by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 16, 2012 | Asides, Featured
But possibly something more important, Gruber on how this “reveal” is so much different than anything or any way that Apple has revealed anything before. Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 15, 2012 | Featured, On miPod, Reviews, Writing
Just downloaded the brand spanking new version of the NPR Music App for iPad (it’s universal, so runs on all your iOS devices) and, while I’ve only used it for a couple of minutes, I’m already in love.The previous version was kind clumsy and not well...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 15, 2012 | Asides
Congratulations to Macworld VP and Editorial Director Jason Snell on his promotion to Senior Vice President and Editorial Director for IDG Consumer & SMB. Great guy and a well deserved promotion. Tech Media Company IDG Forms Consumer & SMB Division –...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 15, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
Yesterday afternoon Tapbot’s Paul Hadad began posting an interesting data set to his Twitter feed in the wake of the discovery that the Path app was uploading personal data to their servers without disclosing that they were doing so. What Hadad did was look at...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 14, 2012 | Asides
Un-frigging-believable. Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets” Seriously, keep your nose out of my kid’s lunch. Addendum: To that I add, give a bureaucrat access to your personal life and they will ALWAYS assume that they know better than...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 24, 2012 | Asides
For a phone that nobody was interested in… iPhone 4S propels Apple to massive earnings | via CNet.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 15, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
Gruber on the mute switch and the recent Mahler’s 9th iPhone stupidity: I think the current behavior of the iPhone mute switch is correct. You can’t design around every single edge case, and a new iPhone user who makes the reasonable but mistaken assumption that...