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26Feb

R.I.P. Palm

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

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Come on, admit it: we all knew the Pre would not save Palm, didn’t we?
I mean, I must have bought/used Palm’s complete product line back in the 90s, but they really lost me with the Treo. They dropped the ball [...]

26Feb

Let it beep

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Interview with the creator of the Mac startup sound.

OMT in San Francisco #3: ‘Let it beep’ from One More Thing on Vimeo.
Via UI&us

26Feb

flickr: The shadows are getting shorter

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

View on black
Taken this morning after I dropped the kids off at school. Nice texture in the sky, the last bits of snow have finally melted and the sun is coming back now and then.

I’m a really really happy user of lots of Google services. I have my own domain linked to Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD). I use Google Docs. I’ve been a GMail user before. I put pictures I want to share on Picasa. May contacts are in Google Contacts. Some of my appointments are shared [...]

17Feb

A day without Flash

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

This is an experiment.
Disclaimer: This is NOT AT ALL about bashing Adobe or Flash, being an Apple fanboy or anything. I *love* Flash, FLEX, AIR and the rest of it, but I’m just not sure how much we need it *on web pages*.
(To my friends & colleagues developing in Flash: that experiment is probably not [...]

From http://funkatron.com/site/comments/were-the-stupid-ones-facebook-google-and-our-failure-as-developers/, via Gruber:
“When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane. We’ve been giving them airplanes for 30 years, and then laughing at them for being too stupid to fly them right.
I think we’re the stupid ones.”
Apply to any modern IT scenario. Fits nearly every one of them.

12Feb

Analysts – What’s wrong with those people?

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

You know, as an employee of a publicly traded company you’re constantly being told you need to do better to support reaching the company’s financial goals, in order to satisfy the analysts’ demands.
I’m starting to believe (hah!) that’s not such a good idea. I’ve always been a sceptic, but what I read in today’s Handelsblatt [...]

11Feb

The iPad has phone functionality after all!

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

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