December 2011
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Thoughts on Twitter for iPhone 4.0
In April of 2010, Twitter acquired Tweetie, the acclaimed, award winning iPhone Twitter app. It was loved by users for it’s beauty and intuitive user interface that was perfect for the iPhone. Nearly two years later, it’s core idea– a fantastic Twitter app for the iPhone –is gone, with Twitter’s unified UI initiative. Here are a few of the reasons why I hate it so much.
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November 2011
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How iTunes Match Ate Half My Data Plan
Short Version: After turning on iTunes Match and telling it to download songs from the cloud to my device, turning off iTunes Match, and syncing those songs from the computer instead, it continued to download the same songs, wasting away half my data plan.
A few days ago I turned on iTunes Match on my computer. Last night the last few tracks (that hadn’t matched in the iTunes Store)...
July 2011
1 post
“$92.1 million — on Friday alone.”
– parislemon.: Friday Report: ‘Harry Potter’ Conjures Opening Day Record 92 million in one day. Wow.
December 2010
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July 2010
3 posts
The iPhone 4 Signal Issue
Apple needs to do something real about the iPhone 4 signal issue now - my shares are dropping! Here’s my suggestion: give all, yes, ALL existing iPhone 4 customers free bumpers (and allow them to pick the color). They may cost $29 to us, but to Apple they probably cost a max of $0.50 to make. Sure, they’d have to spend over a million dollars to give out free bumpers, but that’s...
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iPhone 4 Review
Originally written by me for iPad Insider on June 22, 2010:
Introduction
I bought the iPhone 4 through Apple on June 15th, and it arrived today, June 22nd. I did an upgrade swap with a friend where we used their eligibility and in turn, they got the old iPhone 3GS from us. In doing this, there were issues in upgrading via the computer, so we had to take it into an AT&T store to get it...
jnhgrnt.me: App Store Tyranny: how 100+ hours of... →
I know what you’re thinking “oh, another app was rejected. Stupid developers always complaining” well, you’re kinda right. In May I started working on an iOS (universal, so it works on iPhone and iPad) app for watching movie trailers and viewing corresponding information about that movie such as…
June 2010
4 posts
Non-Retina Apps
Here’s a list that I’ll be updating with all the apps on my device that aren’t optimized for the retina display. The ones in bold are ones that really look bad, and the ones in italics are the ones where updates have been submitted with retina support. Ideally, all icons should be retina-optimized. It will take a while, but all games should have retina display graphics. Right now...
Blog | Graphicpeel: iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS →
Click here to see 11 iOS icons made in only CSS, no images whatsoever.
NOTE: This demo will only work correctly on a webkit browser and has only been tested in Safari 5 and Google Chrome 5. Here’s how it will look when rendered correctly. Update: Apparently, there’s a bad bug in…
May 2010
2 posts
Why I Left Facebook
Deactivating my Facebook account was hard. Really hard. I probably spent at least 3 hours a day on Facebook via my iPod touch, posted at least one status message a day, and commented/liked at least 10 posts per day. But it has some major flaws.
1. Like/Fan Pages
Every time I would log into Facebook, about 50% of my News Feed consisted of “5 people like OMG THIS PHOTO IS SO FUNNY!”...
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parislemon:
I recently crossed 1,000 friends on Facebook. Am I actually friends with a thousand people? No. Not even close. If I were using Facebook to only be in contact with people I consider myself at least somewhat close to, I’d probably have more like 100 friends. Maybe less.
For a long time I haven’t cared about using Facebook in this restricted way because I’ve basically been using it...