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  • February 19, 2020 8:44pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    This is the Microsoft that I like. This is what I would love from Apple. The new Office app for iPhone. 😍🥰 #microsoft #apple #office #office365

    link.medium.com/jeNBwdDId…

  • February 19, 2020 6:48pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    So baffling to me that Apple seems unable to fix Mail’s toolbar in iOS 13… what was the problem again with iOS 12’s version? 🤔🙄 #apple #ios134beta twitter.com/bzamayo/s…

  • February 19, 2020 6:40pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Food for thought

    On Photoshop turning 30. The last version on which I really spent time was version 3. Other game changer apps? Multiplan. Pagemaker. twitter.com/flargh/st…

  • February 19, 2020 11:19am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Oopsy, that is certainly something that Apple doesn’t want to get out. It may be already too late. This could get ugly. 🍿 Apple demands pull of tell-all App Store book over confidentiality issues

  • February 18, 2020 7:34am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    Why, oh why? If I was blogging for fame, I would close all this shit right away! So, why am I doing all this? That’s the question that’s lingering in my head this morning. I guess this is a typital thing to ask myself, dear blogger. #blogger #bloggerlife #blogging

  • Cocooning, really?

    February 17, 2020 7:28am
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Are we ready for a new social network? Do we need this? Judging by their website, the nice design of Cocoon certainly looks enticing. But do we need this? It will take a lot of traction to make people leave Facebook or other well established data-ungry players. I certainly hope new players to come in and shake this rotten industry. Judge for yourself. cocoon.com Continue reading →

  • Things I look for when evaluating an app for my own use

    February 16, 2020 12:03pm
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    When evaluating a new app for my own use, the first things I look for are (in no particular order): update frequency, update notes quality, user ratings, multi-platform support (macOS, iOS, iPad support), sync mecanism used, one-time purchase vs subscription based, web service backend. I may elaborate on this subject on a longer blog post in the near future. Currently using this against Raindrop.io apps.apple.com/app/id102… Continue reading →

  • February 16, 2020 9:42am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    He made my day. #blogger #blogging #bloggerlife #blog twitter.com/mattbirch…

  • On foldable devices...

    February 16, 2020 9:21am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Privacy

    Longer posts

    Nobody asked for these phones… you are trying too hard. To all smartphone companies: fix your software, stop tracking us without our consent, stop selling our data, be transparent with each updates and the “feature” they bring, implement rules against tracking features that comes in most apps these days and end up on your App Stores, etc. . twitter.com/mondoir/s… Continue reading →

  • On Medium as a platform for bloggers

    February 16, 2020 9:12am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Photography

    Blogging

    Longer posts

    For those wonder about using Medium as a publishing platform. Here is a summary for my last four publications. See the difference when a story gets approved? The last three stories were not approved for publication behind their paywall. Not cool. It is a hit or miss and so you don’t want to build too much confidence in the platform to help build any form of sustainable revenue, even small. Continue reading →

  • February 16, 2020 8:13am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Food for thought

    Here is a citation of Galieo. In the age of social medias where it all comes down to opinion sharing and amplification, I find it to be disturbingly on point. twitter.com/proffeynm…

  • February 15, 2020 5:07pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Are you tired of those meaningless update notes with app updates? I am. There are rules made by Apple prevent this. But, even Apple isn’t following their own shit. #iosdev #apple twitter.com/khaost/st…

  • February 15, 2020 2:35pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Why the fuck opening an RSS feed link on iOS opens up Apple’s News, an app that is so dump that it cannot do anything with it anyways! Fix this Apple for god’s sake! 🤬 #apple #ios #rss

  • here is a really dopey idea

    February 15, 2020 1:33pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    Apple should introduce another type of subscription: pay-per-use. Pricing would be based on the time spent on-screen, down to a second resolution. Pricing would be based on dime fractions, payable on demand, monthly or yearly. Exemple: five minutes of an app usage @ $ 0.00001 would cost 1.08 yearly. That is an extreme example for sure. But you get the idea, right? Don’t throw rocks at me if Apple ever see and then implement this! Continue reading →

  • February 15, 2020 1:01pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    My take? Everybody is playing hardball here. Ex-Apple chip exec claims Apple trying to ‘suffocate’ new tech after staff poaching - 9to5Mac

  • Where is the date of publication?

    February 15, 2020 8:37am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Here is something that I notice quite often while browsing the web: the lack of a publish date on articles, blog posts, etc. While living in the age of fast content consumption, where content relevance is depleting fast, it seems important, more than ever, to put a publishing date. I know we can sometimes infer the date from the URL but to me it isn’t the right way to do it. Continue reading →

  • February 14, 2020 9:34pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Privacy

    I don’t know what it will take to get rid of Facebook… but regulation is not going to fix the problem. We need to fix ourselves. We Don’t Need Social Media - OneZero

  • it all comes down to compromise

    February 14, 2020 6:01pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    Longer posts

    When so many apps are available for a specific task, choosing one can be a nightmare. Recently, my focus was to select a new calendar app following the release of Fantastical update. I finally settled on the one that I use for a few years now: Calendar 5. The same is happening right now with RSS readers. But this time, I’’m switching from the excellent Reeder app to News Explorer. The latter is not perfect but from a functional point of view, it is an improvement. Continue reading →

  • February 14, 2020 3:47pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    You cannot have it all it seems in the RSS reader space. Reeder is a great design example but is lacking a few features. News Explorer has more features but is lacking some design nice touches. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • On Testing News Explorer - Another RSS Reader

    February 14, 2020 11:17am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    Longer posts

    Yesterday I learned about the existence of a different RSS reader named “News Explorer”. As a long time user of Reeder, I wasn’t really interested in trying a different one. But, after playing with the trial version on macOS: I’m mostly converted. Stay tuned for more details. Continue reading →

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