“The mouse is a desktop device. Sure, you can bring a portable one to hook up to your laptop on the go — but just look at young people, kids in college and high school. They don’t do that. The only reason some of us do that is because we’re accustomed to the mouse.”
The Mouse Is Dead. I Just Killed It. Now Can We Move On? | TechCrunch
“Just think: the dream of working 24/7”
From a GoGo In-Flight promo email. I’m still trying to figure it out - did they say that ironically, or not? (Circle and arrow mine.)
Mike Mitchell, this one’s for you.
(via The iPhone Actually Has No Competition Where It Matters Most | TechCrunch)
Wondering how many times the “Think of the environment! Don’t print this!” footer at the bottom of some people’s emails ended up creating a second, nearly blank page when someone printed out the email.
Is it just me, or is it all pixelated in here?*
Despite all the jumping up and down about the second coming of Spotify, I’m still a big fan of my various Pandora streams - and yes, I’m a paying subscriber.
However, the Pandora desktop client suffers from the same pixelation disease that’s seen in a broad range of apps based on Adobe Air and/or Adobe Flash: when apps resize an image, the engine doesn’t do any interpolation of the pixels - it just shrinks the image and hacks out the extra pixels, leaving behind a bundle of jagged edges. I mean, just look at where it says “Global” and “Paul van Dyk”. Do the same resize in Photoshop, Acorn, or any of a thousand photo apps, and it would be a hundred times cleaner. Worse yet, text rendering is painful - like how close the “ce” are at the end of “Trance” in the upper right.
As a result, my Pandora launch sequence is pretty much set in stone: click the icon, and immediately hit Command-H to hide.
Hey Pandora, any chances of writing a script to go through all of your cover art images and resize them to 238x231 (and, for bonus points, 200x200 for the zoomed out view), and start pushing those along with the streams, instead of the defaults?
* Actual, unretouched image
Touch Usability - Touch Usability - Lion Trackpad Gestures
When people start writing explanatory blog posts about gestures, you’ve jumped the shark, Apple.
First-run experience for Bloomberg app on Android tablet
When you first run the Bloomberg app on an Android tablet, here’s what you see: two pages of indecipherable text, in one giant screen-width column. And worse yet, when you get through it all and expect to hit ‘Agree’, you accidentally hit ‘Disagree’ because it’s in the lower-right-hand corner of the screen where people have been putting ‘Agree’ and ‘Confirm’ and ‘OK’ for the past, what, 10 years?
Coda - When ordering and choosing the amount of copies, the word “copy” after the inputbox changes automatically to the correct grammatical form.
/via Reinder
But what if you want 12 copies? How does that work?
Too Damn Tall, Diner Edition
Fishbot
Drew this one on a letter to our son, who’s going away to sleepover camp.
