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Prevailing Thoughts On The Nexus 5 13 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
I have two prevailing thoughts on the next Nexus phone. The Nexus 4, despite being a year old, is still great. A lot of Normal People would love to have a Nexus 4. The sign of that is in the 2013 Nex...
→ Is Apple A Boring Company Now? 9 Jun 2013 | 05:03 am
Mike Elgan: Let’s be honest about what we really want from Apple this week. We all want to know if Apple can still blow us away, or if they’re just a boring company now. Steve was radical and Tim is...
→ All In One Running Android: Crippled 1 Jun 2013 | 02:31 am
This is what I hear: Hi. I’m a computer running an operating system that is not designed for a physical mouse and keyboard and that has hardly any useful apps that makes those two non-native interact...
→ UI is hard 1 Jun 2013 | 02:25 am
Matt’s been working on the WarGame UI recently and I’ve seen his progress. It’s slow going. User interaction is harder than many other points in programming, not because it is necessarily technically ...
→ Mike Elgan: “3 Reasons Why a Nexus 4 is a Great First ‘Computer’” 27 May 2013 | 04:10 am
And the third and best reason is that the Nexus 4 is less likely to turn your child into an airhead than an iPhone or another phone with a handset-maker designed interface. What? Really? Are you seri...
→ Gmail tabs, maybe coming soon 26 May 2013 | 05:33 am
The Next Web has an image that indicates a tab-based UI is coming to Gmail at some point in the near future. As you can see in the screenshot below, we’re looking at four different tabs, with each one...
→ Guild Wars is Over 24 May 2013 | 05:48 am
Polygon: Guild Wars, ArenaNet’s 8-year-old MMORPG, will no longer receive new content and is switching its support to automated, the developer announced via the game’s official website. By the six. ...
→ Yahoo and Flickr 21 May 2013 | 03:48 am
While I still feel the same about Tumblr getting the short end of the stick, today’s Flickr announcement singles a revival. Congratulations Yahoo, you did a great job with Flickr, finally. When I thi...
→ Guild Wars 2 Public APIs 21 May 2013 | 02:09 am
With these public APIs, it could be possible for example, to actively make a working dragon timer that does not lie all the time and that is in general much more difficult to troll. Oh, look, a world...
→ Yahoo and Tumblr 20 May 2013 | 04:34 am
I hope Yahoo does not destroy Tumblr like Twitter destroyed Posterous. I hope Tumblr refuses to accept this offer from Yahoo, despite all it could offer them. I talked about this on At The Nexus #76 ...