of a Starbucks store is directl
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . July 2010 I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in themorning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a goodtime
B rian Cook thinks so , but I’m not so sure. The idea that the spread, or, even just Gus Malzahn’s offense in particular, “ is a modern-day version of the single wing ” is overdone . (To be fair, the Judy Battista’s NY Times piece focuses on the wildcat , which I do think has a great deal in common…
by Doug Farrar Last week's Cover-3 on the Pistol formation morphed into a two-parter for two reasons. First, readers tipped me off to examples of teams running the Pistol in 2010, and second, I had th
The Misconception: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can’t manage your time well. The Truth: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking
Special Counsel Says He's Indicting Hunter Biden by the End of the Month U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote in a court filing that he intends to file gun-related charges against the president's son by Se
The Marriage That Broke Up the Velvet Underground VINYL When clothing designer Betsey Johnson married the Velvet Underground’s John Cale, it spelled the end for the band. Legs McNeil opinion Tubervill
My first piece on "net neutrality" As far as I know I've never written about net neutrality on scripting.com. So this is the first time. I've never written about it because I didn't know what to say.
A friend asked me about population structure, and methods to ferret it out and classify it. So here is a quick survey on the major methods I’m familiar with/utilize now and then. I’ll go roughly in chronological order. First, you have trees. These are pretty popular from macroevolutionary…
From 1978 to 2008, the United States has spent an ever-increasing percentage of its GDP on health care (with the exception of a flat period in the late-1990s). Since about 1980, we've spent a higher p
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