I’ve been using my iPad a lot of late. I find myself in Safari probably 70% of the time. As my habits have settled in, I’m suffering from a mildly acute level of frustration with a lot of little things. Mind you, I’m ecstatic that I can lounge around and surf the Web on it, [...]
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July 27th, 2010
Rethinking the iPad Browsing Experience
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June 21st, 2010
Why I’m Selling My iPad
I am an Apple fanboy. I love their products, their design aesthetic, and Steve Jobs.
My first real Apple product was a 17″ Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro that I purchased in January 2007. Before that I had been a Windows user since the days of 3.1. While I resisted at first, feeling guilty for abandoning [...] -
June 10th, 2010
Brooks on Style
Fred Brooks, author of the classic Mythical Man-Month, has a new book of his essays titled The Design of Design, where he explores the design (lowercase ‘d’) process. Brooks’ discussion is at times academic – in a good way. If you’re looking to read about Web standards or typography, look elsewhere – this is a [...]
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June 10th, 2010
Why We Built Readability
As we’ve already mentioned, we couldn’t be happier that Apple has chosen to leverage our own Readability as a native feature in the Safari browser. As the debate around Safari Reader heats up, we thought we’d chime in and share some of our thoughts, motivations and aspirations for what reading can become on the Web.
The Decline of Print
It’s [...]
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June 7th, 2010
Safari 5: Another Step Towards Better Reading On The Web
Today, Apple announced a new version of their flagship Web browser, Safari. Among the features highlighted is Safari Reader. In essence, the Reader feature transforms a Web page into a single “clutter free page.”
We couldn’t be more excited about the path Apple has taken. Our own Readability led the way by empowering users and hinting [...] -
June 3rd, 2010
Readability Updated: An End To The Yank Of The Hyperlink
Since Readability was released over a year ago, we’ve gotten an amazing amount of feedback on the tool. The great majority of it has been positive, but a sizable chunk of what we hear is about how Readability is an effective “ad-blocking” or “ad removal” tool. While Readability does remove ads, that was never its [...]
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May 27th, 2010
MongoNYC
If you’re keeping up with emerging industry trends, you’ll be familiar with the non-relational database (aka NoSQL) movement. If you aren’t keeping up, the basic idea is that traditional databases don’t scale well on commodity level hardware once you get enough traffic to go beyond what a single DB server can handle. By tweaking/removing design [...]
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May 25th, 2010
It’s a PC world after all
At our apartment, my roommate and I have a strict “Mac only” policy. Between us, we have five laptops (for work and personal use), a set of iPhones and iPods and the Airport wireless system.
We’re technology snobs—in fact, we tend to mock visitors who still use a Windows operating system.
During the work day, I’m also [...]
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