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Jakon Nielsen on the Kindle Fire
Kindle Fire Usability Findings: Mobile web sites work best on the 7-inch tablet. Users had great trouble touching the correct items on full sites, where UI elements are too small on the Fire screen.
Lileks ain’t crazy about his Kindle Fire
To say the least. Via Glenn. He’s especially not happy about the page-turning performance when reading books and the poor battery life compared to his regular Kindle. To be fair, nothing with an LCD screen is going to match the … Continue reading
More Kindle Reviews
Alan has a review. So does Ace of Spades, Walt Mossberg at the WSJ, and Engadget. I’ll say this as a comment on how much my kids like it. I’ve already had to referee their first big fight over who … Continue reading
Kindle Fire First Impressions, Using it With Children
UPS delivered the Kindle Fire the day it was released. First impressions after getting some feedback from co-workers and using it at home with the kids: Interface-wise, there’s a power button, headphone jack, and a microUSB for charging and connectivity. … Continue reading
My Kindle Fire will be here tomorrow, Tuesday the 15th
The official release date is the 15th, which was when mine was supposed to ship, with delivery on the 17th. I got notice that the order has already shipped. Amazon says it will be here on the 16th, but UPS … Continue reading
Frank Miller
“A lesson I’ve learned in writing science fiction is that the best way to predict the course of technology is to make a wish. We humans make wishes come true. That’s why we drive horseless carriages and land on the … Continue reading
Amazon Kindle Fire is on its way
Someone asked if I was going to order the Amazon Kindle Fire I blogged about and that’s a roger. I ordered it the next day. November 15th is the release date. Amazon is saying mine will arrive the 17th. Kindle … Continue reading
Any reason I shouldn’t buy the Amazon Kindle Fire for my kids?
I’ve been batting around the idea of getting the kids a tablet computer for a while now. Something that’s easy for them to use, lets them play their stuff (Facebook-based Flash games and Poptropica, mostly), and that won’t get infested … Continue reading
Six months with Energizer rechargeable batteries
With a camera/audio/AV habit and the children of my fertile loins we go through lots of batteries in my house. For years I’ve been buying disposables in bulk at Home Depot since they seem to have the best prices. Last … Continue reading
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Deer Googal, Plz Steel Moar Copywrites
I like watching music videos and I like reading song lyrics. Right now I have to get my copyright violations from two different places. The videos come from YouTube (owned by Google) and the lyrics from some other place, which … Continue reading
Backdoors in Chinese-made Defense Chips
Business Insider – The Navy Bought Fake Chinese Microchips That Could Have Disarmed U.S. Missiles: Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits … Continue reading
Light Painting with WiFi Signals, Programmable LEDs
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi (OR, Because Norwegian Winters are Long and People Get Bored and Do Cool Stuff): In order to study the spatial and material qualities of wireless networks, we built a WiFi measuring rod that visualises WiFi signal … Continue reading
WordPress RSS Feed Errors Fixed, Feedburner-powered Twitter Feed Working Again
Everything works now. You can skip the rest of this post unless you’re having the same problem and need a fix.
L’il CSS Help?
OR, CSS Got Me Into This Mess and I’ll Bet It Can Get Me Out I’ve got a new theme on the blog. There’s an effect I want that I can’t quite get. I’ve got a background picture. I’ve got … Continue reading
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Good Online Imagemap Generator
Image-Maps.com. I used it to make the little social media icon bar at the top of the blog (which has a new theme, if you’re reading this in RSS). Just upload an image, select Rectangle or Custom Shape, choose the … Continue reading
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Steve Jobs Loves Us, He Loves Us Not
He loves us, he loves us not: The leading computer company plans to build a system that will sense when people are trying to video live events — and turn off their cameras. A patent application filed by Apple revealed … Continue reading
Page2RSS.com Works
Once upon a time Google Reader would create an RSS feed for changes to a page that didn’t have an RSS feed. That feature went away, but I’ve been using Page2RSS.com lately with good results. It’s what I use to … Continue reading
Facebook to Netflix: “Here, let us stick another knife in your business plan”
Zero Hedge – Lights Out Netflix? Facebook (And Its 600 Million Users) Enters “Zero Barriers To Entry” Video Streaming Market: Has anyone seen the latest Whitney Tilson NFLX reshort memo? Because if the news that Facebook and its 600 million … Continue reading
Amazon to Netflix: “Here, lemme put this knife in your business plan”
Amazon is giving Prime members free access to over 5,000 streaming movies. Prime was already a deal that I’ve used for years – free two-day shipping for $80 per year. This just sweetens the deal. On the other hand, if … Continue reading
How to Make Facebook Use Secure HTTPS Connections for All Pages
Facebook has been rolling out this feature for the past few weeks. I checked the other day and noticed it was available in my account. 1. Click on Account (upper right corner). 2. Click Change next to Account Security. 3.Put … Continue reading
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