I totally agree and I believe this news is great. Tech media needs consolidation as it's very oversaturated.
Elite Daily is the perfect example of what the millennial generation is looking for. Shallow advice from fellow millennials with tech news sprinkled in with as much importance as think-pieces covering what it's like to be a millennial. Quantcast shows 30 million uniques for Elite Daily last month and that makes me think that it's going to continue to be difficult for tech-centric media to grow and gain sustained advertising dollars. I won't hide my disdain for fluff sites like Elite Daily, but my point is that Elite Daily is what these tech news websites are competing against, not each other.
I own and run ObjectiveSee.com and it receives about 1500 page views a month on average but is targeted and a good domain. Just don't have time to run it any more and someone with the passion and time could run that site. Or use the domain for their own project.
My own plug which I apologize for, but there's a good collection of interviews with iOS developers and the tools they use here: http://www.objectivesee.com/ that I genuinely think anyone reading these comments would find interesting.
In my university years I worked at Best Buy part time and the HP rep who visited always openly acknowledged (and joked about) batteries as being overpriced as it's easier for people to justify a new laptop when the battery is approaching 1/4 of the price of a new one. Granted, this laptop we're speaking of is worth a lot more than $200 x4 but I think the point is clear.
I recall the 15" non-Unibody MBP batteries costing $149. So for $50 more you get a better battery, and because of a design that makes it a non-user replaceable battery, but also one of the thinnest laptops in the world with this kind of power, this story is getting voted up? Replacing batteries isn't a monthly ordeal, it's likely needed only once, possibly twice in the lifespan of the laptops usage.
As an example, here is a 12 cell HP laptop battery: http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/consumer-accessori.... Price, $159. User installed. I can understand people being annoyed they can't physically change the batteries themselves, but the pricing is not a scandal.
Chatroulette never became a commonly used service with its ease of anonymity. With Airtime putting a users identity in to the mix, I still can't imagine that people will hop on to video chat with strangers. I might be overly cynical about this, but video chat seems like a difficult service to build a user base around. Few people I know use Facebook's video service or even FaceTime to chat with others they already know, let alone strangers who just happen to like the same TV shows and bands that they do.
I agree, at this point, my iPhone needs a new folder created specifically created for Facebook produced apps. I already have too many camera apps installed, many of which upload to Facebook.
I understand Facebook trying to keep users in their ecosystem, but separate apps for each part of their service seems a bit much to me as well and I don't see how it's a good long term strategy if they continue this cycle. We'll know they don't really have a strategy if they release an app solely for rejecting requests to play Words with Friends and Draw Something with others.
Great app! There's far too many to do list apps that I've used for something like this and Streaks was just okay. This is what I've been wanting. Great job on a great 1.0!
My only question or suggestion, the reminder setup seems odd. If I choose every 3-5 days with a reminder at 6pm, does it remind me randomly, on the 5th day, on the 3rd? Making that a bit clearer or giving the option for choosing which day the reminder will be on would help there.
Other than that, I hope others see the value in building habits like this as I think it's a well implemented way of helping people like me who are quite forgetful.
Anecdote: A professor once told me he read that whole essay after I referenced it in a paper for an addictions Psych class and he loved it.
But yes, I agree, I am leaning towards what PG is saying there for sure as I think it speaks to a lot of the mockery of the original article as many see the issues for what they really are.
Take this quote from the original article for instance, "I’m also interested in a sans-internet reality as a technology writer. There was a time when technological innovation didn’t seem intimately linked to the internet." There was a time when using roads wasn’t linked to driving in a car, but there’s not much point in going back to that time.
While I only have an undergraduate degree in Psychology and there are others who can speak to this topic in a lot more detail, I feel it allows me to say with confidence that the main concern is that the potential threat of limited time in our hectic lives being seeped from us by the internet (and technology in general) comes with the responsibility to use self control more than ever. Walking away from the internet for a year doesn't solve issues with self control and in a world so tightly integrated to the "new fangled" technological tools we use each day to make our lives easier, it's our responsibility to manage that, not walk away from it. To each their own and in the end, this was broadcast partially for page views, but embracing changing lifestyles and new technologies comes with personal responsibility. We all assess and compare ourselves with others to make sure we don't get carried away, but that doesn't mean we should walk away from something. I really should formulate my thoughts and feelings on this better before replying, but it's how I view the situation.
I hope so too. Maybe he'll stop posting "news" about himself and realize how uninteresting his drama is. And maybe at that point I'll stop leaving annoyed, uninteresting, and bitter comments about how annoyed I am of seeing his name pop up anywhere.
I think this will be a good test, so to speak, of Pando to see if they hop on the drama train like those at TC enjoy(ed) doing.
Absolutely, but my point is that not having the option for the notifications is fine by me now that I've realized I can live without. I should have made that clearer though.
I've been a beta tester for the last month or so as well and I can definitely say this has replaced Mail.app for me. I feel relieved not seeing the red notification bubble growing. It's been freeing and I've got a much better way of managing my emails now. I hope Apple comes around on notifications though so this app will be even more popular(already broken the top 25 paid apps here in Canada.)
I signed up for this last week and I'm excited to start receiving some great swag next month. Living in Victoria, BC it's not so easy to get your hands on some shirts from the companies you use, follow, and hear about so this is a great new service. Thanks Frank!
I completely agree. The wording is so basic and kind of insulting as seen here for instance, "Text fields allow the user to type text into your app. They can be either single line or multi-line." Very elementary for either a developer or a designer to read.
As a monthly subscriber, this is great to see! Hopefully this will lead some other subscribing as I think the price is well worth it. Wow, I sound like a salesman, but genuinely just a fan of well done work for our community. Thanks!
As some say, procrastination may be a symptom not an actual problem I think the less "tools" you have to procrastinate with the better. My top recommendation that I think has helped me become more productive within the past month is deleting all bookmarks and apps involving Reddit. Yes, it is just one site and you can easily replace it with another time filler but it is easy to get lost on that site for quite some time each day. Replace "Reddit time" with work and you can gain back some time to complete tasks each day. It's working for me and I don't really miss it.
I was thinking the exact same thing while reading this. Wunderkinder is missing and the majority of these companies are copy-cat businesses. Granted, Wunderlist is a to do app which there isn't a shortage of, but they've managed to keep their product free while maintaining cloud sync, great UI, and relevance among its productivity community. Meanwhile they opted to include a general "rebate networks" and deal network companies. This is my long-winded way of saying this list is mediocre and Wunderkinder deserves to be on a list like this.
As an overview for us more novice iOS programmers, how are you going about sharing the screen with a user? I am going to download this and check it out, but really curious as this looks fantastic!
I did this about three months ago and have been laser focused on learning ever since instead of spreading myself too thin as it's too easy in this industry. I hope this doesn't sound like I'm tooting my own horn, but I genuinely hope everyone takes 10 minutes out of their week to do this for themselves. I can attest to this simple exercise being very much worth it.
I should say, within any one team working on something these procedures are used to get things done. I don't speak for the company as a whole but this seems to be the precedent for most.
I will say IBM is run on sticking to procedures and tried and true methods. It may not be the most inspiring workplace, but it gets things done. I can't say it's what I prefer, but just a bit of insight. This doesn't apply to all subsidiaries, teams, and groups, but by and large this is what I see.