Ben Galbraith, newly-named director of developer relations at Palm, acknowledges Jamie Zawinski’s problems attempting to publish free WebOS apps.
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Archive > September 2009
Dropbox iPhone App Now Available
Requires OS 3.1, alas, so it won’t install if, say, you’re hanging on to OS 3.0.1 so as to keep using samizdat AT&T tethering.
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App Store Rejection of the Week: iSinglePayer
From the app’s developer:
iSinglePayer, an iPhone application that advocates for single-
payer health care reform was rejected from the App Store by Apple
because it is “politically charged.” The application displays
charts and bullet points about single-payer health care systems,
and it allows users to call members of congress. iSinglePayer
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Gizmodo Has Purported Photos of Upcoming Microsoft ‘Pink’ Phones
Two phones, both sliders with hardware keyboards. One looks a bit like the Pre, the other like every other horizontal slider on the market. The software is from the team Microsoft assembled when they acquired Danger. Who knows, maybe the software is great. (I hope it is.) But how many different mobile OS platforms does [...]
Cleversimon Summarizes Charlie Brooker
Cleversimon on this curious piece by Charlie Brooker:
Charlie Brooker’s thesis is “I hate Windows, but I hate
strawmen Mac evangelists more, so I’m going to marinate in my
misery just to stick it to these imaginary fanboys. I’m unhappy
and unproductive, and I’m going to stay unhappy and unproductive
— that’ll [...]
Speaking of Adobe’s Problems
There have been some classics at Adobe UI Gripes lately. Think about the fact that someone wrote and approved this dialog box.
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So You Think You Can Tell Arial From Helvetica? Quiz
An important quiz from David Friedman at Ironic Sans. I got Toyota wrong, so, shamefully, only scored a 19/20.
Update: Consolation for my fellow got-them-all-except-Toyota-ers: It’s debatable whether Toyota’s logo counts as Helvetica. Look at those crazy round O’s.
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BusyCal 1.0
BusyMac’s alternative to iCal has shipped. Built-in calendar sharing (BusySync compatible), Google Calendar syncing, superior handling of to-do items, way better UI for creating new events — BusyCal is simply better than iCal in every imaginable way. $40 per computer, with a 20 percent discount for multiple copies and, best of all, a $10 upgrade [...]
Entitlement
Jeff LaMarche has a sharp response to this goofy rant by Patrick Jordan complaining that the upcoming Tweetie 2, which costs just $3, is not a free upgrade for existing users.
Two thoughts:
If you don’t think it’s worth $3, don’t buy it.
Keep in mind we’re talking about $3 for an app that only runs on handheld [...]
