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My brief encounter with the Nokia n8
Thanks to @WOMworld for inviting me to the Nokia n8 launch event held at Bang & Olufsen, Toronto. It was busier than I expected—a lot of media types there. I had a good chat with one of the reps stationed at the OVI stand. Overall, very impressive launch: Awesome camera. I mean, truly best in…
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Can’t wait to see what Symbian^3 has to offer
I was surprised to find an email from WOMWorld/Nokia (they’re a Nokia sponsored site that pretty much covers all things Nokia) gauging my interest to participate in a Meetup tomorrow. Sounds fantastic. I’ve already offered several ideas to the Symbian UI Brainstorm and have chatted with Scott W. at the Symbian Foundation. I’d love to…
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“Unresponsive scrolling and taps are unacceptable…
…what I notice isn’t just the appalling video frame rate (“seconds per frame, not frames per second”, as Tofel says), but also how drastically Flash content affects scrolling and touch events in the browser itself. Even before any Flash content is loaded, these web pages scroll with jaggy animation, and touch events don’t register immediately.…
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My post in HowardForums.com
I am part of a mobile phone enthusiast community called HowardForums. In the Nexus One, there was a post regarding moving back to the iPhone 4. I felt uniquely qualified in responding given that I own both phones and I’ve been thinking about the two handsets a lot. Here is the originating post by DaveTO:…
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Android vs iOS4 – Software
So I’ve been dreading this post. Absolutely dreading it. I think it’s because I’m so torn. Both platforms offer so much, they each do things better than the other. iOS and Android embody each company’s view on design It breaks down to something I twittered recently: @thebigjc @sameerhasan Apple is all about having a finished…
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Buying a new home
Some of the things that I’ve realized when trying to buy a new home: [stag_intro]Most of the homes in Davisville Village, Toronto are old and heated through radiant heat.[/stag_intro]This is very different from what I’m used to—in that there is no forced air system. Radiant heat has it’s advantages and disadvantages: Pros Radiators keep constant…
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About platforms: A brief break from the Android vs. iOS4 analysis
I plan to write several articles regarding my usage of the Nexus One and iPhone 4. However, before I get into specifics, I wanted to write about some of my thoughts regarding platforms in general. Product Life-cycles play a huge role in success today Having spent my formative years as a smartphone user with Symbian—the…
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iPhone4 vs Nexus One: More thoughts on hardware
I have a penchant for reading my posts several days later, and I realize that there is an aspect of day-to-day use that I haven’t addressed so far. First off, this is really a comparison between the Nexus One and iPhone 4. The N1 is rooted and runs a cooked ROM known as the TheOfficial,…
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This is why the Kobo eReader doesn’t support justification
There’s a reason why most page layout programs considered “Hyphenation and Justification” to be two aspects of the same feature. I strongly agree that you should never use justification without good hyphenation — let alone without any hyphenation at all. From John Gruber regarding Safari’s Use of Justified Text in Reader This, my friends, is…
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Random Stuff: Dad Again, Android N1 Stuff, Microsoft KIN
Dad version 2.0 [stag_image style=”sepia” src=”https://pixelsandwidgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201004210004.jpg” alignment=”center” url=””] Or should that be Daughter v2.0? Evelyn now has a wonderful baby sister, Emily. Emily was born, 7 lbs 11 oz on April 6th, 2010 at 1:06 pm. She was 49 cm long with a crown of 35.5 cm. She came in screaming and pooing, much like…