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"Amazon.com is not going to put bookstores out of business. Barnes & Noble is opening a new superstore every four days. Borders is opening a new superstore every nine days." Well, …

These APIs aren't available to iOS Safari, unfortunately.

Chrome and Safari push these notifications through the native Mac OS X Notification Center. Chrome on Snow Leopard has its own (rather ugly, IMO) implementation.

No need to create a friend list for that - you can just set the visibility to "Only Me" when you first authorize the app.

For the purists, allow me to recommend adjusting the volume controls on your phone.

The gesture area definitely made things fluid and easy, but unfortunately, it was absolutely not intuitive. If you haven't done (or have forgotten) the first use tutorial, it takes…

Until the merger is complete, it's very important that Google and Motorola Mobility continue to behave as independent companies. Since this deal is under scrutiny by the FTC, I dou…

Don't worry: Android's build of Webkit still has plenty of work before it's good enough to be considered competent. Apple's Mobile Webkit, on the other hand...

Thanks for mentioning triadic closure. It's a great example of how useful information can be inferred/suggested based on an incomplete or imprecise model. The sacrifice of simplify…

That's actually a consequence of how iOS handled scrollable areas on pages prior to iOS 5. Totally not Google's fault; I believe you'll have better luck using desktop Reader in iOS…

While this is a fair criticism of Android as a whole, the lead designer has very little control over the performance of the OS. I'm sure that all the lagginess in Android bothers h…

This highlights one of my complaints with the trend toward skeuomorphic designs: if I've never had a physical address book, then why is my iPad trying to imitate one?

Cool concept. Not sure if the proficiency setting requires a physical switch – it seems like a user would only change that setting a couple times over the course of their usage of …