November 2010
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Enough already: information overload →
Fascinating. I see this sort of thing sometimes, particularly with ‘Baby Boomers’.
‘Why do these people send me crap I don’t want to want?’ is the usual way the rage begins. I think it’s less about overload and more about education.
No doubt the abundance of technology in our lives now, compared to 20 years ago plays a roll - Back then a phone was a phone, not...
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Giant crater may have been extinction trigger →
80 kilometres wide and 360 million years old, amazing it’s taken this long to find it.
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AppWall Screensaver →
Now you can have a little bit of the WWDC style ‘App Wall’ as your Mac’s screen saver - not quite as snazzy as Apple’s version (duh) but it is free.
Cool
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Microsoft switches focus from Silverlight to HTML5 →
“HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything…”
Game over, man.
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Orientation lock to mute switch change will be... →
I get this from a consistency across all iOS devices standpoint, they’ll all behave the same. But not having it a configurable option for people that like it the way it is now, is nuts.
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Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player →
Remember when Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said that he’s all for “letting customers decide”?
I bet he didn’t expect they’d decide to say bye-bye to Flash, or for it to happen so quickly - Credit to them for moving so quickly…or just timing the announcement.
