Now available: Create with Context launches Windspire Me, an iPhone app to measure wind and promote wind energy http://bit.ly/7YJzVl
Just back from the company cafeteria (you know what I mean, Taco Bell lovers)
Create with Context CEO Ilana Westerman in CNNMoney today: “Calculated innovation: Is there a post-recession payoff?” http://bit.ly/59o6hT
Create with Context in CIO Magazine on the Five Qualities of a Great iPhone App: http://bit.ly/4eSEY5
Vote for great content at SXSW Interactive!
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No More Underpants Gnomes: Calculated Innovation
Creative Youth: Organic, Collaborative, and Throw-Away Media (with Adobe)
Community, Measurement, And Belonging: Driving Green Through Technology
App Design: How People Really Use The iPhone
Building Eco Awareness With iPhone Applications
Give them a look, see what you like, and vote if you’re interested!
We hit the big time! (Well, in Google terms)
Going to Google and typing in “create with” (and sometimes just “create wit”) currently gets Create with Context as the first suggestion. W00t!
Office 2010 screenshots emerge
Assuming this is truly what Office 2010 is going to look like, and that it’s not an internal in-progress build, I have only two thoughts:
- It used to be that Microsoft drove the ‘de-facto’ standard for UI design, and Office and the Microsoft UI guidelines pretty much set the tone for everything else on the desktop. This has waned over time, but is still true in many ways for Windows desktop software, and especially for Windows enterprise software.
- I’m really, really happy to see this, because it means that companies like ours will have work to do for years to come.
Field notes: Bogotá
Quite excited to be in Bogotá Colombia. This city is absolutely beautiful. From my vantage point (admittedly a narrow strip from the airport to the hotel, and then a walking-distance circle around the hotel), it´s quite impressive. The streets are clean, although not antiseptic clean. Everything is super green, from the medians on the main thoroughfares (like the 11) to the local park. And to top it off, the architecture is impressive as well - a nice combination of brick texturing, large glass windows, and modern (but not over-modern) flourishes. Definitely a sense of a progressive city, and can´t wait to check it out later this week.
In the meanwhile, some great drawings from a Bogotá-based artist on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/adalberto_camperos/ … hoping to connect up with him this weekend.
Stay tuned here on utilware.com for photos later this week.
Migrating a HD from a MBP to a MB
Over the next few weeks, we need my MacBook Pro for some customer research work we’re doing. Rather than trying to migrate all of my data, settings, and applications onto another machine, I pulled the hard drive using the great walkthroughs at ifixit.com and dropped it into an older MacBook Black.
As expected, it booted right up, and I’m largely back in business. Total elapsed time for the switchover: about 8 minutes. There are a few things I still need to take care of, however:
- iTunes wants me to reauthorize
- Creative Suite 4 wants me to reauthorize
- I had to re-pair my bluetooth keyboards (but not the mice)
- iWork is giving me the welcome screens, although it’s still registered
- MobileMe stopped syncing Address Book, Calendar, Bookmarks, and my iDisk
I’m thinking that once I get the new 500GB into the MBP, I’ll try the following trick to move my authorizations:
- Reboot the MB into firewire target mode, and plug it into the MBP
- Boot the MBP holding down the Option key, and select the firewire drive
- Log into my account and deauthorize iTunes and Adobe CS
- Shutdown both machines
- Reboot the MB into normal mode, login, and authorize iTunes and CS4
Wish me luck. If this all fails, I’m going to have to do some surgery on the machines again to get my original HD back into the MBP to do the deauthorizations. In the meanwhile, must resist urge to sync my iPhone with the (now deauthorized) iTunes.
Update: well, that worked. I was able to get the deauthorizations to work using the firewire disk mode I described above and restarted syncing in MobileMe, and now I’m pretty much good to go on the MB.
teaching spellcheck the proper spelling of the client’s product brand names (got to get those caps, spaces, and spellings right!)
finished another presentation. i think i might be getting good at this.
pixels puhed, pages published. now it’s dead time.
working on a report, for a nice change in pace
did an interview with insidemacradio.com in early January, and they haven’t updated their site since … wondering if I’ll ever get the MP3
