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via Gizmodo This screw-in coffin seems very economical, both in...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:00 +0000

via Gizmodo

This screw-in coffin seems very economical, both in saving ground space and not having to have heavy equipment to lower your family members into the ground. Cemeteries have limited ground in meatspace, so putting people in edgewise just makes sense.

Best of all, that lid comes with a religion-appropriate top, so that any Duckist can show off the proper symbol for their faith.

Birthday today. My 7 yr old daughter found a card that summed me...

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:44:43 +0000

Birthday today. My 7 yr old daughter found a card that summed me up perfectly. Usually it takes me 5 minutes after getting home from work before I really reach this state of nivanna!

Learn Something New Everyday

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:36:37 +0000

Learn Something New Everyday

These photos are just a little too cute not to post. Check...

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:34:30 +0000

These photos are just a little too cute not to post. Check Ellen’s work out here.

Mag+ Is this the perfect use case for the Apple tablet?

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:54:01 +0000

Mag+ Is this the perfect use case for the Apple tablet?

Rumour: Apple Tablet to sport Apple Logo on case (unconfirmed)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:48:27 +0000

tgrblog2beta:

A visual guide to the many months of rumours surrounding Apple’s rumoured Tablet. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.

You can also find an interactive version of the graphic at: http://tinyurl.com/ykm9rmh

Note: Below you will find a list of sources with a number, these numbers correspond with the numbers in the graphic above.

Unique tablet UI: http://www.cultofmac.com/rumor-apple-employee-says-tablet-ui-has-steep-learning-curve/25228, http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tablet-os-has-a-good-bit-of-new-sexy-to-it-says-someone-who-has-seen-it-2010-1

Aluminium casting: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60745S20100108

Quarter two launch: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60745S20100108

Powered by a P A Semi chip http://www.thestreet.com/story/10656904/1/exclusive-apples-tablet-has-no-intel-inside.html

Supported by multiple 3G carriers: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/06/apple-tablet-to-support-multiple-wireless-carriers-including-verizion/

3D operating system navigation: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/technology/2010/01/apple_tablet_3d.html

March Launch: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638630584151614.html (subscription required)

Two different finishes: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638630584151614.html (subscription required)

Around $1,000: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638630584151614.html (subscription required)

January 27 unveiling: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100104/major-apple-product-announcement/

10” display: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091228PD212.html

Called iSlate: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/25/apple-islate/

Supports Apple’s App Store: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-to-demo-tablet-in-january-asks-developers-to-get-apps-ready-2009-12

Pixel Qi screen: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/11/3qi-screen-technology-shipping-in-time-for-apple-tablet/

OLED screen: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091118PB201.html

e-reader like functionality for newspapers, books, magazines: http://gizmodo.com/5370252/apple-tablet-aiming-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-magazines

Front facing camera: http://t.sina.com.cn/kaifulee (Chinese), http://tinyurl.com/yba689d (translated)

Multitouch version of iWork: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/technology/personaltech/09reader.html

Runs iPhone OS: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/ten-new-details-on-the-apple-tablet/

Interact with tablet using palms and fingers: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/01/evidence_of_apples_tablet_like_input_interface_reappears.html

Background image created by Fotoboer, graphic © 2010 tgr network.

Update: After reading comments the green room blog is aware of the issues with the post and has since revised the graphic.

-c.

Google knows what girlfriends and boyfriends want from each other

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:34:51 +0000

Gotta love Google Suggests eh!

/via BoingBoing and Dan Ariely

Great visualisation of W3School’s historical browser...

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:58:04 +0000

Great visualisation of W3School’s historical browser statistics. Shame it hasn’t been updated since Aug 09. Would like to see how Chrome has grown.

Loving the use case examples for this tablet, actually presents...

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:43:55 +0000

Loving the use case examples for this tablet, actually presents a viable case for the tablet’s existence!

Microsoft “Courier” secret tablet (via Neowin)

My youngest (11 months) took her first unaided steps last night....

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:14:26 +0100

My youngest (11 months) took her first unaided steps last night. This very short clip is all she had to say for herself.

Quick intro to our Facebook app, SocialSafe. What do you think,...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:18:41 +0100

Quick intro to our Facebook app, SocialSafe.

What do you think, does it make it look as simple as it is?

These make my morning cappuccinos look a little sad. 50...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:33:47 +0100

These make my morning cappuccinos look a little sad.

50 Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs | Webdesigner Depot

The fabulousness of raffle.it

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0100

Got some great coverage so far for the Mothers4Children raffle event.

