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stickista said: Every study I've read about speed reading indicates that claims of retention with high reading rates are, shall we say, unfounded. "If there are no pauses in the stream of words, there isn’t enough time to process them and the…
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The flaw with Spritz, and most "speed reading" apps in the app store is that it only displays words one at a time. Real speed readers (people, not apps) can read "chunks" of several words at a time. It's quite surprising that Spritz does not feat…
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Two words: shift key. Ive is an industrial designer, not. UI designer. One is Apple's biggest mistakes.
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Just this week, Starbucks is promoting Angry Birds Star Wars in their app: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57578443-94/starbucks-mobilizes-pick-of-the-week-gives-away-angry-birds-star-wars/
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Now that Steve is gone, the fear of punishment for leaks is diminished. We'll see more of them than when Steve was alive.
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Will this app really discover "Internet content", or will it just find podcasts indexed by Apple? This seems like a response to the many "Download music/content" apps that have been flooding the app store. At the very least, I'd like t…
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I used to love eavesdropping on Apple conversations at the Mandarin Gourmet and the Peppermill. I actually heard them discussing the name CyberDog once!
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If you've already paid for the hard covers, you could OCR them yourself. Or, you could bittorrent the books. Bittorrent is like magic.
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Apparently, Wolfram Alpha has forgotten the debacle of the iPhone app price. They started at $50 for the app. "It's the same price as a calculator!", I can hear some marketing noob explain. Of course, fast forward to now, and the app is now just …