Nilay Patel is angry, and we should be, too.
Category: General Tech
On Geekdom⇢
John Siracusa:
Geekdom is not a club; it’s a destination, open to anyone who wants to put in the time and effort to travel there. And if someone lacks the opportunity to get there, we geeks should help in any way we can. Take a new friend to a meetup or convention. Donate your old games, movies, comics, and toys. Be welcoming. Sharing your enthusiasm is part of being a geek.
If a T-rex were released in New York City, how many humans/day would it need to consume to get its needed calorie intake?⇢
What If may be my favorite website.
On AT&T’s Sponsored Data⇢
This is gross.
The lost secrets of webOS⇢
As someone who carried a Palm Pre Plus for quite some time, Dieter Bohn’s article just made me sad.
Bring on the Future
As the world looks forward to another new year, many words have been written about the trends technology may follow in 2014 and beyond.
As with most things in life, the best way to look forward is to look back.
Once upon a time, 1 using a computer meant handing a punchcard to a technician who would run the program for you, and report back with the results.
Over time, using the mainframes became slightly more direct, but there was still a big disconnect between the hardware used to program and the hardware used to execute. 
The triumph and tragedy of OS/2⇢
Jeremy Reimer walks through the history of the ill-fated IBM project.
The Sweet Setup⇢
Let’s be honest: the iOS experience is really all about the third-party apps.
Let’s be honest about something else: the difference between good apps and bad apps can be huge.
Let’s be honest about one last thing: discovery in the App Store kinda sucks.
Now that group therapy is over, I’d like to tell you about something I like: Shawn Blanc’s new site, The Sweet Setup. It sets out to become a catalogue of the best apps (iOS and otherwise) out there. Not the newest; the best.
Hal Has a Nightmare⇢
Bryan Cranston explains the link between Malcom in the Middle and Breaking Bad with a little scene from the Wilkerson bedroom.
Using Python to Make Grown-Up iOS Screenshots⇢
Dr Drang:
On last week’s episode of The Prompt, Federico went off on a rant about ugly iOS screenshots. He wasn’t complaining about the apps themselves being ugly, he was chastising those of us who post screenshots with status bars showing inconsistent times, signal strengths, and battery levels. And Lord help you if your battery icon is in the red.
His recommendation was Status Magic, a Mac app that cleans up the status bars in your iOS screenshots and makes them uniform. It looks like a nice app, but my thoughts gravitated toward a script using the Python Imaging Library.
Nintendo Has no Plans of Bringing Its Games to Smartphones⇢
I guess Nintendo doesn’t read Apple blogs.
Making It In Memphis⇢
The maker community here is thriving, and it’s great to see some of my friends and coworkers in the press.