People are not flocking to Facebook because they want better email — they flock because they want to see what their ex looks like now. Facebook is not popular because it is a communication tool — nor is it an underutilized communication tool — Facebook is popular because people like to spy on each other.
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On Instagram
A few weeks ago, I published a piece about photo editing on the iPad. In it, I said:
…there are a class of photographers that want to do more than just put a heavy filter on top of our photos. Let us tweak — truly tweak — our photos, like we can on the desktop.
I still am frustrated with the lack of a great photo editing suite for iOS. Photoshop Express wins my vote for now, but even it is far from perfect.
The Tablet Market
There’s an iPad market, and the iPad could be classified as a tablet, from a hardware-centric viewpoint. But the market for non-iPad tablets is about as big today as it was before the iPad, which isn’t nothing, but it’s close enough to nothing that Apple doesn’t need to worry about it.
Go read (or Instapaper) this right now. Marco’s dead on — the iPad is a stand-alone product, and the tablet market is just as sad today as it was a year ago. If not more so.
‘Concise, but Dense’
Very kind, and undeserved words from Seedling. I’m humbled to be included on such a list of superstars.
On My New Homepage
Earlier today, I asked the hivemind of Twitter what I should set as my homepage in Safari. Google Reader has been my homepage of years, but I’ve switched to using Reeder all the time.
This is what several people suggested, and I have to say, it is perfect:
The PervPad
A bizarre Christmas gift mix-up brought a Marion 12-year-old more than she had on her wish list. It was not exactly a lump of coal, but a set of southern Illinois parents may have preferred that to the gift they gave their daughter.
The young girl opened her gift and got an eyeful of porn. They bought what they thought were Coby Kyros pads for their 12 and 15-year-old daughters. They are similar to the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. Within a couple minutes, they realized one of the devices had more than just games and email apps.
Moron of the Week: Fred Upton
A top House Republican says GOP lawmakers will go after President Barack Obama’s health care law piece by piece to see if they can make it crumble.
That effort, says Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, will follow a vote to repeal the health care law outright. Such a vote could come early in the new year after the GOP takes control of the House.
Maybe I should have used “jackass” instead of “moron.”
Hotmail Meltdown
Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft’s online forum that all of their messages have disappeared.
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Others complain that the majority of the e-mail in their inboxes was sent to their deleted mail folders instead. It is unclear from the posts how widespread the problem is. The free Web-based e-mail service is the world’s most used with about 360 million users globally, according to comScore Inc.
Project 365: 2011
My third “photo a day for a year” project is up and running.
‘Without Hesitation’
I haven’t felt so thrilled by a new piece of hardware since I bought our first iPad, and the same feeling of experiencing a new class of device is present here too. If you’re tempted by the 11-inch model’s portability but are worried about whether you could get your work done, put your concerns aside – it’s an excellent machine and more than up to the job.
Having owned one for more than a week now, using it every day (including for development work in Xcode) and traveling for most of that time, I can recommend it without hesitation.
Dec. 2010: The State of the Blog
Looking Back
A year ago today, I shut down this website.
Needless to say, that didn’t last.
Here’s a paragraph a friend emailed me a year ago:
I’ve just got way too much stuff, way too many gadgets, way too many computers, and spend way too much time wasting time on the Internet on things that don’t deserve time out of my life that I can’t ever get back.
My friend is still right, but closing ForkBombr was the wrong answer to my desire to simplify my life. I love writing — I need to write.
‘Something from Apple’
Marco has written the list of the year, as far as I am concerned.