Adactio: Links
I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture”! Software companies are happy to make their lives harder (and more expensive: deploying to the big app stores isn’t free!), in order to deliver HTML content to fewer people and with fewer features than if they just published directly...
Matthew Haughey
It's kind of incredible that these days, barely a day goes by that I don't think about AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM, as I'll call it throughout) at some point.That statement doesn't make sense on the face of it even to me, since I only used AOL in the 1990s for a short time before I found cheaper...
Matthew Haughey
I enjoy social media, and one thing I love seeing is when people play in the space and do things the tools weren't necessarily designed for. Back in good old days of Twitter (~2012-2014), people used to do things like change their display names to a "spooky" one for halloween or they'd add a Santa...
Adrian's Corner
A happy Longplay family I am thrilled to be finally releasing Longplay for Mac today. Longplay is all about the joy of listening to entire albums and marvelling at their beautiful album artwork. It is built from the ground up for the Mac, with the familiar pretty album wall, a dedicated mini...
philipjkerr
If you were watching the 2024 Qatar World Cup, you may have noticed the brand Byju’s, among the list of official corporate sponsors alongside Visa, Adidas, Coca Cola and McDonald’s. You may have also noticed the pitch-side adverts for Byju’s, which flipped to read ‘The Future of Learning’. You may...
philipjkerr
The July 2024 edition of ELT Journal (78 / 3) contains an article entitled ‘ChatGPT in ELT: disruptor? Or well-trained teaching assistant?’ (Ahn et al., 2024). It aims to ‘contribute to the growing discourse on technology integration in ELT and offers practical recommendations for creating a...
Adrian's Corner
I’m excited to launch a big 2.0 update to my album-focussed music player, Longplay. If you’re interested in the app itself and what’s new, head over to longplay.rocks or the App Store. In this post I want to share some of the story behind the update. .float-right { float: right;...
Lucian Apostol
Initially websites were used at a large scale. But now android applications are being used and used in mobile phones mostly. To help us in the growth of our trade on bigger platforms, many android apps and sites have been developed with the help of app development companies, web development...
Lucian Apostol
These days a lot of people rely to video conferencing apps to work, study, or to talk with friends. Until few years ago Skype was the app on everyone lips when thinking at video calls, conferences, etc. They were among the first to introduce and heavily promote video calls, but they lost...