March 2010
60 posts
“So when we yell at a website or company, using our computer or phone appliance,...”
– Derek Sivers - A real person, a lot like you
“Microsoft Says It Won’t Abandon Windows Mobile 6.5. Not to worry, customers are...”
– John Gruber in Microsoft Says It Won’t Abandon Windows Mobile 6.5
“CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad”
– CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad - Mac Rumors
“I can think of a half-dozen applications I regularly use where the ejector seat...”
– Coding Horror: The Opposite of Fitts’ Law
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Articles - The Wikipedia App →
With Articles, you can easily read and discover Wikipedia articles on your iPhone and iPod touch.
10% of Microsoft employees is using an iPhone
“Maybe once a year I’m in a meeting with Steve Ballmer,” said this employee. “It doesn’t matter who’s calling, I’m not answering my phone.”
Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones
Watch HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ trailer
“It’s not a bargain if you don’t need it.”
– Minimal Mac
“So of course, they put all of their documents in the Documents folder, All music...”
– Minimal Mac
Engineer Thinking » Matt Legend Gemmell →
Matt Legend Gemmell on Engineer Thinking:
“All too often, when faced with a decision about how to implement certain functionality, engineers take the extreme position that:
A feature must be exactly what 100% of users want.
If the above isn’t true (and it almost never is), the feature must be configurable.
This binary approach is gravely wrong, and unjustly offloads decision-making...
“What Are You Suggesting?” Using Images to... →
“As interaction designers, we’re keenly aware of the explicit meanings in words and images. But how many of us also focus on the what is suggested by our words and images?”
TRON trailer →
New trailer, way better than the teaser
PodCamp Nashville 2010 Presentation →
Why the iPad is something completely different than a tablet with a conventional OS such as windows or macosx.
“every day, your cursor protects you from unclear UI. It helpfully turns into a text cursor as you hover over textboxes, or a hand as you hover over a link or action item”
“perhaps the lack of commenting can be considered a feature”
– Cameron Moll
“What if instead of adding new features, a company concentrated on making the...”
– Kathy Sierra - Make Less More - 52 Weeks of UX
New York Isn’t Silicon Valley, and That’s Why They... →
And so does Barney Stinson
“If the iPhone didn’t exist, I would have the Nexus One in my pocket right...”
– Jason Snell: iPhone lessons from Google’s Nexus One (via marco)
“He was in charge of a huge country with nuclear weapons on the verge of...”
– The sober truth behind Boris Yeltsin’s drinking problem - Times Online (via arnoboerman)
“Can you imagine if Apple locked their products under glass cabinets? Or put...”
– Two different worlds - (37signals)
“If you really want to know what makes Apple so successful where others struggle,...”
– Minimal Mac