Loved this quote the most ..

We at InStyle love nothing more than a fashion event that lends a hand but even we weren’t expecting the fabulousness of www.raffleit.com.

Read the full review at Instyle, check out the video interview at Vogue, and if you want more here’s a link to the Times piece.

Could you wish for a better review? Check out Hermione’s...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Could you wish for a better review? Check out Hermione’s amazing work at Techfluff, on Facebook and at Newspepper.

This from the man that inspired an app. He didn’t know...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This from the man that inspired an app. He didn’t know he’d inspired it of course, but that’s what makes it more fun ;) You should really read Pascal Finette’s blog ..

Facebook back up application released, every Facebook user should have it.

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

To help Facebook users backup their account data, new application SocialSafe has been launched to download friends and photos from a user’s Facebook account and store them safely on their computer.

At launch the SocialSafe application enables Facebook users to download their friends, photos, photos their friends have tagged them in and their profile information from the Facebook website to their computer or other device. All this for an introductory one-off price of $2.99.

According to Facebook we each have on average 120 friends and between the 200 million of us, upload over 850 million photos each month. It is incredibly easy to upload photos now without ever going near the computer.

Here is the problem. No web service is infallible, any of us could have our Facebook account hacked, deleted or simply lost. It is painful when you forget to save a file and something goes wrong. It is sickening when a hard drive fails and you frantically try to remember when you last backed up. Can you imagine what it would feel like to lose all your friends on Facebook? Can you name them all without looking? What about those photos you uploaded directly to Facebook, are they anywhere else?

SocialSafe is an incredibly simple application, built on Adobe’s Air platform, to provide a one touch backup solution that works on PCs and Macs. Once activated it will save all your friends, all your photos, photos friends have tagged you in, and the personal information you’ve added to create your profile. All stored locally, all available to upload to your Facebook account again, when needed.

This is just the beginning for SocialSafe and to reflect that, the application is on sale! The first 10,000 copies will be just $2.99 for total peace of mind. According to Facebook’s statistics that’s a little over 2 cents for each of our friends!

Save your friends by downloading SocialSafe today.

www.socialsafe.net

How much are your Facebook friends worth to you?

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:07:00 +0100

As little as 30 cents?

Obviously you can’t put a value on true friendships so the question is really how much are your Facebook connections worth?

One Facebook user, Theodore Karantsalis started legal action against Facebook after his account suffered a Facebook based virus losing him all his friend connections (CNet). How much was he suing Facebook for? US $70.50! I can’t quite understand how he arrived at 30 cents per friend but I guess we’re all different, I know I’d pay a lot more as I’d struggle to remember them all off my own back.

Burger King made over 20,000 people sacrifice 10 friends each in exchange for a burger. The burger costs around US $3.30 so those discarded friends were valued at just over 30 cents.

But enter the cut throat commercial world of Facebook Public Pages and we are worth a lot less. OraBrush recently purchased the public profile Kisses for an undisclosed figure, believed to be around $10,000, valuing its fans at less than 1 cent.

How much time would it take you to rebuild your Facebook account if it was disabled?

Wave goodbye to dealing with Email, IM, Twitter, Facebook etc separately

Fri, 29 May 2009 15:34:15 +0100

In case you missed it Google showed the world it’s vision of the future of digital communication. It also dropped a little platform called Wave. Screen shots do not do this justice - watch some of the keynote to get a glimpse at how powerful and habit changing this will be. Email is instant, IM is real time, sharing is easy, collaboration is powerful.

I’ve always been struck by the number of apps or services that come along with solutions that fail to get very far, even though their solutions really could be solutions. The biggest problem is user convention. We all have our ways of doing things, most often these are far from optimal but because we don’t need to think about our actions they are simplest. Any new service that could make us 3 times faster but that requires hours of re-training hits the habit wall.

Twitter and Facebook didn’t need to change our habits - these were completely new ways to communicate so didn’t suffer with the same problems many of the email, sharing and collaboration solutions out there have.

It takes a powerful service to change global habits, Google couldn’t do it with Friend Connect (Facebook Connect is so much more logical) but they will do it with Wave.

No more ‘reply to all’ - I can’t wait.

By way of an acknowledgment for my own crimes against suppliers...

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:11:29 +0100

By way of an acknowledgment for my own crimes against suppliers - Kyan, 1minus1, Supereight, Elliot ..

Microsoft engineers let Windows 8 preview video out into the...

Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:05 +0100

Microsoft engineers let Windows 8 preview video out into the wild ;)