Category Archives: Tumblelog

iPhone’s keyboard is “2x slower” than “other phones” | The Boy Genius Report

August 20, 2007 – 1:43 pm

I call bull.
It seems that a survey company, namely one conducted by Chicago-based consulting firm User Centric, seems to indicate the following: The iPhone’s keyboard is slower than your average phone keypad. How much slower? Roughly 2x as slow, taking study participants almost twice as long to compose messages than it did on other QWERTY-equipped […]

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Advertising Age - Steve Rubel - Three Strategies for Thriving on the Decentralized Web

August 20, 2007 – 1:16 pm

Long-form online content has been usurped by all things bite-size, whether it be widgets, YouTube clips, or micro blogs powered by services such as Tumblr, Jaiku and Twittergram.
Agreed. Another good observation:
Think web services, not websites.
Advertising Age - Steve Rubel - Three Strategies for Thriving on the Decentralized Web

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Designing With Grid-Based Approach | Developer’s Toolbox

August 20, 2007 – 12:52 pm

Inspired by Khoi Vinn’s and Mark Boulton’s presentation Grids are Good, we’ve decided to take a deep look in the articles about grid-based designs. We’ve read through over 50 articles and selected some of the most important and interesting facts web-developers should know about the grid-based approach. Besides, we’ve listed the most useful references, tutorials […]

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Pay for More Gmail Storage - What about IMAP?

August 9, 2007 – 8:36 pm

Ionut Alex Chitu writes in the Google Operating System blog that for $20 a year, you will be able to get 6 GB that can be used in either Gmail or Picasa.
This is good news if you need the additional space, but what I would like to see is for them to step up and […]

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Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta on Why the geeks were wrong about .Mac….

August 9, 2007 – 9:16 am

Good rebuke to exactly the mentality manifested in my previous post, .Mac Wishlist.
Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta: Why the geeks were wrong about .Mac….
I am stoked about the new .Mac gallery though, so there may still be hope…

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Widgets, Spotlight Coming to iPhone?

August 8, 2007 – 10:30 pm

Wow. Quite intriguing, though I’m not entirely sure how other widgets would be different from the ones already present on the phone. I’m talking about Stocks, Weather, etc. Would this be a way to maybe group installable widgets beyond the space alloted on the iPhone’s home screen?
iPhoneology : Blog Archive : […]

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