Jacob Terry

You know what would suck? If Flickr just shut down one day, without warning, and suddenly you lost all your photos you had posted. You typed Flickr.com in your browser and what

Apple just updated their podcasts app to a state that seems actually usable so I gave it another shot. After messing around with it a bit I ended up abandoning it and going

It’s more accurate to consider the iPhone a computer than a phone. Perhaps even more so for the iPad. Clearly Apple sees this as well, as the evolution of iOS makes clear.

Many software developers have a pet peeve about customers calling their software “useless” (see here and here). It’s absolutely true that it can be infuriating to have all of your work declared

Loren Brichter on XPC, one of the new APIs in OS X and iOS: I can’t fathom the extent of the innovation we’ll see, but even simple things that are impossible

Although they want to export the previous content, currently nothing from Digg’s 7-year history is accessible. Manton Reece has a pretty compelling example relating to my post The Web Isn’t Forever.

A common complaint about Apple is that they think they know what’s best. Here’s a (poorly titled) example: The general philosophy of [OS X Lion] seems to be “We know better”

It’s accepted wisdom that “the web doesn’t forget”. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), it isn’t true. Here’s just one small example. I saw Forrest Gump on TV last night. I

If Verizon (or any carrier) wants to take this seriously, it’s very simple: let customers add unlimited devices to an existing data bucket for a reasonable monthly fee. $5, for instance. I

The Mac App Store doesn’t support paid upgrades. Neither does the iOS App Store. This is a problem. I’d certainly like to see paid upgrades in Apple’s app stores, but

@katiekitay I'll say, uh, less than three months? And now that I said that, it'll be fourteen years. I really appreciate your enthusiasm! —C — Panic Inc (@panic) April

Setting goals has always been something I enjoy. Achieving them is okay, but it’s more the setting. They’re kind of like working out some new way to organize the files on

If a building has only two floors, an elevator only ever has one travel option (to the floor opposite the current one), so why even bring the numbers “1” and “2” into it?

http://twitter.com/#!/vidio/status/131350274378964992 Joshua Topolsky and the others that fled Engadget launched their new site today, The Verge. I found one of the groups Topolsky thanked in his announcement post

Steve Jobs said that iCloud was the end of the road for document storage on iOS at WWDC in June. I don’t believe it. There are too many loose ends remaining. What

The new, complementary functionality of auto save and versions is an interesting beast. It’s the type of feature that a few years from now you’ll be amazed you ever lived without,

Mail has received perhaps the biggest update of any of the pre-installed applications in Lion, with a column-based layout, new search methods, improved conversation threads, updated icons, and better support for Exchange and

My wife will tell you that I love interfaces. (She’ll roll her eyes while she says it, but she’ll say it). Given that it shouldn’t be surprising that I’ve

Dave Winer proposes (as he has before) that Twitter should focus around being a news service. I tend to agree, although I don’t know if “news” fully captures what the platform is

Behold! I have indisputable proof that the web interface for MobileMe is going to change.  Account options UI for the Contacts, Gallery, and

Gawker recently finished a transition of all their websites to a new design, and some of the technical decisions they made have upset web standardistas, the most prominent missive being this one by

In a previous post I argued that Twitter clients should provide an easy way to see all the @ responses to a tweet, not just the ones that directly replied. I’ve since discovered