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2009 Predictions Retrospective
2009 is ending, a year that started with Sequoia’s RIP: Good Times fresh in everybody’s mind. However, 2009 saw some major M&A activity. I made some predictions at the beginning of the year, let’s see how they played out. Last … Continue reading
Digging into PastryKit
If you haven’t already, go read the DaringFireball piece on PastryKit. Are you back? Good. If you’re the least bit like me, you’re probably a least a little bit intrigued. If you’re sorta like me you probably cut and pasted … Continue reading
Streaming Cure for Digital Packrat
Two years ago I read this article from wired.com outlines how downloading has lead to a digital version of compulsive hoarding. I definitely had some sort of this disorder with hard drives and CD-Rs full of digital content – most … Continue reading
Bypassing Palm Pre’s Sprint Activation
Update: This whole process has been automated and “idiot-proofed” by Rod Whitby on his blog. Last week, I went to pick up a Palm Pre sans a Sprint contract. The Sprint sales person had no problem selling me a $550 … Continue reading
Best Argument Against Government AppStore Intervention
The FCC is probing Apple, AT&T, and Google over the whole Google voice fiasco. Although I wish Apple would open up it’s platform, I definitely don’t think the government should get involved. Also is any precedence set for the government … Continue reading
From a Walled Garden to 1984
Everybody, hailed the iPhone as the savior to set developers and mobile businesses free from the walled gardens of traditional carriers. At first, Apple instantly gifted developers with easy access to a mobile audience that bypassed having to deal with … Continue reading
New Google Chrome OS
Google just announced that they will be releasing an OS based around Chrome. An amazing move for Google as this gets them instantly on a the radar of every netbook manufacturer out there. Microsoft’s licensing fees for Windows are generally … Continue reading
Why Apple Needs to Make a iPhone Keyboard
Apple needs to introduce a physical keyboard attachment for the iPhone. With the 3.0, Apple gave developers access to the connector and it’s inevitable that devs will want to start supporting physical inputs in their apps. This would be so … Continue reading
Palm Prē Impressions
There are more than enough reviews out there of the Palm Prē out there so this won’t be one of them (I leave that to the professionals ). I had a chance to actually play with a production Prē today … Continue reading
Kindle DX
Disclaimer: The last book I fiction book I’ve read was probably in high school, and probably The Catcher in the Rye. However, I read. From technical books, to blogs, to magazines… to me reading is reading. I’ll get straight the … Continue reading
iPhone 3.0 now with SquirrelFish Extreme?
I saw a post on Ajaxian about how iPhone 3.0 might now include SquirrelFish Extreme so I did a quick and dirty using this. Here’s are the results (raw spreadsheet here). iPhone 3.0 definitely has something, (whether it’s SquirrelFish or … Continue reading
New Gmail Spammer Trick
I just received a spam that I thought was a very clever way to by pass Gmail’s spam filters. They put in a docs.google.com link! They would probably never filter out email with links to docs.google.com! Genius.
Dissecting Safari 4′s Welcome Screen
If you’ve downloaded Safari 4 Beta then you’ve seen a very cool welcome screen. If you haven’t seen it click the video above (or if you’re running Safari 4 you can view it again here). I was curious as to … Continue reading
Macworld Keynote
My random reactions to Macworld Keynote announcements. Face recognition in iPhoto is pretty slick tech. Tagging people on facebook is way too laborious right now, this will speed up the uploading of drunk blackmail pictures. Music lessons in Garage Band … Continue reading
I Wish This Was Only $7.49/yr
Somebody at GoDaddy needs to think about their promotion text.
2009 Predictions
Last year I was 50% accurate, let’s try for better this year. Twitter will not be acquired. They’ll have their first revenue stream keeping them independent for a bit longer. Digg will not be acquired. There’s still a ton of … Continue reading
2008 Predictions Retrospective
So 2008 is almost coming to an end and what a wild ride in the tech industry. In some cases we’re better off, no more start ups getting inflated valuations for putting a website (see crazy valuations of facebook apps). … Continue reading
Apple Actually Fixes A Bug, How About Another?
Earlier this year, when I was developing the AdMob iPhone Ad Units, I ran into a curious bug involving iFrames and CSS Transforms. I didn’t think anything of the bug at the time other than it just seemed wrong. We … Continue reading
Taking Full Advantage of CloudFront
We (AdMob) are exploring Amazon’s new AWS service CloudFront which is a simple CDN. Amazon built this services as a true CDN that people could use instead of using S3 what it wasn’t meant for. There’s a few things I’ve … Continue reading
Somebody Explain to Me the Green Dot
You know the green dot on the upper left of all OS X windows? This one: . I have no clue what it does. I’ve even been afraid to hit it 99% of the time because I have no idea … Continue reading
