[T]he Desire is undoubtedly an iPhone killer, even if it doesn’t end up selling nearly as many units.
HTC Desire review: I somehow think we’re setting a very low bar for the term “iPhone Killer”.
Sun 11 Apr 2010
[T]he Desire is undoubtedly an iPhone killer, even if it doesn’t end up selling nearly as many units.
Tue 13 Oct 2009
iPhone art by a living master, using the Brushes app. Via @Circulatinglib.
Wed 30 Sep 2009
You might be wondering where I’ve been for the past four months. Counting my cash on a beach surrounded by bikini-clad women?
Naah. Actually, I’ve been in my batcave slaving away on something really, really cool. It’s Tweetie 2. And it’s coming - first for iPhone, then for Mac.
I’ve gone back to Twitterific since its 2.0 version was released, but Tweetie 2.0 sounds like it’s going to be amazing. Follow the link for more information.
Fri 25 Sep 2009 1 note
My favorite and most-used piece of Mac software, NetNewsWire, released a new version this week. NetNewsWire (whose parent company is NewsGator) is probably the finest RSS software on the planet, with best-of-class apps on each platform. [As I alluded in a tweet](http://twitter.com/holman/status/4310201305), this both excites me terribly and implants the fear of change in me. It’s been a long time coming; the iPhone version has been rotting in AppStore approval hell for at least a month, and I’ve been holding off on new NNW for Mac betas until I could cross-sync over Google Reader onto my iPhone. I upgraded immediately.
It’s been a disappointment. I realize change is hard to deal with, so that was unsurprising, but as a technologist by profession I started wondering *why* I was having such a bad experience with it. What kind of lessons can we take from this? What has NewsGator done right, and what does the new version fall flat on?
I’m mostly miffed about the busted icon badging, but I think this is a good overview. Newsgator’s priorities are no longer consumer-facing applications and I think this shows through very clearly with the new NNW releases on iPhone and Mac.
Nick Caldwell is a professional web designer and unprofessional writer who thinks far too much about aesthetics, the contemporary sociopolitical condition, video games, Doctor Who, and spaceships. This is his Tumblelog.
