July 2011
2 posts
Cloud Sync Beta →
Many people have been asking about the progress of our cloud sync beta – particularly in light of Apple’s recent iCloud announcement. We are very excited about iCloud, but it doesn’t change our…
Jul 21st
Learning To Use The :before And :after... →
If you’ve been keeping tabs on various Web design blogs, you’ve probably noticed that the :before and :after pseudo-elements have been getting quite a bit of…
Jul 15th
June 2011
2 posts
Worst-Case Shopping →
Jun 8th
Google Apps To Pull Support For Firefox 3.5,... →
Last year, Google discontinued support for Docs and Sites for IE6. Today Google is making a pretty major move concerning support for older browsers, announcing that as of August 1, Google Apps…
Jun 2nd
May 2011
3 posts
Number Line →
May 16th
Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and... →
There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative…
May 5th
iPhone Location Update: All Users In 1 Week;... →
Earlier today, Apple released the iOS update that resolves the location tracking issues that had the press in a tizzy over for the past couple of weeks. For those keeping score at home, it…
May 5th
April 2011
9 posts
Google Survey: 39 Percent Of Smartphone Owners Use... →
Google recently commissioned a survey (in partnership with market research firm Ipsos OTX) to gain insight into the usage and behavior of U.S. consumers with regard to their smartphones….
Apr 27th
London’s Dream Of A Tech City Is A Nightmare With... →
Sometimes being a TechCrunch editor can actually be vaguely useful. Honest. Because we cover European startups from London, I’ve ended up being invited to join the London Mayor’s Digital Advisory…
Apr 22nd
iTunes Store ora vende anche film in inglese in... →
Shared by gigasoft Finalmente! Con l’inaugurazione della sezione film nell’iTunes Store Italia, Apple ha introdotto una serie di titoli in italiano. Questo perchè la maggior parte…
Apr 21st
Future Timeline →
Apr 18th
Saperci leggere →
Mi innamoro spesso dei libri. Li sfoglio e ci leggo la mia vita, proprio uguale, e mi ritrovo a Praga, in Cile, a Mosca, in una stanza chiusa, in un ristorante di Roma, in un ufficio di Tokyo,…
Apr 13th
Lettera pubblica a Roberto Dadda →
[Disclaimer]: se avessi potuto evitare di arrivare a questa lettera pubblica l’avrei fatto molto volentieri. Ma ad un certo punto bisogna rendersi conto che discutere con certe persone non solo non…
Apr 10th
Facebook Comments: What’s Easy Isn’t Always Right →
Editor’s note: Jordan Kretchmer is the founder of Livefyre, a realtime commenting and conversation platform for publishers and online communities. He doesn’t think much of Facebook…
Apr 9th
Pain Rating →
Apr 8th
(Founder Stories) “Every Day, I Try To Get... →
If you meet a lot of CEOs and startup founders, you will notice a personality trait that many of them share. No matter how many people tell them they are wrong or stupid, they remain unusually…
Apr 1st
March 2011
4 posts
Engineering vs. Liberal Arts: Who’s Right—Bill or... →
When students asked what subjects they should major in to become a tech entrepreneur, I used to say engineering, mathematics, and science—because an education in these fields is the…
Mar 23rd
U.K. Beats The U.S. To A Tech-Friendly Startup... →
Right now the UK media is making a lot of noise about new Visa rules which mean “super-investors” willing to put £5m into a UK bank account will get the right to stay indefinitely in Britain after…
Mar 17th
The City By The Meh: Thoughts On Falling Out Of... →
Shared by gigasoft Che tipo Paul Carr! :) Three short years ago, almost to the day, I arrived in San Francisco and instantly fell in love. As a former technology columnist for the Guardian…
Mar 14th
150 anni e non sentirli →
Domenica 13 marzo, dalle 11 alle 13, sarò all’Unità a parlare di Unità (eh) d’Italia vista dal web, insieme un tavolata di prestigiosi blogger, fortunatamente più autorevoli di me. …
Mar 12th
February 2011
4 posts
Why Can’t Tablet Makers Just Freaking Ship? →
Shared by gigasoft Liked: “The only thing that you can be sure will ship on time is the iPad 2 and that doesn’t even exist yet.” CE manufacturers are scared. They’re scared of competition,…
Feb 17th
Twitter’s Biz Stone: “We Are Not Valued At $10... →
Yesterday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo dismissed the company’s $10 billion acquisition rumors during a speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And today, Twitter co-founder and creative…
Feb 16th
Calling UK Startups: Your Chance To Re-make The... →
Back in November last year the UK’s Prime Minister said he was announcing a number of initiatives aimed at technology companies. Since then there have been a few periphery announcements from the…
Feb 8th
The White House Partners With Steve Case,... →
As part of a White House effort to promote job creation, entrepreneurship and private-sector investment in startups, President Obama is announcing a new initiative today, called Startup…
Feb 1st
January 2011
6 posts
Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur? →
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in…
Jan 31st
David Karp: “Tumblr Is Growing By A Quarter... →
Tumblr is growing like a weed, but “the last four or five months totally overshadow everything that came before it,” founder David Karp tells Chris Dixon in a taping today for TCTV (watch the video…
