Days Without Gets Some Love!

About five years ago, I had an idea to build a simple app to keep track of various goals and streaks in meeting those goals. The result was Days Without, and it was one of the first apps I’d built entirely on my own. Since then, I’ve made some updates, expanded the feature set, and …
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Here's your $40 Billion in Change. Have a Great Day!

Yesterday Apple released their Holiday 2014 Quarterly Financial results, and they were staggering. The charts, numbers, and everything are off the charts. But for me, nothing shows how huge and successful Apple has become, than this bit from 9to5mac.com: The record-breaking numbers also explain why, despite the stock buybacks and dividends paid out by Apple, …
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Umm What? If a BlackBerry CEO Whines on his Blog, does anyone hear him?

This morning I came across the post below from 9to5mac.com and just had to shake my head. Apparently BlackBerry CEO John Chen thinks Apple should be legally required to port iMessage to BlackBerry: “…  Apple does not allow BlackBerry or Android users to download Apple’s iMessage messaging service… This dynamic has created a two-tiered wireless broadband ecosystem, in which iPhone and …
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App Prices Rise in Canada

Apple today increased prices for apps in Canada and across the European Union to account for currency fluctuations. In a quick survey of the app store, I noticed prices are now $1.19 (instead of $0.99), $2.29 (instead of $1.99), and $3.49 (instead of $2.99), etc. While Canada is not a huge market and pricing should …
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A bite of Apple History

Creating the simple is extremely difficult. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of quality versions all get rejected. Rounds and rounds of seemingly insignificant modifications typically follow. But once you see it, you can’t imagine it any other way. That’s Apple. And it all begins with the iconic logo: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/myths-and-mysteries-apples-apple-162098

Bleach

I don’t watch a lot of television anymore, aside from a handful of shows I’ll DVR and couple Netflix originals, but when I find a show I like, I sort of become a bit obsessed. So that’s why watching the pilot of a new show called Bleach has me conflicted. On one hand, the show …
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Making it look Easy

I continually learn the lesson of don’t believe everything you see on the Internet, and I’m media savvy enough to know that anything can be done with editing. And while that no doubt applies to this clip as well – because clearly this was not all done in a few minutes – the core elements …
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