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Creating a webpage icon for iPad or iPhone

June 16, 2010

I’ve been using Silvio Rizzi’s excellent Reeder for iPad for the past several days. It’s far and away the nicest Google Reader application for iPad, and maybe anywhere. One thing that I noticed about it was that for some of the sites in my feed there were big fancy icons, while others were stuck with favicon.ico [...]

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Sensible thoughts on the iPad version of WIRED magazine

May 28, 2010

Let’s make this clear once and for all: at the current surface and resolution of the iPad, multi column layouts for long screen texts are sentimental nonsense. And the more columns you use, the worse it gets. via iA » WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger….

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Steve Jobs posts his thoughts on Flash

April 29, 2010

But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. via Thoughts on Flash.

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The best two paragraphs that John Dvorak has written in last 20 years

February 12, 2010

I’d advise people to look into the history of Nokia. Here is a company, unlike any other in the world, that can change its business model and structure on a dime. It began as a wood pulp mill, then paper manufacturer, then tires, then raincoats and clothing, then cables and on and on. More recently [...]

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