Tag Archives: iOS

Michael Tsai – PDFpen and iCloud

My largest long-term fear of OSX is that Apple will slowly turn off the abil­ity for appli­ca­tions to be use­ful with­out using the App Store and thus some Apps may just not exist any­more (SuperDuper is the easy example).

January 26, 2012 – 8:10 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks

Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suf­fer the same secu­rity holes.

December 6, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome

That pretty much sums up every bit of expe­ri­ence of Android I’ve ever heard.

October 17, 2011 – 8:17 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Report: iTunes beta suggests app rentals may be in iOS’s future

A rental sys­tem would be nice, I hate buy­ing apps that I try out and then get rid of.

October 3, 2011 – 10:48 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

GitHub – gimenete/iOS-boilerplate

This looks impres­sive for any­one build­ing an iOS app.

September 15, 2011 – 12:32 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Software Code, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

What’s inter­est­ing about this story is the sus­pi­cion that Google and Apple had not pre­vi­ously filed re-examination requests because their agree­ments with Lodsys pre­vented such an action, appar­ently not so at least for Google.

August 18, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Silicon Alley 2.0 – Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

His pro­posed solu­tion is one that Google should really think about, though even that may not be right.

July 30, 2011 – 8:05 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off