Posts filed under “Technology”
Damning Bit of Evidence
John Paczkowski and Ina Fried for AllThingsD via John Gruber: As part of its case against Samsung, Apple has shown snippets of an internal Samsung document comparing the original Galaxy S phone with the iPhone…[going] feature by feature, evaluating how Samsung’s phone stacks up against the iPhone. This is definitely some damning evidence. The entire […]
New 4″ iPhone: All But Confirmed
Mark Gurman for 9to5Mac: Thanks to some tweaks to the iOS Simulator application that is included in the iOS development tools, we were able to run the simulator at the rumored next-generation iPhone display resolution of 640 x 1136…The iOS 5.1 simulator displayed the home screen with a stretched set of four rows of icons…iOS […]
Simulating a Magnetic Implant
Marek was inspired by my magnet implant and decided to build his own external magnet sensor with an Arduino board and some innovative tinkering. Really, really cool. After it was built, he took a walk to test it out: Friends were laughing at me when during a walk I was stopping suddenly and doing few steps […]
Sparrow Acquired by Google
Dom Lesa, CEO of Sparrow: We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! Congrats to the team, but farewell to my favorite email app. 🙁
Project Glass: Exactly How Powerful is Eye Contact?
Stephen King, On Writing (2000): Writing is not life, but i think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. That was something I found out in the summer of 1999, when a man driving a blue van almost killed me. King’s prose recounting being hit by a car is one of the […]
Moving Beyond “but it works”
David Heinemeier Hansson on levels of aspiration: To help someone move up the hierarchies, they have to have an intrinsic desire to do so. Arguments like “but it works” or “it gets the job done” are tell-tale signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical hierarchy and your cue to just quietly […]