Author: Jack Slater
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“What Happened in the Apple Event Today?”
That’s a question I get asked, here’s the answer: Apple Watch OS 2 got a release date, September 16th. That’s the one with the native apps instead of the apps running on the iPhone and displaying on the Apple Watch. There are two new colors of Apple Watch, gold and rose gold. The big iPad…
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Death to Bullshit
Brad Frost’s list of bullshit: Popups, jargon, junk mail, anti-patterns, sensationalism, begging for likes, tracking scripts, marketing spam, dark patterns, unskippable ads, clickbait, linkbait, listicles, seizure-inducing banners, captchas, QR codes, barely-visible unsubscribe buttons, 24-hour news networks, carousels, auto-playing audio, bloatware, sudden redirects to the App Store, telemarketing, ticked-by-default subscribe buttons, “your call is important to…
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8-Bit Generation
There are not many people I trust to make recommendations about funding another crowdfunding campaign from people who have already failed to ship a documentary once, but you should read the full argument from Jason Scott. Here’s just a part: Way back in 2012, I posted something, talking about how worried I was that a…
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Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.12
Tasos Lazarides has a huge list of updates to the version of Minecraft for phones and tablets: These are just a few of the additions in this huge update, and you can see now why I said this update really changes the game up and brings mobile gamers closer to being able to play the…