July 2009
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Letter to the hardworking iPhone developer
mrgan:
Dear hardworking iPhone developer,
I will not be buying your software. This is no fault of yours, so I apologize in advance.
Recent developments in the area of Apple messing with both you, the developer, and me, the customer, have soured me on this whole iPhone app nonsense. I’m sure this doesn’t come as a surprise. All the usual suspects of Mac development are either crying foul or...
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The State of Games in the App Store
sgtstretch:
If you’ve browsed the App Store recently, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. The current state of games on the App Store is a joke. Trying to find a good game is extremely hard because of all the duplicate and crap filled games.
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Apple, you really need to fix your shit. Not only is the app store broken, but also your approval process. You are hurting the people that are...
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Just sent an e-mail to Apple
It was a petition about fixing the damn App Store and I may have gotten a little carried away. Here it is, in its entirety:
Stop treating developers like shit.
Hello, Apple.
Would you get off your high horse and stop treating developers like something dirty on the sole of your boot? I mean, seriously, how can you not see how huge a PR disaster this is turning into and how crappy the App Store...
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The sorry state of instant banking
I wanted to transfer Rs. 1,340 to an ICICI Bank account today and, even with three bank accounts to my name, a couple of debit cards, and a credit card, couldn’t do it. Now, I’ll state it upright—I had lost the cheque book and ATM PIN for one of the banks, so I was slightly at fault as well. But it’s 2009, folks; there ought to be a way for someone to send some cash over to someone else...
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There’s a Drobo in the house!
When I visited USA for a month in January this year, I used to order tech gear from Amazon almost on a daily basis. And every alternate morning when I was just stepping out of the house, the receptionist would inform me that some package(s) had been delivered for me. It used to be an exhilarating feeling, seeing those boxes of varying sizes, each one concealing behind all that scotch tape a...
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Welcome to the new Penned Thoughts!
Well, here we are. After several months of egging myself to ditch iWeb and move to something that actually worked for me instead of against, I’ve finally made the move to Tumblr. I’d already been using Tumblr as something between a blog and Twitter and have been very satisfied with it, so it was a natural progression. You can use the links in the description on the right to get to the various...
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Mosey Along, There’s Nothing to See Here
Yesterday, I shut the doors on what was the former home of Penned Thoughts. The last post just wouldn’t get published properly for some reason, so here it is in its entirety:
You’ve reached the end of the Internet. If you’re reading this page, you’ve seen everything there was to see, heard everything there was to hear, and done everything there was to do. Congratulations!
No? Well, OK, maybe...
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