June 2011

Two features to keep Instapaper afloat.

June 29, 2011

Instapaper’s developer, Marco Arment, seems sure that Instapaper has a future despite Apple’s sherlocking of the idea. At WWDS, Apple announced that all future versions of Safari would support a Reading List function in which people could “save” articles to read later, by grabbing the article’s text and presenting it in a streamlined fashion outside [...]

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The value of AppleCare.

June 28, 2011

Not typically a fan of extended warranties, we do make an exception: AppleCare. And that’s because had we not invested in AppleCare in the past, we would have been royally screwed. This, contrary to the Apple-products-are-rock-solid belief that many, including Shawn Blanc, share: For the record, I bought AppleCare once. It was for my first [...]

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Don’t expect an iPhone lite.

June 28, 2011

When Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore claimed Apple would release a second iPhone model, we considered it just another random claim. After all, people have been saying for years that Apple would release an iPhone variant model, be it smaller than the original, or otherwise watered down. John Gruber weighed in on the claim and considers [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-06-26.

June 26, 2011

Greece is having a garage sale? How much for Crete? # Java devs, marketing folks: looking for a job in DC? Contact @colvard. HelloWallet is a small group of smart, fun people looking to expand. # Blogsy app doesn't work with WordPress MU sites. Fix in the works: http://t.co/tk7CdT5 # Amazing that the Casey Anthony [...]

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Really Simple Sindication is not dead.

June 23, 2011

Shawn Blanc wrote a nice piece about RSS and Twitter, and whether the latter is replacing the former. In short, it’s not. Blanc’s end-note is insightful: As you can see, on average, there are about 6 RSS subscribers for every 1 Twitter follower of the site’s dedicated Twitter feed. Moreover, for most of the websites, [...]

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Apple’s console already exists.

June 23, 2011

We’ve been somewhat critical of the Apple TV as a gaming console, and when we last wrote about the subject, we proferred that the key to Apple’s gaming platform success was already achieved in Apple’s mobile devices: Technologies like AirPlay, or even video-out adapters, may well serve gamers to stream iPhone and iPad gaming to [...]

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