By John Gruber
Little Streaks: The to-do list that helps your kids form good routines and habits.
Linked List: September 11, 2009
Friday, 11 September 2009
- Christopher Breen Reviews the Fifth-Generation iPod Nano ★
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Comprehensive review.
- The Sims 3 for iPhone and iPod Touch ★
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My thanks to EA Mobile for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote The Sims 3 for iPhone and iPod Touch. My wife and son are both nuts for this game. It’s a great port: lots of fun with a good touch interface. It’s now on sale for just $6.99, a 30 percent discount off the regular price.
- Cheeky Oracle Ad ★
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The typesetting could use some work, but I love the attitude.
- Lance Ulanoff on Motorola’s Introduction of the Cliq ★
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Lance Ulanoff:
Motorola Co-CEO Dr. Sanjay K. Jha commanded the stage well. He was reading, obviously, but it came off fairly naturally. So it’s hard to account for the disconnect that followed. Jha began the announcement part of his speech by talking about MotoBlur. To be precise, he talked about what MotoBlur could do, but never specifically said exactly what it was. He called it a “solution” but that could still easily be a phone. In fact, he showed an image of a phone no one had seen before on a big screen behind him and explained how MotoBlur manages all your contacts and even aggregates them all into a master contact database. He said MotoBlur can also handle your social interactions and give you a customizable, widget-based interface so you could have instant access to the things most important to you.
For a full 5 minutes, I thought the name of the new phone was the MotoBlur. Wrong.
Beware conceptual fuzziness.
- ‘The Golden Glow That Older Brothers Have, on Their Bikes and Skateboards, With Their Strength and Jokes and Cars’ ★
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John Moe did not read Infinite Jest this summer, but he did write a splendid, moving essay.
- More on Apple’s Open Sourcing of Grand Central ★
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Drew McCormack:
The open sourcing of Grand Central comes as something of a surprise, because it is a core technology in Snow Leopard, and could be seen to give Apple a competitive edge in the new world of multi-core. So why did they do it?