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Posts Tagged: emerging tech
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Feb 10
Techies don’t understand the iPad
“So while [techies] trump up our skills at designing “easy to use” interfaces for our applications, millions of people are still trying to figure out how to get our beautifully designed application out of its zip file or disk image. Or where in fact the Downloads folder is. Or what, exactly, a folder is. [...] I’ve watched firsthand as people who’ve struggled to do basic computer tasks as long as I’ve known them pick up an iPhone and be cruising around within hours, if not minutes. For people who do not already thoroughly understand computers, New World devices are easier to understand and easier to use.”
1
Feb 10
Ketchup
UseKetchup.com looks like an interesting way to keep and track meeting notes. Love the simplicity of it. More about it here.
28
Jan 10
Free From Preferences
“A detail from the iPad keynote: Steve demoes the Mail application and he puts it in horizontal mode. Oh, look, an Inbox list pops in. Neat.
And I think, hmmm I wonder if you can resize that splitter, making the source list wider. Its a tiny target, so it would be hard to grab…
And then I realize: you can’t resize it.
And a bright light did shine upon my liberated face and a voice did whisper a thunder: You’re free. Free of pointless preferences and finger-baiting adjustments.”
[via Minimal Mac]
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Jan 10
Dragon Dictation
An amazing app for your iPhone: Dragon Dictation. Go check it out. It does just what you think it does: listen to you talk, and translate that to type. Click a button and you can send it as an email. As Daring Fireball notes: “it’s both faster and more accurate than I imagined possible.”
I’m an Apple fanboy to be sure, but what exactly can’t the iPhone do?
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