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Where I look at my own personal use of iPad and it’s a significant percentage of my computing work now.

Tim Cook, replying to Walt Mossberg at D11

I know you read all the blergs and the tweets but I feel like this comment was overlooked while he was being interviewed live.

I’ve met Apple Store managers—Managers—who told me that they got rid of their Macs because iPhone does everything they need. Now Apple’s CEO says his (admittedly hot stock-market-pleasing) tablet is doing a “significant percentage” of his computing.

Hang on, pause for dramatic effect.

Wow.

(via chartier)

Over 80% of my writing work now is done on the iPad mini and mobile phone, which at this time are an iPhone 4S and a Find 5 which I got to review from Oppo. The use of the Mac has been mostly relegated to whenever I need to recharge the battery on the iPad (gasp! it can run out of juice!) or when I need to use the iPad as a reference device.

On my daily travels, the Mac has stopped being a member of my backpack, in fact, i hardly ever carry a backpack anymore, just a small bag to carry the iPad along with the cables and plugs. And a battery pack.

I use iA Writer on all my three Apple devices. On the iPad, Photoshop Touch along with Snapseed are my two image editing tools. I want to use Poster to blog but the WordPress installation at work hasn’t been updated to 3.6, so I end up with the official WordPress app. The biggest problem with not using a Mac is I can’t get the embed code for tweets that I sometimes want to include in my posts, so I’m forced to resort to simple linking.

Currently I’m experimenting with doing video interviews using the iPad. It’s not as easy as writing.

Overall though, my workflow runs nicely without the Mac.

jickatrap:

Yahoo Meeting Minutes – 05.20.13 by Lee Crutchley | Quoteskine on Flickr.

Tumblr @ Yahoo: Day 1

chartier:

  • New purple dashboard option
  • All other dashboard color options are retired
  • By June 1, you will have to update your avatar to be one of those damn cartoon people things
  • All new post buttons (icon and background) are now purple
  • Every sentence you write will automatically get an exclamation point!
  • All exclamation points are now purple
  • Yahoo Mail gets a button to auto-post incoming messages to Tumblr
  • Tumblr’s mobile apps now automatically summarize all text posts so you don’t have to do all that damn reading
  • All photos are also summarized using auto-generated shadow puppet images with dramatic text captions to save on bandwidth costs
  • All posts have a chance to appear on the Yahoo.com front page. None of yours will

LOL

sigh

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Thought via Path

So @ariefr said if he was running Tumblr he’d sell for a billion to Microsoft and let them deal with the porn.

If you were running Tumblr and Yahoo dangles a billion USD in cash in front of you, would you sell?

Consider Instagram selling to Facebook for $300 million in cash and $700 million in stock, which ended up being $700 million total because Facebook stock tanked when the deal closed.

Consider Google not selling for a billion dollars to Yahoo in 2006 and it’s now worth $13 billion.

Consider Groupon not selling to Google for $6 billion in 2010, is now worth $4.5 billion.

Consider Yahoo not selling to Microsoft for $44 billion, now worth less than $30 billion.

Is Tumblr a Facebook, an Instagram, a Yahoo, or a Groupon? Or will it be the next Posterous?

Yahoo may need Tumblr’s audience but is Tumblr a good fit at Yahoo? – Read on Path.

silvaniart:

You’re welcome, George.

Sorry for the reposts

When Star Wars meets Disney

Comparing Oppo Find 5 with Samsung Galaxy S4. Thickness and weight seem pretty identical, so are the camera and screen quality. The Find 5 has a thicker chin though, so it’s taller and its lens’ depth of field is narrower but the S4 produces much sharper and more vivid photos.

Until April 2013, XL Axiata had a perfectly fine working mobile site which is meant to be used for mobile users to access their mobile accounts, check up on their usage quota, find out card expiry date and validity period, top up their credits, and purchase various data, voice, and text packages.

Sometime in the last week or so they changed the site to something that is not only downright unusable, useless, rubbish, a complete and utter mess, it is also entirely mobile hostile. Accessing this from Chrome on Android, which is among the best mobile browsers available, and is on a significant share of smartphones in this country, produces the above brilliant pieces of horse manure.

Don’t they test these sites on all the major mobile browsers before they go live?

So here are the six Oppo Find 5 photos that didn’t get uploaded yesterday. There’s a bunch of annoyances on the software side which takes points off from an otherwise great device.

Oh, and the camera isn’t impressive. Red tint galore when in relatively low light and the sensor produces photos inferior to the Galaxy SIII, which makes it even far more inferior than the Lumia 920. Although I think the SIII may have had a camera software upgrade over the past year. Photos from the SIII never looked so sharp before. Btw those photos of the Find 5 were taken using iPad mini.

Unboxing Oddo… I mean Oppo Find 5

I haven’t seen a packaging this well done and this stylish in a long time. Oppo might be considered a rookie in this space but the company certainly knows how to make a first impression. Haven’t played with the phone much but it does feel pretty decent to hold. Still, I can’t get over the fact that it’s just big. I mean it is a 5” phone. Huge. Taller but thinner and feels lighter than my Lumia 920. Good placement of the power and volume buttons. Not keen on the custom icons and theme though.

Will write a review in the next several days.

[update] I have no idea why the other six photos failed to upload.