"The iPad and iPhone are closed compared to personal computers, yes. But they are remarkably open compared to so many kinds of computing devices." VISIT LINK: The openness of the iPad and its impact on future computing generations (tags: apple article articles children computers culture development discussion education future ipad iphone open opensource programming table [...]
The real story of the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success. In short, for users who won’t pay cash, a wide variety of “offers” are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for lead gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets [...]
The Credit Card Prank: Who checks the signature? "Nobody checks the signature. Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?" (tags: fun funny humor security article interesting humour [...]
You should probably buy a shredder today "The Torn-Up Credit Card Application – I get a heck of a lot of credit card applications in the mail. I almost always tear credit card applications in half and throw them away. Is that good enough? Could a determined and dexterous criminal gather all the bits, tape [...]
10 User Interface Design Fundamentals It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and support costs, and happier, [...]
Umberto Eco – Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be [...]
People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return Recent analysis by the media research firm Nielsen asserts that 60 percent of Twitter users do not return from one month to the next. Thus far, Twitter has been considerably better at signing up users than keeping them. (tags: blog internet blogs news web2.0 [...]
Digging Alexa – how the geek demographic doubled overnight It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight. (tags: blog web internet blogs culture search interesting technology tech toread statistics analytics articles imported journalism metafilter Digg traffic alexa [...]
How China 50 Cent Army Could Wreck Web 2.0 The CCP has hired thousands of freelance Internet propagandists whose job is to infiltrate chat rooms, message boards and comment areas on the Internet posing as ordinary users to voice support for the agenda and interest of the CCP. They praise China’s one-party system and condemn [...]
The Pac-Man Dossier This web page is dedicated to providing Pac-Man players of all skill levels with the most complete and detailed study of the game possible. New discoveries found during the research for this page in December 2008 have allowed for the clearest view yet of the actual ghost behavior and pathfinding logic used [...]
Walking the Line When You Work from Home Working from home, whether as a freelance contractor or remote employee, can be a great thing, particularly if you live alone. But what if you have a spouse and/or children at home with you while you work? Every work environment offers distractions, but those who work from [...]
Passport RFID tags sniffed and cloned from a distance [video] Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses. The $250 proof-of-concept device – which researcher Chris Paget built in his [...]
myoldmac.net – Apple Macintosh and other 68k Computer Here you will find those rare and vintage Computer items you have been looking for. I have collected Apple computers and parts over many years, and now it is time to clean out the shed. I am parting with some rare items of my collection. (tags: software [...]
Startup Lessons Learned Startup business experience, shared by Eric Ries co-founder of IMVU. (tags: blog business blogs tips marketing people management startup daily businessmodel lessons startups entrepreneurship revenue articles metrics start start-up …)