apps

March 18, 2013

Why is Google dropping Google Reader & RSS? The answer is obvious.

This “killing off” of Google Reader and Chrome RSS AddOn is pretty blatantly an attempt to drive people to use Google+ for everything.

It makes sense. Honestly I haven’t used RSS for years, and was surprised so many people still do. I suspect most people get their news and information “feeds” through Twitter and/or Facebook at this point anyway. And unless G+ can compete with those services, it is not likely to survive.

December 31, 2012

FINALLY Facebook iPhone app lets you choose an album when posting a photo. #ridiculous

First the share button, and now this?! By god, 2012 could mark the year this app actually became useful!

April 11, 2012

Has iTunes always had this menu for playing to AppleTV? (If so, I feel stupid…)

This is one of the new features I thought looked really great in Apple’s upcoming OS release Mountain Lion ( http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#airplay ) — but honestly I only see myself using that feature for videos anyway, so iTunes already does what I need. Nice.

(Still don’t get why QuickTime Player doesn’t have the same option, though. Strange… In the meantime, that’s what Air Video is for : www.inmethod.com/air-video/ Apple should really just buy Air Video and make it part of iOS as well as Mac OS. It is quite possibly the greatest app ever.)
June 6, 2011

Even a broken weather icon is right at least… once in a while. 73 degrees & sunny.

This was actually really weird because I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve launched the weather app.