MacOS – Techcitement*

Your Data Doesn’t Vanish When You Chuck Your Device

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:39:40 +0000

I’m a scavenger. My normal reaction to a friend getting a new bit of tech is “What did you do with the old one?” I’m also not above dumpster diving if my eye is caught. In an attempt to use my powers for good, I used to refurbish trashed laptops for a charity. Recently, I […]

Angry Birds Invades RIM Playbook, Continues Platform Domination

Jeremy Goldstone — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:30:57 +0000

If star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Tippi Hedren has a mobile device, she must be freaking out right now, because there’s no escaping from Angry Birds! The omnipresent game from Rovio is now even available on the RIM PlayBook, with the original game as well as the Rio and Seasons variations going for $4.99 each. That means […]

The Walled Ecosystem

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:00:36 +0000

For the uninitiated to the “walled garden” metaphor, commonly used to refer to Apple’s App Store model, the idea is that a vendor creates only one channel for their service, effectively “fencing you in”. It’s not something sinister, but when Apple first floated it, the walled garden was a genuinely new paradigm. Prior to that, […]