Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Feb 2013 09:04 UTC
John Gruber illustrates the dangers of not having a clue about history: "The utter simplicity of the iOS home screen is Apple's innovation. It's the simplest, most obvious 'system' ever designed." Thanks for playing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
Linked by nfeske on 05/31/13 10:12 UTC
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/29/13 16:59 UTC
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!More Features »
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Stock Android 4.2 has less than 10 icons on the home screen, and 5 of those are in the dock so appear on every screen. "
As well as a load of giant widgets.
Nope. Every app has 1 icon, in the app drawer. You have the option of copying icons from there to whichever home screen you want. Or, you can just leave them all in the app drawer and have blank home screens. "
No, sorry - that is incorrect. If one installs an app using the Play store, one gets one icon on the Desktop and one icon in the app list/tray. This is on a Nexus 7, up to date, running 4.2.Whatever the current release is. It updated about a week or so ago.
Depends on the launcher. "
The stock Android launcher. You understand we are talking about *stock* Android, right? ;-)
Please read and understand the complaint before replying.
Alphabetical by default. {..deleted rambling mutterings about non-stock launchers...} "
I might actually look tonight. I know that as a casual user who didn't really pay much attention, it wasn't the order I was expecting (installation order), nor did it make much sense. I'll admit I really didn't bother looking in to it any further and just accepted that I'd need to scan through the icons to find the app I was looking for. Because, really, I work that way - I look for the icon, I don't read the text on every app. I think that might just be the way my brain works (visual images are more important than words.)
On the stock 4.2 that is installed on the Nexus 7? Now I know you have never used a Nexus 7. This does *not* happen, you don't gat any kind of indication that the app is "new" (unless that happened in the very last update, as I'm pretty sure I've not installed anything since then.) It does, however, happen in iOS 6.0 though.
Yes. Because iOS shows the apps in order of installation (if you let the screens naturally fill up) or at the next gap in your "home screens". Again, I look for the icon, not the name of the app (being visually orientated, not textually orientated), so why would alphabetical be of any use to me? Also, in all versions of iOS up to 6.0, the app store closed at point of installation, and zoomed to the page with the new app. This would have a progress bar as part of the install process. It made it bloody obvious what was going on. Now in 6.x, the app downloads inside the app store app as well as on the home screens, and the app store doesn't close. But then each new app has a "new" badge on the home screen till first launch and the app store has an "open" button when the install has completed, so again, it's not exactly rocket science.
Me thinks you haven't actually used Stock Android 4.2. "
Yes I have. It's well documented that I own a Nexus 7 on these forums, go ahead and search if you want proof. It's got a lot better with the last release or two, but it can still be really unstable (mine has rebooted twice randomly since the last update, usually when my kids had left a lot of apps running in their accounts) and so I still only really use it for Youtube and brief web browsing. My kids use it more than me (and now they all have their own accounts on it, so I don't need to worry as much about them messing with my account.) So, nope, wrong. If your phone/tables running is running a stock Android (as supplied directly from Google, with no enhancements or changes) has the extra features you claim with the stock install and launcher - lucky you, but it only goes to prove that a constant user experience is not given across all Android devices, even running stock images supplied by Google directly.