Posted on March 21, 2011, 17:26, by Vincent van Wylick.
…Or how not to approach development. It’s busy in Vincentland, but I’m still determined to regularly update Tech IT Easy. Today, my question is: What determines the choice for a platform? Is it market, personal taste and talent, or the desire to create something that fits a certain paradigm? In the end, no matter how [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2011, 15:23, by Vincent van Wylick.
Best.app.on.my.iPhone. Period. So Instapaper 3 is out on iOS, which makes the app a whole lot more social and collaborative. What Instapaper does is that it allows you to save articles to it, after which it takes out all colours, (most) pictures, and side-bars, so you can focus on what really matters. If it wasn’t [...]
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The Great Divide
Posted on March 10, 2011, 12:58, by Vincent van Wylick.
I sent off my V-moda headphone for repair. The address was somewhere in Los Angeles, California, and I live in the Netherlands. They checked it and sent me a replacement with no questions asked. The only problem? I sent them off on the 23rd of February and got them back yesterday, 15 days later. Even [...]
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business, computers, customer service, customer support, factory,
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marketing, mobile providers, process management,
quality assurance, repair, reparation, replacement costs,
sales, shipping, t-mobile.nl,
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Dropkick – Syncable Todo’s Between Your Mac and iOS device
Posted on March 9, 2011, 17:47, by Vincent van Wylick.
Briefly, as it’s an extremely busy week (but I am getting back into regular techiteasy-blogging, promised!) I’ve been looking for a syncable to-do list for a while. I’m a big BIG fan of SimpleNote, a syncable note-taking app that is free on your iOS device (with a premium service) and syncs with a number of [...]
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Software, syncing, todo's, todo-list
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Radiohead’s King of Limbs Album Review and a new look at Indie Music Distribution
Posted on March 7, 2011, 12:56, by Vincent van Wylick.
I dig this album, else I wouldn’t review it, both in the context of riding the crap out my bike to make the train this morning, and while starting to write this post on SimpleNote at the station (In English: it works in a sports & and a creative context). There’s a lot of loops [...]
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Justifying the Twitter Trends Bar
Posted on March 5, 2011, 23:54, by Vincent van Wylick.
At this moment, I haven’t read a single positive thing about this new feature on the free iPhone Twitter app. The only tweet that is mildly realistic, is Anyl Dash’s: “Geeks complaining about trends bar on Twittter’s iPhone app seem to think their Twitter use case is the most common one. I suspect it’s not.” [...]
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Radium, a smart and minimalist internet radio client for your mac
Posted on March 2, 2011, 22:19, by Vincent van Wylick.
I only stumbled across this last night in the app-store and had very little expectations. But Radium, made by CatPig Studios, who’s interface is not much more than what you get from Spotlight, may well be the app that brings internet radio back into my office and living-room. This is how it works. Radium is [...]
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itunes, jazzradio.com,
last.fm,
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music, radio, review,
search, sirius, siriusxm,
Software, spotlight
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Platforms, innovation and Nokia
Posted on February 10, 2011, 10:35, by Kari Silvennoinen.
There’s yet again a lot of silliness in the air regarding the future of Nokia. I don’t have any idea what will happen tomorrow, but it probably can be a decisive point on how well I can live when I retire (I guess a lot of my state-run retirement funds are in Nokia). This week Elop’s [...]
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symbian,
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Posted on June 4, 2009, 15:45, by Vincent van Wylick.
If you think about how the iPhone was launched so many months ago, or rather at what stage the iPods were at, you know that apps were always on the horizon. The iPod G5 introduced a wider range of games that you could buy through the iTunes store, which already introduced us to the idea [...]