We paid Tokyo and Osaka a visit last fall, following up on my life’s goal of visiting Japan at least once every two years, and nothing disappointed — not the food, people, weather, galleries, nor multi-storey complexes designed to make …
Tag: Technology
Singapore Gets An Apple Store
Finally. After years of waiting, Singapore got its own Apple Store on Orchard Road (where else?) in May of 2017. I’ve been in the ecosystem for about 14 years now, and getting good sales service and support from third-party resellers …
iOS 10 Makes the Timeline UI a Reality
Wired: Apple May Have Figured Out the iPhone's Most Promising Feature 3D Touch is instrumental to Apple’s newly rethought lock screen, in a way that could fundamentally change how you interact with your iPhone. But with iOS 10, you’ll use …
“Onions” Breaks One of Apple’s Oldest Advertising Rules
Apple’s new iPhone ad departs from some of their oldest and most inspiring advertising by making fun of what customers do.
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iPad Pros
When the 12.9" iPad Pro was first unveiled, I was pretty sure I didn't want or need one. Then I held it in the Ginza Apple Store while on vacation and bought one later that same day. The experience …
Because we love Twitter
Randi Harper: Putting out the Twitter trashfire 8. Fix Tweetdeck. Fix Twitter for Android. Fix Twitter for OSX. Twitter for OSX still has a hard limit on how many blocks it can apply because they didn’t bother updating the API …
Mobile or Console, the Name of the Game is the Same
Playing Oceanhorn on the new Apple TV, with a Bluetooth game controller like the SteelSeries Nimbus, feels distinctly like a traditional console gaming experience. It’s been compared to a modern Zelda title, and if you’re in the mood to explore, …
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Pebble Time Steel: First Impressions
As a user of the first-generation Pebble since last December, I eagerly ordered the new Time Steel model when it hit Kickstarter earlier this year. And then the Apple Watch went on sale in Singapore earlier than I'd expected it …
Beats Solo2 Headphones (Space Gray) Unboxing
https://youtu.be/rQFoYftKmIA I haven't made a video in ages and wasn't planning to, but my colleague Jose suggested today that since I was about to open my new headphones, we make an unboxing video of it. The coolest thing was that …
Apple Watch Numbers and Ive’s Materials
Back in December, I wrote a bit of a rambly post about what I thought might happen with the Apple Watch, and the possibility of it having hardware you could actually upgrade to preserve your precious metals investment. I’ve since changed my …
Darkroom Photo App Shows Why UX Details Are Everything
A new photo editor for iOS launched today, and it’s called Darkroom (free, with a $2.99 in-app purchase to unlock Curves). "Another photo editing app? What does this one bring to the table?” I’ve seen a few early reviews of Darkroom begin along …
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Singaporean Telcos and Their Chinese Mobile Gambit
One of the immutable truths of living in Singapore and reading our national broadsheet, The Straits Times, is that your Saturday morning news will be interrupted by three large and distinctly color-coded blocks of full-page advertising taken out by the …
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