Month: August 2011

Thank you Noodlor for putting together this great infographic on typography. If you’ve ever been annoyed or attracted by fonts or typefaces, this is for you. h/t Paul (@ppedrazzi), Fast Company’s Co.Design

This one’s weird. Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY – igvita.com A while back, Google Chrome dropped the http from its location bar. This seemed like a decision based on cosmetic and usability concerns. Maybe not, since now Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) who joined Google from the PostRank acquisition in June is saying that Google’s web… Read More

So, I’ve been carrying my new Nexus S for several days, and it has really impressed me. It’s a beautiful device, just the right size, and I love running stock Android, one reason why I flashed my EVO with CyanogenMod (@cyanogen). Why? Because it’s very difficult to compare iOS to Android if you’re running the… Read More

I recently discovered that in iOS, you can delete a table row by making a slash (i.e. /) gesture over the row. I didn’t figure this out on my own; I read about it while studying the iOS SDK. This gesture only works with Cocoa Touch tables of a certain type, so not every row in… Read More

My move from the HTC EVO 4G that has served me well since Google IO 2010 to a brand new Nexus S 4G is nearly complete. Frankly, the biggest issue so far has been dealing with the carrier, i.e. Sprint. I’ve spent more than three hours on the phone with Sprint and in Best Buy stores trying… Read More

Today only, the Nexus S is free from Best Buy with a two-year contract agreement on any of the carriers who support it, i.e. Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T. I’ve been pondering the jump to a new phone for a while, since my EVO running CyanogenMod 7 (@cyanogen) starting having weird issues with calls and GPS.… Read More

Back in March, I wrote about Meridian (@meridianapps), an app that maps indoor spaces, helping you find your way around places like Powell’s. Unbeknownst to me at the time, a pal of mine, Jeff Hardison (@jshardison) had gone to work there with, among others, Nick Farina (@nfarina), he of this week’s iOS to Android porting fame. Anyway,… Read More

Hot on the heels of last week’s TED video on scary algorithms comes this piece from ReadWriteWeb (@rww) on Google Place’s new recommendations algorithm. Google’s New Traveler Recommendations Point Towards an Age of Algorithms As Marshall (@marshallk) notes, recommending places you might like based on what people similar to you like sounds pretty simplistic, but… Read More