Category: IT News
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The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
The best about web ad-blocking ever written. By Marco Arment: People often argue that running ad-blocking software is violating an implied contract between the reader and the publisher: the publisher offers the page content to the reader for free, in exchange for the reader seeing the publisher’s ads. And that’s a nice, simple theory, but…
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What’s New in Windows 10
I have been running the Windows 10 Insider Builds for a while now. And getting close to the release date for Windows 10, I was asking myself, what – other than the slightly different look and feel – has actually changed. What are the key new features. Well, Microsoft has setup a page where they…
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The Rough Road to Apple Music
On Tuesday last week Apple MUSIC was released. On Wednesday I updated my MacBook Pro to Yosemite 10.10.4 and the new iTunes 12.2. When I launched iTunes after the update it prompted me to enable iCloud Library. And I’m like, hey this sounds like a good idea. Just like with Photos, right? Everything in the…
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The Debacle of Google Glass
I truly enjoy when things turn out the way I predicted all the way. :) Worth the read anyway. Once again it turns out that geeks – which literally all of Google senior executives are – just can’t predict the general consumer reception of the latest toy they design. It’s just something else. Google has proven…
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Bigger than bigger
Much has been written about the new iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. My own review could be summarized in just a very short statement. I love my new iPhone 6 Plus, for its beautiful display, the solid battery life, Touch ID (I was upgrading from an iPhone 5), the camera. One thing, however,…
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It’s Time to Split Up Microsoft
Very thoughtful article about Microsoft’s current state. Perfectly reflects my view of things. I’ve said many times before that Microsoft’s focus on Windows blinds them. Whether Nadella can turn this around remains to be seen. In short, it’s time to break Microsoft up. In 2000, Windows, Office, and Server were a virtuous cycle. Today, Windows…
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Giving Up on the iPad
Jared Sinclair: I think the future of the iPad is for it to disappear, absorbed at the low end by iPhones with large displays and at the high end by Macs running a more iOS-like flavor of OS X. Perhaps it won’t disappear completely. After all, for certain niche uses – especially those listed above…
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The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain
Comprehensive and well written article on one of the most common complaints iPhone owners raise.
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Designing Unread for iPad
I’m using Unread since it’s release a few weeks ago. Jared has just announced an iPad version of the app, and he’s started documenting the design work for it in a video podcast. Here is the link to the first video: Designing Unread for iPad – part 1. If you haven’t tried it yet, Unread is a…
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The art of innovating
Note: This article was originally posted on berzau-consulting.com A few weeks ago I watched a Samsung keynote. And last week I watched an Apple keynote. What a difference. As far as the Samsung event is concerned, this was the second I watched. And like the other one I wasn’t able to watch it through until…