Tweetbot 3 for iPhone Tweetbot is, by far, the iPhone app that I use the most on a daily basis. It’s not just that I keep Twitter open essentially all day to check for news, talk to friends, or post G
I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, no
For a while now, I’ve been an advocate of plain text files for those who primarily write for the web. And like many who attempt to explain their benefits, every time I do, I come of sounding like a crazy person. Later today, I will be featured in an episode of Jason Konopinski’s “Riffing on Writing”…
I am humbled that my mentor and my friend Dr. Hope Jahren has honored me with her voice on my blog. (n.b. Hope has transitioned this piece over to her own blog here and if you’d like to carry on the conversation with Hope, that’s probably a better place for it. Also, you should all read Hope’s blog,…
The Royal Suite at Claridge’s in London is not where you would expect to be meeting with Jonathan Ive, the man who designed the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook Air, and just about everything else that h
Joe brockmeier 1 / Oct 7, 2011 / Work It’s time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time,
Two years after Steve Jobs left us, Apple now wears Tim Cook’s imprint and, for all the doubt and perpetual doomsaying, seems to wear it well. One even comes to wonder if the Cassandras aren’t in fact doing Apple a vital favor.Last Friday, Tim Cook issued a somber remembrance to Apple…
I was in seventh grade in 1993 when Marie C Wilson and Gloria Steinem launched the Ms Foundation’s Take Our Daughters to Work Day, intending to show us young women that a big, wide world existed beyond our gender and our bodies. For me, it did just that, although it also seeded a lifetime obsession…
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Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? At the Solvay Conference on Physics in 1927, the only woman in attendance was Marie Curie (bottom row, third from left). Last summer, researchers at Yale p
Editorial John Boehner’s Shutdown By Tuesday morning, the leadership failure of Speaker John Boehner was complete. In encouraging the impossible quest of House Republicans to dismantle health care ref
It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything ChangeIt’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything ChangeOil! Our secret god, fulfiller of our every desire. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind.Margaret E. Atwood3 days agoTable of ContentsTable of ContentsI don’t know which…
Colors can inspire mood, convey attitude, or create instant associations in people’s minds, making it a powerful tool for branding. But FiftyThree, the team behind Paper for iPad , saw that as a major business problem: Traditional software works with color in ways that are faithful to the way…
Rechner by Berger & Föhr, the app that converted me to “fLAT DESIGN.” Is flat design just a fad or is it progress? 8 min read · Jul 7, 2013 -- I’ve typed and deleted many words since the flat trend be
PCalc, An Origin Story Many people using PCalc on their shiny devices today don't realise that the app has been around for a lot longer than they think. In some cases, a lot longer than they've been t
Science / Science & Exploration Researchers unveil first thought-controlled bionic leg Prosthetic uses pattern recognition to analyze nerve impulses. Indonesia’s Samalas volcano may have kickstarted t
For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competi
The cement was dirty, but so were my pants after three weeks of traveling. I lay down on the sidewalk in front of the Sagrada Família, stretching back to look up at the Nativity Façade, trying to capt
Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain CUPERTINO, Calif. — The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow. "That's a good one," says Jony Ive, when asked what he would t
Published in Monday Note · 5 min read · Sep 15, 2013 -- Remember netbooks? When Apple was too greedy and stupid to make a truly low-cost Macintosh? Here we go again, Apple refuses to make a genuinely
One of the enduring mysteries of the iPhone has been its lack of a portfolio. After six years it seems that Apple has finally acquiesced that there should be one , albeit currently limited to two item
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ says Ozymandias’s ruined statue in the desert of Shelley’s imagination. Shelley’s sonnet is often interpreted as a sober warning that human works are fleeting, but when I read it as a young boy it kindled a sense of adventure; it suggested a wonderfully…
Many dear friends wish I would shut the fuck up regarding the Gotham filter. This article is for you. In the 2.0 release of Instagram, for reasons never explained, they removed my favorite filter: Gotham. I remember the moment vividly because I was in the midst of falling in love with Instagram .…
September 2, 2013 at 3:00 PM by When Apple was on the ropes sixteen years ago, there was no shortage of advice about what the company should do to save itself, much of it fueled by a deep love for App
NASA Today, NASA announced that the Kepler Space Telescope, which had been malfunctioning, will not be able to be repaired . Kepler may be used for other scientific operations, but its life as our cou
My terse reaction to the 2DS on Wednesday: It’s $129. I say they should just give in and start making iOSgames. They’re not going to win this battle. This prompted several thoughtful responses, many o
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an ano
August 29, 2013 Nintendo For the longest time, Microsoft analysts had this unhealthy obsession with Apple. The logic went a bit like this: Apple is doing poorly because Microsoft won the PC war. If on
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Today, when I remembered that exactly one year ago I was hospitalized for 22 days for a series of treatments to save my life , I tweeted about it. And then I opened Day One . In the app’s Calendar vie
Illustration by Mario Hugo Picture this, arranged along a time line. For all of measurable human history up until the year 1750, nothing happened that mattered. This isn’t to say history was stagnant,
Scary myths and scary data abound about life as a tenure-track faculty at an "R1" university. Scary enough to make you wonder: why would any smart person want to live this life? As a young faculty mem
A week ago today Tim Cook and other Apple executives delivered the Keynote address to the 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ). You can read extensive coverage of the event at any number of tech blogs, but a quick list of the announcements includes OS X Mavericks, updated MacBook Airs,…
Matter Monogamy and Human Evolution Titi monkeys are monogamous--a way of life found in just 9 percent of mammal species. “Monogamy is a problem,” said Dieter Lukas of the University of Cambridge in a
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