Just ran across an infuriating column1 from David Pogue, whose stuff I usually love. It’s a review of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, an amazing app that transcribes speech into text with genuinely impressive fidelity.
Unfortunately, Pogue devotes half of the column to a rant about the “paranoid” people who are complaining about the app’s privacy [...]
From Paul Graham’s fantastic piece on the iPhone App Store:
The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they’ve ever done. Their reputation with programmers used to be great. It used to be the most common complaint you heard about Apple was that their fans [...]
My favorite iPhone game, LED Football, just got better. And by better, I don’t mean that the characters on the screen have begun to resemble actual football players, or anything. No: they still look like red line segments, as God intended.
But note the up and down buttons:
See those wear patterns? They actually get worse the [...]
The new OpenOfficeMouse has been generating a lot of buzz lately, mostly because of its proud array of buttons — 18 in all — and its built-in joystick:
Now, what can you do with 18 buttons, 52 commands, and a joystick? The answer is anything you like. The ability to assign application functions to [...]
Pierre Igot discovered that the click-through behavior in Snow Leopard’s Finder has progressed from unintuitive to batshit insane:
How is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that click-through now only works in icon view mode and not in list view mode and column view mode? And how is the user supposed to [...]
From TG Daily:
Windows 7 has beaten boy wizard Harry Potter to become the biggest pre-order product of all time in the UK, says Amazon.
Also this, from David Pogue:
Yeah, that’s the thing. With 90-whatever percent of the market, Microsoft would have a hit if it did nothing but change the Windows color [...]
From Mosberg’s very positive review of Windows 7:
Unfortunately, XP owners, the biggest body of Windows users, won’t be able to do that. They’ll have to wipe out their hard disks after backing up their files elsewhere, then install Windows 7, then restore their personal files, then re-install all their programs from the original [...]
From a sobering assessment of the state of software quality, by Les Hatton:
So how good is good? In computer science, we regrettably operate in a largely measurement free zone. Very few experiments are done and even fewer results are published. This has been noted a number of times over the years by researchers [...]
From a Guardian story on the 25th anniversary of Elite:
Taken together, the operating system and BASIC gave you everything you needed to write and run your own little programs. But the computer contained no word processor, no bells and whistles, no array of applications waiting for you to play with them, no instant [...]
Dave Winer:
There’s still a ton of Woz in the Mac, I am typing this on a gorgeous unibody MacBook Pro, which is probably the most lovely computer I’ve ever used. The software I’m using has never been approved by Apple, and can be downloaded from the Internet. Next to it is an iPhone, [...]
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