Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Okay.
The 10/20/30 Rule - It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
The Lessig Method - the functional opposite of the 10/20/30 rule and best illustrated by the man himself (scroll to the bottom for ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Joel writes about in house software:
That’s the second reason these jobs suck: as soon as your program gets good enough, you have to stop working on it. Once the core functionality is there, the main problem is solved, there is absolutely no return-on-investment, no business reason to make the software ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
On my Newton, I downloaded maybe 20 apps. I bought two over the wire. I even bought one in a retail package.
On my Palm vX, I bought two apps. A Paris City Guide and a VT100 Terminal app.
On my other phones and devices between then and now I've downloaded two ...
Posted in Commentary, iPhone, infurious | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
RoughlyDrafted visits the news that the iPhone is already beating the stuffing out of competitors in mobile phone operating system usage.
With iPhone demonstrating considerably better statistics in terms of market share, it must be absolutely galling to some:
The most recent market share numbers are particularly embarrassing for Microsoft, especially after ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
I downloaded the cool CTU ringtone for iPhone inspired by "24" and eagerly loaded it onto my iPhone.
Of course....no-one rang me all day so I didn't get to quickly take the call, stand up in the middle of the training course and say "National Emergency, I gotta take this!" What ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
It's a bit rude so if you're easily shocked, go here instead.
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Intuit recently issued an update for QuickBooks which, due to some fuckedupness deletes the entire desktop folder. That's pretty serious shit right there.
RixStep, the whiner of the week, was caught by this bug but blames Apple. I'm not sure how "unsafe" code written by Intuit really qualifies as being ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Rxstep takes issue with lackingareas of Mac OS X. The lack of an Advanced button and the lack of supported GUI theming.
OS X has no advanced button. There's no way for professionals - for developers and admins - to get beyond the confines of the tilded user home area and ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
marketing: the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling.
To be honest, advertising is good fun. Putting an ad together and then seeing it in the flesh is fun.
But other than that, ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Sig writes about Business Process Software. This discussion came out of an alleged "Firestorm" about how enterprise software is "unsexy". It's not just about how business process software isn't glamourous because the subjects in enterprise software only excite a small subsection of people (I'm sure there's a niche for Business ...
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