Author Archives: bananaranha

Ray Ozzie’s farewell post in plain, all caps, words

Posted on October 26, 2010 by bananaranha

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s departing Chief Software Architect, puts it thusly regarding Apple’s and Google’s inroads into the mobile space: Certain of our competitors’ products and their rapid advancement and refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early … Continue reading →

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The iPad’s real niche

Posted on October 26, 2010 by bananaranha

John Gruber ponders the MacBook Air’s place on Apple’s lineup: Looking at it this way, though, leads to an interesting conclusion. The new MacBook Airs — particularly the 11-inch model — don’t compete against the other MacBooks so much as … Continue reading →

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Recommendation of the week: Raphael SVG library

Posted on October 25, 2010 by bananaranha

Raphael is a tiny JavaScript library for working with vector graphics. It provides a fairly complete canvas-like API, but with all the flexibility of SVG over raw bitmap drawing (for example, everything you draw is an object and can have … Continue reading →

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The NYT on Android App Makers

Posted on October 25, 2010 by bananaranha

Selected gems from a NYT article titled “App Makers Take Interest in Android”. Now, Android could very well one day be a viable marketplace for apps, but the article and the developers interviewed keep hitting on all the wrong reasons. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft offers annual Zune Pass option for $150

Posted on October 23, 2010 by bananaranha

I think I’ll pass.

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