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Dec 22

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Earlier this week I spent some time driving around Kansas City in order to field test the turn-by-turn navigation, the LTE network, and the battery life. At 11:30 AM I started out and the battery of the Nexus was at 43-percent. After 25 minutes the battery had drained down to 33-percent even though it was plugged into a car charger.

Think about that. If you’re on a road trip and want to use the 4G LTE network to provide you with driving directions, your drive had better be shorter than 4 hours because even when plugged into a car charger, the battery will not last.

” From Shawn Blanc’s review of the Galaxy Nexus. Wow.

Nov 29

“Because their collection methods are kind of primitive, these sites have to coax you into doing as much of your social interaction as possible while logged in, so they can see it. It’s as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender).” A very amusing metaphor from Maciej Ceglowski’s article on the social graph (http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/)

Oct 24

Apple’s Three Laws of Developers

yourhead:

A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.

A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

— I. Developer

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but this is pretty spot on.

Aug 16

“(a typical comminqué between Apple and their developer community ends with a Vader-esque “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further”)” Andy Ihnatko, in a clever aside

Jul 21

tumblr:~ jagreenwood$: HOWTO: Bring Back Vertical Swiping in Lion

jagreenwood:

One of my biggest annoyances about OSX Lion is that it broke vertical (up/down) 3-finger swiping in most of my favorite apps including Carousel.

So being the diligent developer that I am, I wanted to figure out why and try to fix it for our users. Turns out the code doesn’t need to be touched for…

Yes! Nice find.

May 16

A snapshot of current reviews for the latest version of the Kobo iOS app – our most well-received release to date! (via Tyler Bindon’s CommentCast iTunes review collector)

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My horribly titled blog of puns and iOS-related ramblings.

Apple’s Three Laws of Developers

tumblr:~ jagreenwood$: HOWTO: Bring Back Vertical Swiping in Lion