So the solution was that any time you had a question you had to write it down on these pre-printed tablets of paper called “point sheets” and once you had accumulated enough questions you could bring them en masse to your boss (everyone who worked at Andersen in the early 90’s is giving a small chuckle from nostalgia about right now).
And the funny thing – by the time you were ready to walk through 7-8 issues with your boss you realize that you had already figured out 3 or 4 of them on your own.
(Link: Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive | Both Sides of the Table)
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If there are millions, it’s trivial to find ten. If you can’t find even ten, then either there’s not millions or those millions aren’t interested in you.
Businesses don’t start with millions of customers, they start with one, then ten, then a hundred, and then a thousand. But most don’t get past ten.
(Link: A Smart Bear – why getting 10 customers is all that matters)
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Grubwithus Social Dining builds friendships over great meals at Chicago’s best restaurants. Think OpenTable, but instead of booking your own table, you’re booking an individual seat at a table with other social diners. You’ll eat good food, meet new friends, and instantly know more people in Chicago!
(Link: Grubwithus – a groupon for strangers to dine together)
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Be part of the action at work from home or anywhere. All you need is a web browser and you can interact with the whole office, lab, factory, or warehouse. QB glides around smoothly and quietly, giving you total access and presence. Shipping in Fall 2010.
(Link: Anybots – Your Personal Robot Avatar)
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They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don’t even know how to google properly.
(Link: Logging Off: The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World)
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goingtorain.com geo-locates your IP address and checks the weather to tell you, in one simple word, whether it’s going to rain (or snow) today.
(Link: is it going to rain (.com)?)
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Louise is a complete stranger. Until 10 minutes ago when I discovered she was located within a mile of me, I didn’t even know of her existence. But equipped only with a smartphone and an increasingly popular social networking application called Foursquare, I have located her to within just a few square metres, accessed her Twitter account and conducted multiple cross-referenced Google searches using the personal details I have already managed to accrue about her from her online presence. In the short time it has taken me to walk to this pub in central London, I probably know more about her than if I’d spent an hour talking to her face-to-face. She doesn’t know it yet, but Louise is about to meet her new digital stalker
(Link: How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker | The Guardian)
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New & Expanded version of Don McMillan’s 2008 YouTube hit “Life After Death by PowerPoint”.
(Link: YouTube – Life After Death by Powerpoint 2010)
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Mirah’s challenge is to take Ruby, make minor modifications to the language, but not too many to change the ‘Rubyness’ of the language: the simplicity and usability of Ruby. In this post, I interview Charles Oliver Nutter one of the core commiters on JRuby and the founder of the Mirah project to put the project into perspective.
(Link: Mirah: Taking Performance to the Next Level with Java’s Ruby – O’Reilly Broadcast)
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search for only 320×480 images
(Link: iphone backgrounds – Best Google Search)
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Want to see your foursquare checkins on a map without a lot of fuss? Try this quick, easy method to show your checkins using Google maps.
(Link: Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way)
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This cheap tablet, combined with Google’s new app tool, is really going to make a huge different in the Android eco-system. People will be able to inexpensively see how they should design software for larger-screen devices. And by the time more expensive and more powerful Android tablets arrive, there will already be a library of apps available for them. Apple really should get to work on reviving HyperCard. Why shouldn’t I be allowed to make a personal kitty-meow app for myself?!
(Link: Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor « Mike Cane’s iPad Test)
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Thankfully, Hazel is becoming my electronic assistant that just takes care of these tasks for me. Simply put, Hazel takes the idea of mail rules and applies them to the entire system. At its core, Hazel is a watchdog. You tell it to keep an eye on a folder, and if certain criteria are met, perform an action. We’ve covered Hazel before, but I wanted to focus specifically on combining it with Dropbox.
(Link: How-To: Hazel + Dropbox = Automated File Management)
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Here are the APN settings that are required:
APN name: wap.cingular
username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
After changing the APN settings and enabling cellular data I again used Safari to test out my internet connection. It stuttered at first and I thought I had failed, but soon the connection picked up and I was browsing the web over 3G. It was very exciting to use my iPad over 3G for the first time all without having to pay for an additional data plan.
(Link: How To: Use your iPhone data plan with iPad)
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The main advantages of Play as I see it are:
The quick development feedback cycle: code-save-browserRefresh. Play has removed the need to compile/deploy as used in typical Java web frameworks.
Testability: I have not talked about testability here because I wanted to show CRUD support at its simplest, but Play has great testing support, which you can read about at Play’s test documentation.
(Link: Example Building CRUD Apps With Play Framework)
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