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.

Once upon a time I wrote a dashboard widget called Twitgit. It lets you interact with Twitter from the Mac OSX Dashboard.

In the face of stiff competition from the Icon Factory’s magnificent Twitterific application, Twitgit has been rather neglected for over a year now. It’s hard to motivate yourself to write software that you don’t [...]

I have never been as happy with a piece of electronics as I am with my iPhone. It is the finest example I know of a device which is superior because it performs its limited functions astoundingly well, rather than many functions badly. The absent features (picture messages, sending texts to multiple recipients, an RSS [...]

For my Last.FM update and syncing needs I’ve long been a user of iScrobbler — rather than the official client. It’s minimal, tidy and provides funcational-enough iPod updating too.

There’s a new beta of 1.5 just come out and it’s got a really neat new integration of the ‘Love’ and ‘Ban’ buttons normally associated only with Last.FM [...]

In which I complain about the look and feel and Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX.o3