Google dumps Windows

Snagged from the TUAW news feed:
We first heard rumors of this policy change a couple of months ago, but now it’s made the papers: the Financial Times is reporting that Google is phasing out the use of Windows internally, as employees are migrated to either Linux or Mac OS X on machine turnovers or new [...]

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iPhone class action

Isn’t anyone going to start up a class action suit against AT&T and Apple? Both companies promised iPhone tethering support, spurring greatly increased sales of the iPhone 3Gs, only to yank the promise of tethering in the U.S. even though AT&T offers tethering with other devices. Promises for the past year have been broken, leaving [...]

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Sublime

An absolutely sublime post from the Tao of Mac on everything from crazy iPad hype to an in-depth stream of consciousness on the escalating war against Flash and what HTML5 means. Beautiful site redesign too, although I suspect Rui actually did it quite a while ago and I’m just getting around to noticing now.
Just my [...]

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The new freemium

TUAW published a great article on GDC 2010: Ngmoco’s Neil Young on how freemium will change the App Store world. If you’re interested in the evolution of Apple’s “App Store” and, in a wider sense, the marketing that’s driving one of it’s largest publishers check out the article. It’s an interesting accounting of how mobile [...]

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iPhone guidance

If you don’t want to shell out the $10 per month fee for the AT&T iPhone Navigator application, I can’t blame you. That’s a lot to pay for directions, especially when you can pick up a Garmin for under $100. There is an alternative, though: A new version of CoPilot Live enhances and fixes a [...]

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Future shock

Ok, I’ll admit it — I think the iPad is going to be a huge success. Not because it has some whiz-bang feature or gizmo that makes it better than any of the competitors. No, I think it will succeed because it’s completely different. Apple is trying to solve a problem that’s been plaguing “the [...]

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Evernote

Have you discovered Evernote yet? I’ve become very impressed with this simple catch-all for ideas, notes, events, even your favorite wine. Essentially, it can capture just about any content, including web pages, PDF files, documents, text clippings, photos, and email messages. The real power of Evernote is, at least for me, twofold:

It’s cross platform, working [...]

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The tablet’s out of the bag

So it looks like the Apple Tablet is for real, not just completely unsubstantiated collective wishful thinking from thousands of Apple fans (which can be pretty powerful in and of itself). And if the slip-up is true, we’ll have all the fun details later this week — and they do sound tantalizing.

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Finally, definitive iCal to iPhone syncing

With the iPhone OS 3.1 and later, we’ve got better options. So what is the real scoop on syncing all of our digital calendars, from Google to OS/X iCal to your holiday calendar subscription?

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Snow Leopard headache

Being the helpless technologist I am, I had to install Snow Leopard (OS/X 10.6) the day it shipped. Actually I’ve been looking forward to this release for some time — a release almost entirely focused on making the operating system more stable, faster and more compact. How novel! Of the handful of new features coming [...]

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…Sorry, my phone crashed

This problem continually occurs on my iPhone (along with the dropped call problem). All of the solutions presented here are for fiddlers. A phone is an appliance. Apple sold it to zillions because it is carefree. Download a sexy app and use it. Not go to a GENIUS BAR (puke) or reload, or reset, or fiddle, or or or.

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This is funny

No really, it’s funny — but true, too. Enjoy your PC Frank.

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