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VoIP is So Freaking Cool
Working with mobile applications has ignited a keen interests in handset and mobile device design. I spend way too much time lurking in forums and reading blogs about new devices, their software, and new services that manufacturers are releasing. I started to feel that this obsession was become a bit of a distraction, so I…
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A cure for colony collapse
In case you weren’t aware, and I wasn’t for a long time, the foundation in common usage by beekeepers results in much larger bees than what you would find in a natural hive. I’ve measured sections of natural worker brood comb that are 4.6mm in diameter. This 4.6mm comb was drawn by a hive of…
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Are mapping applications spatial browsers? Yes, but better.
My wife’s old school chum posted an interesting status on his GoogleTalk account. [stag_image style=”no-filter” src=”https://pixelsandwidgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bryans_question.png” alignment=”center” url=””] My wife didn’t have a response, but she asked me what I thought about it. It struck me that yes, mapping applications are a type of spatial browser, but not in the classic UI design sense…
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Why am I loyal to Nokia and Symbian?
Working with my current client and developing mobile applications for every mobile platform under the sun has made me more aware of the user experiences for each device. In the past, I have dabbled using Windows Mobile, but for the past 5 years have stuck with Symbian powered phones from Nokia (with a brief 5…
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iPhone (iFun) for a Weekend
I had a chance to take the iPhone from work and use it over the past weekend and I felt that I should write about it. The process was very simple: Just switch SIM cards and sync my contacts, email settings using iTunes. It was so seamless. Pretty jaw dropping if you have a Mac…
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If you don’t save, how do you expect to get wealthy?
At one level this should come as no surprise. For most of the last decade America was a nation of borrowers and spenders, not savers. The personal savings rate dropped from 9 percent in the 1980s to 5 percent in the 1990s, to just 0.6 percent from 2005 to 2007, and household debt grew much…
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Neil Gaiman sums up the whole Kindle text-to-speech debacle
When you buy a book, you’re also buying the right to read it aloud, have it read to you by anyone, read it to your children on long car trips, record yourself reading it and send that to your girlfriend etc. This is the same kind of thing, only without the ability to do the…
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MacBook Pro Woes… Again.
I took this picture of the ports on my MacBook Pro (2007 Santa Rosa). I have bought a new FW800 enclosure, but the port on the MacBook Pro is recessed about 2mm and I cannot attach the enclosure properly (although the FW400 and USB2 connections work well on the enclosure). Can anyone say lemon?
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Restoring a 100 year-old clock
I was at my parent’s house on New Years Day with Jen and my daughter, Evy. I walked into my Dad’s workshop (he’s a 3rd generation watchmaker by trade), where he showed me this 100 year-old clock he was restoring for Odyssey Time’s president (they are Seiko Canada’s distributor, along with other watches like Nike,…