BillPosters
What's worse than nabbing private packets is Google sticking a camera on a 10 foot pole and drive down residential back lanes where the camera can see over fences into private backyards and in some cases into living rooms. This happened in my town, to my house, and I felt my privacy was invaded. Google street view can see a lot more than someone walking along the street because nobody but Google is 10 feet tall.
The whole idea of accountability is in my opinion flawed when it comes to casual contributions from internet participants. The word "accountability" is heavy-handed, and has a presumptuous tone of expectation of wrong-doing, an ever-looming threat of penalty if one steps out of line.
"Say the wrong thing, and YOU YES YOU will be held ACCOUNTABLE."
Real name enforcement is an ALL CAPS effort to force "accountable" behavior at the expense of privacy or just comfortable contributions from users. When our words end up set in stone online, and when many of us are not professional writers, signing one's real identity to a casual opinion may be a hazardous activity.
This is the internet. We don't need to be so uptight. On the whole, communities behave respectfully when the community is respected and valued, regardless of public display of real names.
Don't tell me that not having a Facebook account now weighs against your eligibility in an interview? That would be sad. What next? Everyone must have a FB account by law?
And why didn't Braithwaite just not ask the candidates the FB question?
"Fired for refusing to invade interviewee privacy" is better than "resigns after invading interviewee privacy".
Edit... so apparently it's all fiction. Time wasted.
Good closed caption support via external file or cue points, strong keyboard control, mouse pointer/cursor appearance manipulation, versatile multi-channel audio.
Apple did no favors by excluding Flash from Safari. When a website contains Flash, it's in everyone's interest, including blind users, that the Flash object is loaded successfully if the user wishes it so. That should be obvious.
Check the Adobe site for "Flash accessibility design guidelines".
Screen reader technology is evolving too remember. Of course there would need to be capabilities added to iOS Safari, such as screen reader plugin. But that the Flash accessibility problem has been addressed on desktop now, but no one seems to have noticed!
"When a screen reader encounters content created with Flash, it loads the current state of the movie and notifies the user. With the Window-Eyes screen reader, the user hears, "Loading…load done." Once a piece of content has been read, the screen reader moves on to read other parts of the content and the rest of the page."
"Adobe worked with GW Micro to create a Halt Flash Events keystroke (Alt+Shift+M) for the Window-Eyes screen reader. This keystroke allows a screen reader user to suspend Flash notifications on the page. Pressing the keystroke again allows the user to resume Flash notifications..."
That said, some people try too hard "not to be a dick", and while nice and polite, they end up supplying watered down, fence-sitting, egg-shell treading fluff instead of useful down-to-earth efficient feedback.
Some designers get emotional. That's good - but they need to learn to channel that emotion into reasoning and solid foundation arguments to support why they did what they did. If they can't do that, they need to work with people who can assist them in doing that.
A colleague once used "intuition" as her rationale for a design/IA decision that was going to negatively impact on technical work I had to do. My criticism was harsh in reply, and I'm sure she thought I was "a dick". Well, that's just tough. Build a bridge and let's move on to the next task. All intuitive decisions can be unscrambled or decoded to find their basis. Especially true in design environments where you're working within defined limitations, scope and objectives. If you can't find a basis, then unload the criticism, keep our humor, and let's solve the problem rather than mess around.
I tried the app in mobile Firefox, no luck. I tried it mobile Opera, no go. Also, I don't understand why anyone would use Apple's native interface graphics on purpose for a web app. I get why native dev it makes things easier to build than custom icons etc, but on the web, you are not on Apple's leash no more, be free!
The good thing about the old subject line of an email is that you usually can tell whether it's something you need to look at now or save for later, move to another folder, or delete. You can also quickly see whether you are the main target or just CC'd.
Speed reading can also assist in processing email. Sometimes you just know whether you need to read something thoroughly, or can glance over.
I like it how it is because filters and sensible organising of inboxes is not hard.
Not interested in email streams at all. I'd prefer to keep streams for the kind of information that doesn't require action or response frequently per item. Emails often require action or attention, and it's far better they exist as subject line items in a date-ordered list for easy retrieval, sorting and archiving all at once.
I made an image with the app just now: http://i44.tinypic.com/aua3ic.jpg
Review: 3 stars Good UX path on loading the app, guides you through steps. The designer of this app has done well to make a sensible interface, with only some work needed on the settings screen and the labeling choices there.
Replay value is another question. There's no sequencing layout tools or anything relating to more than the single image you're working on. Tools are not that powerful, but they do their job ok. It does one trick, and most people will probably use it one time.
Yep, the vector thing is pretty cool.
