Sweating the details of iOS 7 Published in Thoughts and words · 5 min read · May 10, 2013 -- “Completely flat,” “Like Android,” “Microsoft-flat,” etc., etc., etc. The talk about how Apple is going to
The Buccaneers' defense has been a peculiar subject over the past season. On one play the defense stuffs a run for a loss and on the very next gives up an 80 yard touchdown pass. This process was repe
Screenshot of our own SimCity (called, for reasons that made sense at the time, We Are The Champignons) after three hours of game play. In the nearly quarter-century since designer Will Wright launche
That the growth in iOS has been phenomenal hardly needs to be stated any more. To people like me, though, who have been Apple users since the Mac Classic, it's been an amazing ride. In 2008, after the launch of the iPhone 3G, I wrote: If you haven't got it already, it's time to move your head to…
In the beginning, Danyelle Carter had only one thought: I'm going to die. The 7 a.m. boot camp workout class at Spelman College is a muscle-testing, lung-battering trial for even the fittest. And Cart
3 min read · Apr 29, 2013 -- I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone u
You’re already writing decent commit messages. Let’s see if we can level you upto awesome. Other developers, especially you-in-two-weeks andyou-from-next-year, will thank you for your forethought and
The Buccaneers ' pass defense was simply horrible last season. They gave up a whopping average of 297.4 passing yards per game. Offenses, at will, were able to generate huge passes down the field and
BOSTON – Millions of residents of the Boston metropolitan area were ordered to stay on “lockdown” on Friday as police and the FBI hunted down the second of the Boston Marathon bombers.I was among them
I n the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet
April 9, 2013 Setting up Sublime Text 2 I recently decided it was finally time to part ways with TextMate, my trusty companion for these last few years, and start the hunt for a new editor. After a qu
Let’s be honest, we all like to play a bit and customise our experience. In particular if it is for an application we use everyday like OmniFocus. In the current Mac version you can achieve this using Themes and Perspectives. When you build a new Perspective you are typically looking for a suitable…
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Preface Recently, and with increasing frequency, developers have been speaking out about the difficulties they’ve had trying to implement support for iCloud in their products, and journalists have bee
Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic These examples will help you quickly decide whether the conversational AI chat Bard or the conventional link Google Search will best meet your needs. Published:
Of all the things I love about Dropbox—incredibly seamless integration with OS X and Windows; automated back up and revision history; access to my files on multiple devices, wherever I am; sharing pho
Alfred is a great shortcut and productivity tool for the Mac that received a huge update last week . In case you don’t know, Alfred allows you to quickly perform tasks with a series of keyboard shortc
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Arrested Development is shooting for the first time in seven years and the Bluths are having a bad day. Gob Bluth, disheveled in a tuxedo, a shiner under his left eye, flops down in a seat in a police station. His ambiguously straight brother-in-law, Tobias Fünke, also in a…
This is the first Android device I would feel comfortable using on a regular basis. That doesn’t mean I’m going to, but I would be just fine with it. If I had to boil down my thoughts about the Nexus
2500 years ago, Europe was a filthy mess of dirt roads, battered and cracked by hooves in the summer and rutted by rude wheels in the winter. To travel from the British isles to the tip of the Apennin
The release of SimCity will likely be studied for years as a case of how not to launch a product, and the story keeps getting stranger and stranger. Six hours ago, an anonymous redditor posting under
Corrections Appended: February 26 and March 12, 2013 1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie's…
Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple’s decade-l
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I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last…
Every American can be his own policeman; the country has nearly as many guns as it has people. Photograph by Christopher Griffith Just after seven-thirty on the morning of February 27th, a seventeen-y
In business, words are like fashion. You try a word on because important people around you are saying it and getting results, but you may not actually know what it means. Every group in the company has their own unique set of words and every group uses these words to verbally define who they are,…
Look, I don’t hate Dances With Wolves . Unlike most of my film-snob friends, I actually have a soft spot for it. I remember watching it in the theater and being moved enough to want to see it again. I
Weekend before last, Daniel snapped another four-week picture, and I anxiously noted that if the baby came before its due date, this 36-week picture would be our last. If we did end up taking another on my due date, I predicted that we’d probably both be stressed and tired and ready for the…
The gist of the book Guns of the South is straightforward yet odd. What if, during the Civil War, the South became equipped with a lot of AK-47s? Long story very short, they would have won. Handily. The author, Harry Turtledove, chose not to focus on time travel or other delectable science fiction…
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