Jan 29th
Dead Space per iPhone Wow. Era dai tempi delle... →
Non vedo luci in fondo al tunnel… Vedo la gente morta in compenso! Bhè, proprio tutti morti no… Che grazioso lampadario! Diamo un taglio alla noia! L’antenna gate…
Jan 28th
Per il 10 febbraio arriverà iOS 4.2.5? →
L’iPhone 4 di Verizon ha alcune differenze rispetto quello disponibile alle reti 3G. Oltre ad avere un’antenna leggermente diversa, con un’interruzione in più posta sul tasto della…
Jan 11th
Good Code →
Jan 7th
101 motivi per cui le donne ragionano con il... →
Esiste un libro che si chiama 101 motivi per cui le donne ragionano con il cervello e gli uomini con il pisello. Ve lo riassumo in breve: le donne ragionano con il cervello perché non hanno il…
Jan 4th
December 2010
1 post
Tu quoque, Capodanno →
Io il Capodanno l’ho sempre odiato. Dico sempre e intendo sempre. Sin da quando ero bambina ed ero costretta a passarlo con tutti i parenti, a giocare a carte, a sentirli parlare di calcio e soldi,…
Dec 31st
November 2010
6 posts
Guest Week: Jeph Jacques (Questionable Content) →
Nov 22nd
V for Vendetta hacker strikes at Washington State... →
An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University on the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message…
Nov 14th
Next-gen touchscreen displays may support gloves →
Shared by gigasoft Non mi convince troppo come sistema. Oramai sono affezionato agli schermi capacitivi! :) Once upon a time, it was possible to dial a cell phone in cold weather…
Nov 11th
Walking Dead gets a second season, twice as long... →
There’s plenty more shambling to be had — Frank Darabont’s TV adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s end-of-the-world zombie comic has been picked up for a second season! That’s not all, the…
Nov 9th
A brevissimo aprirà la sezione video nell’iTunes... →
Shared by gigasoft Evvai!! Ci siamo. Dopo mesi e mesi di attesa sono in arrivo anche per il mercato italiano i video e film da acquistare nell’iTunes Store. Apple ha già preparato la
Nov 5th
Skyfire ovvero: chi ha bisogno di flash? →
Shared by gigasoft Apprezzabili le note sui siti osè! Sembra che sia stato tra i pochi fortunati (??!!) a riuscire ad acquistare Skyfire nelle sole 5 ore che è stato disponibile nell’appstore. Per chi non lo sapesse, questa applicazione dovrebbe superare il limite dell’
Nov 5th
October 2010
7 posts
20 Things I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the... →
Gary Arndt is the man behind Everything Everywhere, one of the most popular travel blogs in the world, and one of Time Magazine’s “Top 25 Best Blogs of 2010.” Since March 2007, Gary has been…
Oct 30th
Cheap Things You Never Use Are No Bargain →
A couple of months ago, I shared some of the things I choose to spend my money on now that I’ve paid off my debts, saved for emergencies, and am funding my retirement. Most folks seemed to get my…
Oct 27th
Macworld posts MacBook Air benchmark results →
When the new MacBook Airs were introduced, many were shocked to see a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor in the standard 11-inch model and a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo processor in the standard 13-inch…
Oct 27th
Timeline tweak returns iMovie '11 to old... →
Shared by gigasoft Questa è una GRANDE notizia! iMovie ‘11 makes it easy to regain the traditional horizontal timeline that was lost with iMovie ‘06, to the delight of many. When Apple…
Oct 23rd
Apple releases Q4 results: $20.34B revenue, $4.31B... →
Top line: hell of a beat. Apple today reports earnings of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 a share, in the fiscal fourth quarter, versus $1.82 a share in the year-ago quarter. Street guess was…
Oct 19th
AutoCAD for Mac 2011 now available for purchase →
Mac-loving engineers, drafters, designers, and students have been waiting for a Mac-native version of AutoCAD to reappear on the platform for many years, so when Apple and Autodesk announced
Oct 17th
Tech Support →
Oct 15th
September 2010
9 posts
The New Book Unveiled: The 4-Hour Body →
Data crunching back to age 18. Three years of organizing self-experiments around the world. Thousands of blood tests and hundreds of case studies. My new book is finally here: The 4-Hour Body.
Sep 30th
VLC for iPad hits the store →
Just like that, the multi-format video playback app VLC has now made it to the App Store in the form of VLC Media Player for iPad. As Chris reported a couple of weeks ago, the…
Sep 20th
Ma voi ve ne rendete conto? →
“Di cosa?” chiederete… Di come avete ridotto i vostri feed RSS. Tanto bistrattati nell’era dei social network i feed RSS sono (erano?) uno strumento teoricamente perfetto: le informazioni che…
Sep 19th
Progressismi →
Shared by gigasoft Caspita, è vero. Il tuo stile di vita è drasticamente corrotto quando non trovi le chiavi e inizi a maledire il fatto di non poterle fare squillare per ritrovarle.
Sep 18th
Ma voi ve ne rendete conto? →
“Di cosa?” chiederete… Di come avete ridotto i vostri feed RSS. Tanto bistrattati nell’era dei social network i feed RSS sono (erano?) uno strumento teoricamente perfetto: le informazioni che…
Sep 18th
Kindle 3 first impressions →
I got a Kindle 3 for Instapaper testing. Impressions so far: It is noticeably smaller and lighter than the Kindle 2, but it’s still the same size class. (The screen’s the same size, and it still…
Sep 16th