Posts tagged with "Technology"

‘Instagram is now a (photo) information network’ – Om Malik Photos and videos are increasingly used for informational reasons rather than just for pure aesthetic and artistic purposes. You can do a much better job of selling yourself with images and videos. I mean, coffee looks more enticing when being made and showcased on video. The same goes for liquid nitrogen being poured over some deconstructed fish or whatever. Everyone is advertising everything. Read more →

‘Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino’ – John Gruber (Daring Fireball) Gruber talks about how the release date for the headline features of Apple Intelligence have been pushed back, and aren’t due to be released any time soon. What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. Read more →

One day you start blogging1 and before you know it your blog post folder is looking very long. I’m Left Handed, my blog largely about technology is now 15 years old.2 And ’late to the game’ too. ↩︎ Well, not technically as I wrote my first post in October and it’s currently February. But still, it’s at least in its fifteenth year. ↩︎

Talking of QR codes. I’m amazed by how ubiquitous they are now. I remember when they first appeared. They were a bit of a flop. You’d rarely see them. And non-techies didn’t know what they were or how to interact with them. But now they’re on anything and everything, and even my Dad knows how to scan them.

Washington Post: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud… The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies. One of the things I hate most about Britain and its governments1 is its weird anti-privacy obsession. Read more →

Why is iOS so concerned about pasting into apps? I consider myself pretty security/privacy conscious, but I feel like I shouldn’t need to give an app permission to copy my clipboard.

You know a social network is going to shit when it bates you with ‘notifications’ that are just suggested posts. Threads, I enjoy you. But you are officially in crapification territory.