Now it just needs the ability to arrange and re-arrange multiple images, and swipe through them as a slideshow. Throw in a library of sound effects to assign each slide, with animated visual effects for little movie-making mobile graphic novels... and THEN it'd be a paid app worthy of promotion in my mind, but this is a good start.
No point blaming app programmers. The functionality for apps to acquire the address book without asking shouldn't exist.
Dear Apple, thank you for protecting me from adult material in the app store. But, can you... er, this is awkward... can you NOT GIVE MY ADDRESS BOOK AWAY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION? Thanks. And sorry for yelling, it's just, y'know, my address book and all.
Somehow I knew the app wasn't going to be free after reading the article: "I just have no idea, except maybe that's it a really quality app [that you too can feature on you homescreen for just 99 cents]".
Living in the cloud could be the most you've ever sold out without knowing it.
My advice: keep a few books. Bookshelves can be left in standby mode for years without needing a recharge. When people come over you can hand them a book, maybe an art book, and they will enjoy flicking through the pages. The UX of a book is top notch. Leave and rotate a few on the coffee table (if you have a coffee table, or is that in the cloud too?).
Um.... speak for yourself.
I still appreciate and wow at the simplicity and brilliance of the humble transistor radio. It all depends how much you can appreciate the science and manufacturing details of these devices, their development history, design, performance, evolution, applications and use. Get into the details, and NOTHING gets boring.
As a kid growing up, the Commodore 64 was more than a tinker-box that blinked a few lights. And later, the Amiga won hands down over the Mac that we had in the house. I was definitely no hacker. I was an average kid wanting to get enjoyment out of a computer.
For me, the Commodore stepped up to offer what you describe as "consumer-ready". We bought and swapped heaps of software for C64 and Amiga over many years, as did millions around the world. We would play Summer Games as a family... mum, dad, sis.. we'd have a ball.
Even at high school, the BBC was king in my day.
When I got to Uni, I saw all these Macs everywhere, and apart from the crisper display suitable for word processing, they did not offer anything I would have called a step up my previous experience with computers.
It was around then, that I discovered the 486 PC. I saved up and bought one. Never looked back.
Just trying to balance the perspective here. Let's not get too carried away with the history of computers and what the Apple co-founder did for his company, ok?
I'm grateful that Steve invested in Pixar. Those animations are inspiring.
So for me it's iPhone + Pixar. The rest, with respect, is just normal computer business - iMacs and so on. That is, build them cheap in China, sell them expensive in fancy stores with marble floors and huge glass windows. Not a lot going on there except manufacturing and clever business, and half-decent product design including the OS if you're a fan of that style of computer.
But for sure, it's sad he died young and he was obviously a hero to many. I liked his speech to the uni students, he seemed to have a calm outlook and interest in life and death and everything in between.
But there's a difference between "stable" and the situation where the cpu does the grunt work for the video instead of your gpu hardware. If Adobe and Apple can play nice maybe they can assist each other in getting the above changed in order to lessen the load on your cpu. It's more a "flash meets mac" thing, meaning both sides could do well to help resolve imho.
People who say "use HTML5 instead of Flash" obviously have limited experience in actually building HTML web apps and sites.
Ever tried making a javascript pre-loader? Not gonna happen. There's no jquery.bytesLoaded to the rescue. Even before the web-app has loaded, HTML is struggling to stay in the same game as Flash or native apps. Pre-loading sound files and other assets and relaying the bytes loaded to the user as a progress bar just isn't possible in HTML. You might be able to cook up a half-baked progress loader in JS, but it will suck, I promise.
It's obviously true that for SIMPLE things like menus and other interface features, HTML5 is the choice. But when you start getting seriously rich and multimedia heavy, then you need flash or native apps. And I prefer the Flash development and deployment freedom over native app lock-in any day.
Flash should be allowed as an optional plugin on iOS devices, simple as that. Then people who want it can have it, and people who cry about Flash can turn it off and stick with their iTunes account.
Part 2 should be in on page 2, not "some time later on", I won't be back, the story is not that interesting sorry!
Here's my not-trolling theory: When mistakes happen in projects, or there's conflicts, smooth resolution is statistically more likely when the group is all male or all female. Maybe there's studies done on this, I haven't bothered to look, so could be wrong.
It could also be true that mixed gender groups statistically do better with maintaining an already smooth operation. So as long as things don't go off the rails, the mixed gender group might be the way to go.
Some - hopefully few - female employees have it engrained that despite it being 2011, they are at an unfair disadvantage to begin with. This may influence, subtly or otherwise, their thinking and judgement at times of conflict with male colleagues, and possibly in their general approach to work life. It happens, it's real, but hopefully not a big issue that prevents us making heaps of love, er.. I mean awesome. Heaps of awesome.