I have no way to check, or maybe I am too lazy busy, but the Store in iTunes 9 is no longer using QuickTime to render the pages and the navigation. IMNSHO it’s all about WebKit, making for a more fluid design and more responsive experience. About time.
Here are a few enhancement requests that would make the iPhone more useful and enjoyable:
- Add the option to Remind me in 5, 10 or 30 minutes on calendar event alerts.
- Sync with the Mac OS Keychain so iPhone Safari can use it. 1Password doesn’t cut it.
- Add a Missed Notifications app to list all [...]
Just thought of a few things that we used back in ‘99 and seem to rediscover now:
- Hunch – Active Buyer’s Guide
- Facebook – Six Degrees
- iPhone – Psion+SonyErricson
- Blogs – Sites on Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire
- Google – Altavista
What am I missing?
Pic not related.
A friend asked my opinion on the 5 key factors for the success of a casual games web site. This is what I said, out of the top of my head:
1. Plug into an existing user base. It won’t be easy to start a brand new service with zero credibility and no eye-ball [...]
There’s something scary about being responsible for the security and privacy of thousands of people’s data. It’s the reasons why I tried to stay away from getting my own web server for so long. My customers usually already have a hosting provider; when they don’t, I advise them to get a fully managed solution. It [...]
Mike Pinkerton seems to be full-time on Mac Chrome these days. He’s having a great time and moving things in the right direction on that front, but I’m just afraid it’s going to mean the end of Camino. Mike’s said this won’t affect Camino at all in the short term, but one can only wonder. [...]
I’ve been with Dreamhost for the past 4 years, and my hosting happiness has steadily deteriorated. This is mostly due to:
1. DH’s service level being less and less reliable. E.g. a WP home page with little traffic often takes more than 5 seconds to load.
2. One of my sites growing beyond what may be fashionable [...]
First impressions.
The venue was OK, inside Paris for a change. The temperature inside was often above zero and the Steek branded bandannas we’ve put in everyone’s goody-bag had a good run.
Disastrous WiFi connection. Almost inexistent the first day, completely unreliable the second. We should ask for a refund, really.
The food. Not as fancy [...]
The problem with the best Mac email client is that it doesn’t exist. There are a few good ones, they all break when things get heavy.
Apple Mail – The default email client is not bad. However, there are so many little quirks in its UI that using all day makes for a stressful experience.
Microsoft Entourage [...]
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Rob observes that the “Conseil supérieur de la langue française” just made French a bit easier. Some examples from the post:
- sûrement devient surement
- événement devient évènement
- corolle devient corole
- des scénarii devient des scénarios
- vingt et un mille cent trente-huit devient vingt-et-un-mille-cent-trente-huit
– on n’écrit plus oignon mais ognon
– on n’écrit plus cuissot [...]