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OS X Isn't for Developers

by karlcow, 1 comment

If I want to release a great new Ruby gem that uses a C extension or library, I need to ask prospective users of that gem to: Spend $4.99 in the App Store Download a large 4.5GB file Spend a decent amount of time installing XCode Sacrifice 15GB of disk space to an app they likely won’t use Install my gem

December 2011

Ryujin Swords

by Takwann
Ryujin Swords is located in rural Derbyshire, not too far from the Peak District. At the moment I spend my time between running my business, helping my partner with her business, helping her run the smallholding, and helping her look after our daughter.

November 2011

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

by karlcow & 1 other

The most important thing to realize about the future is that it's a choice. People choose which visions to pursue, people choose which research gets funded, people choose how they will spend their careers.

hmm comme d'habitude… oui les employés de FoxConn ont « choisi » de travailler comme des esclaves. Le choix est un mythe de société de gosse de riches.

October 2011

The Technium: The Technology of Global Unrest

by karlcow

an article called the New Socialism: that the decentralized socialism on the net would spill over into the other realms of life. You can't spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network and not begin to think that the rest of your world should also operate in the same way.

July 2011

Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!

by karlcow

We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. (Here's why.) We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter...

June 2011

What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper – Marco.org

by karlcow

Today, fewer than 1% of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners are Instapaper customers, despite Instapaper spending a lot of time (including today) at the #1-paid-app spot in the App Store’s News category for both iPhone and iPad.

it means that * they have a huge user base ? * they lie about it ? * they spend too much time optimizing for devices instead for the Web. bad ROI I guess the test would be the number of paid customers by browsers.

May 2011

Outsourcing Statistics 2011

by personmark
Running an internet business alone is neither simple nor practical. Sooner or later there will have to be some help needed from experts who can be hired on a regular basis or from internet outsourcing companies which main focus is to give out help for others at a fraction of the usual cost. The need to outsource the different tasks are usually spearheaded by the need to have more time to do other things that need more attention, the need for someone better equipped to handle things like writing, web design, programming and maintenance, and even marketing promotions. Outsourcing the tasks to those who have more experience in these fields may not be painless, but it is definitely more practical. The first thing to do is to really find out what are those tasks that need to be accomplished in the least amount of time possible without costing too much stress on the wallet. Truthfully, some of these outsourcing companies may be expensive, but then, hiring a regular employee with half the skills will cost more because of the duties the employer has to give in exchange. Of course there are pros and cons to everything, especially in outsourcing. There are simply too many complaints written about the services these providers give and yet there are even more written articles on benefits that hiring companies have experienced. Some simply won’t even consider thinking of other options than outsourcing for they find that the benefits definitely outweigh the negative feedbacks. For one thing, outsourcing companies will only assign those who are trained to do specific tasks and usually never over rate themselves. This eliminates the time wasted on having to spend for the training of a new employee to get used to the system and having to spend on equipment to make the whole system work. Outsourcing companies are already fully equipped with the hardware, software and the gray matter. When it comes to highly skilled tasks like accounting, web design, programming and others, these outsourcing companies already have within their coffers their own staff with the necessary skills and they simply assign them over. The getting-to-know stage is limited to a few days up to a week, definitely a shorter amount of time than when hiring someone in office. Hiring and assigning of tasks are also done with ease and as the outsourcing companies rely on their volume and exchange of work, they are most likely never late in submitting their finished work. Eventually, the contractual work is easier on everyone in both accomplishing tasks and cost effectiveness. Working with these offshore companies means that one has to always contend with language, cultural, time schedule and other barriers. It is always best to make arrangements for the time to make communication and submission of accomplished tasks. Because these outsourcing companies are based in countries that depend on the monetary exchange rates, they are also most likely to offer up the least amount of rates. These rates are the considerations that have to be examined, if the rates are lower compared to other companies, they are most likely not the good companies that most are relying on. There are a lot of fly-by-night companies that are overrated and only hire under-skilled personnel.

April 2011

DeHamerspace » The Ultimate Gmail Browser

by sbrothier
I’ve talked before about site-specific browsers (SSBs) and even mentioned that I’ve become a big fan of the Fluid SSB on the Mac. I’ve got SSBs for all sorts of applications (Google Reader, Pandora, etc.) but the one that I spend the most time in is my Gmail SSB. I decided to devote some time this week to digging through the various features of Fluid to see just what was possible. What I ended-up with is a Gmail client that is a huge improvement over the standard (and, arguably, already pretty good) Gmail experience. The sections below will take you through the various steps I used to create the Ultimate Gmail Browser.

