Tag: software

Thought via Path

Forgot I have iA Writer on the Mac. The lack of an always connected iPad kind of added to that problem. This mini is probably going to let me be more productive since I won’t have to worry about lack of connection but more importantly, it’s so much lighter and smaller than that old first generation iPad that I can type a lot faster and more comfortably.

I can’t understand why Apple doesn’t have TextEdit for the iPad which would let people switch between the Mac and the iPad or iPhone a lot more seamlessly. For those who want more complex layout, collaboration, and formatting ability, there’s Pages, but those who just need to hammer out words, we need a simpler cloud-based app. iA Writer is the perfect app for that.

Apple probably squandered an opportunity there, but then it would have taken sales away from Pages. – Read on Path.

Got the Lumia updated last night. It was the much talked about and long awaited Portico update. Rather disappointed at how it went. See, when it said Step 1 of 4 I was expecting for there to be steps 2-4 so I planned for a photo collage of the steps and caption it “step by step”. I figured, if step one was data migration, I’d document the process to note what the steps would involve.

Instead, as soon as it hit 100% it got super excited, saying Update complete four times!! I’ve never seen a gadget get so excited about completing an update. But it had lied to me. There were no steps 2-4. It lied. And it was happy. But I was not. – View on Path.

A lesson in redundancy

To make sure you don’t miss the time or date, the Galaxy SIII by default shows the time and date three times each (and twice on the same widget) but somehow the third clock at the bottom right hand corner is late. A manual refresh brings that clock up to date. For what it’s worth, it looks like that one is meant to be a time stamp for the weather condition. It says cloudy but it’s raining outside. – View on Path.

Thought via Path

The new search on Path 2.9 is an acceptable feature in lieu of actual periodical query, which may yet still be added. For people who treat Path as a personal blog, being able to search posts by month would be priceless.

If it had tags to categorize them, it’d be even better. And then we’d have Path as the ultimate mobile blog network, going head to head with Blogger and WordPress but for private audience. It might supplant Facebook for this purpose because I don’t think people use Facebook in this way even though its clearly capable of doing that.

I think my mind just exploded with ideas. – Read on Path.

Thanks to Instagram’s new mention conversion, whenever some ignorant idiot wrongly mentions their friend on Instagram and cross post it to Twitter, I get a junk post like this.

Secret software logs and reports keystrokes on millions of mobile phones

Supposedly this is for quality control

I wonder if this applies internationally or just for US phones

Cringe as the video shows the software logging each number as Eckhart fingers the dialer.

“Every button you press in the dialer before you call,” he says on the video, “it already gets sent off to the IQ application.”

From there, the data — including the content of  text messages — is sent to Carrier IQ’s servers, in secret.

By the way, it cannot be turned off without rooting the phone and replacing the operating system. And even if you stop paying for wireless service from your carrier and decide to just use Wi-Fi, your device still reports to Carrier IQ.

Secret software logs and reports keystrokes on millions of mobile phones

IDC: $1.32 billion worth of pirated software in Indonesia

Software piracy in Indonesia went up in 2010 according to a study by IDC. The research claimed a record 87 percent of applications installed on computers in Indonesia are pirated.

This 1 percent increase over 2009 figures actually caused a significant increase in monetary losses to software companies from $886 million to $1.32 billion. In 2003 the losses amounted to a relatively small $157 million.

IDC: $1.32 billion worth of pirated software in Indonesia

Firefox (still) needs braces.

Also, the ugliest tabs on top implementation I’ve ever seen, thankfully it’s optional but it still needs braces.