July 2012
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quipol asked: Why hasn't Safari introduced the consolidated search and address bar? Is it a patent thing, or do you think Apple believes the UX is better with its current approach.
June 2012
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Facebook's Incoming Fully Native iOS App →
Nick Bilton:
One of the Facebook engineers said the new application has been built primarily using Objective-C, the programming language used to build applications for iOS. Many of the components of the current version of the Facebook app are built using HTML5, a Web-based programming language.
The current version of the app is essentially an Objective-C shell with a Web browser inside. When it...
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College Football Finally Gets A Playoff System →
Heather Dinich for ESPN:
A four-team playoff for college football has been formally approved by a presidential oversight committee, a dramatic change for the sport that will begin in 2014. The four teams will be chosen by a selection committee, the semifinals will be held at current bowl sites and the national championship game will be awarded to the highest bidder.
The 12-year deal is through...
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Bijan Sabet: People tagging →
bijan:
One of the most successful online social drugs is people tagging in Facebook photos. I can’t recall when this feature was first introduced but getting a message saying “you’ve been tagged in a photo” followed by a link was incredibly seductive. It still is.
And it isn’t link bait as the content…
The Instagram -> Twitter username sync fail seem to come up at least once a week...
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a blog by pud: Mass-Unsubscribe From Junk In Gmail →
pudjam666:
Here’s a clever way to mass-unsubscribe from spam, marketing emails, newsletters, and other stuff you don’t want clogging your inbox.
In Gmail, do a search for “label:inbox unsubscribe OR email preferences OR subscribed OR newsletter” (without the quotes)
Select (checkbox) the emails you want…
Brilliant.
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Gmail iOS Gets Full Push Support →
Sweet Jesus, we finally have functional push mail for Gmail on iOS. I’m not talking the wonky port-through-Exchange nonsense — I’m talking full Gmail messages sent to your phone in realtime. And I’m not talking a stupid little badges to let you know you have a message, I’m talking full-on message excerpts.
The app itself still mainly stinks, but I don’t plan to ever...
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Predicting the next Mac desktops →
marco:
Why did Apple just release new MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, and a Retina MacBook Pro, but no new iMacs or Mac Pros? And why are the iMacs probably being updated this year while the Mac Pro update won’t happen for 12–18 months?
Pretty good reasoning, I think. Though, per update #2, I’m fairly surprised Apple will upgrade the iMac without a retina display. Why bother waiting then?...
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Google Maps Backtracks →
Google Maps Product Manager Thor Mitchell:
As you may know, last year we introduced limits on the number of free maps that developers could show daily through the Google Maps API. Since then, we’ve been listening carefully to feedback, and today we’re happy to announce that we’re lowering API usage fees and simplifying limits for both Styled and regular maps.
“Since then” —...
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It costs just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year →
infoneer-pulse:
That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.
The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.
By comparison, a 60-watt compact...
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