From the chutzpah files: BP has resisted entreaties from scientists that they be allowed to use sophisticated instruments at the ocean floor that would give a far more accurate picture of how much oil is really gushing from the well. “The answer is no to that,” a BP spokesman, Tom Mueller, said on Saturday. “We’re [...]
From the TidBITS iPad review: In contrast, the iPad becomes the app you’re using. That’s part of the magic. The hardware is so understated – it’s just a screen, really – and because you manipulate objects and interface elements so smoothly and directly on the screen, the fact that you’re using an iPad falls away. [...]
Lately, some Apple enthusiasts have been citing recent improvements in the App Store’s approval process as proof that the state of affairs in iPhone OS development has been getting better — and that people need to stop complaining about it. Marco makes that point in this otherwise excellent post: But the problems keep getting fixed, [...]
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 [...]
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 admired [...]
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 “know” [...]
Norway’s Consumer Council isn’t happy with the Amazon Kindle, a sleek, beautiful book reader whose inherent awesomeness is sullied by a toxic stew of heavy-handed digital rights management, big-brotherish privacy violations, and inscrutable, nonsensical restrictions. Some of the lowlights: Amazon reserves the right to track a bunch of stuff about what you’re doing with the [...]
I do the occasional interview. Lately, I’ve noticed that a lot of the resumés we get seem to follow a very specific, and very troubling, template. Back in my day, when hair bands roamed the earth, the general preference was for one-page resumés that succinctly hit the highlights: pithy summations of the important elements of [...]
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 CDs [...]
This evening, my continuing obsession with Vin Diesel led me to watch Fast & Furious, the fourth installment in the Fast/Furious franchise, a series that takes our culture’s odd tendency to conflate loud gas-guzzling cars and barely clothed females as far it can possibly go. And then it takes it further. And then, somehow, it [...]
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