AT&T data throttling is wrong.

March 9, 2012

When the original iPad was released, the 3G version was exclusive to AT&T. Among the data plans offered was an “unlimited” plan that ran for $29.99/month. This plan has since been deprecated; if you bought an iPad after the plan was discontinued, you have to opt for a limited bandwidth tier, while those who had [...]

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Sending off the home button.

March 2, 2012

The iPad home button may be an iconic piece of iPad history, but iconic doesn’t mean practical. People said the scroll wheel was emblematic too, but the iPod received a makeover with touch technology as soon as Apple realized the wheel was a point of failure. Dave Caolo thinks the home button is too important, [...]

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Our Jawbone UP trilogy.

February 29, 2012

Two months ago, we reported on the death of our Jawbone UP. It lasted longer than other folks’ units, but ultimately succumbed to a battery issue. Jawbone customer service was prompt in getting me a new UP, and so I didn’t have too much untracked activity time. Our second UP band had a couple hiccups [...]

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Google Reader alternatives for RSS reading?

February 21, 2012

Brent Simmons was one of many who commented earlier today on OS X Mountain Lion removing RSS reading from Mail and Safari. The move makes sense when one considers parity between OS X and iOS apps, in that the latter do not offer such features. But more importantly, these features are typically unused by most [...]

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The search for frictionless, mobile blogging.

February 17, 2012

Over the past several weeks we’ve explored a way to simplify our blogging workflow. While we’ve used WordPress for years, we find the process of getting a blog entry published somewhat cumbersome. Admittedly, it’s not WordPress inherently, but more on how we use WordPress, or more accurately, the manner in which we self-constrained our blogging [...]

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