31
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in apple, iPhone. Tagged: android, apple, google, iPhone, mobile, phone. Leave a Comment
I took this screen shot from one of the youtube demos posted by Google demoing the Google Android OS.
A couple of take awys I thought were important:
The OS allows both multi touch input and traditional navigation using keyboards and rollerballs (like the blackberry).
The OS has many of the features the iPhone introduced to us and [...]
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23
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in apple, iPhone. Tagged: apple, encryption, iPhone, security. Leave a Comment
Turns out the iPhone passcode is not very secure at all. Jonathan Zdziarski notes:
As discovered by Jonathan Zdziarski, who has established himself as something of an iPhone forensics expert, the iPhone’s passcode mechanism should leave you feeling neither smug nor secure, and represents little more than a mild deterrent for would-be viewers of your private [...]
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22
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in apple. Tagged: apple, display, iPhone, multitouch, olpc, pixel qi, xo2. Leave a Comment
Have you seen these new renderings of the XO2? Again it appears that the iPhone continues to create a revolution in multi-touch devices and screen based input paradigms. This is a natural progression for the XO laptop program. Why? Well, the XO program is targeted to multiple countries, and I can imagine it is costly [...]
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22
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in 365. Tagged: microsoft, odf, open document format. Leave a Comment
This is HUGE news. For the organizations who have not yet rolled out Office 2009 to their companies this is a HUGE deal. I think this is a game changer because it means you could have a dual strategy of rolling out free star office to the vast majority of the enterprise who are just [...]
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16
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in 365. Tagged: facebook, shirt, social. Leave a Comment
I have noticed a disturbing trend at work lately. We all have the same 5-10 short sleeve shirts in our closet! This week I had the embarrassing experience of showing up for a lunch appointment with a co-worker and we were wearing exactly the same shirt.
We thought this might make for the perfect Facebook application. [...]
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15
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in apple. Tagged: apple, AppleTV. Leave a Comment
Does it annoy any other Apple TV owners that there isn’t some kind of alert when something you add a favorites list (podcast, or TV show) has a new entry. I swear it is like Christmas each time I bust open the PBS frontline favorite I have and find out a new show has been [...]
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11
May
Posted by Shawn Smith in 365. Tagged: trimet. Leave a Comment
Loved this quote from the NYT today.
Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by. Parking lots at many bus and light rail stations are suddenly overflowing, with commuters in some towns risking a ticket or tow by parking [...]
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