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Ditching Gmail for IMAP
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Joe Kissell ditches Gmail. Some of my complaints are specific to Apple Mail, and I did consider switching email clients. But though I’ve tried many other clients (such as Bloop’s $2 Airmail, the $10 Postbox, and Google’s $10 Sparrow), I’ve never found one that offers all the features I rely on from a combination of…
In-depth reporting on the issues when using Mail on Mavericks with your Gmail account. Now, here’s what’s going to happen. Mail — despite the fact that it has already cached all your Gmail messages — will download all of them again. For me, with about 321,000 messages totaling over 4 GB, that took nearly two…
I switched from an iPhone 5 to the Google Nexus 4 nearly a year ago, and by far the only major complaint I had was the camera. It’s really disappointing to see that Google still hasn’t fixed it in the Nexus 5. Nexus 5 review Let me just reiterate this point: in the right light,…
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins steps down
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It feels like it wasn’t too long ago that BlackBerry was a major player in the smartphone market and a status icon. BlackBerry CEO steps down as company secures $1 billion funding from investors Today was always going to be a momentous day for BlackBerry, with a looming deadline for its proposed takeover deal with…
Should tablet apps cost more?
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There are universal apps, and there are also separate apps for the iPhone and iOS. While different businesses will take different approaches, it’s always important to plan for the future when pricing your app. Questions such as “why should screen size determine an app’s value” should be asked. The clearest example of this concept is…
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps Another intriguing characteristic: in addition to jumping “airgaps” designed to isolate infected or sensitive machines from all other networked computers, the malware seems to have self-healing capabilities. “We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed,…
Some insights and history of the iPad
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How Steve Jobs Made the iPad Succeed When All Other Tablets Failed iPad is an incredible opportunity for developers to re-imagine every single category of desktop and web software there is. … The bottom line is, many apps which were cute toys on iPhone can become full-featured power tools on the iPad, making you forget…
Tim Ahrens analysed the new Lucida Grande.
Mac OS in Javascript
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Fancy a Mac OS running on Javascript?