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Why Wear Wearables?

With the iWatch hype reaching all-time highs, it seems clear that the landscape of wearables will change quite dramatically over the next year or so. But as usual, it's much harder to predict how things will change, instead of just... Read more →

iPhone 5

i got my iPhone 5 yesterday and so far have only played around with it a little bit. after all, it's basically just a taller and thinner iPhone 4 (that's the one i upgraded from), and not really a radically... Read more →

JPEG Rotation and EXIF Information

one of the main reasons to get a new iPhone was to finally get one that has a non-ridiculous camera. the original iPhone camera was laughably bad even when the iPhone was released, and after three years, it had become... Read more →

Offline Web Apps: To Cache or to Store?

what if tomorrow every site would start using HTML5's application cache? this is an interesting question between there is a quite important difference between caching and storing, and while HTML5 technically treats offline applications as caching rather than storing, it... Read more →

Maps on the iPhone

when the iPhone was released almost three years ago, apple and google had a love affair going on, google optimized their youtube videos for iPhone delivery and allowed google maps to work well with the native maps app. this love... Read more →

Web Apps on the iPhone

in a long forgotten past, the iPhone did not have apps. it had the apps it had (but nobody called those apps back in those days), and developers were supposed to write web apps. which did not work too well,... Read more →

iPhone to Android: Make the Leap?

shamelessly copying the make the leap slogan from SRAM (which faced the prospect of entering a market where shimano seemed to be impossible to attack), this is my brief report of 30 days and 30 nights (another shamelessly copied tagline)... Read more →

HTML5 Capture API

probably the biggest open issue in how much of a mobile device's capabilities a web-based application can use was the lack of access to the camera. initiatives such as BONDI and PhoneGap had long recognized this and provided APIs for... Read more →

iPad Application Design Duality

with the iPad as the new contender in the space between smartphones and laptops, it will be interesting to see how application designers perceive the iPad as a platform. for netbooks, it was clear that applications were very likely the... Read more →

RFC 5724 (SMS URIs)

in august i declared the sms URI scheme finished and that was a bit optimistic (one more iteration was required)... but now it really is finished and published and registered and everything! it has been published as RFC 5724 (here... Read more →