Helvetimail - josef richter

by sbrothier
Maintaining Helvetimail is not easy, because Google's CSS is a mess and keeps changing. It demands more time than I am able to regularly devote. I've never meant to make Helvetimal a paid upgrade. But now I would like to kindly ask you for even a tiny donation, so that I can spend a few more hours/days on Helvetimal, fix what's still unfixed, maybe prepare an iPad version, etc. Please note this is not to make me rich, but just to cover at least a part of the time cost needed to maintain Helvetimal. The economic downturn makes me do more work for less money, so spare time for hobbies like Helvetimail is scarce. Thank you very much!

March 2011

Movie Color Palettes | Brandon Wolf Design

by karlcow

Cinematographers often spend a great deal of time making color decisions for a given film. Sometimes these choices are subtle, but often enough there are segments of films that have strong color themes, and I was curious as to how to view this in a single image.

from "The History of Love"

by blackgoldfish
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." I've been reading the novel The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

January 2011

HTML5^H: What it means to developers, standardistas, and browser vendors on Dion Almaer's Blog

by karlcow

Whether or not the HTML spec in the WHATWG is called HTML5 doesn’t really mean that much in the big picture. We need to solve the bigger problems. I hope that we don’t spend our time arguing over the politics of this or that, but on where we should go from here.

The Python Paradox

by karlcow & 1 other

He says the main reason

is that he likes the way source code looks. That may seem

a frivolous reason to choose one language over another.

But it is not so frivolous as it sounds: when you program,

you spend more time reading code than writing it.

Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online

by gregg & 6 others
Since 2005, Blinksale has made sending invoices and tracking payments simple. So you can spend your time doing more important things. http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/finances-reviews/blinksale-a-revamped-butt-kicking-invoice-app/

December 2010

Twitter / MitchellBaker: 100 or so Mozilla folks go ...

by karlcow

100 or so Mozilla folks go to see Tron -- first thing on the movie screen is a commercial for Chrome. Google's got a lot of money to spend!

Il y a environ 2 heures

via web

Retweeté par 8 personnes

MitchellBaker

it's a joke? Mozilla reçoit de la part de Google de près de 10 fois le budget total du W3C.

Scrolling and Attention (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

by julie

Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.

November 2010

How men spend their money [Infographic] – Guyism

by signalsurf
♺ @dollars5: How men spend their money [Infographic] http://bit.ly/b32niA

September 2010

Fuck Yeah Commuting — The Pop-Up City

by karlcow

Type in any zip code and see where people are commuting to/from and how much time they spend commuting. The interactive maps provide interesting information, however, the service does not work yet for European zip codes.

j'aimerai beaucoup voir cela pour le japon. Commuting de 2h à 3h quotidien

August 2010

Never Mind the Forex, When Did You Last See a 2,000 Yen Bill? - Japan Real Time - WSJ

by karlcow

while others say it’s due to the fact it can’t be used in many of Japan’s more than 5.2 million vending machines (roughly one for every 23 people, according to the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association. Machine owners were unwilling to spend to adapt their machines to accept the new note

coût de l'infrastructure matérielle

June 2010

Tuna’s End - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

Soon those tuna would be brought to feeding pens where they will spend at least several months putting on weight. Afterward, they will be slaughtered and sent to Japan, where 80 percent of the world’s Atlantic bluefin tuna are eaten with oblivion.

Driving Traffic to Your Blog

by hapatchan & 1 other (via)
Many blog owners spend a good portion of their time trying to figure out how to generate traffic to their blog. This is especially true when it comes to a brand new blog that is not yet really rich in meaningful and effective content. Generating visitor traffic to your blog is an endeavor that is going to take some basic effort on your part. Thankfully due to modern technology, the task of attracting interested people to your blog is a lot easier now than in the past.

April 2010

50 Inspiring, Awesome & Stylish Mac Setups | Mac.AppStorm

by sbrothier (via)
We spend an awful lot of time discussing applications and software on Mac.AppStorm, and today we wanted to take a slight departure to investigate a few physical Mac setups. After all, you need a relaxing and inspiring environment in which to use your computer!

February 2010

'Supermax' prison draws attention in Gitmo debate - USATODAY.com

by sbrothier
In the shadow of the majestic Rocky Mountains, you can find one of the grimmest places on Earth. The federal government's only super-maximum security prison houses a veritable rogue's gallery of the most dangerous criminals in the world, who spend their days and nights sealed in sound-proof concrete cells. Most on the outside never come in; most of the inmates never come out. "Nobody has ever escaped," President Obama said last month, referring to the Florence, Colo., fortress dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." It's here that Obama has suggested sending some of the inmates at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center.

The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design | Freebies

by cascamorto & 8 others
With so many free icon sets available now, sometimes it makes more sense to not spend countless hours designing and creating your own. However, it’s important that you do find the right style of icons to match your design. In the case of minimal web design, it’s all about clean layouts, little use of color, and few design elements. This means that when icons are required, they should posses the same minimal design qualities. Here are some of the best icon sets for this type of design style.

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