I can’t count the number of times I’ve refused to purchase a fun and/or useful 99¢ app. Does every iOwner behave as irrationally as me and this comically drawn fanboy?
The Lost Boy
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2010-08-31
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2010-08-25
Flood Lite: Apple's Attention to Detail
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”
The average…
Source: floodlite
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2010-08-11
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2010-07-20
Source: informationisbeautiful.net
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Source: marco
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2010-07-16
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Some of Hans Zimmer’s Inception score. It’s the only thing keeping me going at work today.
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2010-05-28
And so we ask the Internet to keep interrupting us in ever more varied ways. We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the fragmentation of our attention, and the thinning of our thoughts in return for the wealth of compelling, or at least diverting, information we receive. We rarely stop to think that it might actually make more sense just to tune it all out.
— Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine (via Instapaper)
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2010-05-24
Microsoft—in a nutshell—is a company that had one successful product that we are all beholden to—that then used that capital to buy other people’s products and ruin them. They are not bad people, but they do stab their friends in the back. Also, they are a bunch of nerds, which is probably why they have never managed to produce a decent interface.
Google—in a nutshell—is a company that had one successful product that we are all beholden to—that then used that capital to buy other people’s products and ruin them. They are not bad people, but they do stab their friends in the back. Also, they are a bunch of nerds, which is probably why they have never managed to produce a decent interface.
Apple is a company that produces amazing, human-usable products. I love them for the same reason I love any such company, and I forgive them their eccentricities because their products are so amazing. They make decisions that I’m told are bad for me, yet I don’t see that reflected in their products as I use them.
Source: peroty
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2010-05-12
Confessions of a Tech Apostate
Fantastic piece from Newsweek building upon President Obama’s Hampton University commencement address.
Written by everyone’s favorite fake Steve Jobs, of all people. Choice quote:
We’re putting our brains into neutral, and revving the engine. We’re digitally dithering, clicking on links and swimming through a torrent of useless garbage being thrown at us by idiots and self-promoters, pundits and PR flacks and marketing people.
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2010-05-11
In a little over 13 hours, I will have taken my last final exam and finished one last final project demo. It’s unfortunate that my motivation to properly prepare is waning. Just one more night.
10 days until graduation. Unbelievable.
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2010-05-09
Meanwhile, you’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t rank all that high on the truth meter. With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you; it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.
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Marco.org: Hot zones
If you’re reading this, there’s a better-than-average chance that you own an iPad. Have you tried to show it to someone extremely nontechnical, like that parent or grandparent who has never really used computers, or those friends who are always scared of technology because their computers always…
Insightful post, picking up on one of my biggest personal annoyances with the iPad to date. While it’s certainly the most intelligently designed touch device yet developed (from both a hardware and a software perspective), the iPad still fails to “understand” human interaction in a way that allows users to interact with it in a truly intuitive manner. I can’t count the number of times a gesture failed to register thanks to a thumb or finger resting unknowingly on the very edge of the touchscreen.
The good news: this is a software issue, and Apple is no doubt already at work on a more intelligent gesture recognition system.
Source: marco
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2010-05-08
Nifty graphic (bonus points for being written in HTML5). And frightening, to a certain extent.
Seems that Facebook’s plan is to make every user’s profile page their primary web identity (as opposed to personal web-pages, google profiles, etc.) From a business and third-party app integration standpoint, this makes a ton of sense & results in really exciting web application opportunities (see: Pandora, Yelp). As a developer, being able to instantly personalize users’ experiences and connect them with their friends seamlessly is f***ing awesome. No need for a user to register another social account on another random site and go through the painstaking task of finding all their friends.
The problem is a) Facebook didn’t ask their (nearly) 500 million users if they were cool with that; and b) this gives Facebook, a private, self-interested company, a ridiculous amount of power.
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2009-11-15
Workspace
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Hello World
Let’s give this tumblr thing a whirl.
