go ahead, mac my day : usability participants needed for Outlook:Mac study in March.
Blog entry from one of the developers that works on the Office:Mac suite at Redmond, asking for usability testing volunteers to test Outlook for the Mac. (To be released this year IIRC.
If you are in or near Mountain View, California, and you [...]
AppleInsider | Apple sues HTC for alleged infringement of 20 iPhone patents.
…And so it begins… I was beginning to wonder when this was going to happen, of course, HTC, the makers of many phones, the most notable being the Google Nexus One, and the G1.
We’ll have to wait and see how this one shakes out.
Plugins add grunt to Google’s Quick Search Box « Hawk Wings.
If you are a user of Google’s Quick Search Box (similar to QuickSilver), and is in active development, you can download and use these series of scripts in order to interact with the rest of your OS. (Things like sending a file through email [...]
This is an image that’s been floating around the past couple days on the internet. I have no idea where it originally came from.
I don’t pirate movies, I buy movies from iTunes, which, skips all the nonsense illustrated above and just gives you the movie. Which, really, is all we want anyway right?
I thought this [...]
AppleInsider | One in five physicians likely to purchase Apple iPad – study.
This is what I said back here, so I am glad that someone did a study on it. Very interesting what the future holds for this form factor of device. I think the early critics are going to be eating their words in [...]
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Posted 06 February 2010
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Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview : Rolling Stone.
This is an older interview (2003) with Steve Jobs. This is shortly after the iTunes rollout on Windows, iPods were just taking off, before the iPhone, before the App Store, before the iPad.
This is an interesting interview and you can see where Apple was at the time [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot of hubbub about the new Apple iPad not having the capability of displaying Flash. Of course! It stands to reason that it can’t, it has the same OS as the iPhone, which, also can’t display Flash. Which leads me to think, why do we need flash?
Answer is, we don’t. Not [...]
People are already criticizing it because it doesn’t have Flash on it (it runs the iPhone OS). I say to those people, GOOD.
Flash is, as the last year has shown us, a horrible piece of programming and it needs to die. HTML5 will kill it off for the most part, and it needs [...]
Yesterday, as everyone — including me — expected, Apple introduced their first big foray into the tablet computing market (if you don’t count the iPhone as a tablet) called the iPad.
Which, even I, as an Apple fan, has to admit– is a stupid name. iSlate, or even “Tablet” would have been better, but, whatever. (Plus, [...]
When I moved to the current theme, I received a couple emails telling me that the theme is hard to read on an iPhone. So I fixed that. If you browse to the blog on an iPhone you will now receive a completely different screen and interface, one that is very iPhone compatible, user-friendly, and [...]