Joshua Topolsky for Engadget: In a post-PC world, the experience of the product is central and significant above all else. It’s not the RAM or CPU speed, screen resolution or number of ports which dictate whether a product is valuable; it becomes purely about the experience of using the device. Ever notice it’s always the [...]
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Numbers and Opt+Arrow Keys
If there’s a set of keyboard shortcuts you absolutely must know, it is the Command (⌘) + Arrow Keys and the Option (⌥) + Arrow Keys. They are bread and butter when it comes to writing and editing long documents on the Mac, because they allow you to move your text insertion point (caret) around [...]
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The new iMac 27″ display
This is the 27″ iMac display. Check out how little adjustment is needed out of box and the gamut.
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iPhone/iPad Calendar Bug Report
Always irks me that the Mac OS X, iPhone and now iPad thinks that Singaporeans start their week on Sunday instead of Monday. I was finally motivated enough to submit a bug report last week, and in less than 2 days I received a reply from Apple for a followup on the issue. Pretty impressive [...]
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“Ridiculous” to optimise sites for iPhone
Rob Haggart of the blog A Photo Editor and professional photography portfolio software A Photo Folio, wrote in 2008: A reader asked me awhile back about optimizing websites for the iPhone which I immediately dismissed as ridiculous and then, what do you know, I was out of the office later that day and tried to [...]
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UOB and Mobile Internet Banking
Just last month, DBS/POSB finally removed Java from its iBanking site, thus allowing iPhone/iPod Touch users to connect directly to their iBanking site from Safari. And this month, it rolled out its own iPhone app for DBS and POSB mobile banking. I tried out the POSB app, and it’s really good. For those of you [...]
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Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist, and winner of several World Press Photo Awards (19751, 19862) slams the selection of the 2009 World Press Photo winners: The World Press Photo of the Year is stunning for its lack of content or any other journalistic values. The jury’s selection is yet another setback for a profession that is already in [...]
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Missing the point
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers: The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know [...]
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A Classroom Divided
Watch A Classroom Divided Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. Every student should go through this lesson.
Aperture 3: I’ll Pass
No tethering support for Canon 5D2, or for that matter, any Canon cameras newer than the 350D. Even the inelegant workaround, the Hot Folder Import Script doesn’t work. And even when it does, it is still more clumsy than Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3′s implementation of Auto Import, requiring an additional script to work. As [...]
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