The Twitterverse was full of disgust yesterday over the announcement that popular image-sharing service Instagram was purchased by Facebook for a cool $1 billion. Despite both companies offering assurances that Instagram will continue to be developed independently, there’s still potential cause for concern. Let’s look at where Instagram stood before the buy-out: a popular service [...]
Every couple weeks we read about someone else taking up a private journal with Day One, a journaling app available for both iOS and OS X. One of the key benefits of the app is its cloud-based synchronization, allowing you to use iCloud or Dropbox to keep entries updates across devices. The app is also [...]
Apple hasn’t pushed the new iPad’s specs into the limelight, a trend they’ve run with for all their mobile device offerings. Traditionally, specs were the lifeblood of a PC marketing campaign. That specs on paper were a meaningless comparison is something computer nerds have known about for years (even if they didn’t always admit it), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]