There is something special about sitting down in a quiet place with a cup of tea (or coffee for that matter) and a good book, and becoming entirely consumed by the book. It is a great experience that reading on the web, no matter how good the content, rarely achieves.
Henry Blodget: Thanks to our stupidity bailouts, we now own major stakes in these firms–at mind-boggling expense. So it’s not clear why we want to destroy them. But that’s what we seem determined to do. Believe it or not, hidden inside these companies are thousands of
She walked on. She stopped at the window of a bookstore. The window displayed a pyramid of slabs in brownish-purple jackets, inscribed: The Vulture is Molting. “The novel of our century,” said a placard. “The penetrating study of a businessman’s greed. A fearless revelation of man’s depravity.
Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece just released a new episode of Core Intuition, and I loved what Manton Reece had to say on being productive: Think about a feature you want to do and estimate in your head how long it’s going to take. Say realistically this feature is
Data detectors, something I use constantly in Mail on the desktop, are going to be system-wide in iPhone OS 3.0. Ars’ Chris Foresman: Forstall also briefly mentioned some other API additions, including giving developers access to the iPhone’s proximity sensor, a user’s iPod library, streaming video
I’ve found iPhone OS 3.0′s best feature: you can turn off the repeating SMS alert.
Widescreen iPod, revolutionary mobile phone, and breakthrough Internet communication device. The iPhone did what the Treo, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile couldn’t do: it defined convergent mobile devices for the mainstream market. It is an Internet device. It plays your media. And it makes phone calls. The iPhone changed the
Since I bought my MacBook Air in March 2008, the hinge loosened. Quite a bit of play in the hinge had developed. It wasn’t a problem necessarily — just an annoyance, until I saw ArsTechnica’s report that other first-revision MacBook Air users have seen their hinges crack after
I study business administration, and many of the courses I’ve taken — management information systems, operations, marketing — all preach heavily on certain practices that successful companies have. “Best practices.” We learn about things companies have done that have made them successful. Nordstroms allows customers to return nearly anything, no questions
App Cubby’s David Barnard on the App Store: Great software can and will be made by enthusiasts who work nights and weekends in a labor of love, but the iPhone will never reach its full potential as a platform until there is some semblance of sanity in the App
Kindle may be coming to the iPhone. Amazon has already said that they will make Kindle e-books available for mobile phones, so making them available on the iPhone makes sense. This would certainly be an interesting, and smart, expansion of the “Kindle” concept, because it would establish Amazon’s
I added a boolean field so I can quickly see whether a user has reviewed Today. I now have a Smart Collection of media sites that have and have not posted a review on their site.