Smule calls their latest iPhone app “an instrument, a game, and a huge global social experience.” Most App Store reviewers simply call it “addictive.” And give it 5 stars. Like Ocarina, Leaf Trombone lets you turn iPhone or iPod touch into a musical instrument; this time, a trombone. But Leaf Trombone also lets you play [...]
Archive > April 2009
DF RSS Feed Sponsorship
If you’ve been thinking about sponsoring the DF RSS feed, a scheduling change has opened up the week of May 11-18, and there’s still one open week remaining in June. If you have a product or service you’d like to promote to Daring Fireball’s audience of Apple nerds, designers, nitpickers, perfectionists, and connoisseurs of fine [...]
Flickr Hit by Yahoo Layoffs
Om Malik:
Yahoo layoffs have started and seem to have hit the Flickr team. Many engineers from the service have been either laid off or are leaving on their own. Rev Dan Catt, Ashot Petrosian and Neil Kandalgaonkar were amongst those who tweeted about their exits. Catt for instance is moving back to UK. I am [...]
The Detroit of Software
Exactly right:
The point isn’t MICROSOFT SUXXX0RS!!! AAPL ROOLZ!!!, though if you had to boil it down to four words those ones are much closer to true than to false. Rather, the problem is that Microsoft is the Detroit of software. It makes big, ugly, dangerous, resource-hogging crap, and its “success” is based on… its “success”.
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Palm Pre Gets the iSuppli Bullshit Treatment
So according to BusinessWeek it’s a “peek under the hood” even when the peekers haven’t yet examined the outside of the device, let alone the inside.
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Steven Frank on the Office 2010 Preview
Steven Frank:
This is impenetrable. It’s UI salad. I realize this is not (yet) shipping software, but my god. If you sat me down in front of this, I wouldn’t have the slightest idea where to begin.
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My ‘I Told You So’ of the Day
Yours truly, back in December 2006:
By the way, my spidey sense says Twitter is going to be one of those “everyone’s using it” big deals pretty soon.
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The Official White House Photostream on Flickr
I love these photos from official White House photographer Pete Souza — it’s a historical photo documentary being published in real time. Some give you a real feel for the White House. Some are downright banal — like this one where President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are just talking behind the scenes [...]
