Archive for the ‘infurious’ Category
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Tom Raftery rips Nokia a new one with his review of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Last summer there was a huge amount of interest in the Nokia tablets after the 770 was available for a knockdown price. I was about to go on holiday for a week and couldn't ...
Posted in Commentary, Review, iPhone, infurious | 4 Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Dieter Rams' 10 principles for good design:
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as ...
Posted in Commentary, Cool, infurious | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch about the twice-shy entrepreneur.
In the article he writes more about the difference between entrepreneurs from Bubble 1.0 who watched everything disappear down the pan...
The intense pressure entrepreneurs were under to get revenue at any cost led them to make decisions that, with hindsight, were blatantly ...
Posted in Commentary, Startup, infurious | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Nick Corcodilos writes for Infoworld:
Companies are madly trying to hire skills, not talent. They want to harvest fruit overnight. Give a smart IT worker some manuals, a workstation, an objective, and a little time, and they'll come up to speed every time. That requires strong leadership.
But if you leave it ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Don Reisinger, a freelance technology journalist, writes for MacNN:
Once it hits a critical level, the cell phone carriers may mobilize and we’ll realize just how ridiculous cell phone contracts and AT&T really are.
Enjoy your iPhone now. But soon enough, you may be wishing you bought that Treo.
Nope.
I love my ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Mark Pilgrim moved his parents to Linux because their Mac experience was souring.:
I had originally chosen Kontact/Kmail for their email needs, but I ran into some strange bug where Kmail refused to send messages. Basic functionality, right? You’d think someone would, you know, notice. I realize email standards are wide ...
Posted in Annoyances, Mac, infurious | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
David Brin writes for EDGE on their 2008 question:
I certainly expected that, by now, online tools for conversation, work, collaboration and discourse would have become far more useful, sophisticated and effective than they currently are. I know I'm pretty well alone here, but all the glossy avatars and video and ...
Posted in Commentary, Social, infurious | No Comments »
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Cool, I didn't know you could just grab entire articles from the IntarWeb and publish them wholesale without even giving an attribution link!
That's what Rixstep has done?
Scott Anguish, one of the nicest guys on the Intarweb is more than a little upset because Rixstep has repeatedly refused to remove his ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
iPhone is not available to business accounts in the US and iTunes balks at registering the iPhone to a non-residential address in the UK so it's certainly not aimed at the Corporate Road Warrior but as I've blogged a lot recently, there certainly a lot of buzz about the iPhone ...
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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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