September 2009
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August 2009
68 posts
Having enabled the Kanji recognizer on my iPhone, trying to figure out if there is a way to use it to enter Roman characters
Tap taget on the Pre is about 2mm South of where it would be on the iPhone. Makes multi-phoning harder
“That wine’s like an after dinner drink, like a port.” “Actually, it’s more like an after-dinner mugging.”
Create with Context has been invited to judge at the Gap iPhone app contest sponsored by MobClix: http://www.mobclix.com/gap
We’ve seen this quite often: the trade-off between upselling and getting customers upset/having them abandon the site http://bit.ly/18sD1E
What’s to keep people from buying those special closet rods that they have in hotels, and then collecting nice wood Marriott hangers?
Consulting travel tip/true story: When airline 800 numbers are busy, hit 2 for Español and ask “¿Habla inglés?” (thx Boudreau for reminder)
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Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http://utilware.com
Fresh idea: Create a slow, ad-hoc (physical) free package distribution network using Tripit/Dopplr to coordinate hand-offs among strangers
Consulting travel tip: when opening yogurt on airplane, point toward seat back so inevitable spray avoids shirt. Learned: 1993.
When Ilana goes for a run, she thinks about Life, Death, and All Its Meaning. When I go for a run, I think “I’m going to DIE!!!”
Cool! RT @sanjaymathur: Reduce cost by routing to energy efficient servers … embedding energy cost in compute decisions http://tr.im/wDVO
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When Xerox sued Palm for unistroke infringement, who won? It seems like that was the beginning of the end.
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Interesting treatise on which iPhone apps report your geolocation, among other things: http://bit.ly/9lo2l
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iPhone 3GS satisfaction: 99% satisfied, 82% very satisfied. Pre: 87% satisfied, 45% very satisfied. 99%? Holy cow. http://bit.ly/xB2Fl
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Store-specific Best Buy Twitter accounts: cool. Lack of basic English skills? “Yess we have Coroline in blu-ray.. There going fast .” Yuck.
Nostalgic pictures for us are sepia toned. What will they be for our kids?Pixelated pics? 8bpp?
Ooh, this is cool http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
WatchCan’t fracking wait for next season … Factor Films presents THEY CAME FROM… (via Vimeo)
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Eating sushi with a fork. Rebel that i am.
Using contextually-relevant ‘microcopy’ can make a big impact on how successful users are at completing tasks http://bit.ly/daUqF
By promoting “Trending Topics” to the sidebar, Twitter killed it.
Dear OSX: When I duplicate “Report v5”, please call the new one “Report v6” instead of “Report v5 2”, ‘kay?
When does the desktop metaphor, if ever, stop referring back to the physical world? http://bit.ly/XiGhx
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#twitfict: short stories in 140 characters (well, 130 after “#twitfict “)