Photo credit -- afflictor.com Focus When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, it was producing a random array of computers and peripherals, including a dozen different versions of the Macintosh. After a few weeks of product review sessions, he’d finally had enough. “Stop!” he shouted. “This is crazy.” He grabbed a Magic Marker, padded in his bare feet to a whiteboard, and drew a two-by-two grid. “Here’s what we need,” he declared. Atop the two columns, he wrote “Consumer” and “Pro.” He labeled the two rows “Desktop”...
Sizhao "Zao" Yang is the cofounder of BetterWorks, and is from the Antarctica of the U.S. (Chicago). He enjoys experiencing life ADHD-style. He is frequently referred to as the "game guy" from creating...
CHICAGO – Today, U.S. Cellular offered customers another Android-powered phone to choose from with the arrival of the Samsung Mesmerize (SCH-i500). This Samsung Galaxy smartphone is the most cutting...
New from the creator of "Psycho Studio", "Saul Bass on the Web" and "Cinema Redux," The Accidental News Explorer by Brendan Dawes is an interesting discovery tool for the iPhone. Based on his imaginative Doodlebuzz project, this unique iPhone app celebrates chance encounters and serendipity. HOW IT WORKS:Start by searching for a subject. Once you've browsed the suggested articles taken from hundreds of news sources, tap the “related topics” button to begin discovering connected topics, which in turn leads to more...
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Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad ruled the blogging roost for years, but a combination of Twitter, social networking and the rise of lite blogging have been eating away at long-form blog platforms. Twitter has played a significant role in the demise of 'full' blogging, not because it replaced the medium but more that it claimed people's web time and pushed the focus of web publishing towards real time. Facebook, too, is a famous online time sink. But sites like Posterous and Tumblr have refined blogging by streamlining...
Apple now admits 400 iTunes accounts were hacked and used by a Vietnamese developer, Thuat Nguyen, to push his iPhone apps to best seller status over the weekend. But here is the zinger; Apple is saying it was no big deal. Four hundred accounts equals 0.0003 percent of the over 150 million iTunes account holders, Apple points out. The downplaying of the hack comes as little consolation to many who believed Apple's walled garden would offerhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/200579/apples_iphone_app_fraud_where_were_the_...
Musicians – This Is How You Create A Great Looking Facebook Page by Orli Yakuel on Jun 27, 2010 Like most of you, I too LIKE Facebook, and ever since my last TechCrunch post (How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan Pages), I’ve been exploring and trying to find new ways to improve the creation process of a Page. This time, I’d like to focus on a how-to for the musicians among you. If you are one of the talented musicians on Facebook, this simple guide should be of great use to you. First things...
Holy Kaw! All the topics that interest us How to filter out bozos on Twitter by Guy Kawasaki Posted Jul 2nd, 2010 at 11:35 PM Discovered a feature in Tweetdeck that I just love: “”Global Filter.” This enables you to remove people’s tweets from your view. This completes Twitter’s “blocking” since that only prevents people from seeing your tweets and not you seeing their tweets. This solves the philosophical question, “If someone tweets something, and you don’t see it, did the tweet really occur...
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