Many of you know that i am a recent convert to the world of Mac. I know many of you have heard this from me in the past but once again Mac has done it right.
So i have been on a laptop for about that last 6 years. In that time i have had dells, emachines, and a toshiba. Now i have my Mac Ibook. I am going to skip over all the other reasons i love it and boil it down to the one thing that they have done that has made my life a lot easier.
The Mac readers will take this for granted but it will surely make the PC users go out and search for a driver that will do this.
I have never been a fan of the scroll pad on any computer. But from time to time i have found myself with out the mouse and had to use the scroll pad. When I started I assumed that Mac scroll Pads are the same as PC scroll pads…..whoa big difference.
Mac’s have this feature called 2 fingered scrolling. Use one finger the mouse moves as you would expect. Use 2 fingers and the document moves ….vertically and horizontally…..yeah getting thru your spreadsheet just got easier, as did moving thru all of those lists that you need to navigate. This feature is such a welcome addition.
Ironnically this feature does not work 100% in Adobe Acrobat nor does it work with flash paper.
But for those massive excel files …..makes things very easy.
cheers
scott
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I was reading about the new Nyko Intros Xbox 360 Cooling Solution. Its basically a product that answers the pain gamers have by the extreme heat the xbox 360 produces that has been said to cause the system to freeze up and even shut down. It got me thinking… and I was marveled at the way that product flaws can create a whole line of products that people are ready to buy. Whole companies are even formed around just waiting for designers to screw something up so they can create a product to fix. Of course there’s always definite room for customization and accessories for popular consumer products. But look at the iPod for instance, and how many accessory companies and products are out there that focus around the idea of protecting your iPod and especially the scratch prone screens. Basically its product designers who pick up the pieces that the original designers or engineers may have dropped. If you are looking for opportunities, flawed product designs that have solid market share may be a good place to look. However there is the question of sustainabiliy with this strategy. If the iPod was protected out of the box would these products have to exist? If they updated the xbox 360 with better cooling, does this Nyko cooling station stop production?
Bernie
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Ok so i hate it, what can i say. It’s so buzzy and non descriptive.
I like what it stands for …i just hate how people have been bastardizing it.
A few weeks back i ran into a colleague from another firm in town and i asked him how things are going and he indicated that he was working on some “web 2 stuff” I questioned further and tried to ascertain what they were up to ….it turns out that it was a buzz word that he figured he could drop in to the conversation and i would just oh an ahhh. Wrong.
I have noticed sites have been using the “web2.0″ as a sales tool. That is great …but just because an app is made in ajax or in ROR doesn’t mean it is a web 2.0 app …..or does it?
I like to think that “web 2.0″ apps are designed and created to meet the needs of real people? Basecamp for example great web app for managing project based communications. Great it works…it fills a need and it does it well.
All i can say is you wont see me out there dropping the web2 bomb any time soon. That is because we are working on web 2.2 apps. just kidding.
cheers
Scott
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