Showing posts with label data lock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data lock. Show all posts
Friday, April 21, 2023

Prosumer digital image management has not progressed to our advantage

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Every so often the software market fails. I've had this happen to me a few times. From 1997 to 2007 I used a variety of PalmOS devices f...
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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.

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One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Beyond Simplenote: I still want a graph layer (concept map) overlay for my memory augmentation notes collection

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I still want a graph layer atop my notes . Yes, I want my personal locally stored data unlocked  memex . Since the passing fad of the web ...
Friday, October 09, 2015

The eBook is dying. I'm the only person on earth who blames the DRM.

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My main workaround for eBook misery has been to buy from Google Play , strip the Adobe DRM , and store the ePub (really should be written EP...
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How data lock destroys the customer experience - Apple edition.

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But for FairPlay, I would not use iOS 9 audiobooks. I wouldn’t swear every time it loses its place. I wouldn’t be pissed at Apple. But for ...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

No, Apple News.app is not necessarily evil. Why do you ask?

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[When first wrote this I chose an article, that, by chance, didn’t have a redirect to the original site. Which means I got things a wee bit ...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Tools: emulating (Rally) Agile work using Appigo ToDo.app and ToDo Cloud

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My circumstances have changed. I may have more to say on that later; even in the sort term it is probably a change for the better. But of co...
Monday, May 11, 2015

A data lock free local file format for a concept map or mind map application

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It occurred to me, probably not for the first time, that there’s a natural local file store data lock free ‘file format’ for a concept map o...
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Saturday, February 07, 2015

Google and the Net 2015: The Quick, the Sick and the Dead - 7th edition

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I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Apple kills yet another photo sharing service - and generally screws up iOS photo management

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I expect Apple to screw up anything related to long term data management, but this is extreme even by their standards. GigaOm, in language r...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Apple kills Aperture. Observations.

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In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Project Ducky - why I've stopped using new Cloud services.

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Dilbert 04/14/1994 : Yeah, Google Reader is on many geek minds today , but it's not the only cloud death to disrupt my routine .  Toda...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Google's war on standards: RSS, ActiveSync, now CalDAV

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I remember when Google seemed to be somewhat friendly to standards and to the idea of open interchange. That was, of course, Google 1.0. No...
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Sunday, March 03, 2013

ADN.NET: To get beyond social app.net needs to make parting painless

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I love app.net as it is now , but nothing is forever. App.net is a specialized taste, and it needs to grow to survive. That growth might co...
Saturday, February 04, 2012

Google and Facebook: how Chrome supports life with an dully evil corporation

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Just three years ago Facebook's Gordon's Evil Score was 12, and Google was a mere 6. Today, 3 months after Google's day of infa...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Dapocalypse now: Google's day of infamy

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I shared thousands of articles through Google Reader. They were a part of my extended memory . I often searched that repository. This even...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Nimbophobia: 4 more reasons to fear the cloud

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It's been a gratifying week for my fellow nimbophobics. Our numbers are growing by leaps and bounds. Consider just four examples ... A...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Bright side: Apple's computer for the rest of us

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It's not the best of times. Long Depression 2.0 grinds on . China is increasingly unsettled -- and it's sitting on one of history...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Reconciliation May 2011: The posts I won't get to

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Reconciliation for May 2011 ... Elderly Drivers Fail a Test (NYT) and Some Older Workers, Pressured to Quit, Fight Back (NYT): Why raising...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Where now for the iOS Borders eBook reader?

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Borders is in bankruptcy. Its future is quite uncertain. Of course the books we bought there are still good. The paper ones that is ... B...