Amadi Talks: Siri Failures, Illustrated ⇒
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice.
This seems pretty obnoxious.
Sure it is.
Android seems to be Malware central right now. It’s trying to out-Windows-XP Windows XP.
Path ⇒
The new version of Path is looking pretty interesting.
(Source: preppeller)
Apple iPod & iPod touch (by m-s-y)
My favourite Podcast application for the iPhone now has a sister application for the iPad. I’m not sure how many podcasts i’d listen to on my iPad. I find it hard to concentrate on what i’m listening to if I’m doing other stuff while they are playing. (They are good to listen to while on the go.) That said, this application looks great.
A good overview of some of the new features in the latest version of TaskPaper for the iPhone and for your desktop.
Charlie Miller Finds and Exploits a Vulnerability in iOS Code Signing Enforcement ⇒
Apple kicked the researcher out of the developer program. I’m not sure that was the right thing to do here.
Apple’s Planned Obsolescence Schedule ⇒
I’m in a bit of a quandary now as my iMac is an early 2006 model that runs a Core Duo processor. This means it can’t run Lion. As such, it can’t use iCloud. When Apple retires MobileMe I will be unable to nicely sync data with it.
Yield Thought: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode ⇒
All you need is Vim and a UNIX shell.
