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- Apple, Google and Microsoft: have the basic strategic rules stayed immutable?
- Joining the Pompidou Centre
- Stuff I couldn’t do without in 2012
- Exactly how Google search is actually getting massively better without your realizing it
- Sparrow for iPhone has made Mail app obsolete
- How I effortlessly draft and maintain squeaky-clean CSS with SASS and Compass.app
- This is weird: Readability won’t allow me to be a reader and a publisher at the same time
- The last thing Twitter needs is the ability to hyperlink text
- Why I switched from Omnifocus to Things
- Google+ does have vanity URLs after all
- Apple’s iCloud: much more than a Dropbox killer?
- Vendor prefixes: it’s not about IE6—it’s just Apple vs. Google
- Sixty years a Queen, with unflinching grace and steadfast devotion to duty
- More serious than I thought: What actually changed in Google’s Privacy Policy
- Google’s Search plus your World: perhaps not so evil after all
- Megaupload: the crucial distinction between libertarianism and anarchy
- SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, Ley Sinde, HADOPI: no time for complacency
- Why I Hate Android
- Is Google+ messing up the Internet?
- What effect will Nicolas Sarkozy’s blunders in tech and data protection have on the 2012 elections?
- Switching from a (dv) to a (ve) server on Media Temple
- Fine-tuning which parts of your WordPress blog are indexed by Google, without a plugin
- A new domain for this site: donaldjenkins.com
- No Internet censorship bill is ever a good idea: SOPA is just the beginning
- The Google Music store: potentially, it’s a revolution
- Forget the half-baked Google+, which doesn’t even have RSS: use Delicious to share links from Google Reader
- Those who think there is a realistic alternative to the euro are living in cloud cuckoo land
- iMessage for Mac will be huge
- How I’m going to share stuff on Google Reader now that Google has discontinued Shared Items
- Ten days with the iPhone 4S: the hardware is superb, but Apple still hasn’t mastered the cloud
- Google+/Google Reader integration
- Steve Jobs: the man who utterly changed my life
- Rupert Murdoch has been an enemy of Tory values all his life
- Is Google+ a closed platform? (Among other issues.)
- How to set up a yourdomain.com/+ redirect in one .htaccess line
- Google+: another beautiful tool for geeks that may well fail to become mainstream
- Own your identity – Marco.org
- Shortening links with via.dj
- Quoting and citing in html5
- Why I switched to Byword from WriteRoom for my Mac text editing
- Apple’s iCloud could, despite a few quirks, provide the basis for a vibrant, open ecosystem
- iMessages sets the stage for Apple to move towards a carrier-agnostic data pricing model for the iPhone
- The Ballmer Days Are Over: irrational exuberance at Microsoft
- Google’s exclusive focus on the browser and Apple’s inability to move into the cloud mean neither has won the war of Titans
- The protocol, not the API is the future of social networking
- Building your own custom Modernizr
- How I switched to displaying video consistently in all browsers using html5
- The day Fred Wilson dumped AAPL
- Why Android isn’t the new Windows: the server-client system wasn’t around in the 1990s
- Google Is Indexing Stack Overflow At 10 Times Per Second
- Switching your WordPress blog to html5: document outlines, themes, CSS and video
- iPhone 5 coming in fall with LTE?
- Clever PHP Tip: Encode & Decode Data URLs
- Worth reading: Sequoia’s embarrassingly long-term bearish October 2008 presentation
- Sprint + Google Voice: this is pretty huge
- Posts or Links
- My site’s epic switch to html5
- Stuff I couldn’t do without in 2011
- Facebook messaging: improved integration with existing email is welcome, but it will not replace it
- Alternatives to Google Search: using Glims with Blekko, Duck Duck Go or Wolfram Alpha in Safari
- TweetDeck’s campaign to end the Twitter 140-character limit is a very bad idea
- Designing an iframe tab for your Facebook page
- Sparrow Mail: the most elegant, powerful and minimalist Mac email client
- A better new decade?
- Reeder for Mac: a stunning implementation of minimalism, elegant design and practicality in one RSS client
- Twitter lists one year on: useful, but only as a niche tool for geeks and developers
- Benedict XVI: a traditionalist, yet more in tune with the realities of this age than his predecessor
- Backing up a Mac to Amazon S3 with Arq: the easiest, safest and most accurate solution
- Posting to Posterous from a Mac without sending an email using an Automator workflow
- Facebook email: will it end up as a closed, non-standards-compliant toy for teenagers still without an email account?
- New Markdown tools to streamline and automate blogging with Elements, WriteRoom and Automator
- Pooling Anglo-French defence: a sign of progress, or of decline?
- Will Facebook end up like Microsoft after making the same closed platform strategic mistake?
- The new MacBook Air: with its first-rate GPU and SSD, its real-life performance belies the paper specs
- Initial thoughts after today’s Apple Event: Lion, the Mac App Store and the Macbook Air
- Choosing between two iOS text editors: PlainText and Elements
- Posterous vs. Tumblr: which is best for blogging, lifestreaming and tweeting?
