Linked List: May 29, 2010

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Mutual Mobile App Solutions 

My thanks to Mutual Mobile for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. They’re a 50-person development and consulting firm based in Austin, Texas, who focus exclusively on mobile applications. Mutual Mobile does everything from commercial iPhone and iPad app development to internal tool development for for companies like Dell, Hoover’s, and Polycom.

If you’re looking for a team to create an app for you, check out Mutual Mobile’s website for some great examples of their work. (And, if you’re a developer or UI designer looking for work, Mutual Mobile is hiring.)

MG Siegler Reviews the HTC Evo 4G 

Terrible battery life (even when not using 4G), a buggy and slow camera, and a poor keyboard.

Roy Halladay Throws Perfect Game 

Only the 20th in Major League Baseball history, but the second this month.

Details, Details, Details 

Pierre Igot on how Pages and Word differ in displaying the styles applied to selected text.

Oliver Reichenstein on Wired’s iPad App 

Oliver Reichenstein is not a fan of Wired’s use of multi-column text layouts in their iPad app. I don’t agree with Reichenstein’s assessment, but it’s certainly thoughtful. I don’t think that an iPad design based on equating pages (from print) to screens (on the iPad) is a bad idea at all. It’s not the only way, but I don’t think it’s a flawed starting point.

Good exchange at the end between Reichenstein and Jonathan Hoefler, regarding iPad type rendering.