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Jeremy Keith on Web vs Native
Peter-Paul Koch wrote a post suggesting it was time for web developers and advocates to “concede defeat — or, at least, concede that the web cannot, and should not, compete with native when it comes to complex, app-like structures.” In response, Jeremy Keith takes a broader lens and considers what the web…
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The Kindle “Finally” Gets Better Typography
I’m very excited for this update. I bought an e-ink Kindle for bedtime reading earlier this year, and while I love the simplicity, small size, and the reduced eyestrain from not staring at yet another LCD screen for hours, the layout and typography can’t hold a candle to iBooks. Having…
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Apple Watch, 12″ MacBook, and Force Touch Trackpads
On Wednesday I went to the SoHo Apple Store in NYC for an Apple Watch try-on appointment. I signed up two days in advance, but showed up fifteen minutes early to find the try-on area almost empty—I got to start looking at Watches right away. Let me say upfront: the…
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For a few dollars more
Apple Watch pricing, expressed in terms of upgrades relative to other models: Sport models only come with Sport Bands, and both the space gray and silver cost the same. The 42mm cases are always more expensive, but for us mere mortals, it’s always just a $50 premium. (Not only is…
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Living With Two Laptops (and Two Platforms)
Now I have two laptops. My MacBook Pro is relatively huge, but not that big, and it does absolutely everything I could want it to do, in style. My Surface Pro is smaller, thinner, and lighter. It does virtually everything—certainly anything involving documents or that can be done in a…
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I Got a Microsoft Surface Pro 3
And I’m surprised to say I really like it. Granted, it’s a second computer—I feel permission to like it, because if the going gets rough I can always retreat to the safety of my fully loaded MacBook Pro. But as a lightweight, powerful second computer that happens to have all my…
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Using Custom Fonts in iOS 7+
Something a lot of people don’t know about iOS is that, since the release of iOS 7 last year, it’s finally possible to install third-party fonts and use them in apps. The catch is that fonts can only be installed via a configuration profile, a janky bit of XML designed…
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Blogging from Drafts on iOS 8
Having laid the philosophical groundwork for how I want to blog, let’s talk tools. I wrote the last post in Drafts. I’ve done all my recent writing in Drafts; it’s good and, more importantly, conveniently available in my pocket. Writing on a small mobile device is a good encouragement to…
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Microsoft Word Adds Dropbox Sync
Last week, Microsoft released a major update to Office for iOS, adding support for iPhones (including the new large-screen models) and, even more importantly, adding support for Dropbox as a place to open and save documents in the Office apps. Perhaps the craziest news was this: while at first requiring…
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“Middle-form” Blogging
Marco Arment and Andy Baio and Jason Snell and Gina Trapani have all written about returning to “middle-form” blogging—blogging that’s longer than a tweet but shorter and more casual, like it was back in the day. Sentences, not paragraphs; dozens or low hundreds of words, not thousands. (Worth noting that…