Archive for August, 2008

The uncanny valley has finally been crossed…

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008, by moose

… and it gives me the creeps.

(Via photoshelter .)

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GIS, meet WiFi

Friday, August 22nd, 2008, by moose

This is way cool…
Wi-Fi geography/analysis :

Follow the link and watch the animation showing the various visualisations… It’s really interesting to see our information flows patterns laid out like this.
The future is here.
(Via City of Sound.)

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Afterthought

Friday, August 22nd, 2008, by kurisu

What’s with the funny title, since I haven’t been posting here in two years, you ask ?
Well, I’m referring to Japanese language support on the iPhone.
Back in the days of iPhone OS 1.1.4 (in Japan, available on the iPod Touch), the only way to input Japanese text was through the qwerty keypad interface, which was [...]

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Spot the Idiot(s): BlackBerry Bold vs. iPhone Web Browser Showdown

Thursday, August 21st, 2008, by moose

Here’s a killer comparative test: BBB vs iPhone in WiFi web browsing test…

At one point the guy doing the video commentary says that the BBB’s browser is better at telling you what it is doing, downloading script, image, percentage of the page loaded… Yes, they HAD to put these sorts of indications in, so [...]

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Jean-Louis Gassée on the MobileMe Launch Trouble

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008, by moose

Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and Sync Trouble:
Back to MobileMe today:if you ask subscribers who’ve never experienced a Blackberry’s smooth delivery of sync, they love MobileMe. It works, it’s easy to set up and in the simple (most frequent) case of a PC/Mac with an iPhone, it does the wireless (OTA, Off The Air) sync job as [...]

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MobileMe and iPhone, better buddies, but still not in love

Monday, August 11th, 2008, by moose

So, Mobile Me…
After my first unhappy experience with iPhone syncing using MobileMe, I deactivated it and went back to manually syncing using iTunes.
Until Apple published Mobile Me Update #3, where they say:
a syncing bug was discovered which caused contact and calendar data to not sync properly over-the-air with iPhones and iPod touch. For some users [...]

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