- Making sense of link sharing: Goo.gl, t.co and the URL shortener debacle
- Using international hardware and software keyboards on the iPad
- iTunes and Steve Jobs’s walled garden: a major strategic blunder for Apple
- Choosing the right Dropbox-enabled text editor for the Mac, iPad and iPhone: Writeroom, iA Writer and Droptext
- Can the Fifth Republic survive M Sarkozy?
- The iPhone 4 camera: not quite the best camera yet, but getting there, thanks to better hardware and despite indifferent software
- The iPhone 4: a design and technological triumph that developers have yet to live up to
- Reeder beats Fever and Pulse: the best way to read RSS feeds on the iPad
- Quick thoughts on the iPhone 4: the camera, VoIP, and other issues
- What’s ‘open’ anyway? Walled gardens will never stifle innovation and shouldn’t be confused with Net neutrality
- Orange’s tiny E5832 converts 3G to WiFi, making the iPad 3G superfluous
- The iPad will remain a relatively useless gimmick until proper application standards emerge
- What should a Tory government stand for in 2010?
- Did you even know Facebook has unilaterally decided to share all your data with anyone it pleases?
- Steve ignores the cloud at his peril: Why I chose Google Apps over MobileMe as a server for my email, contact and calendar data
- The welcome trend away from anonymous posting on the Internet
- Dear Apple, I don’t want an iPad: I want a 1TB MacBook Air
- All my links in one place
- Stuff I couldn’t live without in 2010
- A plea in support of Mr Obama’s perfectible health-care bill
- Improve your WordPress blog with MarsEdit, Amazon Cloudfront and Markdown
- Does being for the Liberty of England still mean being for the Protestant religion?
- Reorganising this blog
- Does French tech have any future at all?
- Twitter is no substitute for a feed reader, but Shaun Inman’s Fever has replaced Google Reader
- Wither France’s institutions? The tragic and unlamented end of a thirty-year golden age
- Using Gmail with Google Buzz should be optional
- My outrageously minimalist new website
- I’m terribly sorry, but artistic rubble just doesn’t always inspire me
- Social networking: going towards an oligopolistic closed-shop system?
- Turn-of-the-decade tribulations
- Of the virtues of representative democracy
- A time to gather stones together?
- The superficiality of the Twitter #Iranelection fad and Mr Obama’s cynicism about the thug regime in Tehran sicken me
- I was the first customer in the entire world to activate an iPhone 3GS
- France’s HADOPI ignominy: it’s all the fault of ageing May 1968 trendies with no understanding of what culture is all about
- Why does literature seek to give meaning to the yearning for death?
- Why I have finally decided to blog in my own name
- Will Mr Obama bring the United States any closer to abolishing the death penalty?
- Is Nancy Mitford no longer understood?
- The four traditionalist bishops: were they ever validly excommunicated?
- Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne: Gerard Mortier shuts his bolt pretty triumphantly
- Blogging sequentially using Writeroom, TextMate and ecto or MarsEdit
- The man who dreamt of a modern, rich, democratic, peaceful Iran
- Facebook Connect vs. OpenID
- Golda Meir on “Palestine”
- New Year resolutions
- God bless her…
- What will Obama and Biden do to Israel?
- Only in the US, I guess…
- Powerful clever MobileMe
- The new France
- Feminists and Homophobes have destroyed a unique four-hundred-and fifty-year-old English compromise
- Back…
- Here’s why I ended up switching to an iPhone after all
- Introducing FriendFeed, a very clever way of using lifestreams to consolidate your web presence on Facebook or elsewhere
- I guess a moratorium, if we get one, is better than nothing
- Another reason why I definitely won't be switching to an iPhone
- As-tu déjà aimé?
- Why I shan’t be replacing my BlackBerry with an iPhone
- Louis Garrel’s nose is cooler than Cleopatra’s
- Oh, so the Pope abolished Limbo, did he?
- An amazing mixture of Roland Petit, the Corps de Ballet and Proust
- Should France change her national anthem?
- I have been known to enjoy Rosenkavalier… sometimes
- And the Word was made flesh. Got that?
- Idomeneo: a lyrical turning-point
- When in France, don’t ever wear brown shoes after 6 pm
- Jonathan Littel is no match for Julien Green
- Benjamin Millepied takes Paris by storm
- The French themselves don’t realise how beautifully French Les Troyens is
- Chopin: such appropriate music for a ballet
- Cheap Monday or how to be thin, poor and fashionable
- La Dame aux Camélias: crusty old fogeys, jumping for joy
- C.R.A.Z.Y.: My favourite film this year
- Capote and the death penalty: turning the clock back to 1967
- Don’t let the French president get elected by chance
- Collections for men at Chanel?
- Slimane: back with a vengeance
- Would the Social Register types in New York hate Haneke too?
- Jean de Saint-Guilhem’s concert at the musée d’Orsay
- Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais
- Cosi fan tutte at the Capitole de Toulouse
- Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette
- Abomination in Iran
- Balzac on virginity
- Why I’ve decided to keep a blog
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