Dear Sprint -
Congrats on the launch of the Palm Pre. I was previously a Sprint customer and have used various Palm devices, but I stopped being a customer of both quite some time ago. Maybe the Palm Pre is an amazing device, I dunno. I hope it is.
But when I saw this [...]
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So the iPhone 3G S is lust-worthy, if for no other reason than the 3MP autofocus camera and the speed increase. There’s plenty of news about how AT&T is lagging – no MMS (coming), no tethering (maybe coming), giving smaller discounts to iPhone 3G customers than to new customers.
I’m not eligible for the $299 [...]
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I am so ashamed.
I was once a system & network manager, so I know about things like bad passwords and scanning software. Later, I built firewalls for Sun. Lately I’ve lectured on the importance of locking down your web analytics data, and the precautions you need to take. So imagine my shock to discover that [...]
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When Apple’s Aperture arrived, it was the first tool especially aimed at photographers with extensive photo management needs. While praised for its vision, photographers were frustrated that support for new cameras took such a long time, seemingly requiring updates to Mac OS itself. In the meantime, Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom offered quick support for [...]
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Scoble asks What Will Steve Jobs Kill Next?
It’s a good list, if not misleading (the iPhone will have a keyboard equivalent, for instance) but shows how designers should be ruthless in challenging assumptions, and cutting out what isn’t necessary.
Think about web analytics software. We’re overwhelmed by silly reports, useless visualizations, and bizarre multidimensional slice-and-dice [...]
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Oh brother.
One of the stories I missed while at Emetrics was the flap over at PC World Magazine. In short:
Editor wants to run a 10 things we hate about Apple (followed by a 10 things we love about Apple)
New CEO spikes the article
Editor resigns
Subscribers are pissed
CEO gets moved out, new CEO search underway
Editor in [...]
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Apple delays Leopard in order to ship the iPhone in June. Too many products, not enough engineers.
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The Mac community is aghast at some of the cosmetic changes in iTunes 5. Apple in general seems to be encouraging its own developers to do whatever feels good. The resulting interfaces are sometimes pretty slick, and sometimes gruesome.
I’m in the “brushed metal sucks” camp. So at home, I use Sagefire’s Iridium [...]
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