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The initial reaction to Microsoft’s unveiling of the Ribbon in Windows 8’s Explorer.exe has mostly been sour.  Of course, most of these people are using Macs and they see this as an over-complication of the UI.  Those defending Windows accuse Apple of “dumbing down” Finder to “make it look pretty” (seriously, this is a direct…

Evernote posted a remarkably cool product in their blog (http://blog.evernote.com/2011/09/02/htc-tablets-and-evernote/) by HTC. Understanding that this is a major thing to me to say, it’s the first time I have seen an awesome feature in a non-iPad tablet that made me want to replace my iPad with it. This new notebook app is a full blown…

So I’m sitting here this morning doing some meditation and my phone starts ringing.  I notice the number is a Cupertino number.  Excitedly, I pick up.  It’s my favorite former CEO! “Steve, my man.  I was wondering when you were gonna call.” “Hi, Aaron.  I wanted to let you know that we can talk a…

I was excited to hear that a petition was going around to Sesame Street’s creators suggesting that Bert and Ernie finally get married. Given the strides we have been making for gay rights this year, I feel like it’s really the right time for this to happen, and Bert and Ernie are great candidates for…

Despite being on the approach of an effective duopoly with the AT&T-Mobile merger, cell carriers are living in fear right now of losing control over the user experience.  The focus is shifting from things the provider has controlled to a focus on the phones and the software they are running and the user experience that…

The announcement of it caught me by surprise today, but Facebook released a new app called Messenger, a standalone iOS/Android app that handles just your Facebook messages. It adds a couple features to make it well suited to phone-to-phone communication and group planning, but it’s mostly a pretty simple app. I used it a bit…

I decided a couple months ago to just remove Flash from my computer outright. I’m not really outwardly in a pissing match against Adobe or their technology offerings (though I feel like they no longer represent the pinnacle of great creative software like they did before they bought Macromedia, and incidentally I think Macromedia’s products…

1. The defense budget will start coming under serious scrutiny. Our military is the absolute archetype of inefficient government bureaucracy and lack of accountability to boot. We are #1 in military spending per capita by a long shot. 2. There will start to be a serious conversation about drug legalization. For one thing, making drugs…

So I’m having my Pop Tarts this morning, when all of the sudden, I get a call on my phone from Cupertino. Immediately I recognized the number and picked up. “Steve, how’s it going, man?” “Aaron, it’s been awhile since I called.  Sorry about that.” “No worries, man!” We shoot the breeze for a bit.…

So I’m walking down the alley way to go to the gym (seriously) and undecided that waiting for my Bluetooth headphones to get replaced by the OEM was far too much of a first world problem for me to handle, so I took it upon myself to order a new pair using Amazon’s app. Note…