Noscope is a bi-weekly journal serving up snacksized portions of pointless stuff since 2001. On a new linode server!
I also do freelance design and usability via dejligt.com

A Theory On Why Only 13 Countries Have Access To Paid Apps In The Android Market

    10:17 on August 20, 2010 ,

I recently shared on Google Reader, an item John Gruber had posted. He asked the question: Is Google Discouraging Paid Android Apps? The cynical view: Google prefers free Android apps over paid ones, because free apps try to make money through ads, and Google serves nearly all the in-app ads for Android apps. Which, of [...]

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Official Google Blog: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal

    21:04 on August 12, 2010

From The Official Google Blog: [...] we decided to partner with a major broadband provider on the best policy solution we could devise together. We’re not saying this solution is perfect, but we believe that a proposal that locks in key enforceable protections for consumers is preferable to no protection at all. I don’t know. I [...]

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Apple iPad Observations From A Skeptic Who Got One For Free

    12:37 on August 11, 2010 , , ,

So I got an iPad the other day. From a client, for testing purposes. Thank you client! Incidentally, readers of this here blog may recall my issues with the Apple eco-system, which is why it’s somewhat ironic that I should end up with an iPad. It’s certainly not something I was planning on purchasing for [...]

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In Memoriam, Google Wave: Here’s The Tech I Want Them To Migrate

    12:23 on August 5, 2010 , , ,

Google Wave died yesterday. It’s all pretty sad. Remember, it’s the product we didn’t know what was? Well since no-one ever found out, Google is retiring the product to web-app elysium, picking it for spare parts. Here’s the spare parts I want them to migrate from Wave to Google Docs, Gmail and wherever else appropriate: [...]

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Why I Now Believe There Will Eventually Be A Google Nexus Two

    16:43 on August 3, 2010 , , ,

A while back, we learned from Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, that the Nexus One was a successful one-shot experiment. Which when translated means: we’re going back to making only software. Now, however, we’re once again hearing rumours of a Nexus Two. We’ll probably not get one next month, but I now believe we will get [...]

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Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android

    10:46 on July 3, 2010 , , ,

In which Fake Steve Jobs likens Steve Jobs to Howard Hughes: Steve Jobs has created his own precious little walled garden. He’s looking more and more like Howard Hughes, holed up in his penthouse, making sure he doesn’t come in contact with any germs.

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New Details On Chrome OS

    17:45 on June 26, 2010 , , ,

New screenshots from Chrome OS shows a little progress. Boy, the tabs on the side thing looks awkward, as does the file manager. But I guess an operating system can’t do without the latter.

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The Apple/Google Let’s All Be Friends Posts

    09:45 on June 23, 2010 , ,

It’s tearing me apart. Seeing friends fight it out on Twitter. Over whether Android or Apple iOS is better, whether it’s okay for Jobs to kill Flash, whether it’s okay for Google to make mean jokes about Apple. Can’t we all just get along? I don’t want us to agree to disagree. But I want us [...]

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