Technology

10 Feb 2009 2159H

1 million Xbox users running the Netflix service

That’s a lot of users. I know our family’s done our fair share of contributing to those minutes. It works pretty darn good, except, you can’t pick your movies in XBox Dashboard, you have to go to Netflix and put them in queue, which is half-assed, being a political decision to not cannibalize from Microsoft’s [...]

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20 Jan 2009 2224H

My experience working in Windows apps

Working in Windows apps is a bit different from working on the web. We deal more with modes and modelessness than the web does, and the kinds of widgets or controls we can apply is a bit more diverse, but the tools and general rules of thumb remain the same. 
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12 Jan 2009 1913H

In praise of the Pre

Congrats to Matias Duarte, Wes Yun, and the team who worked on making the Palm Pre’s debut such a success. (If you haven’t seen the launch keynote, check it out.) Backtrack a little over 13, 14 months to a conversation I had with Wes and Matias about working for a project that they could not [...]

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04 Dec 2008 1633H

Initial thoughts on my iPhone

Replaced my aging and increasingly unreliable RazrV3 last week. Loved T-Mobile service in C-town, just couldn’t be beat, but, since we’re now elsewhere, sucked it up and decided to get the iPhone. 
Initial thoughts:
I like it. As an information junkie, I feel I shall never be at a loss again about where to go or what [...]

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27 Nov 2008 1617H

Damn you Steve Jobs

Now it is almost December and I am not only married but the owner of an AppleTV and an iPhone from which I am now blogging. All things I didn’t think would happen this year. Life comes at you fast.

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21 Nov 2008 0734H

Big change ahead

When I first started as a designer in this field about 12 years ago, one of the first things I remember wanting to design was the information displays on medical devices. It looks like I will finally get my chance!
After a few grueling months of interviewing and constantly running into jobs being placed on hold, [...]

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09 Sep 2008 1235H

Initial reactions to the Let’s Rock event

• Slightly worried at how thin the Man has gotten but he did (sic?) have pancreatic cancer, not exactly easy to shake off as far as cancers go. . .
• NBC to return to iTunes. Shocker. So what happens to Hulu? Are they learning from their Olympic success and seeing how far the rabbit hole [...]

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08 Sep 2008 1150H

E-ink on flexible plastic substrate

The possibilities are intriguing. So what about color e-ink?

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03 Sep 2008 0734H

Google Chrome powered by . . . Apple?

Was dinking around with the Chrome browser last night and saw this:

Weird. Bits of Mozilla and such. So does this mean we’re playing around with what is essentially with a souped up version of Safari? Like Spinal Tap: “These go to 11.”

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01 Sep 2008 1330H

New Google browser?

The latest ploy by Google to own a piece of your desktop is your browser? That’s what this comic shows. Google Chrome, coming soon.
But if you were to create your own browser experience, what would it be like?

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