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Posted by Fred in Fred on Technology on 11 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

It’s the message, stupid

It’s the message, stupid
The curse and how it affects your message I’m not talking about the curse of the Billy Goat for all you Cubs fans.. It’s actually called the curse of too much knowledge. Sure, you know what your app is capable of. You know what it can do and what it can’t do. You know it inside out...
Posted by Fred in Fred on Technology on 11 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Delicious not powerful enough for my needs

With all due respect to Joshua Schachter and his brilliant contribution to the net I have just one major gripe with the most popular social bookmarking site around: Why can’t I bookmark multiple tabs at a time? It seems there’s been so much focus on sharing and building up the community...
Posted by Fred in Fred on Technology on 11 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments

HN to Chrome OS: “you can’t run Skype”!

HN to Chrome OS: “you can’t run Skype”!
If you haven’t already please check out this HN post and the corresponding coverage by Techcrunch of Google’s new Chrome OS here. In what could be hailed as one of the most significant developments in the tech industry for some time, an open source Google OS, the top comment on the HN post...
Posted by Fred in Fred on Technology on 01 28th, 2010 | No Comments

One line musings on Newton II

One line musings on Newton II
1. I want Textmate on it. If I can code on it that would make it infinitely more valuable. 2. Why the hell does the accessory base only allow for vertical viewing? It looks like you’ll be able to hook this up to an external monitor so that might help. 3. Where the hell is Graffiti, the finger...
Posted by Fred in Fred on Technology on 03 8th, 2010 | 2 Comments

On Dropbox, the USB stick metaphor, & security

Just a quick UX gripe about Dropbox here: When using Dropbox for your own computers the metaphor holds. It does in fact behave like a USB replacement in this scenario. It’s when you use Dropbox on computers that you don’t own that the metaphor starts to fall apart and gives users a false...

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