7-year-old’s threatening note regarding home PC security policies
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.netRedditor Surprisemailbox posted this image of a note left by a seven year old for her parents, regarding security policies at home: “If you put a pasword on that I will make your life a nitmare.”
The day Poesy leaves me a comparab…
I am both impressed and afraid. I hope, for my own sake, that I never get a note like this from my nieces.
Mohney says the big goal of these editorial projects is not only to introduce newcomers to Tumblr, but to make existing users more aware of each other and the work they’re doing. “We’re less interested in profiling people who are already well-known, and more in finding things that are new and interesting or maybe wildly popular within a small niche community. There are niches that may be insanely popular and have thousands or maybe even millions of readers but they don’t generally cross-pollinate with other groups. They exist kind of in parallel. One of the things we’re trying to do is try and break this barrier.”
Chris Mohney Storyboards Tumblr’s Chaos
This Gizmo Lets You Draw A UI On Paper, Then Turns It Into A Touch Screen
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Law Firm Uses RFID to Track Every Page of Confidential Documents - RFID Journal
RFID-based document-tracking solutions have become commonplace in such locations as legal and medical offices. But one law firm has taken that solution to a new level, by tagging and tracking every sheet of paper for its most sensitive files, in order to ensure that it knows where ever page is located, and that nothing is ever misplaced. The solution was a collaborative effort provided by printer manufacturer Lexmark, using Plus Technologies‘ tag-identification software, as well as software and RFID readers supplied by ATM Software Solutions.
From the onset, it was a highly confidential implementation aimed at providing an efficient method for printing documents, each page containing an RFID tag encoded with a unique identifier. The law firm, which has asked to remain unnamed, creates documents in courtrooms or elsewhere, prints those documents and then tracks them as they are moved around its offices and are eventually destroyed. The firm produces thousands of such highly sensitive pages daily, and sought to track each page individually.
Nice going, New York Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne!
TechCrunch is Full of it: Repair Is Exactly What Consumers Need - iFixit -
Elizabeth Chamberlain:
Yes, perhaps the iPad would have to be slightly thicker if it were held shut with clips rather than glue. But how many people do you know who wouldn’t buy an iPad if it were two millimeters thicker? I’m sure you know many more people who have dropped a smartphone or tablet on the unforgiving concrete. And you probably know more people who have retired an iPod because the battery died right after the warranty expired. All these people have been infantilized out of a relationship with their hardware.
Apple’s trend towards removing user-serviceability from most of its products was disappointing to watch. I loved my wife’s white 17-inch iMac and my old Mac Pro—both were incredible examples of Apple’s ability to make machines that were beautiful both in- and outside, and almost fully serviceable. Remember the 15-inch PowerBook and how you could flip those two switches to pop off the keyboard and upgrade RAM? I lost count of how many Macs I single-handedly sold just by showing that feature to people at Starbucks.
Would the iPad (or iPhone, for that matter) sales take a large dive if Apple added 2mm of thickness to make them user-serviceable? I have a hard time buying that.
There’s a magic to Apple’s products, and I appreciate and admire it. But this isn’t the silver screen, and consumers need stuff to keep working—now, and years from now when we don’t feel like or can’t afford to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on Apple’s latest and greatest.
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Crowdsourced credit card lets members share in profits and decisions
It was only a few weeks ago that we covered CivilisedMoney’s crowdsourced banking services, and recently we came across a new effort that brings a similar concept into the realm of credit cards. Earlier this month Barclaycard US introduced the Barclaycard Ring MasterCard, billed as “the first social credit card to be designed and built through the power of community crowdsourcing.” READ MORE…
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“We hear a huge influx of people saying, ‘How can I get someone to help me create an infographic or a dashboard or an interactive visualization?’”
With New Tool, Visual.ly Wants To Replace PowerPoint With Infographics
“We don’t do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It’s unfair to ask people who don’t have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.” —
Jonathan Ive was interviewed by the Evening Standard.
On competitors’ failures:
Most of our competitors are interesting in doing something different, or want to appear new - I think those are completely the wrong goals. A product has to be genuinely better. This requires real discipline, and that’s what drives us - a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better. Committees just don’t work, and it’s not about price, schedule or a bizarre marketing goal to appear different - they are corporate goals with scant regard for people who use the product.
And on innovation and spending time on details:
It’s incredibly time consuming, you can spent months and months and months on a tiny detail - but unless you solve that tiny problem, you can’t solve this other, fundamental product.
You often feel there is no sense these can be solved, but you have faith. This is why these innovations are so hard - there are no points of reference.
Every additional interview with Ive further convinces me him and his team share the motivations of Benedictine Monks, who stole away from society to obsess over meticulously hand-written Bibles.
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THIS IS ME. THIS IS MY PHONE, ALL THE TIME.
This must be what it’s like to have an iPhone 4S.
(Source: hoppip, via alexandraerin)
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