Author: Marc
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Squashing Services Into Apps
Lee asks Are Apple ruining user experience to promote their own services? – While using the Fitness app earlier today it occurred to me that the answer is most definitely yes! The current incarnation of the Fitness app (formally known as Activity) now squashes in Activity History, current day, workout lists, awards, and the recently […]
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Moderating Directories, Not Podcasts
Great article over on The Verge, but I have one small issue with it: Asking it [Apple] to remove a show from its directory is like asking it to make a specific webpage inaccessible in Safari — is that something people want? Podcasting has, so far, avoided crowning one platform as king, meaning anyone, both […]
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The BBC Is Using Its Own ‘Dot BBC’ Domain
The BBC has started using its own custom Top Level Domain (TLD). The entire BBC Online offering is available at https://the.bbc [Update March 2022 – this link no longer works, so I’ve updated it with an archive.org link]. Many large corporations such as Apple and T.K. Maxx own their own TLD, which were rumoured to […]
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Twitter Muscle Memory
Great post by Greg about muscle memory and firing up the Twitter app as a habit, something I have struggled with (and continue to do so). I made the … Twitter Muscle Memory (Via Lee) Pleased to see more and more people coming round to this view. As I wrote in January, we all need […]
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Working From Home in a Small Apartment
My girlfriend and I are currently trying to move to a bigger house, but with a global pandemic it has been a slow process. Hence we are currently both working from our 1 bedroom flat and are likely to continue this way for the next few months. Both our jobs involve lots of online calls, […]
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Making Siri Timers More Timely
I can be a perfectionist when it comes to software, and one thing that bugs me when using Siri timers is the fact that the time taken for Siri to understand me is added on to the timer duration. Frequently I will start a timer using the “Hey Siri” wake word, either using my Apple […]
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A New Age of Web Censorship?
Opinions are understandably mixed as to whether it was right for Twitter, Facebook et al. to remove Donald Trump’s various accounts from their servers. Amazon blocking access to the prominent alternative Parler, which was welcoming Trump and his followers with open arms was also questionable. There is a genuine debate to be had about whether […]
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What Is a Console?
I was recently listening to John Gruber and Rene Ritchie speaking on an episode of The Talk Show. They both make the argument that by calling an iOS device a console, it somehow justifies Apple’s position that the only way to load software onto it should be via their App Store. Have a listen. While […]
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Microsoft Is Replacing Outlook With a Web App
According to Windows Central, Microsoft is planning to replace the aging native Outlook apps for both Windows and Mac with a Chromium-wrapped HTML app. I came across this link thanks to John Gruber, whose take on it is unsurprisingly negative – within the Mac community there is a definite preference for native over web software […]
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Nurturing Your Default Network
Your Default Network is a pattern of neurons that fire when you are not actively concentrating on anything. It’s what we call daydreaming. It has been linked to creativity and our ability to reflect on the past, and prepare for the future. Yet with so many distractions at our fingertips, it’s easy to forego daydreaming […]
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