Many of the restrictions around the iPhone OS are well documented and infamous. Here though, I lament the loss of a less regarded capability of open systems; the extensibility of existing applications themselves, and explore the closest alternative on the iPad: The web browser, and the web itself.

I like the iPad; I’d like to buy one for my parents.

Apple have launched Me.com and are citing Web Standards whilst blocking users of Microsoft Internet Explorer. A shame then that there’s not a trace of web development best practice to found in this clusterfuck of a web app.

This is partly in response to Ben O’Neill’s post on the Zune.

Microsoft have announced details of their forthcoming Zune media player.

I’ll quite looking forward to seeing what Microsoft come up with, not least because I think some well backed competition for the iPod is increasingly needed. Apple aren’t resting on their lorals, but they’re not [...]

One of the many fabulous things about Apple’s MacOSX is the incredible number of keyboard shortcuts for advanced typography. Left and right (so called smart) quotes are generated with Option+] and Option+Shift+], for example. Some word processors automatically insert them, but when you enter as much content into a web browser as I do, it’s [...]