April 22, 2008
The technolust-worthy Eee PC 900 hits shelves in the US May 12 with a $550 price tag.
The updated version of Asus’ breakout ultra-portable notebook beefs up its screen real estate to 8.9 inches (widescreen) and comes standard with 1GB ram. The linux version ships with 20GB SSD, while the Windows XP version comes with 12GB SSD. Both models carry the same sticker price.
Watch this space for information about pre-orders and retail availability. If you have any news on the topic feel free to leave a comment.
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Liliputing: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultra portables
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April 18, 2008
Had enough of Evite’s horrid user experience and non-stop barrage of advertising? You’re not alone.
A number of websites have sprung up to provide a modern way to organize and host an event. The list includes Socializr, MadeIt, and Renkoo, among others.
The full list can be found at EviteAlternatives.Com.
Also of interest to the Evite-averse: EviteSucks.Com
(Full disclosure: I work for Socializr)
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March 26, 2008
Ever wonder what each component of a Google search result is called?
SearchEngineLand has an excellent article that tells you everything you need to know.
Also of interest is Google’s documentation about how to control the site links displayed in your search result.
Shown below is Socializr’s search result.
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August 7, 2007
After one full week of use, I really have been enjoying my iPhone. User interface candy for sure. Every so often I hit a rough spot with usability, but the overall user experience so far has been great.
Chris Pirillo had an interesting quote about the iPhone a few days ago in his post “20 Reasons I’m Happy with the iPhone” (a follow up to “20 Reasons I’m Not Getting An iPhone“):
Don’t buy it for the hype - TRY it for the hype, but buy it because you’re tired of the shit everybody else keeps shoving into your pocket.
Most if not all of these are software fixes. Hope to see them soon in an upcoming OS release:
- Multiple SMS recipients and group based SMS sending. This is so sorely missing from the feature list, that I’m almost certain I just haven’t figured out how yet. Anyone?
- Rotatable screen for SMS sending to get that nice big chunky keyboard you get in the web browser.
- Fast app switching- give me a gesture based ALT-TAB-like switching device.
- Automatically sync the camera roll to my desktop on sync.
- Allow me to sync my yahoo calendar or any iCal/vCal.
- When I’m looking at a map point and I tap the up-down “directions” button, pre-fill the ending point value with the point I’m looking at instead of clearing it. OBVIOUSLY, this is going to be my point of arrival (or origin).
- Make it a little harder to accidentally call people I haven’t talked to in years. It’s far too easy to accidentally dial phone numbers- usually when you are trying to view a contact’s details.
- Allow draggable reordering of weather cities.
- Unlimited access to YouTube, and fresher Featured and Most Viewed collections- these were stale within 24 hours of walking out of the Apple store. Currently YouTube access is limited to a very small subset of what’s available on the site. Right now I can’t view any of the videos I’ve uploaded to YouTube.
- Background page rendering in Safari. Rendering seems to halt when you pop a new window and take focus away from the current one.
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July 17, 2007
Ok, so who on the Facebook design team is an aspiring bedroom DJ?
The widget below, which looks like a multi-track mixing console, allows Facebook users to reign in fine grain control over the frequency of which “stories” are presented on their dashboard.
Don’t care who’s been writing on Joe Schmoe’s wall? Turn down the volume on the “Wall Posts” slider and you will see less of those story types in your news feed. Always want to know when your friend’s relationship statuses change? Turn up the volume on the Relationships slider and you’ll see more of those story types in your feed.
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The technolust-worthy Eee PC 900 hits shelves in the US May 12 with a $550 price tag.
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