Category: Technology
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Photo ‘Management’ on Windows
I’m a Mac user in the unfortunate position of having to use Windows at work. I know… first-world problem. It’s not entirely painful but there are still things to this day that are either clunkier or purely non-existent on Windows, which are just plain simple on the Mac. Amongst other topics, John Gruber recently discussed…
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Apple and Google Smartphone Branding
Apple is by no means perfect but if there’s one thing that they know more than any other company, it’s effective branding. Take the following examples of Google and Apple advertising on Oxford Street in Sydney. It was difficult to take the photos from street level but I think that they still illustrate the point…
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The New York Times: ‘As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants’
Facebook is now beyond a joke. Following its enormous Cambridge Analytica scandal (and numerous other major missteps), The New York Times has uncovered yet more privacy breaches by the company. More specifically, Facebook shared users’ personal data with other major business partners and tech firms, all of which were exempted from its normal privacy restrictions.…
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Australia’s So-called ‘Assistance and Access’ Act
Very recently, the Australian Government passed what it called the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act. This overly complex and euphemistic title represents a piece of legislation that poses a significant threat to Australian data security and the economy. Governments around the world insist that encryption hinders their efforts in dealing criminals…
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Walkie-Talkie on Apple Watch
I’ve been a fan of Apple Watch since it was first announced back in 2014. With each subsequent model and version of watchOS, there have been numerous new features that have enhanced the experience of wearing a computer on your wrist. Some of the most notable changes over the past few years have been the…
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iPad Pro as Your Everyday Computer
Some Background I’ve been a committed Mac user since I was five years old, with my family’s first Power Macintosh 6500 in 1997. From classic Mac OS through to modern-day macOS, Cupertino’s take on the desktop interface has always worked for me. My mental model of computing is built around the Mac but in recent…
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The Problem with Follower Counts
Recode recently published this interesting article: ‘Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says in retrospect that showing how many followers you have wasn’t ‘healthy’’. It covers some intriguing comments that Twitter co-founder Ev Williams made about the effects of showing how many followers each user has. Here’s the key point: “I think showing follower counts was probably…
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Elon Musk on ‘Recode Decode’ with Kara Swisher
I really need to listen to this podcast more often. As far as interviews with big corporate bosses go, this is a genuinely interesting and frank one. Musk addresses a range of questions from Swisher regarding the Model 3, conflict online with journalists, the toll on his employees, engineering feats at The Boring Company and…
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